Industrial Marketing Today

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Creating Digital Content for Industrial Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

You may never get that call if you don’t get on their radar screen in the early stages of the buying cycle. You need to gain a deeper insight into their needs, their roles in the buying process and their online behaviors. Learn to interpret the data from your site analytics and develop customer personas.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

To add a new twist to a thorny problem, I read a very interesting quote from Avinash Kaushik, the man who literally wrote the book on Web Analytics 2.0 , he said, “Engagement is not a metric, it’s an excuse.” The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement.

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Don’t Underestimate Industrial Marketing’s Contribution to Sales

Industrial Marketing Today

I understand that it is not always easy to recognize exactly which marketing strategy generated an actual sales lead, especially in a long sales cycle involving many decision makers as is typical in industrial sales. This problem results in not being able to truly recognize marketing’s contribution to every stage of the buy cycle.

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Top 10 Industrial Marketing Posts of 2011

Industrial Marketing Today

I looked at my Google Analytics for the entire year and have selected the top ten blog posts using a combination of Pageviews, Engagement and Social Sharing data to determine the ranking. Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle. That’s the power of inbound marketing with content.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. Analytics is the new marketing creative! What has been your experience with building a B2B or industrial brand?

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You’ve Got Traffic. Now What?

Industrial Marketing Today

That’s because no one has taken the time to explain to these people about the value of looking at their Google Analytics. It truly is an “a-ha moment” for them when I go over their Google Analytics and explain some of those key site statistics. What then is the solution for converting website traffic to leads?

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.