Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. Are those predictions a little premature?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. To most C-level execs that really means answering the question, “How much revenue did it generate?” Or do we need to show a verifiable ROI?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog. I’m glad that you found my article helpful.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

I found a series of blog posts on pricing on your website at Dave Jung’s B2B Blog , some of those articles date back to 2006. 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 21, 2010

If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? That is a very good way to generate a qualified lead from your blog. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Here’s a screenshot of my setting: Changing permalinks after your blog has been live for a while can cause you to lose pagerank in search engines and generate “404 page not found” errors. What is On Site SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

That is why the headline “The Creativity Crisis” in a recent article from Newsweek caught my attention. According to the article, the Creativity Quotient (CQ) among American children has been in a steady decline since the early nineties. Next, idea-finding: generate as many ideas as possible.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

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? She applies over 20 years of business management and marketing experience to help companies with complex sales use eMarketing strategies to generate more and better sales opportunities.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Your article with the examples helped me see it clearly. 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 Thank you for a very informative post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused. 4 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman May 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm Achinta; This is a great article with much relevant information in it. Thanks for sharing!

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It allows someone who is on the road to supply the right information to the customer, demonstrate the exact solution via a video, refer them to a blog or tech article with the detailed solutions for their problem and take an order while traveling. Great pointers on what not to do with social media.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

The Followers Per Tweet Equation Certainly, you can generate a ton of Twitter followers using any number of schemes, tricks, and other false economies. Assuming, however, that you are not using some sort of @ptbarnum system to generate thousands of followers). Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%. Followers per tweet.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many brands these days use social media to promote themselves and to reach out to their target audience. There is an interesting article about it. link] [link] Mary Hey Jason, An interesting post about Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps. There is an interesting article about it. link] Jason Baer Thanks so much.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Baer’s review of a new marketing book called UnMarketing by Scott Stratten is as insightful as most articles are on his excellent Convince and Convert blog. link] UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media … | eBook Reviews [.] But, let’s say he’s only generated 20 million views.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But unless it’s a very enlightened company, the “generation of product improvement ideas&# alone is not a very compelling “give me budget dollars to work on this program&# argument – at least not over the long term. That’s the old-school marketing to which I think you refer — and another article we need to write.

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APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. link] Christopher Smith Great article. population.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have? link] Sniki BETA: Articles [.] The Falacies of Social Media, what is true and what is not. [.]

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

From raising awareness, to connecting with consumers in the way they want to engage and fostering positive action, leveraging CSR in the social media world can strengthen consumer trust and loyalty, encourage followers (and their friends) to take action and participate, and put a halo over the brand that dives in.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

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. For example, you can determine in an instant what the cost and return per view is for a YouTube video you spent $5000 on to generate 25,000 views.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

– [link] (via @jaybaer) Nice article! link] [link] AMS "Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media …" [link] [link] Alena Hitzemann Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? link] via @jaybaer [link] Rachel Diehl Great article on how 2 craft messaging 2 ur mkt via social media.@Jaybaer

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. jaybaer article: [link] [link] Jon Buscall This is great, Jay. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Interesting article about online marketing. Embrace Math.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Whilst my site is very simple it was built from the outset to focus on the words brand, branding and more recently, social media. I don't know what you mean by finding out the number of search terms that people use, I have read your article several times and I enjoyed reading it, but I just don't know how to find that information out.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers. Smart content creation doesn’t have an expiration date. Yes, bills need to get paid.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

You’ll be amazed at how many content-creation ideas this simple exercise can generate. What shows up in these search results? How much photo and video content appears? Content from your competitors? Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

I think it's a good approach to enter social media metrics. link] Malcolm Atherton Great article on social media adoption – take exec's vision/strategic plan & make that the SM metric: [link] #pr [link] Buildipedia RT @imadnaffa There's nowhere to hide from Social Media. Do you agree?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

On a related point, overlap in social media isn’t as large as we (or at least me) thinks it is. #19 19 and #21 appeared on Social Media Examiner approximately 4 weeks before they ran here, and each generated 1,000 + page views on SME before they generated a single page view here. Extra resources are important.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Ironically, an article I wrote on optimizing social media strategy was just published this morning at iMedia Connection — you can read it here: [link]. I had your article on-screen already, prepped for Tweeting later today. "The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Social media clearly has the ability to mitigate doubt and confusion among fence-sitters. This approach will certainly generate sizzle but will it sell the steak? But, I didn't think of it until now, and I'm also trying to generate clicks, not win an accuracy contest. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 11, 2010

[link] Martin Kulakowski I loved those bizAZ articles from Jay way back in the day! link] Martin Kulakowski I loved those bizAZ articles from Jay way back in the day! link] Martin Kulakowski I loved those bizAZ articles from Jay way back in the day! People think the sense of entitlement in the younger generation is a problem. (I

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JULY 13, 2010

(And, they WILL walk out the door, since most agencies realize they at least need “skin in the game” and are actively recruiting) Damages Other Employees: You have an obligation to help the next generation become the very best professionals they can be. link] Yael Davidowitz-Neu Fantastic article!!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. And why not?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

link] Geeknet Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit? Check out this article [link] #thinkgeek #geeknet kahuna7 WOW, Jay, Susan is awesome! Thanks for the compliments DJ, and thanks so much for the great article Susan! link] [link] blur Marketing Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Does More Than Test the Social Waters: Like all long term relationships, building real connections with customers requires a certain level of commitment, and each of the three businesses above are clearly willing make the investment. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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