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

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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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

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect any closer to his/her decision to buy from you.

Rules 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Other than some initial hiccups, the updates and the usage have been flawless with our client receiving very favorable comments from their customers. They have streamlined the weekly updating task by tying it into their existing inventory system. Take a quick poll.

CMS Development 60

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. As a business owner your goal needs to be having no gap at all, optimizing every point of contact with your customer.&#

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here we are defining size as the number of published articles on a business blog at a given point in time. HubSpot results indicate that median leads start to grow once 24-51 articles are written and published. Size does matter in business blogs The size of your business blog does have an impact on lead generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. See B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question ) Lesson #4: Sample kits and CAD drawings The easiest and quickest way to sell to the engineering and industrial marketplace is to have your parts and components “designed in.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Curation: Doing more with less is the topic of a video I found in a post by Steve Rosenbaum who is the CEO of Magnify.net , a video curation and publishing platform. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. I hit the mother lode! Maybe it’s my M.A.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. By mapping content to buying stages your content will address prospect needs from status quo through purchase decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

This timeless classic, one of the first bestselling self-help books published in 1937 and sold over 15 million copies globally is still relevant today. As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Number of campaigns sent out, trade shows attended or press releases published do not generate revenues. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Marketing Automation Services 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

In the words of Jeffrey Zeldman , the renowned web designer, blogger, independent publisher and the king of Web standards according to Business Week, “Content precedes design. We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”

Marketing Websites 60

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

B2B Execs Have Low Interest Results indicate that both B2B and B2C marketers have difficulty with executive social media buy-in. When social media customer acquisition figures are broken out by B2B and B2C companies, it becomes clear that B2C companies generally obtain much more value from their social media marketing efforts.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Website Grader Badge Connect with Us HubSpot on Facebook HubSpot on Twitter InboundMarketers LinkedIn Group ProMarketers Facebook Group Subscribe to Blog RSS Want to share your Inbound Marketing advice with the community? It also delivers our customers a sophisticated source of support.

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readwrite

OCTOBER 4, 2010

World-changer Evan Williams has stepped down as the CEO of micromessaging social network Twitter, the company announced today, and will pass that role to serial entrepreneur and company COO Dick Costolo. Costolo is best known to date for his work at Feedburner, the RSS publishing and analytics service bought and squandered by Google.

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RSS Lead Ranking Twitter Advertisements 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 19, 2009

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Sean Donahue , Senior Reporter for MarketingSherpa in charge of MarketingSherpa's newsletters that cover business-to-business marketing, mobile marketing, online publishing, search, subscription sales and great minds in marketing. Test social media channels.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

IDC’s most resent customer experience survey of over 200 key IT decision makers reveals that Frugalnomics is indeed in full effect. This can cause buyers to slow the buying lifecycle as they struggle on their own to put the pieces together, or worse, dismiss your solution altogether because of perceived benefit or value issues.

Work Management 40

Work Management ROI Marketing Management Marketing Budget 40

Martech Advisor

MARCH 30, 2020

The book begins with the fundamentals of marketing and focuses on the stages of the customer journey, creating a marketing campaign, and compelling offers. In this section, we’ll cover books that get into the deeper aspects of marketing, such as customer loyalty, data-driven marketing, and AI marketing.

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 24, 2020

And last year, PepsiCo made a major investment in one of China’s largest natural food companies, buying 26% of its shares for $131 million. To streamline B2B marketing in China, we recommend leveraging WeChat for customer communication rather than website updates or emailers. Tell us on LinkedIn , Facebook , or Twitter.

Multi-Channel 78

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Read on to get their insights. Recommended Resources from B2B Marketing Experts. Get Content.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 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 Is Social Conversation a Myth? That’s feedback.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

“Our biggest competitors are our customers.” Challenger marketing aims to “un-teach” customers something they already know or believe about how their business currently operates, to change the customers’ direction in the buying process in the marketer’s favor. But what does this mean for marketers?

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking Thought Leadership 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? co-authored with Clinton Bonner ) Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife? How can I help you?

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 140

The Customer

AUGUST 30, 2019

How would you rate our customer service? Business Insider ran an article last year about how “Stores ‘bludgeon’ their customers ‘to death’ with emails.” LinkedIn settled a lawsuit for unwanted emails in 2015, paying out $13 million to complainants. Also, more people use email than use Facebook and Twitter combined.

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Brand Identity Branding Work Management CAN-SPAM 52

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Jeff Ogden , Director of Marketing, Aplicor & President, Find New Customers. Erik Bower, Co-founder, Marketbright (No Twitter). Methods to the madness: Everybody has methodologies, Sales has SPIN, Customer Centric, etc. The Contributors.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

They’re trying to augment sagging revenues from traditional advertising by leveraging their enormous customer base with this hot new add on: social media marketing! Real Examples of Social Media ROI - Customer Experience Matrix , March 19, 2010 Summary: some published examples of “hard&# ROI from social media.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

You need to be creating custom charts and graphs and ideas that speak directly to the operational realities of each client. Assuming you want to dive into the pool of custom graph creation and data manipulation, you’ll probably do so in Microsoft Excel. or engaged in brand reputation management, often on a weekly basis.

Social Media 119

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 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 Why D.I.S. Then they can go back to business as usual.

Social Media 137

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 137

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. 59% are on Twitter, and 43% use a company blog for marketing. Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn: Age, Ethnicity And Gender Of The Major Social Networks [STUDY] by All Twitter. The mean half life of a link on twitter is 2.8 You just shared a link.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. How do you PROVE the value of Twitter? in the 1960s. He’s smart.

B2B Marketing 40

B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Social Media in B2B Marketing - Survey Results - Everything Technology Marketing , November 16, 2010 The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted a survey earlier this year to explore the rapidly changing landscape of social media in the context of B2B marketing. Published by Hubspot, May 2010. There better be.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

Paid Search Agency 40

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2011

The 12 Best Ways To Customize Your Facebook Pages by TechCrunch. Ken Mueller uses the example of Dave’s Ace Hardware in Wisconsin to demonstrate how to optimize business engagement on Facebook: be personal, use photos and video, provide great customer service among other things. Facebook Marketing Tips and Guides.

Stats 100

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter. m all about helping customers. Bloody great idea. doth protest. Every Cash flow.

Ning 40

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web.

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