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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

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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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. 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.” an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

I’m not talking about a cosmetic facelift but turning it into a marketing powerhouse as you position your company for the recovery. Optimize, optimize, optimize : That’s the golden rule of online marketing as is location, location, location in real estate. Sometimes you need help with a specific marketing challenge.

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites.

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.