Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

She defines it as “Contagious content must educate them [prospects and customers] about what they need to know, apply your company’s unique expertise in addition to your product and prove you walk your talk through the sharing of evidence. Are your company, products and services visible in various online channels used across the stages?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Sounds simple, right? In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. You need to rethink your business model first and fast.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix. Email strategy: FreightCenter.com teamed up with email service provider Delivra to devise an email marketing strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Give them hardcore specifications typically found in product spec sheets. The first thing an engineer wants to know is do your products, parts and components meet his/her design specifications and standards?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Learn to connect the dots – many times product managers and engineers have very deep knowledge about their products and the problems they can solve. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience. Bruce Rasmussen´s last blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. That will give you an idea of demand. Here you can add a link to your Home page or a product page. Add a link to your privacy policy in the footer.

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Single Grain

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Content Marketing Institute reports that 73% of B2B marketers think that blog posts and articles are the most effective content types for demand generation in the awareness stage of the buyer’s journey, or the top of the sales funnel. The customer’s desired outcome is to be more productive. Where’s the disconnect?

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The blogs on this list cover a wide range of topics. From actionable content marketing and demand generation techniques to the latest marketing technology and industry insights, this list of top content marketing blogs has something for everyone. Marketing, sales, customer service, IT, and more. Demand Gen Report.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Blogging is hard work. You’ll find no greater supporter of online content marketing than me, but marketers and agencies are talking up print for 2011. Nine months after the creation of the service in March 2006, Twitter only had a few thousand users. year later there were an estimated 150,000 people using the service.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Probably the best reason I’ve read is by Linda Rigano, Executive Director of Strategic Services at ThomasNet. You’d arm them with information about your products and how people use them. She said, “Treat your website as if you were hiring a six-figure salesperson. If you were going to put them on the street, what would you do?

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