Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Don’t sell.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. White papers: Without a question, this continues to be the most effective content to build your in-house list. However, these tend to be far more effective in the later stages of the industrial buy cycle.

Buying Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Those punch lines and stereotypes may be amusing but they won’t really help you come up with an effective site redesign. It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more. Instead of taking sides, I say use it to your best advantage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

I don’t deny that effective SEO does take experience, expertise and time to produce results. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. However, you can do it too with some help.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Creating effective marketing content requires a well-rounded skill set that includes researching, interviewing subject matter experts (SME), customers, and internal stakeholders, compiling all that information into cohesive content and a basic understanding of any existing content management system (CMS) to update your online content library.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. Results achieved: The company has seen a 26% increase in engine and automotive shipping customers since the campaign began in 2009 FreightCenter.com exceeded its original goal of a 50/50 split in only 18 months. per week in 2006.

Email Marketing 60

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Effectively connect with bloggers and other key online influencers in your industry? Get the answers to all of these questions and more here in some of the best social PR guides, tips and tools of the past year. Public Relations: The best press release is no press release by MarketingSherpa. ‘Loser. .

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Allocating online marketing in a broader and deeper fashion across multiple programs not only helps you connect with more potential buyers throughout the buy cycle, it helps prevent a key mistake that some marketers make: relying only on the ‘last click’ to determine which marketing programs are effective in bringing buyers to your company.

Buying Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

What is effective content marketing? How effectively you employ this content makes the difference in the outcomes you achieve.” webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Buying Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

There you have it, six quick ways to make you business blogs even more effective. How effective has it been for generating leads? webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Business Blogging 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

In addition, companies that reported using more sophisticated measures of ROI reported that their marketing efforts were highly effective and efficient at engaging than those not using financial metrics. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Wiley contacted me about becoming an author and after some back and forth on the title of the book we settled on Facebook Marketing for Dummies (due out in the fall). I recruited long time college friend (who reconnected with me in Facebook!) and a general tendency to speak in 140 character phrases! Seemed like a good one two punch!

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Demand Generation Agencies Network Marketing Buzz 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Use social media more effectively for research? You'll find tools for all of those tasks and others in this collection of more of the best cool online tools. PeoplePond PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. Generate word-of-word referrals?

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Tools Best Practices Adwords Word of Mouth 20

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

I have seen this application being used very effectively by metal building manufacturers to help their customers choose the right color combination for roof, wall and trims. Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Next, solution-finding: which ideas were the most effective, cheapest, and aesthetically pleasing? Fiberglass absorbed sound the best but wouldn’t be safe. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Creativity 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

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. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I hope this blog brings you a fresh perspective on the future of B2B marketing and best practices that you can put to work today to improve Marketings standing and influence inside your firm. 2) PR and TV are popular for building brand but trade shows and email raise awareness best. This is our second joint endeavor on this topic.

Marketing Mix 40

Marketing Mix Tactics Work Management Marketing Management 40

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Steve Woods said it best when he wrote in his blog post , “As the emphasis on face-to-face interaction as a way to build trust decreases in lieu of other ways of building trust, the need to be “in the field” also decreases.” I agree with you that sales must adopt social media in order to be more effective these days.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides.

Paid Search Agency 122

Paid Search Agency Social Media PR Advertising Agencies 122

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Subscribe to our RSS Feed Subscribe via Email Your email: Learn Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Software Learn how HubSpot can help turn your business into an inbound marketing machine. For Indium Corporation , a supplier of soldering materials and electronics assembly equipment, blogging is now a central piece of the marketing mix.

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Blogger RSS Inbound Marketing Internet Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. You're almost to the point of sale.

Webinar Metrics 130

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 130

readwrite

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Costolo is best known to date for his work at Feedburner, the RSS publishing and analytics service bought and squandered by Google. RSS has been widely derided as too hard for consumers and relegated to obscurity “under the hood” – replaced even in the lives of many tech-watchers by Twitter.

RSS 40

RSS Lead Ranking Twitter Advertisements 40

Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

By far and away it has been our best means of getting our story out, and capturing business. markwilliamschaefer I'll have to think about this one … don't know about cause effect and effort but it's thought-provoking so you've done your job Jay! I once calculated time spent blogging vs. number of RSS subscribers.

Twitter 125

Twitter Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 125

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

What's the best method for approaching social media marketing? What tools are available for cost-effectively monitoring brand conversations across social media sites? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles about social media marketing so far this year.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Forrester 20

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best posts on social media from this year. Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Facebook’s InsideFacebook blog reports that in February and March of this year, the number of Facebook users age 35 and over doubled. .&#

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As Most blogs aren’t visually aggressive enough in the promotion of RSS, and very few do a good job at emphasizing the opportunity to subscribe via email (as 40% of C&C subscribers do).

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. 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.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

Social Media 148

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 148

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty. Don’t just let your clients post to their Facebook page willy nilly, or write random blog posts whenever they feel that WordPress urge. Between bit.ly Excellent post.

Social Media 121

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 121

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

In his guide, Mike tells you the best BBQ places, clubs, happy hours, patios, places for kids, and other insider info. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. Taxi Mike’s Dining Guide is a simple, 8.5×11, Have them document EVERY question they receive.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). The impacts and effects of social media are too broad for that. found Pavement. Maybe that will one day happen to social media.we

Social Media 130

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Budget Programs 130

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

Facebook 167

Facebook Marketing Websites Paid Content Social Media 167

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How can your brand participate in this space most effectively? You can also ask for training to make sure you’re using all the features to the best advantage. It’s much easier to pay a bit more to have the best tool for your needs than to start off with something that doesn’t have the power you need and have to upgrade later.

Social Media 154

Social Media Media Paid Content Work Management 154

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

Social Media 167

Social Media Facebook Paid Content Marketing Websites 167

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Use social media more effectively for research? You’ll find tools for all of those tasks and others in this collection of more of the best cool online tools. PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. Generate word-of-word referrals?

Tools 100

Tools Enterprise Management Marketing Management Best Practices 100

Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. March 2009. October 2009. The Wall Street Journal said email’s era had ended thanks to Facebook. The Wall Street Journal said email’s era had ended thanks to Facebook. Facebook’s COO said that email was probably going away. October 2007. So is email immortal?

RSS 127

RSS Paid Search Agency Social Media Email Marketing 127

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 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. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general.

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