Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The curious and cautious B2B buyers B2B buyers are curious about how a product can make life easier and business better; however, they are also more cautious when making purchases because a mistake can be costly both for the company and their career. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2010

The session will be moderated by David Rosen, Chief of B2B Social Media at Makovsky + Company. We will be discussing what the PRSA is calling “ The Forbidden Dance: B2B and Social Media ”. This is an area of opportunity for B2B companies and needs to be managed very carefully. Why the alluring title of “The Forbidden Dance”?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Not visiting the telemarketing service provider: Nothing beats an onsite inspection to verify you get what you pay for. Follow Me: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Recent Tweets Have any B2B examples? Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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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? Follow these 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drive Leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Market to them and never forget that even in B2B, human beings still make the decisions. This is a common practice by the top sales folks and is a tremendous service marketing can provide to sales. Related Posts: The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing Need to Drive Leads? Know your prospects pain points.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Blogs Influence On Buyers When asked “what is your likelihood to purchase a brand, product or service from these information sources?&# 42% reported that blogs influence their purchase behavior. Or from consumer to consumer to relay needed information on products and services. Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?"

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It is easy to simply dismiss social media as “hype”, create a half-baked Facebook page and call it a day. Are we considering the larger implications of social media on the organization as it relates to employee adoption, customer service, product development and innovation? Social media? Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Time Line Close The Time Line close is effective when a product or service will impact a prospect’s project plan, especially if the purchasing decision is a prerequisite to other activities in the project plan. Yeah, right – what percentage of the time do you think those cute little puppies are returned?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2010

One responder can lead us to several opportunities within the company if the discussion we have is centered around the needs and pains of the company and not only one product or service. The representative needs to have many assets at the ready, as people like to view products or services in various ways.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

My advice is to B2B Marketers is to follow this natural ebb and flow. It is possible to generate only highly qualified leads – just say something like: “If you are ready to buy, click here.&# As the end of the fiscal period comes to a close and the pressure to hit the sales goals becomes tangible, the debate begins.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 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 December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 16, 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 December 16, 2010 8 Subscribe What Is The Future Of The Social Media Role? Integrate digital and print.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

In this article I will argue for the importance of and the 5 steps to create marketing ROI through demand generation. Assuming all of those activities are neatly in place, one of the most powerful ways to justify a marketing budget is through paid online lead generation and the ROI that follows. Think sales, leads, pipeline.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. 3) B2B marketers clung to unimaginative spending habits.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Telemarketing services are continuing to grow in popularity, due to the low cost and high ROI; however, the difficulty lies in which telemarketing tactic to utilize. Simplicity Of Programs These programs are notoriously simple to create as you only need to provide a list of target companies and a product, solution or service you want to sell.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? How can industrial and B2B marketers apply the same creative problem solving lessons in engaging with their prospects and customers? Share your thoughts.

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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. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? I read a blog post by Robert Lesser of Acquiring Minds where he talks about the ways that digital marketing has changed complex B2B sales. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Therefore B2B and industrial marketers continue to favor email marketing over other direct marketing channels. Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Instead of thinking of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as lead generators, use them to increase awareness and drive traffic to your website. I have even read statistics where Facebook is now drawing more visitors than Google. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power. Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. Are you pre-selling a product or service? How effective has it been for generating leads?

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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.” You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. See B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question ) Lesson #4: Sample kits and CAD drawings The easiest and quickest way to sell to the engineering and industrial marketplace is to have your parts and components “designed in.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

In B2B marketing organizations, the single most important way to keep customers is to build satisfaction and loyalty. What is the Service Profit Chain? Haskett, in his post Putting The Service Profit Chain to Work argues that companies can create significant competitive advantage by focusing on these key links.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. Myself and another B2B marketer were discussing how the recession had forced our marketing budgets to the inbound techniques with the highest ROI.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2010

Push vs. Pull The battle has raged within B2B Marketing departments since the dawn of the web: push vs. pull, traditional direct marketing vs. newer inbound techniques like search. Myself and another B2B marketer were discussing how the recession had forced our marketing budgets to the inbound techniques with the highest ROI.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Optimization Paid Search Agency 100

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. True Confession: I Don’t Have a Social Media Strategy - Dianna Huff - B2B MarCom , July 22, 2010 Social media gurus tell you to have a strategy. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. Featured Sources. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Are you Being Discovered?

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