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

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. What is On Site SEO? On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

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

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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 1, 2013

I’m sure by now you’ve heard about all the great benefits of blogging as a cornerstone of your content marketing. However, one aspect of this industrial marketing strategy that doesn’t [.]. This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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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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APRIL 22, 2013

Content Marketing Inbound Marketing Industrial blogging Industrial Marketing SEO' Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Google changing its search algorithms is not news to most SEO experts. It’s a fact of SEO life. What this means to industrial marketers: On-page SEO will now require more than just an optimized Title tag and text-based drop-down menus. Bottom line – Don’t try to game the SEO system.

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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. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. Why is it important?

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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). Poor SEO and conversions are the symptoms that are obvious to you. Keep in mind that SEO is not the same as a website redesign.

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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. Fresh Content = Better SEO. Optimize for long-tail keywords + More linking opportunities = Better SEO.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 5, 2012

Their efforts are limited to spending some money on SEO and PPC to drive traffic to their websites. After doing all the heavy lifting of SEO to drive traffic, site visitors reach a dead end because there has been no thought given to converting that traffic into leads. Sources: Frost & Sullivan and GlobalSpec).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic. Instead of taking up more space here, let me direct you to some of my earlier posts about industrial websites and SEO. Instead of taking up more space here, let me direct you to some of my earlier posts about industrial websites and SEO.

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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. Is SEO a DiY (do-it-yourself) job? This is a lot quicker and cheaper than organic SEO.

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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. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

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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Industrial Marketing Today

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

MAY 26, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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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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MARCH 23, 2011

Most SEO experts expect article directories or “content farms” to be heavily penalized by Google’s algorithm change. This is a strategy used by many SEO specialists in an attempt to boost the number of external links pointing back to your site. How does Google’s algorithm change affect industrial and B2B marketers?

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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 5, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be Next post: The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to Revenue Generation FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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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

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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Instead, I choose to keep my credibility intact and provide the professional help my clients need to supplement their do-it-yourself (DiY) industrial and B2B website capabilities and online marketing efforts. Take a quick poll.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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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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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 19, 2010

Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Transforming that concept into an actionable reality is a very different story. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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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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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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JULY 29, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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MAY 11, 2010

An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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JUNE 12, 2010

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. Dale Underwood of B2B Conversions Now has a step-by-step procedure for this on his blog. Why do we need prices on B2B websites? We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5.

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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. 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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