Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! link) examined 5Million messages sent out by over 19,000 of their customers who are primarily small businesses and found the following: Including social sharing options in emails increased click through rates by an average of 7.2% See charts below).

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

One of the key findings from the study was that B2B marketers are realizing that developing brand awareness among their customers’ customers can capture a larger share of channel margins and build loyalty that can protect them against lower-priced competitors. Analytics is the new marketing creative!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help. The only problem is, you’ve now lost control of your pricing messaging. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. You may be too close to the forest to see the trees, sometimes you may have to ask your current customers for their input. My take: Sharpen your listening skills. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers. Most B2B marketers find it relatively easy to create and use content to gain search engine presence. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

How do you shift the focus from you or your company to your prospects and customers? Customize them to suit your particular product line, which makes it much easier to specify and buy your valves. Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. It is all about them and not you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Think about new “arrangements&# of content as resource centers for prospects and/or customers. Refresh - Content gets stale over time. Change the title, heads and subheads and reword the bullets or key points.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases. There’s nothing new we can say on our website. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

It helps a great deal if you first learn what turns off your B2B customers in order to avoid making simple mistakes that can damage a customer relationship. There is a big difference between what B2B customers say they want and what really drives their purchasing decision. Have a safe and happy 4th of July weekend!

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Hordes of traffic that convert poorly are useless for generating qualified leads that convert well into paying customers. Follow the golden triangle – several tracking research studies have shown that site visitors tend to track through content in a rough F-shaped pattern (see Jakob Nielsen’s eyetracking study ). What’s the solution?

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