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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MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. (See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site. Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing.

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JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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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

I also found a fascinating video interview on Andrew’s blog that really drives home the point with a case study featuring Mr. Fred Whyte, President of STIHL Inc. Wilkinson , PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing at Montana State University Billings. You can buy the book from Amazon and visit his site at www.distributiontrap.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

They have compiled over 50 marketing charts and graphs based on analysis of their 2,500 business customers. NOTE: Requires registration to download) Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: Social Media Marketing: Time Trap or Opportunity Magnet?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can read his entire blog post here. Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site. If you have a blog, look at the number of comments left by your readers. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

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MAY 5, 2010

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products Next post: How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. 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 one caught me by surprise.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. 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

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JANUARY 26, 2010

The content doesn’t have to be dull text; it could be a blog with posts written by in-house experts, “how-to” videos or white papers that position your company as a “thought leader” within the industry. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril.

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MAY 26, 2010

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JUNE 15, 2010

For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Just adding a sign up form in the sidebar of your site or blog stating “Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter for the latest news and handy tips” may be a direct call to action but is it really an irresistible offer or incentive? No, telling your readers what to do next is only half the battle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

If a video you used in a blog post relates, pull it through to the landing page for that content. She applies over 20 years of business management and marketing experience to help companies with complex sales use eMarketing strategies to generate more and better sales opportunities.

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JUNE 12, 2010

This is not a new problem; business marketers have been debating the pros and cons of publishing prices on their websites for several years now. I found a series of blog posts on pricing on your website at Dave Jung’s B2B Blog , some of those articles date back to 2006. Why do we need prices on B2B websites?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Use social media selectively to engage with your target audience in a more personal way and humanize an otherwise impersonal interaction that is purely transactional. Create an expertise blog to showcase your internal subject matter experts and allow your prospects and site visitors to interact with them directly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

I found a good answer to that in a comment by Mike Gospe on a blog post at leadsloth.com where he wrote, “But when it comes to marketing automation, I recommend caution. If you’d like to read more about how to design this process, this Blog Post may be useful:: [link] The Process post is the top one on this page.

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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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content. How can you use marketing content to generate a decent volume of sales-ready leads at a low(er) cost? What is effective content marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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JULY 23, 2010

That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Another great way to showcase your in-house experts and expertise is to add a blog to your main site. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.” Is SEO a DiY (do-it-yourself) job?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

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JULY 6, 2010

I found this one from Michael Fortin’s blog. I will visit this blog regularly. 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

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AUGUST 20, 2010

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JULY 14, 2010

Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog. David Brazeal´s last blog. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. You have to actively promote your optimized site using social media, press (news) releases, blogs and offline tactics to tell your target audience about your site.

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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

JULY 20, 2010

Busy prospects want to be able to grasp the advantages and benefits of a product within a short period of time and they want to be convinced that you are an expert and that you believe in the product and its value. Achinta Mitra July 23, 2010 at 11:39 am Jack, Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving your comment.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing, social media and the constant pressure to cut costs have radically changed this traditional industrial sales model. 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. Kerry O’Malley´s last blog.

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JUNE 3, 2010

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