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Industrial Companies Underuse the One Social Media Tactic with Proven ROI

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Social media usage by industrial companies has received some coverage lately. I’ve read two different survey studies about how companies within the industrial sector use or plan to use social media. Blogging is a proven social media channel and yet, industrial companies seem to severely under utilize this proven social media tactic.

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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

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Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. However, blogging is labor-intensive and creating a constant flow of new content has proven to be a hurdle for manufacturers and industrial companies. What about good ol’ community forums? See chart).

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Business Value of Social Networking

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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. Take a look at this video and decide for yourself.

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Small Manufacturers Use Social Media Effectively

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Social media still remains a mystery to many manufacturers and industrial companies even though there is an abundance of evidence of its success in general B2B marketing. I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how some manufacturers are using Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to listen, engage and market to their customers.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. Definitely not.”

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

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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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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). According to the same report, 82% of B2B manufacturing respondents indicated that they rely on content marketing to build brand awareness.