Industrial Marketing Today

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. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Class: Social Media and Building Community (GF201) Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs Chris Brogan’s presentation was more of a theoretical overview of community building than tools for doing that. Veredict: If you are new to social networks, community building, etc. and measure it religiously.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

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. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Influence: This is a measure of the likelihood of a person recommending your company or brand. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #3: Consultant specializing in accelerating business growth for global companies Redesigned his business website with personal branding and highlighting his expertise using an online article library.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. I’m assuming you want your business blog to be more than just a personal journal.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #1 Email Sender: Marketo Email Title: Social Best Practices for Marketing in the Cloud What I Like: Clean design; date and time of the webinar on top easy to find; orange “Free Webinar&# button calls attention to the important action (register now!) Picture of speaker gives it a personal tone. So which one is it?

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Industrial Marketing Today

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? REVEAL Adding a personal experience helps to humanize your content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Re-purpose - The same content can be modified for use with different personas and verticals to increase relevance and personalization rather than relying on general, one-size-fits-all content to meet the needs of a variety of audiences. Refresh - Content gets stale over time.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 12, 2009

The Five Rules of Effective Meeting Scheduling For those of us networked and connected to a calendar system such as MS Outlook, we have the advantage of being able to share our calendars with the rest of the company. But seriously, I think that the networked calendar has more advantages than disadvantages if you know how to use it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., 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

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.” Maybe it’s my M.A.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 10, 2010

Remember the boring person who spits when they talk and who cornered you at the cocktail party? Now, in social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, people choose whom they want to follow. Be Interesting in Your Social Networks. People buy from people they like.

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B2B Marketing Traction

MARCH 10, 2010

Remember the boring person who spits when they talk and who cornered you at the cocktail party? Now, in social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, people choose whom they want to follow. Be Interesting in Your Social Networks. People buy from people they like.

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

I have always found him an engaging, insightful, and a personal inspiration to many. The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." At the last conference social media dominated one of the discussion panels. Sales 2.0,

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. But what metrics are really most appropriate for social media measurement? Is your social media strategy built on a solid foundation, or is it more like a Hollywood movie set—a pretty facade with nothing behind it?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 3, 2009

I have always found him an engaging, insightful, and a personal inspiration to many. The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." At the last conference social media dominated one of the discussion panels. Sales 2.0,

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

In "The 4 C's of Social Media," I noted that coming up with a concise definition of social media , like defining "art," is challenging. Another is to look at the different types of websites and tools that comprise the social media landscape. 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4%

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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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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

2009 was the year in which Marketing Automation really took off. Integration of Social Media, Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation. Social Media Marketing FAIL: In 2010, we’ll see a lot of companies spend a lot of money trying to make a big splash into social networks and many will crash and burn.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? in the 1960s.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Experts tell us the number one networking tip is to help others and they’ll return the favor — large or small. Social Networking: Like Falling In Love. What’s most interesting is that Umair made this statement in June, 2009 when Twitter had recorded approximately 2.5 It takes a community to build a community.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Then you’d put that person in front of the audience and check with them.” Use social media judiciously to increase name recognition, drive traffic and build a community. If you were going to put them on the street, what would you do? You’d arm them with information about the marketplace.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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