2010, Buying Cycle, Copyright and Tactics

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

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.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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.”

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0

Webinars

How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

MORE WEBINARS

Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Michael Brenner Jul 12 2010 Hi Sandi, I am so happy you agree!

Tactics

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Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. Pages About Michael Brenner Appearances Search Based on Traction Theme by The Theme Foundry Copyright © 2010 B2B Marketing Insider.

Marketing Mix

Marketing Mix Social Media Social Marketing Planning

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

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.

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

Optimization

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Budget Programs

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

Social Media

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

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.

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Distribution

Distribution Web 2.0 Lead Ranking Privacy Policies

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

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.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

Sales Cycle

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies

Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

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. Here’s an example from my post titled “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” The whole topic of search engine optimization of your business blog is way too big to cover everything in one post.

Optimization

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. More and more B2B marketers are shifting their marketing budget out of expensive pay per click (PPC) advertising and traditional media and into content creation, optimization and social media.

Marketing Budget Creation

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Sales and Marketing as a Team: Five Tips to Improve Performance

markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle. Create content thats relevant for each stage of the buying cycle.

Lead Generation

Lead Generation B2B Sales B2B Thought Leadership B2B Marketing

Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers Tagged as: Seth Godin , Social media , Social Networking About the Author Achinta Mitra calls himself a “marketing engineer” because he combines his engineering education with 20+ years of practical industrial marketing experience to connect the dots between strategic advice and tactical implementation.

Social Networks

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

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?) Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Lead Generation

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Of course, I could have tried using scare tactics by saying, “If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs” but today’s industrial and B2B marketers are too smart and resourceful to fall for that line. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

CMS Development

CMS Development Marketing Websites Work Management Web 2.0

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

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?

Sales Management

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Because of longer sales cycles, more promising opportunities are being lost since business conditions change at the other end and projects are put on hold indefinitely or being eliminated. A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads.

Sales Cycle

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

However, it does require some tweaking and a dose of creativity in order to rise above the noise in attracting the attention of industrial buyers and engaging with them deeper into the sales cycle. Email strategy: FreightCenter.com teamed up with email service provider Delivra to devise an email marketing strategy.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

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. Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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.

Webinar Metrics

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The apparent disconnect is even more telling as seen by these key findings from the study: The two traditional interruptive marketing tactics, advertising (25%) and direct (20%) are still receiving the biggest share of the budgets, indicating that marketing budgets are misaligned with the CMO’s priorities.

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

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.

Lead Generation

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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? Conduct a content audit and make sure you have mapped your content to the buy cycle. Globalization has made the buyer’s world flat.

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

B2B

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

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?

Marketing Websites

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

Curation

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign?

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Planning

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

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! Achinta Mitra July 19, 2010 at 1:47 pm Eric, Thank you for posting your thoughtful comments. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Marketing Automation Services

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation

Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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.”

Features

Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Webinars

Trending Sources

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Webinars

Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Sales and Marketing as a Team: Five Tips to Improve Performance

Business Value of Social Networking

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Content Creation Made Easy

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

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