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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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

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

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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

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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

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? Including at least three social sharing options boosted the rate to 11.2% The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. Community forums have been around a lot longer than the newer social media channels. Blogs have great search engine optimization (SEO) benefits that community forums will have a tough time matching.

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Industrial Marketing Today

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

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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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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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. Build a larger base of loyal customers and spread the word via social media channels.

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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

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.

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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

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. That’s the goal of every branding effort.

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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. Intimacy: This is measured by looking at the search terms used to find your site. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that.

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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

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

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

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? Ardath Albee of Marketing Interactions, Inc.

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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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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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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. What is content curation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. 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? On-page and off-page SEO implementations (Are they white hat tactics?).

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2011

Engineers are known to be passive participants when it comes to generating marketing and social media content of any kind. What can do you do if you are tasked with maintaining an active industrial blog that needs fresh content regularly? Copywriting – It takes practice to translate thoughts and ideas into well-written copy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

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.” Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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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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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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