Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. The white paper has deconstructed the complex industrial buy cycle into four distinct stages that the buyer systematically goes through.

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Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many B2B companies worry that turning to online sales will hurt their long-standing customer relationships. Personalized marketing in B2B e-commerce is a great way to maintain these business relationships by treating your buyers as individuals online — just as you would offline. So clearly expectations are not being met.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 11, 2021

Here’s the thing, by the time your ideal customer gets to your website or sees your product post on Twitter, they’re self-educating about what they need. For instance, according to Gartner, B2B buyers spend only 17% of the total purchase journey with sales reps. ACTION TIP: Send your prospect the demo video while you’re on the phone.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

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.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. The steps are: 1.

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KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Content is critical for B2B business to attract potential customers, capture leads, and guide those leads toward conversion. Different types of content, of course, play their unique parts in the buying cycle. However – the mantra “ quality over quantity ” is particularly important for B2B content marketers.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 13, 2016

B2B marketers have always been more resistant to using social media than their B2C counterparts, which is in large part a mind-set issue. Only five years ago, almost half of B2B executives still thought social media was irrelevant to their company, and this attitude has definitely had an influence on slower adoption.

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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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B2B Marketing Traction

MAY 30, 2014

I’m still seeing a real reluctance on the part of many B2B businesses to get human with their marketing and really tell their story. For too long, B2B marketers have put products and services first, believing that all they had to do was “build it and they will come.” People buy from people they like.

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Launch Marketing

JUNE 23, 2021

B2B marketers are quite familiar with a variety of marketing dashboards comprised of various spreadsheets, charts and graphs that depict performance and statuses. Marketing data provides a wide range of insights about your prospects and buyers. Prospects are 2.8 Prospects are 2.8 Today, data powers marketing efforts.

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Engagio

JULY 19, 2021

In simple terms, it involves reframing ABM and B2B go-to-market strategy through a distinct customer-experience lens. If you’re not connecting with prospects at a moment where they are ready to. Follow Gerry on LinkedIn and Twitter ! Follow Natalie on LinkedIn and Twitter !

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

B2B buyers are time deprived and risk averse – and also enormously well informed. From the B2B seller side, ‘beating the bushes’, ‘cold calling’, ‘hunting’… whatever you call it, is less and less effective. Information is available free (or close to it) today that you couldn’t buy for any amount of money five years ago.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

We nurture our prospects and customers with the goal of increasing conversions and generating revenue, yet many of us are struggling to engage enough of our audience via email. Your prospects are bombarded with pitches from different vendors. The email references the prospect’s interest and provides relevant content.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 19, 2013

Building a network in Google+ could be the next critical tactic when it relates to B2B search engine optimization and broader social media initiatives. As such, for B2B marketers specifically, activity on Google Plus could potentially have significant effects on lead acquisition and brand trust.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it.

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KEO Marketing

MAY 26, 2017

Over the past few years, B2B marketers have overhauled their approaches, and many of the most successful have switched to ABM marketing. B2B marketers prefer ABM marketing to other strategies because of its high ROI. Email LinkedIn, Twitter, direct mail, and conferences are common channels for communicating with targeted prospects.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 11, 2020

When done well – with a strategy behind it and relevancy within each piece – it offers the benefit of exponential growth, building brand awareness and trust, winning over prospects and convincing leads, and endearing your customers, helping to build a loyal base of brand advocates. Source: Edelman-LinkedIn). Source: Demand Gen Report).

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. If your content strategy is superficially focused on just a part of the funnel such as the top of the funnel, all you can expect is attracting the prospects.

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KEO Marketing

JULY 10, 2017

These B2B focused companies need strategies and tactics that advance a buying cycle that often includes multiple buyers and long sales cycles. B2B marketers see that their digital marketing strategies are paying off. Why is business to business digital marketing so widely utilized? .

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

by Katie Byrnes To effectively build relationships with prospects, sales teams need to learn to leverage evolving sales strategies. Traditional methods like cold calling need to evolve with fresh and inventive B2B sales strategies in order to boost leads and overall sales revenue. 5 Essential Books to Understand B2B Sales 2.0

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Chris Koch

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I’ve been working with my colleagues at ITSMA on another survey on social media for B2B marketers that I hope you’ll take by going here. B2B marketing lays the path to a sales discussion and supports relationships with existing customers. As we put together the questions, we struggled with the issue of social media strategy.

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PureB2B

MARCH 24, 2016

Read on for reasons why data collection is such a crucial step in B2B lead generation. According to Eric Matlick, the CEO of Madison Logic, a digital marketing consultancy firm, it is essential to know the decision-makers in a B2B lead generation scenario. Use the data to stay fresh and present in their buying cycle.”

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PureB2B

MARCH 24, 2016

Read on for reasons why data collection is such a crucial step in B2B lead generation. According to Eric Matlick, the CEO of Madison Logic, a digital marketing consultancy firm, it is essential to know the decision-makers in a B2B lead generation scenario. Use the data to stay fresh and present in their buying cycle.”.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. How are you using content marketing in your B2B marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 5, 2013

We’ve heard it time and time again: according to the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) almost 60% of the buyer journey is complete before prospects reach out to vendors. It may even hurt us in the buying process. 60-70% of B2B marketing content goes unused ( Sirius Decisions ). InboundWriter ). Content Marketing'

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Offer tested content that meets well-defined prospect needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. (See Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

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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?

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Hinge Marketing

MARCH 19, 2015

Congratulations, you’ve taken the first step towards increasing your online presence and implemented a B2B content marketing strategy. This usually happens after just a few months of launching a B2B content marketing strategy. On Twitter or LinkedIn? Follow us @ HingeMarketing and join us on LinkedIn.

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Onalytica B2B

OCTOBER 30, 2018

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE B2B AND B2SMB SPACE? SHOULD YOU THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT INFLUENCER ENGAGEMENT DEPENDING ON WHERE IN THE BUYING CYCLE YOU ARE TRYING TO TARGET YOUR MARKETING EFFORTS? Who is in that audience is like a community, its customers, its prospects. So, it’s really our content arm if you want.

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Engagio

MAY 29, 2017

Advertising in ABM is very different from the broad ad campaigns that blanket websites where some of your prospects may or may not spend time. Instead, ABM advertising waits for the contacts in your chosen accounts to visit a page, and then serves an ad that’s relevant to their situation and their stage in the buying cycle.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Today’s digital marketplace offers B2B marketing professionals a plethora of tools and channels to distribute messages. They have become the drivers of the buying cycle rather than passengers on the sales train. Consider these 5 B2B marketing tips for press release success: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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