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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. As marketers, we need to shorten the industrial buy cycle by producing marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

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How to measure ROI on creating and marketing content?

Ambal's Amusings

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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10 Best B2B Marketing blogs for Entrepreneurs

Valasys

When thinking about an all-inclusive content strategy, the first thing that comes to our minds is the original ideas generated from deep insightful research. The website provides valued & well-researched pieces of content related to the cores of digital marketing, content marketing, social media, paid search, WordPress & SEO.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 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. Search engines love sites with constantly changing fresh content.

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ClickInsights: How can B2B marketers use content effectively for demand generation?

Ambal's Amusings

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Content Strategy: The Future of Marketing (via Joe Pulizzi with Christine Halvorson).