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How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

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It is a balancing act between making your B2B blog too narrow in focus and standing out from the crowded field of bloggers. Some bloggers suggest that you pick topics that revolve around popular search terms/phrases used by your audience. It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you.

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Website Content Must Address What’s Keeping Engineers up at Night

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I think Jeffrey Zeldman ( @zeldman ), the renowned web designer and blogger, summed up the problem best when he said, “Content precedes design. 42% of engineers and specifiers said they couldn’t find complete and detailed product or capabilities information on suppliers’ websites ( Source: ThomasNet’s Industry Market Barometer™ ).

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Why Your Sales Funnel May Run Dry Without a Business Blog

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Savvy industrial bloggers can write articles using carefully researched keywords and phrases that match these searches. Attracting more industry analysts and influencers who are drawn in by your fresh, informational and educational blog content. Traffic and potential leads increase as the number of indexed pages increases.

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

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In the words of Jeffrey Zeldman , the renowned web designer, blogger, independent publisher and the king of Web standards according to Business Week, “Content precedes design. Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content.

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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

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Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content. I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. What is content curation?

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Content Creation Made Easy

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Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses. A picture is worth a thousand words and can quickly simplify a complex concept that otherwise would take you many words to explain. READ If you are going to edit your own content which is not a good idea, then read your text aloud.

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3 Business Blogs with Proven ROI from Industrial Companies

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Rick Short , Indium’s Marketing Communications Director and the chief corporate blogging strategist, manages 73 blogs written by 14 in-house bloggers, all engineers. Indium Corporation is a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of specialty alloys, solder products and solder paste.