Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 1, 2015

One of my favorite aspects of being in content marketing is seeing the next generation of leaders emerge. This post comes from Liz Bedor, a Content Strategist we hired just under a year ago. In that time, Liz has totally upped her game on her personal blog , Twitter , Linkedin and Instagram (pretty amazing photos there Liz).

Work Management 100

Work Management Planning Content Marketing Marketing Management 100

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

Writing on the Web

DECEMBER 26, 2012

“ Content is king. Most businesses (be they blog owners, start-ups, or established brands) now know that if they want a competitive advantage, they have to keep information-hungry customers in a ready supply of fresh, relevant, and interesting content. Contact her on Twitter @seelindaplay. No pressure, of course.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Business Customer Satisfaction Content 100

Convince & Convert

APRIL 24, 2012

Stanford Smith obsesses about how to get small business blogs noticed and promoted at Pushing Social , except when he’s chasing large mouth bass! We’ve discussed the benefits of social business. Specifically, how to produce interesting content and how to publish it on a regular basis. It’s usually a look of pure terror.

Content Marketing 130

Content Marketing Planning Paid Search Agency Case Study 130

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?

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2011

Guest post from Russ Henneberry , who writes, speaks and executes on content marketing plans for small businesses. He writes a daily blog about how tiny businesses can make mighty profits using a personal computer, a little imagination and a few well placed dollars. Call it “blended content.&# Information.

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Buffer

MAY 4, 2022

A blog can also be a low-cost way to elevate your small business’s reach and also build credibility with your followers, making it a win-win situation. Another benefit of blogging is your posts are “owned content,” meaning you have complete freedom to create your blog as you please without relying on third parties.

Small Business Marketing 88

Small Business Marketing Business Blogger Transparency 88

Writing on the Web

JULY 15, 2010

There was a time I was in love with blogging … I had already been in the business of content marketing for 5 years on the Web, using an old-fashioned website platform. In 2004, I started blogging. But my lover wasn’t really “the blog.&# But it’s not about “the blog…&#.

Content Marketing 100

Content Marketing Ning Work Management Content 100

Hubspot

APRIL 13, 2011

Blogging is often overlooked for other flashier social media marketing options like Facebook and Twitter. However, having a successful business blog not only supports lead generation; it also provides thoughtful engaging content needed to be successful on social media.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Business Blogger Paid Search Agency 28

Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The Science of Blogging ( #BlogSci ) quickly became a trending topic on Twitter, highlighting people’s strong interest in the subject. In order to start driving traffic to your blog, you will need to carve out a niche—focus on your industry and optimize your blog posts around specific industry key phrases.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Allocation Business Webinar Metrics 28

Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2012

There is no shortage of different types of content you can create to feed your business blog. Thought leadership-based content, commentary on industry news, data-driven analyses, list-style posts. It's a business blogging classic. How to Use Hashtags on Twitter: A Simple Guide for Marketers.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Business B2B Thought Leadership Stats 28

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site.

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PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

39% are on Facebook while 30% are on Twitter to get leads and grow their audience. 4 Content Marketing. It’s extremely rare to find a credible, reputable business nowadays that doesn’t implement some form of content marketing. In fact , approximately 87% of B2B marketers today use social media to generate leads.

Lead Generation 86

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Advertising Channels Word of Mouth 86

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Twitter is a fantastic network for businesses. You can monitor your brand to garner valuable feedback, keep tabs on the competition, engage your customers in conversation, or even choose to use Twitter as a customer service channel. But there are several common mistakes that companies make on Twitter. Of course not.

Twitter 28

Twitter RSS Business Ideal Customer Profiles 28

PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

39% are on Facebook while 30% are on Twitter to get leads and grow their audience. 4 Content Marketing. It’s extremely rare to find a credible, reputable business nowadays that doesn’t implement some form of content marketing. In fact , approximately 87% of B2B marketers today use social media to generate leads.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Webinar Metrics Word of Mouth 62

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 15, 2012

She is a “social media frenzy” working in social relations consulting, blogging, and, of course, vlogging about life on her YouTube channel. Connect with her on Twitter. Content Marketing World. How do you bring all of those tangents of information in to one great feeling of understanding? BlogWorld Expo East.

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Conference Social Media Network Marketing Trade Show 131

Writing on the Web

MAY 26, 2010

What’s the most important thing to remember when you’re writing for your business blog? Educate readers, but try to entertain them while doing it. They can subscribe to your blog, leave a comment, vote on a poll or take a survey, answer a question… connect with you on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Trigger Marketing 100

Trigger Marketing Sales Qualified Leads Trust Marketing Tagging 100

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

From 7,205 bloggers, the survey reports that 81% have been blogging for more than 2 years, two thirds of bloggers are male, and 65% are age 18-44 years old. They spend on average more than 10 hours a week blogging. Demographically bloggers also have higher incomes and education levels than the general population.

Marketing Mix 100

Marketing Mix Marketing Report Blogspot Blogger 100

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content. Definitely not.”

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2012

It doesn’t matter whether you have a Twitter, Facebook or YouTube presence. That’s because B2B buyers have grown more sophisticated in the ways they educate themselves, select vendors and make purchasing decisions. Instead, you control the timing, rhythm, distribution channels and content of all your messaging.

Banner Ads 100

Banner Ads Marketing Management Press Banners 100

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard. For example, “content creation.”

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 12, 2012

The study done by GlobalSpec reported “Only 22 percent of industrial companies use Twitter, which reflects its low value among engineers as a social media resource.”. The one statistic that stood out for me and is consistent in both these studies is that company blogs rated low for usage across the board.

Social Media 60

Social Media Tactics ROI Paid Search Agency 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

Sales Cycle 60

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

Single Grain

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Educate yourself. Education can come in a number of different ways, but if you want to stay on top of the latest technology, growth hacks and business management strategies, the best place to look is: the leading SaaS blogs. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Rand Fishkin. The Future of Content Marketing: It’s Not What You Think.

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Blogger Business Blogging Sales Management Enterprise Management 119

Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The big 3: Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn. You HAVE to be on Twitter. If your target audience spends their day on Twitter, then that’s where you should be engaging with them. Maybe they prefer to interact there because there’s no character limit (like the 140 characters on Twitter.) Blog this on Blogger.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Ning Business Ideal Customer Profiles 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2016

This final installment covers some fascinating though sometimes contradictory and confusing stats about business blogging and the value of marketing. For example, what percentage of businesses maintain company blogs? Samsung uses its blog to explore trends like the role of IT in improving healthcare delivery.

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Stats Business Blogging Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency 100

Albacross

MARCH 19, 2019

Wordpress is one of the best platforms for your business blog. Your blog postings should be informative and educational providing content that your readers can relate with. Check out: Benefits of Blogging: 5 Reasons You Must Start a Blog Now. Social Networking.

Lead Generation 58

Lead Generation Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads Lead Scoring 58

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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Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60