Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5. You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. 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 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill. Try polls and surveys to gather data.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you. I’d add that B2B blogs which provide individual contact information of the bloggers or experts referenced in the posts can lead to new sales opportunities. That is a very good way to generate a qualified lead from your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He explains it very well by saying, “Thus, for every feature about my company, the product that we use, the equipment that we operate or the process that we follow when completing work, I must transition the featured aspect into a believable benefit to the customer. According to Brad, the most important piece of the puzzle is the transition.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. And congrats on the #1 ranking! And guess what? The very blog that you’re reading came out #1. Thank you to everyone who reads Convince & Convert.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

The first step in that process of course is knowing why it is that you’re blogging. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective. I'd rank the goals of blogging – or any communication – thusly, in order of priority.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process. The approval process for apps is a black hole,” says Tom Conlon of Popular Science. The app store approval process complaints are greatly exaggerated. Also, $0.30

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The way to do this practically is to borrow a technique from social media and use tagging. Pick a set of psychographic properties that are predictive of future customer value. With this planning, it is easier to define your automation requirements. What value are you delivering to customers?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. How can you take friction out of that process by just-in-time tweeting, participating in Yahoo! Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Got a lot of exciting ideas and we're going to be testing each one to see how our users respond and what actually delivers the most value. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. 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?&# All rights reserved.

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JUNE 29, 2010

The rise and role of the “non-professional&# is another very interesting concept in the book, as an increase in participation naturally leads to an explosion in content created by people that haven’t been vetted by the traditional means of degrees, apprenticeships, or ownership of a broadcasting license. Who we are.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Numbers can both have value and be deceptive. You should devote mental energy to finding or developing a metric that is: (a) meaningful in measuring your own objectives, and (b) leads you personally to actionable items for “moving your ball forward&#. The notable points are many; among the key takeaways are these: 1.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. Not only chock full o' value, but an imaginative process to ultimately retain the TWolves as a client.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Also, the screened image leads the eye towards your image at the right. link] Jacki Mieler I voted…and my choice is pulling into the lead! sara22 Hi Jay, I'm loving option 3, and it looks like it's in the lead so far. Option 3 will blend too much with the rollovers. I like number 1, except for the search box.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Robert Kiyosaki awoke the inner entrepreneur in me and his book and words lead to my venture into internet marketing. Robert Kiyosaki awoke the inner entrepreneur in me and his book and words lead to my venture into internet marketing. Their support, open ears, and ability to lead by example. link] Scott R. Know your audience.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In fact, I believe that ultimately SM will be viewed largely as a customer retention tool, with budgets from those departments and metrics that focus on customer lifetime value and how it’s impacted by social media touches. Using social media to acquire customers is like using email to acquire customers. Unlikely at best.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. If you’re an agency that has all of this figured out, congratulations.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. Kipp Bodnar´s last blog.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Building a network of supporters over time that aligns with a company’s values and actions only help protect a company in times of trouble.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Red Chair was born out of this exact same realization – that executives need to become familiar with this stuff at their level – and still, we're a very long way from making the integration process as smooth as it could be. I wonder if social media training will be added to corporate continuing education programs.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. I think using the information in tandem would be great to add to social media strategies.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not drive sales revenue or create leads. Perhaps social media will only serve the purpose of listening, analyzing and responding to customer need. If so, then you might consider social media more of a customer service/retention tool which still gives it great value. To really do so. No… to profit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. Sales experience far outweighs other factors such as company brand impact, produce/service delivery and value to price ratio. The table below shows results from the study that shows what sales reps do wrong to turn off B2B customers.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Bottom line, I do think “helping&# is one of the best ways organizations can engage in the social space to create value for both sides. I think the idea of “helping&# is a good catch phrase for the social media umbrella (connecting, interacting, and so on). Randy Bunker Thanks, Jay. Randy Bunker Thanks, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

As a PR professional in India and with Social Media gradually gaining ground in the country these questions offer the right guidance on how firms should be taking things forward. The questions in the post (if answered ) also allows a firm to demonstrate value to clients and convince them to jump on the social media platform.

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