Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site.

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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. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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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. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Unlike most white papers, this guide is very light on marketing (selected pages have sidebars headed “How Marketo Does It&# rather than embedding marketing copy in the content—a nice touch). Content marketing plays a key role in lead nurturing as well as a successful lead generation and social media strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Measuring ROI on content marketing is not straightforward; that is why most firms put measurement on the back burner. We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content?

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I figured these companies would be great examples of marketing with content. What I found was somewhat contrary to conventional content marketing practices. Fluor Corporation ( www.fluor.com , NYSE: FLR) – $22 billion in 2009. billion in 2009. www.jacobs.com , NYSE: JEC) — about $10 billion in 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I figured these companies would be great examples of marketing with content. What I found contradicts the rules of content marketing as practiced today. Fluor Corporation ( www.fluor.com , NYSE: FLR) – $22 billion in 2009. billion in 2009. www.jacobs.com , NYSE: JEC) — about $10 billion in 2010. billion in Q2-2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Is it so outdated that you avoid sending prospects and customers to your site? This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. Unless your prospects can find your site when searching in major search engines, you are dead in the water. It may be time to invest in your online presence.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Is less better than more when it comes to content? Instead of bombarding prospects with "too much content" should companies carefully chose 1 or 2 pieces of important content that will educate prospects? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Only instead of keeping your white shirt from turning blue, these piles set the stage for a range of marketing and sales activities – from personalizing outbound content, to prioritizing sales resources, to predicting whether a particular lead will turn into an honest-to-goodness paying customer. What to do? Do they span the generations?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? .&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? IMO, content is still the king in B2B lead generation, sales and marketing need to agree on a unified lead definition and figure out how best to use relevant content in driving sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. Here’s how I see the impact of the changes: Industrial buyers are using more and more online resources for initiating and going deeper into the industrial buy cycle.

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markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle. Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Focus on the data points you REALLY need to measure in your CRM.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar The Marketing Mélange A blog on all things Marketing with Strategy & Information Technology focus Blog Archive ▼ 2009 ( 22 ) ▼ June ( 2 ) Strategic Insights from Calculating Lifetime Custo. Buying Cycle – You have a customer – now what?

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Content is still king, so grant your prospects some love by giving them a great content-rich white paper. Stephanie Tilton is an expert case study and white paper writer who helps B2B companies advance the buying cycle by engaging prospects and customers. Michael Stelzner Recommends. WritingWhitePapers Blog.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In this session we discussed some important value selling and content marketing research for technology marketers, much of which extends to other B2B segments, with trends and advice you need to excel in 2011. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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Velocity Partners

APRIL 16, 2024

As a disclaimer, Jon is a serial Velocity client, someone we’ve had a relationship with since 2009 when we supported him back in the day in producing the iconic Definitive Guide series for Marketo.) JM : Well it’s worth reinforcing that only about 5% of your prospects are ready to buy at any one time. SW : Hi Jon.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2010

At the same time, B2B buyers are taking advantage of the wealth of information available via the Internet and social media to become more empowered, taking charge of the buying cycle. As a common example, an Internet empowered prospect will often self-diagnose their issues, but may not do so completely or accurately.

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation.

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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. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: How to use content effectively for demand generation? Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott). Get Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. So using social media as a tool to help prospects and customers network with each other is a great use of social media. Great stuff. I enjoy your blog.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

Marketing Like the Big Boys—Facebook for Small Business - Content Marketing Today , March 29, 2010 A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Facebook for small business. In short buying cycles, where the buyer generally understands the category of the offering, and the transaction is quick and simple, this can be measured relatively easily.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Creation of buyer-centric content. The rep may try to contact the prospect several times but will give up after a certain point. In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. The need for new analytical skills.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

Monday Marketing Term: Content Mapping - Marketing Genius Blog , April 26, 2010 Content mapping is the process of understanding and organizing the flow of content for your website, nurturing campaigns or blog, so it can be presented to your audience ( personas ) based on their needs and stage in the buying cycle.

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