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Why Your Sales Funnel May Run Dry Without a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

Are you leaving additional sales leads and revenues on the table? Industrial marketers who don’t use a business blog are missing a key component of feeding the top of their sales funnels. By not using every opportunity to generate high-quality leads, they may be leaving money on the table. Happy New Year!

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Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

And even though bloggers stated feeling that they aren’t treated with the same respect as traditional media representatives, it’s the buyers who had the final say. They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior.

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Rick Short Explains How to Turn Staff Into Prolific Bloggers

Online Marketing Institute

For Indium Corporation , a supplier of soldering materials and electronics assembly equipment, blogging is now a central piece of the marketing mix. My real challenge was getting my staff to warm to the concept of being a blogger. That was the voice of many of my bloggers at one time or another.

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Business Blogging Turns 20 This Year (Plus 12 More Stellar Stats and Facts)

Webbiquity

The original term “weblog” was shortened to just “blog” a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. Business blogging is now commonplace. Three-quarters of B2B marketers and 61% of their B2C counterparts use blogs as part of their social media content.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

Many people haven’t really wrapped their head around how marketing is changing from push to pull and how it’s possible to generate highly qualified “ready to buy” inbound sales leads online. As a result, our ability to promote our social media activities gets easier.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. B2B Social Media: Why Do Business Professionals Use Social Media?

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83 Exceptional Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014

Webbiquity

The top three organizational goals for B2B content marketing are brand awareness (82% of companies); lead generation (74%); and customer acquisition (73%). The top three metrics used to measure success are website traffic (63%); sales lead quality (54%); and social media sharing (50%). 7 Business Blogging Stats and Facts.