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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

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But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Sounds simple, right?

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

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Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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According to Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor , you are going to need two critical pieces of information to conduct a content audit. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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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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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

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Provide this information in plain English with compelling reasons for people to do business with you. Provide multiple ways to access relevant information with minimal clicks. As the decision maker or a business owner, you may not have the time to go hunting online for the right information or read a 50-page eBook.

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Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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Features: attributes that products or services have. As you can see from the two techniques discussed here, features only tell your prospects about the attributes of your product and services. Thank you for a very informative post. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {