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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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

MARCH 17, 2011

The mantra for effective business blogging is to regularly pump out fresh content that is reader-centric and not focussed too much on you, your products or your company. More power to you if you already have a horde of avid readers who visit your blog every time you post new content. Your blog posts will remain online in perpetuity.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

For a while now, marketing consultants have been preaching the benefits of making B2B blogging the cornerstone of inbound marketing. It is difficult nowadays to find a marketing company or an independent expert not using a business blog to attract and engage with its target audience. CSC Scientific Blog – a blog about test equipment.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In keeping with that spirit, here are my five most popular industrial marketing blog posts from 2010. Three Business Blogs with Proven ROI from Industrial Companies. As a result, many of them either ignore blogging as a marketing strategy or wait until their competition launches one. Read full article…. Read full article….

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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. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? Others recommend writing about things that you are knowledgeable about.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 23, 2012

At this time of the year, many industrial companies are getting ready for their annual budget planning meetings. If you are one of them, a redesign of your industrial website [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Google changing its search algorithms is not news to most SEO experts. This latest change means you need to pay more attention to the content on site pages and make sure it is optimized for search terms. Add a blog or convert your industrial site into a blog site if you want to satisfy Google’s appetite for fresh content.

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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. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. Some of these marketing assets will change over time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. 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

JANUARY 10, 2012

Read my earlier post, B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog ). Internal linking and search page indexing. In the above example, the schematic on the left shows how Google and other search engines bots will crawl your home page and index internal pages. There are some internal links that will be ignored by search engine bots.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2012

Just like popular TV serials, you want to create a series of short blog posts that revolve around a common theme. Regular doses of short blog posts are good for building stronger relationships and thought leadership over time. Extract 4-6 main ideas from the article and make each one a separate blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2011

Last month, Google announced a change to its search algorithm, called the “Panda” update. This change is primarily designed to cleanse Google’s search results of low-quality content. You may also want to read “Google Panda update survival guide,” a comprehensive blog post from Wordtracker.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

Nobody cares about your products and services (except you)” was the title of a blog post written by David Meerman Scott (Author of the wildly successful book The New Rules of Marketing & PR and his new book Real-Time Marketing & PR ) back in 2008. For more, visit Indium’s blogs and their YouTube channel.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Industrial Marketing Today Previous post: Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog 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

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2011

What can do you do if you are tasked with maintaining an active industrial blog that needs fresh content regularly? If I probe some more, I usually unearth issues and pain points that can easily fill up 3 to 5 juicy blog posts. My company offers a blog content creation service that is perfect for busy industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Given that, you would want to have visibility on the keyword phrases that a business owner is going to search on for a solution to the problem. Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. My take: Now it is time to winnow your list from step 3.

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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

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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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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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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

APRIL 26, 2010

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. However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having a search function on your website is no longer an option, it is a requirement. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. Create a more robust search application where engineers can select several design or performance parameters to find the exact part number.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #1: Manufacturer of electronic passive components We built an online parametric search application for the client’s website to help site visitors quickly find/build the exact part number based on selecting a number of design and/or performance characteristics. Take a quick poll.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Credibility is built over many years of performance in the field and not by the frequency of blog posts, number of Twitter followers or Facebook likes. Such a specific search will most likely be done using a parametric search application on a known vendor’s site or a vertical search engine like GlobalSpec and probably not on Google.

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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. Most B2B marketers find it relatively easy to create and use content to gain search engine presence. What is effective content marketing?

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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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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. Intimacy: This is measured by looking at the search terms used to find your site. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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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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APRIL 20, 2010

This Marketing Data and Research Presentation includes data on: Lead Generation Blogging and Social Media Marketing Budgets Twitter and Facebook 50+ pages of marketing charts and graphs from original research Download the report from here. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 18, 2012

The two main reasons are 1) Not showing up in Google search results ( SEO – Organic Search Engine Optimization ) and/or 2) Not getting enough qualified leads from the website (Traffic and Conversion). Keywords – are they a good fit with actual search terms? Navigation structure, HTML and backend coding.

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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? I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. Blogs have great search engine optimization (SEO) benefits that community forums will have a tough time matching. Niche blogs written by in-house Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can be just as effective.

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