Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. You want your blog post to attract the largest targeted readership.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Depending on the stage of the prospect, your content needs to: Move them from ignorance to awareness – define the problem and make your target audience aware of generic solutions and the benefits of your offerings. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content. A white paper would fit the bill nicely here. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? While it is good to have multiple links in your email, don’t confuse your target audience by making multiple offers in the same email. How are you using email marketing to reach and engage with your target audience?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? You make a good point about adding explicit calls to action if you want to move the visitor along and ultimately convert him/her into a customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

However, it is not so easy to translate features into benefits that really engage and speak directly to your target audience. It is only when you tie them together or translate features into benefits can you engage with your target audience and increase your success rate of closing the sale. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. What is content curation? I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! And the way to get found by your target audience is to define your offerings in terms of solutions to their problems then build your content strategy around those problems instead of benefits and features of your products.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers? Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. Reaching your target market doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Many other media outlets have reported the same creativity crisis in America. Value Creation: From here, the company can create targeted messages and value messaging for each “mapped solution” – as it aligns with a specific business requirement within a market segment. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” Kim says.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. While social media marketing may be cheap, it is not free.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Don’t be persona non grata – take the time to really understand the persona of the target audience. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. of Tiecas, Inc.

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JULY 1, 2010

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

One of the best landing pages (actually targeting several different audiences, all rolled into one) that I’ve seen is for Cisco Eos software platform. It was developed to help media and entertainment companies create and maintain content-rich, community-driven web experiences. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. of Tiecas, Inc.

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