Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics. For example, you can track how many times site visitors clicked on the play button for a video on a particular page. All Rights Reserved.

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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? For example, if you have 3 or 4 articles on a related topic, can you now combine them into an eBook with a fresh take? For example, if your company’s positioning changes and your content doesn’t match.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Professor Quelch provides the example of Intel and its very successful advertising campaign “Intel Inside.” 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

JUNE 12, 2010

You can see an example of B2B web design prices from my company’s online marketing division’s website. 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

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. For example, instead of writing “our valves are manufactured to world-class standards and continue to operate trouble free in the harshest of operating conditions,” simply state “Manufactured to ASME Code standards, designed to handle up to 300 psig and 415°F.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

BTW, this post is a working example of content curation. 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 Where do you stand on this debate? All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

You can see a working example on my client, Schulte Building Systems’ site. Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community. BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Kerry explains this concept very well with a realistic example. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Another good example that I’ve seen is Indium Corporation. 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. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Here’s an example from my post titled “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” 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 of Tiecas, Inc.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That’s like finding a better way to punch people in the face&# is one of the more memorable examples of his outlook. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches. As you know, you’re my living example of how to write a blog.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Todd Defren and Dell have both shared excellent examples to build from.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Just a thought.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? New YouTube video that goes viral. That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Put it on YouTube of course. The Youtube response from Taylor Guitars to the whole “United Breaks Guitars&# imbroglio is perfect. Maybe you guys have other examples where that is not so. The video is a nice example of how social media can be an effective tool for a company to engage (there's that word again!)

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. And great example about the eyeglasses.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. I can't think of many examples of that type of guts on the player side. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

For example, fill out a form to download a white paper, register for a webinar, submit an order etc. For example, the search term “industrial valves” yields 238,000 pages in Google. A high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. They have a direct impact on your bottom line.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you treating social media like a checklist? A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I looked at Meltwater Buzz a couple of months back and thought it offered a better platform than Radian6 (which is a good option in itself and often used as the industry example). Most of the tools in the space focus on Twitter, we focus on Facebook Pages, YouTube and Twitter. Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The best example I’ve ever seen of this is from a company called ThinkGeek , which prides itself on carrying the most robust collection of unique, thought-provoking products with the biggest nerd appeal on the planet. But the best example I’ve seen is on their Facebook page, where one fan posted an update on their wall — in BINARY CODE.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

A single tweet, YouTube video, or blog post can be the spark that sets off a firestorm of controversy. Opportunities Via Context Musician Dave Carroll has been widely lauded for his “ United Breaks Guitars &# YouTube video that has now been seen more than 8.5 450,000 views on YouTube, and counting. GirlPie [link] actweb.fr

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

Whether it be discovered as a blog post via Google search, a video via YouTube or through an archive of indexed Tweets — we want the content we are looking for, when we are looking for it. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Sexy Bookmarks Plug-in My friend Michael Stelzner from Social Media Examiner (where I guest post monthly), turned me on to this excellent plug-in that improves upon the social sharing user interface. See an example at the bottom of this post (the little squares that animate when you put your cursor over them).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. And a search engine of it's own. link] jaybaer Indeed. I don't have a dog in the Facebook OR website fight.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. And a search engine of it's own. link] jaybaer Indeed. I don't have a dog in the Facebook OR website fight.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As Gilbert pointed out, our own intersection is a good example. It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Sexy Bookmarks Plug-in My friend Michael Stelzner from Social Media Examiner (where I guest post monthly), turned me on to this excellent plug-in that improves upon the social sharing user interface. See an example at the bottom of this post (the little squares that animate when you put your cursor over them).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

What great examples of businesses doing this well do you have? Before these apps, I usually do the social media, traditional text messaging and, yes, even phone calls (GASP!). After those and if I’m sitting around waiting for someone (for example) I’ll turn to FourSquare. Go for it in the comments. That is troubling.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. You are free to make your own reality and script your own success.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

What a wonderful example to keep in mind (and which won't leave my mind) as we all journey down this social media path. What a wonderful example to keep in mind (and which won't leave my mind) as we all journey down this social media path. If only companies everywhere could learn from this example.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

link] via @jaybaer [link] Ike Pigott Bingo, but I quibble with the “Population of Illinois&# example. I see Twitter for branding working in only the rarest of examples. Great example! Great example! For example: You connect with a media professional via Twitter who does a story about your business.

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