The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

That’s why I’m eager to check out two resources: MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World The folks at MarketingProfs held an online trade show that had a great speaker lineup and relevant topics for those in the online world, being very focused on tactics for lead generation, social media, and email marketing among other topics.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Gartner’s comment about the decision focused on them being an independent research organization and denies they use “pay for play&# in the publication of their reports. Can their tactic backfire? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 And not surprisingly, the judge dismissed it.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay. link] < possibly.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. Disclaimer The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Xerox Global Services, nor those of my former one, Forrester Research. I will delete spam, off-topic, or inappropriate comments, but all others are welcome.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

Class: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research (GF401) Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz SEOmoz is one of the best places for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) information, and the presentation was full of nice tidbits about SEO. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 United States License.

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The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 3, 2009

Blogs, magazine articles, whole books were written on marketing strategies and tactics and how to tweak your website to get higher Google rankings, how to use Guerilla Marketing and all the other interesting tools in the marketer arsenal but those are mainly that: tools. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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

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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.

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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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Email Subscription Subscribe to the RSS feed Follow Daniel on Twitter Connect via LinkedIn Follow Me On Twitter! For more great stuff on viral marketing, David Meerman Scott’s blog ( www.webinknow ) is a great starting point.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. And they use different sources to get their information. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006. The second challenge was to grow the in-house email list of 75,000 names that were mainly dormant.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases. 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

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? All Rights Reserved.

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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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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. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

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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 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Achinta Mitra July 19, 2010 at 1:47 pm Eric, Thank you for posting your thoughtful comments. All Rights Reserved.

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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. Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Refresh - Content gets stale over time. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc.

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action.

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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. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Resources

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Log in now ClickZ Interactive Marketing Events Search Engine Watch Search Marketing Conferences Subscribe to Newsletter Subscribe to RSS Feeds Free Webcasts Members Area Forums Advertise You are here: SEW Home › Experts › Social Media Marketing › B2B Social Media Marketing -- Does It Work?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 30, 2010

In fact, a recent eMarketer report found that 40% of executives surveyed said integrating the two tactics is their No. 1 marketing initiative for 2010. To combine the two tactics, email subscribers can be encouraged to not only forward content via email, but also share it via Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and other sites.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. The biggest obstacle is corporate culture. Lastly, the people factor is huge.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Heather Rast 07/06/2010 at 8:18 PM Permalink Hi, Elizabeth! 2) A bit tactical, but as a tool user I write from experience – maintain a central repository (and gatekeeper) for the various log-on credentials needed for all these tools. and great speech!) What a great post to save to my favorites and keep in my arsenal.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Real-Time Activity Stream 5 Steps for Crafting an Effective B2B SEO Blogging Strategy Derek Edmond | Mar 4, 2011 | 0 Comments Search engine marketers frequently recommend blogging as a tactic for achieving search engine optimization ( SEO ) goals. Are you a Search Engine Watch Member? | Before jumping on that bandwagon, consider two points.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

In the early stage, research papers, surveys, and thought leadership documents all help the buyer understand the problem they have. In your experience, what channels or tactics work best for distributing content? Next, I would look at direct traffic (RSS and Newsletter subscribers) and social traffic.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and Email 23. Subscribe to SmartBrief newsletters, RSS feeds, and Google alerts in order to find ideas for new content (that’s how I found this blog!) Another email subscriber tactic includes a suggestion to refer a friend to join the email list 67. One platform that provides this is Aweber.

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