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Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2010

Webbiquity

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. Among the key findings from the report: Despite the lingering economic malaise, companies across virtually all industries plan to increase budgets for social media marketing in 2010.

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Top 5 Social Media Trends For The B2B Marketer

Marketing Insider Group

While social media is all part of a consumer revolution of peer-to-peer conversations and consumer-generated content, the Toolbox.com report states there is room for marketers to contribute since “online communities are open for participation and welcome the information and insights that their companies can add to the conversation.”

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

Industrial Marketing Today

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 Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. Johnson (GPJ). Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

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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Who Do You Trust? Industry Analysts Reign Supreme

The ROI Guy

A SiriusDecisions survey recently examined which b-to-b sources are trusted most by buyers during the buying lifecycle, and the results indicate not surprisingly that Industry Analysts and Peers are the most influential and trusted sources of information. of respondents) and peers (28.7%).

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

Sure, they are human beings like the rest of us but they have very different emotional triggers and needs when it comes to making work-related decisions. I should know — I am an engineer too. So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Engineers are creatures of habit.

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