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Small Manufacturers Use Social Media Effectively

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I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how some manufacturers are using Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to listen, engage and market to their customers. Many engineers, specifiers, users and buyers of industrial products regularly use social media in their personal lives but work-related usage is limited among this audience.

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

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Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” That’s precisely why Kerry’s article caught my attention. She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle.

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The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

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Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. He has outlined what is wrong with the theory of mass marketing.

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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). Here are the main points of disconnection: Articles: 43% effectiveness (80% usage). Social media (excluding blogs): 21% effectiveness (73% usage).

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

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Here we are defining size as the number of published articles on a business blog at a given point in time. HubSpot results indicate that median leads start to grow once 24-51 articles are written and published. Median leads were 77% higher among marketers with blogs of 52+ articles versus bloggers with 24 to 51 articles.

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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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I’ve read several articles about the impending death of email marketing because of the steady decline in open and click-through rates (CTR). This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Are those predictions a little premature?

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Social Media Usage by Engineers and Industrial Professionals

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Please click on the headline to read the full article. Last week I downloaded and read the new research report, “Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector” published by IHS GlobalSpec. Some of the findings are consistent with their reports [.]. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].