Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I wrote this post because Chris, a regular reader of this blog, emailed me recently with a question on B2B lead scoring. His question – “Could you briefly describe the tools/process you use to ‘score’ sales leads?”. From Marketo : Lead Scoring Success Kit. Lead Scoring Cheat Sheet. Best Practices in Lead Scoring.

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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. This one caught me by surprise. This one caught me by surprise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

December is also a popular time for bands and musicians to release their “Best of” compilations, bloggers like to summarize their best posts and publishers publish their own “Top XX” lists. However, you shouldn’t count on marketing automation to solve all your lead generation problems. Read full article…. Read full article….

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2012

I am not so sure manufacturing companies are fully convinced that their website is a real sales tool. We spent a lot of money on SEO and PPC programs but our site hasn’t generated good quality leads. Designing an industrial Website for optimal B2B lead generation doesn’t happen by accident.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? WHY : Why are you sending out this email campaign? Define your business objectives and what you expect to accomplish. Share your ideas here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

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. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A Value Proposition plays an important role in differentiation, which in turn affects lead generation. However, my clients look to me for answers for overcoming their lead generation challenges using my knowledge and experience in industrial marketing. These work best for middle of the sales funnel (MoFU).

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There are some guidelines and best practices that most professional marketing consultants follow but that doesn’t mean the strategies are cookie cutter plans. Industrial sales typically involve various stakeholders, each with different pain points that your content must address. You have the best solutions for your customers’ problems!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

In his post, Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future, he defines a content curator as “someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.” Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Some marketers argue that they’ve been overused to the point that people think of them as nothing more than a 45-minute long sales pitch. Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

It is a joint presentation by Omniture, an Adobe company, and ExactTarget on the best practices of Email and Social Engagement. The Gender Gap in Social Networking Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? I didn’t have the time to go through the content but it seems like this is a hot topic right now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision. Instead of taking sides, I say use it to your best advantage. However, they do have a strong influence.

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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. Non-core functions such as sales and distribution should be outsourced.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Here are the top ten business clichés from Seth’s list: Win-win situation Thinking outside of the box Giving 110% Best Practices Synergy Paradigm Shift At the end of the day,… Low-hanging fruit Going forward Push the envelope I couldn’t tell how old this lens was but the original ten has grown to 384 as of the date of this post.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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? However, for email marketing to be a true driver of sales, your need something even more valuable and every email that you send out should have it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.) It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Focus on Content in B2B Marketing Next post: 7 “Rs&# for B2B Marketing Content Planning FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing. The sales team has a much better understanding of the needs of various stakeholders because of their customer-facing role. They have the insight on pain points and issues surrounding the customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

For industrial marketers ROI is typically measured in terms of quantity of high-quality sales leads generated, increase in sales and revenues. Attract more leads and acquire new customers. In the same way business marketers need to take their content marketing up a notch in order to raise their ROI from content marketing.

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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? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Once they find the correct part number, offer datasheets with performance characteristics, applications and tolerance information, include a way for the visitor to send a quick question to your engineering department and if applicable, add a “buy now” button to take advantage of online sales. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The primary metrics measured are retention (58%), sales (44%), and revenue per customer (35%). As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Leave a Comment Previous post: Content Creation Made Easy Next post: Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2011

This increased focus on brand awareness is a surprising shift from the traditional industrial marketing goal of generating more high-quality sales leads. That in my opinion is exactly how inbound content marketing is supposed to work for lead generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 25, 2012

They are very good for engaging with prospects and leads that are at the top and the middle of the sales funnel. See Use Content Marketing to Manage Industrial Sales Funnels and Creating Digital Content for Industrial Marketing ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 How are you using content marketing in your B2B marketing? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 17, 2011

As an industrial marketer, you recognize the importance of constantly publishing fresh and relevant content to attract qualified visitors and convert them into leads. Generate new prospects and leads by compiling several FAQs on a particular topic or product line. Add a link…you know the drill!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 7, 2011

You will find little evidence of best practices in content marketing – relevant, valuable and compelling content for customers. In my experience that does not happen often enough and the end result is usually the industrial distributor blaming his Website for not producing enough leads and sales.

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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 10, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. Then, the teams developed a plan of action.

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