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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

You setup a campaign, define the nurturing stages, and even add some points to different interactions to score the lead and customize the nurturing experience. The skills that worked offline to help you buy or beg or bug your way in are the skills of interruption and coercion. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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what's your marketing approach?

The Effective Marketer

An interesting post by Steve Johnson talks about marketing not being a list, but rather an approach to solving customers problems and helping buyers to buy. Create this email here, prepare a webinar there, and send the artwork for publication in that magazine. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

Customer Experience Matrix

Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. Probably the most comprehensive study along these lines was Global Faces and Networked Places , released by Neilsen in March 2009. of the total.

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

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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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

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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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

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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