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. You need to rethink your business model first and fast. Don’t think of it as the panacea for your lead generation problems.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C).

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AUGUST 10, 2005

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. The four steps are: 1.

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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. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Your business will grow.&# (See Content Marketing – The Ultimate Cheat Sheet ). Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

That business model works for a while but in the long-term, it fails badly. Because it is the mega-distributors that dictate terms and reduce the value of the manufacture’s innovations into commodity products. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

However, I think it is a new and permanent reality of the current economy and have learned to adjust my business model accordingly. In all three instances, we brought additional value to the table by working together with the client and their in-house resources instead of fighting it. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Score this lead according to your preset BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timing) criteria to determine if they are “sales-ready.” Your content also needs to perform another key function.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Creators, distributors, aggregators, and curators are all economically essential parts of the value chain. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Developing your unique value proposition is also a good way to differentiate your company from the competition. What they sorely need, is some strategic guidance that will produce measurable results, typically more leads and sales. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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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? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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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 my description tag from the same post (NOTE: it is not the default first paragraph): Don’t go crazy stuffing keywords in your page’s keywords tag because Google does not use the keywords Meta tag in page ranking.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

It’s selling to small and mid-size companies and business-to-business marketers, who are just dipping their toes into marketing automation. But if Salesforce.com likes what it sees, who knows where that will lead? intended to extend Google’s own business). intended to make money on its own) rather than strategic (i.e.,

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Define your business objectives and what you expect to accomplish. Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? While it is good to have multiple links in your email, don’t confuse your target audience by making multiple offers in the same email.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you. By using the basic steps outlined here, you will begin to see measurable results for your business blog. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. That’s all you need for now.

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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

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. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 7, 2010

2009 was a year of tremendous growth for demand generation systems (a.k.a. business-to-business marketing automation. Perhaps most important, many potential buyers still don’t understand the value provided by these systems—although vendors are working very hard to educate them. What will 2010 bring? content grazing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 2) Engage those visitors’ attention with industry leading content (website copy, white papers, videos, podcasts). And then, nurture them from cold leads to hot prospects with multi-touch drip email campaigns.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

I’m assuming you want your business blog to be more than just a personal journal. One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. Lead them to it. Optimize your business blog: There are thousands of blogs on the Internet.

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