Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

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

MAY 26, 2010

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 Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. Johnson (GPJ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

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

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. However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive.

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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? Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A good rule of thumb is 2-3% keyword density but don’t be afraid to experiment. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Here’s my description tag from the same post (NOTE: it is not the default first paragraph): Don’t go crazy stuffing keywords in your page’s keywords tag because Google does not use the keywords Meta tag in page ranking.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

To get the most from your content, embrace the 7 “R&# s of B2B Marketing Content Planning: Re-use - ideas for content development must be expanded to create multiple assets. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

However, this is the exception and not the rule and is typically used in product specification or data sheets. 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

JUNE 8, 2010

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 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. Speed kills in this environment, and you can’t succumb to endless committee meetings, planning and spreadsheets, when you can win or lose customers every minute of every day. Who’s listening?

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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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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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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. In particular, sales and leads (as opposed to chatter, sentiment, buzz, purchase intent, etc.).

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MAY 11, 2010

During my 15 years of Web site strategy and usability work (before I got all social media on you) I very much tried to live by the two-click rule (discover the most common questions customers have about your business, and answer them on your site within two clicks or fewer). Social media makes it possible. To be entertained?

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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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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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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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? &# My take on it may surprise you … and provide uncomfortable reading if you are a parent or social media junkie.

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JULY 8, 2010

A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list.

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MAY 20, 2010

Tales of parents not having selected names until after child birth are very much the exception, rather than the rule. The second is the planned, structured, strategic approach whereby a company first determines goals and objectives, and then incrementally adds tactics in an attempt to achieve them. This is the baby naming program.

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JUNE 3, 2010

If you needed a new data field, a different validation rule or even just a field label updated, you had to prostrate yourself before them to get it done within the week, if you were lucky. Do you think the ownership issue could lead to a privacy issue similar to FB? I once had a developer quote me $10,000 to create a signup form.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. If the standard unit of publication becomes something other than the page, but rather smaller social objects like status updates and photos being published and ranked in real-time, Google’s role in that equation is diminished.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. If the standard unit of publication becomes something other than the page, but rather smaller social objects like status updates and photos being published and ranked in real-time, Google’s role in that equation is diminished.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

The Sweet Spot: We’re all ‘smarketers’ now - Follow the Lead , July 8, 2010 Sam Zales. Blog to Generate Leads - Lead Views , July 16, 2010 The importance of Corporate blogging is known to all, but few companies are able to use this medium as a lead generation tool. But it’s not enough to provide distinctive value.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Titled “Taylor Guitars Responds to United Breaks Guitars&# it features an unedited Bob Taylor in the factory unspooling an array of helpful tidbits about airline rules, TSA guidelines, and the protective qualities of guitar cases. Useful and appropriate. Be there to be helpful to people who are in need of a service or a product.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Marketers stuck in roles that task them to constantly represent controversial doings while having no influence to solve the probs that lead to the angry customers due to corporate structure. Indeed, internal ground rules are the key, especially for smaller businesses. jaybaer says you're pissed at the wrong people.

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JUNE 30, 2010

It’s time to start thinking about social media the same way. Programs like ThinkGeek ‘s @thinkgeekspam that includes only deals and offers may need to become the rule, not the exception. It truly closes the loop on Social Media and makes for an ironclad relationship that will withstand the test of time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I wasn’t a follower of the brand, but there was obvious value in the fact that they had a Twitter presence and responded to my concerns better than the customer service rep. It’s not about how many are following you as a brand because there are so many other sources of value by having a presence in social media.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace. SXSW needs a much better vetting process if it’s going to retain even a modicum of educational value. And you and your guys need to be there.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. The Tortoise Rules But, social media speed is illusory and misleading. Yes, thanks to social media, business is faster than ever.

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