Chris Koch

MARCH 19, 2010

I’d like to create a guide for how to use social media in B2B that does not involve talking about the specific tools—as least not in the top line. For example, the number of RSS subscribers bloggers have, the number of comments to the blog post, the number of page views, etc. B2B buyers value peer connections above all else.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 23, 2011

This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs. But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly.

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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

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

B2B Marketers have always been doing content marketing. And the reason is simple: the decision making process in B2B is a bit more complicated than buying a pack of gum. The 30 Best Content Curation Resources for Marketers. I invite you to visit these sites, subscribe to their RSS feeds or follow them on twitter.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 31, 2013

The RSS feed is: [link]. ” With a company like Delta Faucet that is B2B but also in a sense B2C, this is even more important. Sometimes the structure of a company doesn’t give marketers the resources or the organizational inertia to do everything they want to do, so prioritizing becomes the major balancing act.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2011

It just makes sense to constantly look over your own processes, and optimize your time and resources as much as possible. . Almost everything we do is a process, but not every process is managed properly. I created the Lead Generation Journey to showcase the process of “before-during-after” lead generation.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2011

It just makes sense to constantly look over your own processes, and optimize your time and resources as much as possible. . Almost everything we do is a process, but not every process is managed properly. I created the Lead Generation Journey to showcase the process of “before-during-after” lead generation.

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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. How are you using content marketing in your B2B marketing? The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Don’t sell.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs.

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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 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. Stay tuned as the role of B2B marketer continues to evolve.

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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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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. Consider these 5 B2B marketing tips for press release success: 1. Update your email marketing strategies – Targeted email marketing is still a B2B favorite.

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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 SalesPulse survey also reported that B2B sales professionals found an inbound lead’s location more important than revenues and the number of employees.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Fifty-six percent of the participants were primarily B2B marketers and the remaining 44% were B2C. The study also revealed that B2B marketers that measured ROI were better able to track leads to marketing touchpoints. There is a breakdown between the customer’s reality of engagement and the B2B marketer’s perception of it.

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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 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? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. I think these resources provide a well-rounded view of where things stand today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

by Maria Pergolino Today, many marketers look to jump on the B2B social media bandwagon while expecting a simple integration with current B2B marketing efforts. Once they do this, they will reap the rewards that come from successful B2B social media marketing practices. Be sure to allocate resources for follow-up.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 21, 2010

Winning the business, particularly in the b2b world, is usually about doing the best job of solving the customer’s problem. Become a resource. Following from the first benefit, establishing a position of expertise makes you a resource for industry influencers such as the media and other bloggers. Share this on Facebook.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. Interns are ‘liking’ pages on facebook while the events coordinator is Tweeting about the trade show giveaway at their booth. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Scoop.it

MARCH 5, 2020

There’s also conflicting advice on the number of links and resources you should add. For example: board executives, team leads, B2B vs B2C managers, and so on. There’s certainly no shortage of advice when it comes to newsletter best practices. Some say to make your newsletters long and story-driven. Build custom recipient lists.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. Learn more.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Real-Time Activity Stream 4 Content Strategies for B2B Corporate Blogging Derek Edmond | Apr 1, 2011 | 0 Comments No matter how much planning and goal setting goes into a B2B corporate blog, the writing and content ultimately is what will make a blog successful. This article focuses on the writing component.

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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 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. It is a balancing act between making your B2B blog too narrow in focus and standing out from the crowded field of bloggers.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. Business-to-business (B2B) social media is a different animal.

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2008

When I started, there wasn’t a business case on the ROI of blogging, nor was there a lot written on B2B lead generation. I started blogging because I wanted to share with everyone what I thought were useful B2B lead generation ideas, tips, and resources – material that I was already freely giving to my clients.

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Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

For much more on the social media ROI topic, see this terrific list of resources compiled by Robin Broitman at Interactive Insights Group called the Social Media Metrics Superlist. ). Make a list of the people who subscribe to your blog through RSS and e-mail and match them up to your comments. RSS+comments=VIP. startups.com).

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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

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. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Real-Time Activity Stream 5 Steps for Crafting an Effective B2B SEO Blogging Strategy Derek Edmond | Mar 4, 2011 | 0 Comments Search engine marketers frequently recommend blogging as a tactic for achieving search engine optimization ( SEO ) goals. The Argument for B2B Blogging Some may argue blogging is a " dying initiative. "

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Share Email This In my last post, I touched on the importance of B2B Content Creation and more specifically B2B Blogging, which is the easiest way to create B2B content. B2B content creators should seriously consider creating videos and uploading them to Youtube. B2B Video Content Ideas How-To Videos : Educate prospects.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The strategy of blogging, especially from a b2b perspective, can be somewhat misunderstood. I’m not convinced a blog is right for my business, plus I’m concerned over time and resources. Serve a buffet of tasty content to drive prospects to your website from Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. What are your goals? Need I say more?

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