Hubspot

JULY 10, 2019

If you’re not properly targeting your buyer persona, your promotions and advertisements will likely fall on deaf ears. Where target audiences vary the most, though, is between individual consumers and businesses. In fact, 80% of business decision makers prefer to get information from an article than an ad. Run PPC campaigns.

Paid Content 101

Paid Content B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 101

Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Call-to-Actions – Your blog should be a lead generating machine. Offers for call-to-actions can include: newsletter sign-up, eBook download or webinar registration. Great blog call-to-actions are action oriented, positive, clear, and direct. Advertising – Unless you are generating tons of traffic this is a waste.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Webinar Metrics RSS Ning 28

Writing on the Web

APRIL 13, 2011

Content marketing works: you can publish online content – blog posts, videos, webinars and web pages – that attracts clients to you. Using content marketing , you don’t have to chase after them, spend money on advertising, direct mail, or printed newsletters. Blog this on Blogger. Get Shareaholic.

Rules 100

Rules Content Digg Press 100

ClearVoice

JUNE 24, 2021

Emails and newsletters are second at 46%, with blog articles way down the list at 18%.). Additionally, Twitter states that video is the site’s “fastest-growing advertising tool,” with over 2 billion viewings of video on the platform per day. Blogging content is still effective. That’s an increase of 67% YoY.

Statistics 117

Statistics Content Marketing Marketing Budget Paid Search Agency 117

Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2020

Takeaway: More than half of millennials are making purchases online, so make sure, when blogging for millennials, that you keep in mind that ecommerce posts or roundup posts are going to be most beneficial if they include links to purchase. 36% of millennials don’t trust social media advertising. Source: Statista ).

eCommerce 89

eCommerce Peer-to-peer Statistics Thought Leadership 89

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 10, 2013

76% of B2B vendors in North America maintain company blogs; 70% of large B2B enterprises, and 77% of small-to-midsize (SMB) firms. ( Cox Business ). 80% of Australian companies and 86% of UK businesses blog. ( Cox Business ). Cox Business ). Cox Business ). Cox Business ). Heidi Cohen ).

Statistics 100

Statistics SMB Content Marketing Planning 100

Webbiquity

MAY 10, 2011

It’s challenging to get the metrics really needed to measure social media ROI primarily because social media is much more like public relations than it is like direct marketing or search engine advertising. Through a blog, marketers become publishers, providing their audience with relevant and valuable content. Here are 20 ideas.

ROI 100

ROI Generation Advertising Agencies Case Studies 100

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Businesses that blog attract more leads, build brand trust, and have an easier time nailing revenue goals. It’s also what customers prefer – 70% of people would rather learn about a company through its articles rather than advertisements. Companies that practice blogging get 97% more links to their websites.

Top of Funnel 292

Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Companies Marketing Automation Services 292

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Link), was a survey of small business owners and found that the two most common tactics used in 2009 were tweeting e-mail newsletters and sending out blog entries to e-mail lists. In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages.

Social Media 60

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Just adding a sign up form in the sidebar of your site or blog stating “Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter for the latest news and handy tips” may be a direct call to action but is it really an irresistible offer or incentive? Sign up for our monthly newsletter!” “For

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I don’t want to ignore the other forms of marketing content such as emails, e-newsletters, virtual events, case studies and analyst reports. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Professor Quelch provides the example of Intel and its very successful advertising campaign “Intel Inside.” B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Branding 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Optimization 60

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Small Business Marketing 60

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Distribution 60

Distribution Web 2.0 Lead Ranking Privacy Policies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

More and more B2B marketers are shifting their marketing budget out of expensive pay per click (PPC) advertising and traditional media and into content creation, optimization and social media. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Social Networks 60

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

Here’s the skinny (as seen in today’s StartupNation Community Bulletin newsletter): Free Telechat. StartupNation Blog is proudly powered by WordPress. Wednesday July 9, noon EST. Hear StartupNationâ??s s Rich Sloan with Anil Dash, Seth Godin, and Dan Roam in a one-hour interactive telechat. WordPress.org. Entries (RSS).

RSS 100

RSS Work Management Marketing Management Privacy Policies 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both. That’s all you need for now.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

Optimization 60

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

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.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If you have complementary resources like an Ebook, email newsletter, events or otherwise, make sure those are easy for first-time visitors to find as well. Jacob Morgan does a nice job with this, promoting his book, events, and other resources on the right side of his excellent blog. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

CMS Development 60

CMS Development Marketing Websites Work Management Web 2.0 60

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Business buyers typically seek additional information and resources for information on business products and services. In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. Consider Netconcepts. Other stuff?

Curation 40

Curation Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management 40

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: A Blogging Style to Call Your Own Next post: How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Webbiquity

JANUARY 8, 2010

Compared to other marketing media, a blog is closest to a (well-written and informative) newsletter, but easier, faster, cheaper, and with the benefit of interaction. To get started, select a blogging platform such as Blogger , TypePad or WordPress. This also gives you some insight into who is visiting your blog.

Business Blogging 100

Business Blogging Adsense RSS Effectiveness 100