Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. Who has more “Rs&# to add to the list?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Fifty-six percent of the participants were primarily B2B marketers and the remaining 44% were B2C. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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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. The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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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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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?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

For step by step instructions on how to add Google Analytics (Free) to your emails, head over to my post, “Add Google Analytics to Emails and Gain B2B Lead Generation Intelligence.”. I am talking about auto responders or as some like to call it “email marketing on autopilot.”. How about free?

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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. Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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 is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? 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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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

This is where marketing automation software can be a big help. There are many of them out there to suit every type of marketer, from small industrial companies to large enterprises. Let’s look at three types of marketing content that have proven to be successful in getting site visitors to take action.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. However, there’s no denying the low cost of email marketing. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. 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. Is that a good thing?

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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

MAY 5, 2010

Depending on the stage of the prospect, your content needs to: Move them from ignorance to awareness – define the problem and make your target audience aware of generic solutions and the benefits of your offerings. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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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

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

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

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog.

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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. You want your blog post to attract the largest targeted readership.

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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.” Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! My take: Now it is time to winnow your list from step 3.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. There is still a lot of debate about whether social media is truly useful in industrial marketing. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. You need to optimize it for search engines in order for your target audience to find your B2B blog (see my earlier post, “How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects” ).

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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? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

It helps a great deal if you first learn what turns off your B2B customers in order to avoid making simple mistakes that can damage a customer relationship. There is a big difference between what B2B customers say they want and what really drives their purchasing decision. Have a safe and happy 4th of July weekend!

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