Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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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. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

×11, tri-fold rack brochure, printed on bright yellow paper, and available for free just about everywhere in town. Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. Buy your own product.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to print out all your key metrics on one piece of paper, for easy distribution and circulation within your organization? A write up on a blog. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? A new product launch. Trade show.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. At first, you knew everyone at the party. But then, it all changed.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing By Objectives Objective-Action-Budget In a recent article for the CMO Council’s Newsletter, Nicolas Watkis argues “ Marketers won’t succeed if they don’t have objectives ”. Right on, my friend!

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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? Others recommend writing about things that you are knowledgeable about.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content. Definitely not.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? million followers on Twitter?

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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

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

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? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard. For example, “content creation.”

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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

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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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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. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

We had nearly 1,600 people sign up for our webinar last week on “ How To Plan And Build An Effective Content Marketing Strategy. Click the link above to our blog post summary of the most important stats, quotes, slides, templates and also to download the presentation and the templates. Content marketing and SEO are totally connected.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Before TV we entertained ourselves by interacting, making and doing, whether it was paper airplanes, a game of Yahtzee, or family harmonica night. TV watching on a per capita basis has increased for 50 years in a row, and that staggering amount of time has come largely at the expense of human connectedness and innovation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

› Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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JUNE 7, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. « Better lead management leads to bigger marketing budgets | Main | Paper Direct Mail is Not Dead » Cold Calling Tips for the complex sale When used correctly, the phone is a powerful way to start and develop relationships.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Just adding a sign up form in the sidebar of your site or blog stating “Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter for the latest news and handy tips” may be a direct call to action but is it really an irresistible offer or incentive? Sign up for our monthly newsletter!” “For This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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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. For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Take a quick poll.

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