Webbiquity

JUNE 16, 2015

Content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing (it’s not clear what the other 7% are doing). But with so much content being produced, distributed and shared, how do you make your efforts stand out and grab the attention of your prospects? – Blogs (62%).

Stats 100

Stats Content Marketing Enterprise Management Paid Search Agency 100

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 28, 2010

To keep up with changes on the SEO landscape and make sure I’m consistently utilizing the most effective techniques on behalf of clients, I read a lot of articles and blog posts about SEO. On-page optimization (content, headings, meta tags). Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love.

SEO 100

SEO Enterprise Management Digg Press 100

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

Webbiquity

JUNE 25, 2012

Sales leads generated through inbound marketing–the combination of content marketing, blogging, social media, website chat and SEM–cost 61% less than those produced through traditional demand generation techniques (e.g., Blogging: for any new business blog, traffic typically starts out modest but grows over time.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Allocation SEM 100

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

Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

And communicate the business benefits? Content has to be high quality and laser-focused to cut through the noise. 84% don’t have visibility into sales partner opportunity pipelines, and just 21% have total control over their sales network and overall customer experience. How to best produce content for technical buyers?

Marketing AI 246

Marketing AI Enterprise Management Stats Marketing Management 246

Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics. Just 4% of marketers said their companies were “very effective” at measuring social marketing in 2012. . •

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Stats Social Media Paid Search Agency 100

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.

Optimization 60

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle 60

Webbiquity

AUGUST 23, 2011

The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. So where does blog traffic come from, and how does this change over time? Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent. Search is the top source of traffic for most blogs over time.

Traffic 100

Traffic RSS Social Media Social Networks 100

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For that reason, think about your blog categories carefully: create category tags that will be meaningful and useful to both human readers and search engine spiders. Fresh content. Blogs are one of the best mechanisms for publishing a steady stream of new content. Syndication and blog directories. Social media.

Optimization 100

Optimization Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

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. What is On Site SEO? On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog.

Optimization 60

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

Hubspot

MAY 23, 2013

Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it''s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well. The Content Marketing Deluge.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Top of Funnel Paid Content Business 28

LeadSquared

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Our last webinar on “How to get started with Website SEO” was a great success, thanks to the active participation of our attendees. How can I maximize my social presence on Google+ so that my content ranks higher? For website SEO, here are few things that you need to keep in mind: i. Question 1. Question 3.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content FAQ Webinar Metrics SEO 52

Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2012

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+, a company’s online presence and brand is often enhanced through engagement and interaction on such social media sites. New social networks are born every day. Trying to keep up with the latest social trends alone is overwhelming. Let's get to it.

Social Networks 28

Social Networks Paid Search Agency Word of Mouth Companies 28

Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2012

Creating remarkable content is one of the core components of inbound marketing, and one of the best ways to generate a steady flow of fresh content is by publishing a business blog. Even worse: Your blog is published on a free blogging platform’s domain such as Blogger.com, WordPress.com, or TypePad.com.

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Business Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Social media is an integral component of any successful digital marketing strategy. With 74 percent of adults using social networking sites , the opportunity to increase your site’s online exposure to new customers cannot be ignored. Identifying the appropriate corporate persona and tone via social media.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Media Business 100

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

Hubspot

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You believe in the importance of creating relevant and interesting content for your prospects to consume. All of that has been pretty easy to integrate into your day to day marketing responsibilities, but there's one thing you really want to make more time for: blogging. This blog post (how meta is that?) Tweet This Stat! ).

Business Blogging 28

Business Blogging Stats Business Inbound Marketing 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. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget 60

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

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

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.

Curation 60

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing 60

Webbiquity

MARCH 20, 2018

The original term “weblog” was shortened to just “blog” a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. Business blogging is now commonplace. Three-quarters of B2B marketers and 61% of their B2C counterparts use blogs as part of their social media content.

Stats 0

Stats Paid Content Business Blogging Ad Frequency 0

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

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

PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This makes email an effective channel for pretty much any business operating in a B2B context. #2 Social media is one of the fastest growing marketing channels for B2B businesses. In fact , approximately 87% of B2B marketers today use social media to generate leads. 4 Content Marketing.

Lead Generation 85

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Advertising Channels Word of Mouth 85

Webbiquity

JULY 6, 2010

The inaugural post on Webbiquity explains the concept of web presence optimization—how websites, blogs, SEM, SEO, interactive PR, content marketing, social networking, reputation management and social media can work together to make a company or individual omnipresent online for their targeted description or value statement.

RFP 100

RFP Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Digg 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. Angela Bowman shares her “clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites&# for SEO, feeds, forms, security, Twitter and more. WordPress SEO.

Auto Responder 100

Auto Responder Digg Best Practices RSS 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 Branding 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

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?

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 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

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. The two keys to search success are great content and links. Assuming you’ve already got great content, there are many places to get links (e.g. social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). Blog URL (e.g.,

RSS 100

RSS Promotion PR PageRank 100

PureB2B

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

This makes email an effective channel for pretty much any business operating in a B2B context. #2 Social media is one of the fastest growing marketing channels for B2B businesses. In fact , approximately 87% of B2B marketers today use social media to generate leads. 4 Content Marketing.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Webinar Metrics Word of Mouth 62

Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2010

But even absent that advantage, traffic to a new blog can be ramped up quickly using the following 12 techniques. Build links to your blog from every possible source. Add your blog name and link to company email signatures and include it in your corporate newsletter or marketing emails as well. SEO the blog.

RSS 100

RSS Digg Tagging Blogger 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