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Inbound Marketing Tactics to Get Bulk of B2B Marketing Budgets in 2011

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With the cloud of economic uncertainty still hanging over many industries, it is not surprising that B2B marketers are shifting their 2011 budgets more towards lower-cost inbound eMarketing tactics. MarketingSherpa asked more than 900 B2B marketers how they expected their marketing budgets to change for 2011. Social media marketing.

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Industrial Companies Underuse the One Social Media Tactic with Proven ROI

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Whereas the study (2011 Social Media in Industry Survey) conducted by Semplice Industry Marketing states, “Of those who used Twitter in 2011, 78% found it somewhat to very useful.”. It is a lot easier to set up free Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and use them to promote products and announce new ones.

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Digital Marketing for Control Engineers, Machine Builders and Designers

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It was reassuring then when the findings from Machine Builder Research and Buying Study 2011 done by Control Design mirrored what I’ve been hearing from my industrial clients. Digital marketing trends in 2011. In 2011, 33% of the respondents chose this option which is a five point jump over 2010. It is definitely worth it.

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Industrial Companies shouldn’t Replace Email Marketing with Social Media

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The answer is YES according to the research report, “Trends in Industrial Marketing 2011: How Manufacturers are Marketing Today” published by GlobalSpec. He wrote, “The bigger and more complex the decision, the less likely it is that those who influence it are sharing their recommendations on Facebook.”.

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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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Here are some other key findings from their report: 83% of the companies expect their sales to increase in 2012 and 35% of them are spending more on marketing in 2012 than they did in 2011. 47% of the industrial companies spend more than a third of their overall marketing budget online.

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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

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Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. According to a survey done by GlobalSpec (Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector – 2011), 33% of industrial companies provide an online discussion community for customers, and 32% provide one internally for employees.