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

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

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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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Excellent content leaves the reader with something new that they didn’t have before. People like to get something from blogs they read. You don’t have to be Shakespeare to have a good blog. Remarkable Content – A mix of content is good. Keep content topical, informative, and non promotional.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” Any help that I can provide to my clients to alleviate the problem is greatly appreciated and rewarding for my business. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. Are those predictions a little premature? See charts below).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. As I see it, there are 3 options here: 1.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Business buyers typically seek additional information and resources for information on business products and services. In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. Â Pure content creation is demanding.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This article has actionable tips and advice from people like Seth Godin, Mark Cuban and Michael McLaughlin just to name a few. Click here to read 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers. . – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. This one caught me by surprise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman July 18, 2010 at 11:22 am Achinta; This is a great article – thanks for posting it! I like your steps for Continuous Process Improvements.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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? To get on the radar screen in the early stages, shoot for a variety of content instead of generic one-size-fits-all marketing content.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. At first, you knew everyone at the party. But then, it all changed.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. The content used to educate buyers of B2B products and services can be a very valuable asset when it comes to content optimization and acquiring leads via organic search. How many off site?

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Blog Create a blog for the conference and source content from speakers and attendees. The blog can even extend beyond the conference and be used as a year-round source of information. 10 Web Tools Every B2B Social Media Marketer Should Use Content may be king but distribution and optimization are.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

Today’s most effective marketers are optimizing content across channels, coordinating search and social marketing activities with traditional PR, and measuring their web presence and performance with sophistication. and 23% share content on SlideShare. 12 WPO, Inbound and Content Marketing Stats. e-Strategy Trends ).

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

KISSmetrics Home About KISSmetrics What Can You Learn from 7 Awesome Corporate Blogs? By Cameron Chapman on Oct 8, 2010 11 Comments Share Tweet Share A winning corporate blog can bring new traffic to your website and added attention to your company. Included in the people who blog is Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 3, 2013

And Eric Wheeler wrote in the AdAge article " Ad Campaigns Are Dead ," “Power has shifted away from brands to consumers. Paul Dunay has written, " there is no campaign in social media ," while Joe Pulizzi said in a video interview that "content marketing is not a campaign, it is a promise to our customers." wink wink) “. wink wink) “.

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Hubspot

JULY 13, 2010

Leave the details of keyword selection, content creation and social media engagement to your marketing team. Email marketing is one of the most cost-effective lead generation methods online, so investing in the right email service provider and email merketer can facilitate big business gains. Think about your key business assets.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 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.

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Hubspot

MAY 27, 2010

Blogging is More Than Text - Blogging in 2010 is very powerful for both creating fresh, remarkable content but it isn’t only about writing articles. I gave quite a few examples of HubSpot customers who have created tremendous blog leverage by writing about the things they discuss every day with their customers.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. It provides b2b marketers, trade industry journalists, analysts and other subscribers with a single subscription point for all of the best thought leadership content in b2b marketing and PR.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Here’s what the social signals said was the best content and the hottest topics. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community or comments at all. There better be. Why not use it? Google Analytics.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Have you added the ability for email recipients to share content on Twitter, Facebook, Digg and elsewhere? Most quality email service providers give you the option of easily adding sharing tools, and you can then run a report showing which of your subscribers clicked your Twitter link, and/or shared content on Facebook.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. But that’s content for another blog post. Best of B2B Marketing.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2014

So before it gets replaced by the next trendy buzzwordy term, here’s some marketing-related big data for you: 83 valuable facts, stats, and research findings covering strategy, social media, SEO, online advertising, email marketing, content, blogging, social networking, video and more. 14 Content Marketing Facts and Stats.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Nic Wirtz Good article, especially about expecting to fail. Experience is useful in any business but why do any decision makers consider a one time experience the absolute truth? – Small Business Blog from Microsoft – Site Home – TechNet Blogs [.] Why was advertising fine and pr questionable?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

5 Most Popular Blog Posts Content Marketing: How to get your subject matter experts on your corporate blog (7) Social Marketing: Twitter contest boosts followers 43% (6) Marketing Research: Cold, hard cash versus focus groups (4) Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? My take is that is at the top.

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markempa

MARCH 2, 2007

Sales people need to spend their time selling, not building content and messaging. Heres 9 ideas to help you go beyond the lead: Build a library of selling and nurturing content specifically designed for you sales team. The content does not have to be flashy, just relevant.) Make the content library easily accessible.

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