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Forrester on Blogging

WebMarketCentral

Charlene Li at Forrester Research has put together a nice report on how businesses can effectively utilize blogging (free, but registration is required for non-clients), titled "Blogging: Bubble or Big Deal? " Companies, particularly public companies, should, at a minimum, monitor what is being said about them on blogs.

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16 Enigmatic Business Blogging and Other Marketing Stats

Webbiquity

This final installment covers some fascinating though sometimes contradictory and confusing stats about business blogging and the value of marketing. For example, what percentage of businesses maintain company blogs? ” Blogging is the ideal vehicle for communicating brand purpose, beyond just “selling stuff.”

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Blogging for Business, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

How can you attract more traffic to your blog? Find free and legal images to add to your blog posts? Make money from your blog? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the first set of the best posts about business blogging so far this year. Can Blogs Help Drive Purchasing Decisions?

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

You can read his entire blog post here. Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. .&# Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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3 Business Blogs with Proven ROI from Industrial Companies

Industrial Marketing Today

A business blog is an important and integral component of inbound marketing. While there are plenty of business blogs from B2B marketing consultants (including this one), industry portals and vertical search engines, there aren’t too many from manufacturers and industrial companies. Exhibit #2: Indium Corporation Blogs.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

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.