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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

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. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

Buying Cycle

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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?

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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.”

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Webinars

Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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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? Follow these 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drive Leads.

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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.

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Checklist: Content Marketing Strategy Essentials for 2023

ClearVoice

MARCH 9, 2023

Let’s also return to 2010. The B2B audience has a long chain of command, as well as a longer buying cycle than that of a B2C audience. With this in mind, your 2023 B2B content strategy checklist might include the following: Implementing marketing automation to keep current clients happy while nurturing new leads.

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Best Content Marketing Guides, Tips and Tactics of 2010

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It helps move a prospect along the buying cycle. Social Media Leads Content Marketing: New Survey Reveals by Jeff Bullas. Lead nurturing content expert Ardath Albee writes that “Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Lead Nurturing by Find New Customers. How Much B2B Content is Enough?

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Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. By establishing yourself as a thought leader early in the buying cycle, you can help them not only identify their problem more quickly, but build a solution. Here’s why it should be the foundation of your 2H: 1. Tough crowd).

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Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. By establishing yourself as a thought leader early in the buying cycle, you can help them not only identify their problem more quickly, but build a solution. Tough crowd).

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Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

Bigger goals with less budget and resources are “the new norm” for B2B marketing orgs leading into 2020. By establishing yourself as a thought leader early in the buying cycle, you can help them not only identify their problem more quickly, but build a solution. Tough crowd).

Demand Generation

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Embrace True Nurturing Programs

Ambal's Amusings

MAY 17, 2010

Why should you engage prospects consistently across the complete buying cycle? Ardath Albee, B2B Marketing Strategist at Marketing Interactions , says that engaging prospects consistently drives more viable sales opportunities. We asked Ardath Albee "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?

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Five Myths of Lead Management

ANNUITAS

APRIL 26, 2011

Lead management continues to be a hot topic in the world of B2B marketing as we turn the corner and head into the second half of 2010. As a leader in lead management process development, our firm has seen a lot of confusion in the market about what constitutes lead management. So what are these myths?

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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. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead Generation for the Complex Sale

markempa

OCTOBER 17, 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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Content Takes Center Stage

Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

We asked Stephanie Tilton "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Stephanie Tilton is a seasoned white paper and case study writer who helps B2B companies advance the sales cycle by engaging prospects and customers. Stephanie Tilton.

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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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.

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

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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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.

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

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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

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. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At the same time, you know that social media has changed the marketing landscape : shouting to prospects with endless email offers may produce leads but you’re worried about the longer term implications to your market. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix?

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Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. Wow, it’s magical! Yes, except for one little detail. Do you have the staff to do it?

Work Management

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Google Makes Web Analytics Free but will it help your lead generation?

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 Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Besides the rise of social media as marketing channel, the emergence of marketing technology, more specifically Marketing Automation systems, in which you can configure the automated distribution of content to customers and prospects has been changing the way marketers see and create conent. Does it sound familiar? United States License.

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

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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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? There is no secrecy.

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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. Analytics is the new marketing creative!

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective.

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site. 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. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing.

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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

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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.

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What Do You Need for Successful Nurturing?

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lead nurturing is a hot topic right now. It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

Lead Ranking

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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. This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource.

Rules

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An Interview with Andrew Gaffney – Editor-in-Chief of Demand Gen Report

ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 17, 2010

A few years ago that simply meant generating some leads and some new names for the sales team to pursue, but we are now seeing marketing teams play an active role on engaging prospects at each stage of the buying cycle. What part do you see sales playing in improving lead generation results? Gaffney: Absolutely.

Marketing Automation Services

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Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

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. Prospects will tune you out until that happens.

Creativity

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

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. You need to optimize it for search engines in order for your target audience to find your B2B blog (see my earlier post, “How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects” ). Thanks for the link. Geoff CEO – BizCompare Inc.

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects?

Email Marketing

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

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. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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

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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?) in B2B marketing content.

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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

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

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Additionally, when marketers create a nurturing program across the buying process, each new lead should start at the beginning of the program with touch 1. Think about new “arrangements&# of content as resource centers for prospects and/or customers. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

Planning

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Webinars

Trending Sources

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Webinars

Need to Drive Leads? Try These Traditional Tactics Now

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Checklist: Content Marketing Strategy Essentials for 2023

Best Content Marketing Guides, Tips and Tactics of 2010

Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

Make Content Syndication the Core of Your 2H Demand Generation Plan

Embrace True Nurturing Programs

Five Myths of Lead Management

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

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Lead Generation for the Complex Sale

Content Takes Center Stage

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

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

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

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

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

Integrate Social Media Into Your Marketing Mix

Marketing Content That Sells

B2B Lead Generation Blog: Google Makes Web Analytics Free but will it help your lead generation?

The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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

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

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

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

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

What Do You Need for Successful Nurturing?

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

An Interview with Andrew Gaffney – Editor-in-Chief of Demand Gen Report

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

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

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

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