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.

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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!

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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?)

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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.

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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. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? I didn’t have the time to go through the content but it seems like this is a hot topic right now. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2010

The one thing that this recession has taught B2B marketers is to do more with less. This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. Create fresh content: Don’t copy-paste static brochureware text and put it on your website. It may be time to invest in your online presence.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! Don’t just rely on analysis, refine your list based on relevance to your business, products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. The same holds true for video white papers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: You have two primary responsibilities; a) make sure your website is easily found so your company can get on the shortlist early if you hope to be considered in the decision making stage and b) serve up content in different formats and be relevant to various stakeholders. Solution: Curate content and make it easily searchable.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Follow the golden triangle – several tracking research studies have shown that site visitors tend to track through content in a rough F-shaped pattern (see Jakob Nielsen’s eyetracking study ). Don’t make the visitor scroll vertically or horizontally to read your primary content. Place your logo at the top left.

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