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. 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.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. “I can publish search engine optimized pitches for free, really?&# Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. Why Am I sharing This?

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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.

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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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Top of Funnel Marketing Automation Services Webinar Metrics Content Marketing 100

Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Blog WritingWhitePapers Twitter Mike_Stelzner. WhitePaperSource Newsletter. Blog WhitePaperPundit Twitter Jonathan_Kantor. WhitePaperPundit : The Friday FREE White Paper List, a listing of free white papers from weekly Twitter Tweets that don’t require registration, posted each Friday. Twitter StephanieTilton.

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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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Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

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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Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Ranking 60

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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. It’s no contest.

Social Media 114

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MARCH 3, 2010

Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009 - Webbiquity , February 1, 2010 Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. But you can do much more to make that newsletter and its content work harder for your organization. Best of B2B Marketing.

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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

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

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

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 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. Joe Pulizzi and Jonathan Kran z published The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers.

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

One of the many goals of B2B marketing is to continuously forge better customer relationship. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content? Get Customers. Get Content. MarketingSherpa.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Tune and refine the buying process. You’ll see shorter buying cycle times. Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott). Get Content. By Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett. MarketingSherpa.

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ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

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%. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2009

Mike Rowland of Impact Interactions , a community consulting group, led a well-attended session on B2B communities and their characteristics based on his six years of experience helping major B2B companies such as Cisco, Intel, and SAP establish relationships with their customers and prospects using online communities and other social media.

Communities 40

Communities Online Marketing B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency 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.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Thought Leadership Demand 48

Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends.

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Long Tail Marketing Blogger Paper Content 117

Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. Stelzner on Vimeo.

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Video Marketing 134

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Swix also plans to publish its own API so that third-parties can push and pull Swix data into other applications. They’ve only been around approximately 8 weeks, and they already have thousands of customers. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat.

Social Media 117

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. Twitter Lists How your company or product are referred to in consumer-created Twitter lists can yield important taxonomy insights. Consider including some of these phrases to your master keyword list.

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Paid Content Ad Building Brand Identity Branding 143

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Should companies treat customers differently?

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Paid Content CRM Paid Search Agency Social Media 133

Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? But, when the next issue is printed, unless you advertise again, the flow of new customers stops.

Paid Content 124

Paid Content Content Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 124

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

On The Road Again If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, me and my family are somewhere between Albuquerque and Oklahoma City , with cars full of kids, the dog, the cat, the snake, the lizard, and 8 cases of wine. All these pine trees are starting to look the same. And my laptop. So, Bloomington it is.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 115

Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

We also have an outstanding publisher ( Wiley & Sons ), and a fortuitously patient, experienced editor ( Shannon Vargo ) guiding us through the obstacle course. Customers can be won or lost, every second of every day. And I look forward to buying as many of you a cocktail as possible on publication date. I know it.

Webinar Metrics 124

Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency Social Media PR 124

Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. A coven of PR practitioners. And they can’t get just two little words right. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2019

It got to the point where like, this is ridiculous, so I started shaving my head about four or five years ago and started wearing a hat, just a ball cap, but I’m advancing in age and respectability, so started buying nice hats once in a while and having a lot of fun with them. I have no brains or any of that, it was all luck for me.

Work Management 40

Work Management Planning Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 40

Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2019

It got to the point where like, this is ridiculous, so I started shaving my head about four or five years ago and started wearing a hat, just a ball cap, but I’m advancing in age and respectability, so started buying nice hats once in a while and having a lot of fun with them. I have no brains or any of that, it was all luck for me.

Work Management 40

Work Management Planning Marketing Management Peer-to-peer 40

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web?

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PR Social Media Paid Content Media 160

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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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

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.

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Multi-Channel Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Mobile Marketing 78

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?

Social Media 141

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 141

Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure, social media differs from the marketing we’re used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same – rather than opposing – teams. I’m not talking necessarily about acquiring new customers, but rather using social media to keep the customers we’ve already earned.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

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.” As someone on Twitter put it last summer, “glossier needs to cool it w the spam. You can just buy an email list, add them to a list, send emails every single day.

Brand Identity 52

Brand Identity Branding Work Management CAN-SPAM 52