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

MAY 9, 2011

The power of marketing automation is the ability to target your marketing database with specific content based on their behavior and stage in the purchasing process. Think about: Videos Webinars Presentations eBooks Whitepapers Sales Collateral Blog Posts Tweets Facebook Comments/Likes/etc LinkedIn (company page, discussions, etc.)

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Tony Zambito

MAY 1, 2011

  Morgan Stanley (2010) recently reported in a study that there are now more social network users than email users.    However, trending information clearly points to the fact that sales reps are having a hard time making contact with buyers and don’t get involved until much later in the buying cycle. 

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Here’s a great example of how one firm used segmentation to optimize their media spend and increase conversions: Mini Case Study Challenge : A large virtualization company launched a paid search campaign to generate leads for their compliance solutions for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA).

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markempa

NOVEMBER 14, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The key ideas that seem to be present across them all are: Buyer persona is key for content generation Guest writers (employees, competitors, etc.) The key ideas that seem to be present across them all are: Buyer persona is key for content generation Guest writers (employees, competitors, etc.) Like Be the first to like this post.

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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. It may even allow you to identify those influential network hubs whose recommendations can mean big referral business for you. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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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.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. To most C-level execs that really means answering the question, “How much revenue did it generate?” Or do we need to show a verifiable ROI?

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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

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). Lesson #5: Path of least resistance Engineers are taught to find the path of least resistance. Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process.

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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 effective has it been for generating leads? army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign?

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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. B2B sales processes are becoming “consumerized.”

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Thursday, November 04, 2010 IDC: Economic Buyers, Digital Overload and Sales Enablement Define Marketing for 2011 I just had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Randy Perry, VP Business Value at IDC. As a result, sales is being invited later into the decision making process, sales cycles are extending and deals are stalling.

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LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

In this post I want to focus on the trends in Marketing Automation for 2010. David Raab , Raab Associates & author, Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. The vast majority of leads generated on a website never have a meaningful conversation with a sales rep. In 2010 you’ll start to hear about marketing methods.

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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. Others really only need the benefit of process driven or template level SEO. The ideal would be to map assets to the needs of the target customer and their place in the buying cycle.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

9 Social Listening & Tracking Tools - Marketing Genius Blog , May 7, 2010 Here is a list of 9 social media tracking and monitoring tools. 100 Tips for Trade Show Lead Generation - B2B Lead Generation Blog , May 11, 2010 Lead generation remains the top reason most companies exhibit at events and tradeshows.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing for September 2010. Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , September 1, 2010 Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. B2B Voices , September 1, 2010 Image via CrunchBase. Great stuff in the B2B Marketing world in September. How Is PR Changing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. 2 comments… read them below or add one } Bruce Rasmussen July 2, 2010 at 4:59 am The importance of the sales experience is reinforced by the Integrated Sales Executive Council. Bruce Rasmussen´s last blog.

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B2B Digital Marketer

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For more information on Paul’s background visit his LinkedIn profile – [link]. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. 15:15 – The B2B buying cycle. Paul’s LinkedIn: [link]. And so if you can try to talk about how this maturation process works, because I think that kind of gets into the strategy.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

April 2010. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

This is the process of comparing two variations of a single variable to determine which performs best in order to help improve marketing efforts. Blogging is a core component of inbound marketing as it can accomplish several initiatives simultaneously, such as website traffic growth, thought leadership, and lead generation.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn: Age, Ethnicity And Gender Of The Major Social Networks [STUDY] by All Twitter. Shea Bennett examines research finding that, no surprise, the user base on LinkedIn skews older than on other social networks: more than half of all members are aged 36-65, with just 6% younger than 22.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Big Ed’s Top 10 B2B Marketing Trends For 2010 by Marketing-Gimbal. Edward Brice pretty much nailed the significant b2b marketing developments for 2010 (e.g. 2010: Social Network Advertising and Marketing Outlook by Brian Solis. Re-Architecting the B2B Sales and Marketing Process for a New Decade by Reflexions. You decide.

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