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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. The report was based on a survey of over 70 BtoB marketers and was conducted by Genius.com.

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. 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.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured. Determine in advance who will be responsible for measuring and who will decide on what fine-tuning actions need to be taken.

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Why is it important?

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill.

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload.

The ROI Guy

As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling. Within digital marketing, analyzing the allocations from 2009 to 2010, IDC found that 2010 spending on digital marketing programs is not changing dramatically year over year. Content is King?

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: Diametrically Opposed Forces: Selling.

The ROI Guy

However, solving this problem will be difficult for most teams, as sales remains inwardly focused on the traditional funnel based selling process, rather than having a keen understanding of how customers make decisions and actually buy - the buying lifecycle.

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