Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The sales team has a much better understanding of the needs of various stakeholders because of their customer-facing role. They have the insight on pain points and issues surrounding the customer. Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing.

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APRIL 20, 2010

They have compiled over 50 marketing charts and graphs based on analysis of their 2,500 business customers. Stelzner on Vimeo. The second report on social media and b2b marketing is from HubSpot.

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APRIL 28, 2010

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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. Use video testimonials and/or interview your customers and convert them into podcasts. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Is it so outdated that you avoid sending prospects and customers to your site? It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. It is all about the customer and not you and your company.

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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. I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! The first study done by AWeber (aff. See charts below).

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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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APRIL 21, 2010

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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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APRIL 22, 2010

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APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Content Marketing’s slogan is – “Don’t pitch. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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MAY 18, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products Next post: How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” It must help your customers make the best use of their purchase. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc.

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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

JULY 23, 2010

Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage. Video testimonials are far more credible and impactful than plain text.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers. Most B2B marketers find it relatively easy to create and use content to gain search engine presence. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process.

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JUNE 12, 2010

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AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. As long as you can make their entire sales experience easy (both before and after) and your products meet specifications for them to specify with confidence, you probably have a lifetime customer unless you fail him/her badly.

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MAY 7, 2010

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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.

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JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. in Museum Studies, but the idea of acting as a curator of information to post on our website for the benefit of our clients and customers is extremely interesting. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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MAY 11, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You make a good point about adding explicit calls to action if you want to move the visitor along and ultimately convert him/her into a customer. Achinta Mitra October 1, 2010 at 3:49 pm @matt, Thanks for your comments.

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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? Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? I’ve listed six business blogging tips here to get you started.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Think about new “arrangements&# of content as resource centers for prospects and/or customers. If a video you used in a blog post relates, pull it through to the landing page for that content. Response - When a content asset provokes a big response, figure out why and create more content with those characteristics.

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MAY 14, 2010

How do you shift the focus from you or your company to your prospects and customers? Customize them to suit your particular product line, which makes it much easier to specify and buy your valves. Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused.

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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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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MAY 31, 2010

You need to optimize it for search engines in order for your target audience to find your B2B blog (see my earlier post, “How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects” ). Select Custom Structure and enter “/%postname%/” (Without the quotation marks). I highly recommend and use the Thesis Theme.

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JULY 9, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The salesperson may have to spend a lot of time re-educating the customer and correcting misunderstandings Customers are prisoners of their own experiences (we all are). Today’s B2B salesperson must bridge the gap from the experience of others to the specific and unique needs and priorities of the customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You may be too close to the forest to see the trees, sometimes you may have to ask your current customers for their input. My take: Go back to the drawing boards and brainstorm with your R&D, engineering, sales and marketing people to make a list of problems that existed and are solved by your offerings.

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JUNE 3, 2010

We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. Our sales people will tell them everything they need to know when they talk to them on the phone or set up a face-to-face meeting. There’s nothing new we can say on our website.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The reason for not using content marketing that I hear most often from my industrial clients is “we don’t have and/or can’t produce enough content that our customers (engineering, technical and manufacturing professionals) will find valuable.”. Saxena answered, “Customers and our marketing strategies are the two biggest drivers.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Fluor Corporation ( www.fluor.com , NYSE: FLR) – $22 billion in 2009. billion in 2009. Every company claims that their success is built on building lasting relationships with their customers yet the sites emphasize their people, their expertise and their engineering capabilities. KBR ( www.kbr.com , NYSE: KBR) — $2.7

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