Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They are: Buyer Personas – deep insights on the people who buy your products and services Buying Process – the steps buyers go through to acquire your products and services Buyer personas go a lot deeper than just demographics. Are your company, products and services visible in various online channels used across the stages?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. The focus is squarely on you, your company and its products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Let’s say you are a developer of custom software for the Upstream Oil & Gas industry, you probably have a page or more on your site describing the various features of your software. Therefore, the easier you make it on them to share your site content, the more likely you are to be included in the final shortlist of vendors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs. 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

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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? For example, no software in the world can flag the error between their and there.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? Are you pre-selling a product or service? Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Follow these essential rules of a website redesign and you’ll truly create a powerful sales and marketing tool. As the founder of Tiecas, I have been helping manufacturers and engineering services companies boost their sales with better do-it-yourself (DiY) marketing for over 20 years. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues. Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Curation: Doing more with less is the topic of a video I found in a post by Steve Rosenbaum who is the CEO of Magnify.net , a video curation and publishing platform. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. I hit the mother lode! All Rights Reserved.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Study: B-to-B Marketers Lagging With Social Media. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. Data shows about 40 percent of b-to-b brands aren’t using social marketing. 32 percent use social media as an outbound marketing channel for demand generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world. I service industrial companies, as you do. I suspect that as more understanding is gained of “how to&# use the tools the flood gates will open in the industrial sector.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Solution Mapping: Look across the company’s portfolio of offerings to identify and put together – or map a solution for each of that market’s key business requirements – incorporating products, services and programs as needed. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

As content strategists, we can build a standard format for content that includes page title, short description of the product or service, what problem it solves, who would benefit the most and additional pairs of product benefits and features. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. after they surveyed more than 1,200 purchasing decision makers in small, medium, and large companies throughout the United States and Western Europe who are responsible for buying high-tech products and services.

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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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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. Why should you care about your company’s website?

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