Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. 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? Others recommend writing about things that you are knowledgeable about.

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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. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 27, 2011

Mike is a white paper expert and social media rockstar who launched Social Media Examiner in late 2009. In less than 5 months after launch, Social Media Examiner was declared the #1 small business blog in the world by Technorati and had added more than 13,000 email subscribers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard. For example, “content creation.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Do you have your web site’s good content under lock and key? I saw a press release for a study last week completed by the Nielsen Norman Group , which also supports this finding. They are coming to your site for information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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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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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

When you open your news app or scroll through your favorite news site, you might be hard pressed to find B2B marketing campaigns making the first page—or really any page for that matter. What is Content Strategy and Why Do You Need It? This is a great example of content marketing done well. Attention Grabbing Campaigns.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

How should marketers leverage content? Which content should be free? Which content should be gated to genereate leads? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. In my opinion, all content should accomplish either lead generation or play a role in creating momentum toward purchase. " Ardath Albee.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

The first report is titled “2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report” and it is from Michael Stelzner , the founder of WhitePaperSource and the author of Writing White Papers. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

I also found a fascinating video interview on Andrew’s blog that really drives home the point with a case study featuring Mr. Fred Whyte, President of STIHL Inc. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. The interview is split over four videos.

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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. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

I found a good answer to that in a comment by Mike Gospe on a blog post at leadsloth.com where he wrote, “But when it comes to marketing automation, I recommend caution. Number of campaigns sent out, trade shows attended or press releases published do not generate revenues. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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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. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Take a quick poll.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. This one caught me by surprise.

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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. Dale Underwood of B2B Conversions Now has a step-by-step procedure for this on his blog. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” You can read his entire blog post here. Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now. No, telling your readers what to do next is only half the battle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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