Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

However, you can do it too with some help. Did you find this “how to” article helpful? Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Organic or natural search engine optimization (SEO) has always been shrouded in mystery, bordering on voodoo. It seems the secrets of SEO are known only to a few high-priced consultants.

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APRIL 26, 2010

Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information. For 2010, approximately six in 10 marketing professionals surveyed plan to increase their spending on content initiatives. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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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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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. See charts below).

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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.

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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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MAY 26, 2010

Allocating online marketing in a broader and deeper fashion across multiple programs not only helps you connect with more potential buyers throughout the buy cycle, it helps prevent a key mistake that some marketers make: relying only on the ‘last click’ to determine which marketing programs are effective in bringing buyers to your company.

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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? 6 comments… read them below or add one } RogerW September 28, 2010 at 11:16 am Your Post is right on the money.

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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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APRIL 21, 2010

In short, they are doing things that help them get found online. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. 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.

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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. I’m glad that you found my article helpful. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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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. Thanks for the post.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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.” It must help your customers make the best use of their purchase. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Ardath is the author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale.

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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?

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. In essence, to measure customer engagement accurately, we need to track four components — involvement, interaction, intimacy and influence. These statistics are easily and readily available from your dashboard in Google Analytics.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Any help that I can provide to my clients to alleviate the problem is greatly appreciated and rewarding for my business. Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. You can help search engines find your older posts by using a “related posts” plugin. Using a premium WordPress theme that is specifically designed for SEO can help a great deal in your optimization efforts. Thanks for the link.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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JULY 29, 2010

That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint.

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JULY 23, 2010

Those punch lines and stereotypes may be amusing but they won’t really help you come up with an effective site redesign. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage. Try to reinforce or continue the same experience by helping engineers search your content by part number, specifications and keywords.

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MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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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. 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!

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. HOW: How will you measure the success of your email campaigns? Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

That led me to other popular search terms like blog content creation, content creation help, online content creation etc. It helps me to get my thoughts organized, rearrange ideas until I feel good about the flow of my content. REVEAL Adding a personal experience helps to humanize your content. For example, “content creation.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Here are some examples to help you understand the concept: Simple Call to Action Irresistible Offer or Incentive “Sign up for more handy tips” “Want a copy of our complimentary Report, “How To [Do Something no one else will tell you how to do] in 3 Easy Steps?” Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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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OCTOBER 26, 2009

It was developed to help media and entertainment companies create and maintain content-rich, community-driven web experiences. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. One of the best landing pages (actually targeting several different audiences, all rolled into one) that I’ve seen is for Cisco Eos software platform.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

39% of the engineering, technical, manufacturing and industrial companies plan to implement a company blog as part of their 2011 social media initiatives and 50% expect to invest more (compared to 2010) in company blogs according to GlobalSpec’s 2011 Trends in Industrial Marketing.

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JANUARY 21, 2011

(NYSE:NSM), a leader in power management technology and manufacturer of high-performance analog products, has done a fantastic job of using engaging content that helps it core audience of design engineers while generating $1.42 billion of sales in 2010.

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JUNE 4, 2011

An industrial blog will help to establish you/your company’s expertise with free content. Building this kind of thought leadership and online credibility helps you grow your list of new prospects and leads. What is even more amazing is the fact that this has not changed much from 2010 to 2011 as shown by the chart below from eMarketer.

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APRIL 15, 2011

The entire application is built to help engineers, designers and specifiers find the right part quickly and easily. That in turn helps manufacturers get in early in the industrial sales cycle and generate more sales opportunities. I could then select a specific manufacturer’s CAD library to view.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Even though other marketing tactics like in-person events and webinars are still seen as the most effective tactics, this year blogs registered a 45% increase in “perceived effectiveness” as compared to the study done in 2010. ( See chart below ). These results match what I’m finding on the ground.

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