Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. However, I think it is a new and permanent reality of the current economy and have learned to adjust my business model accordingly. I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Consultative selling is one of the recommended ways and that requires us to sharpen our listening and creative problem solving skills. That’s great, if you are a natural born consultant but for the rest of us, we have to learn and master these skills. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Very helpful post, Jay. Im Jay Baer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

To rescue your website and deliver you to the Promised Land, the SEO consultant wants you to generate loads of content optimized for keywords and phrases. Learn to connect the dots – many times product managers and engineers have very deep knowledge about their products and the problems they can solve.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Maybe something we can all work on (those that support social media in organizations – both employees and consultants) is a general way to present the truth of social media (and what’s truly needed to start) in the beginning so that the execs will support it, but not expect a “silver bullet.&# Any thoughts?

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