Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Business buyers typically seek additional information and resources for information on business products and services. In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. That’s good news but it also creates a credibility problem.

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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. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

However, to be successful in your online marketing, you must come up with fresh and interesting content regularly. Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format.

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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. Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? What has worked for you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Why does online marketing content cause so much angst? Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. And the cycle of frustration continues.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2012

With all the changes in inbound marketing over the past few years, one tactic has bubbled up and stayed at the top as a crucial part of a successful marketing strategy: business blogging. You probably have a hefty mix of blogs and websites in your RSS, some of which might talk about blogging every once in a while.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As As mentioned in my post about blog success metrics , if you cover a very wide topical area, subscriptions are less likely). Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The truth is that if you are in the business of providing great value to your customers, or you are solving certain problems remarkably well, blogging will enable you to communicate this to your prospects in an effective, cheap and efficient way (if youre not providing great value then you shouldnt be in business at all).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Subscribe to our RSS Feed Subscribe via Email Your email: Learn Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Software Learn how HubSpot can help turn your business into an inbound marketing machine. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2013

Shortly thereafter, blogging saw a renewed resurgence when everyone began hyping the value of content creation which, of course, had already been around for hundreds of years in various incarnations. The Blog Post as the New Ad Unit. And that is why the blog post is the new online ad unit. Ever heard of guest bannering?

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Write something that educates, inspires and informs your audience. Be Passionate, and Show Your Readers Some Love As we know, anyone can set up a blog in a day or so, but it takes quite a bit more work to be a superb blogger and start realizing the real benefits of blogging. Is it RSS subscribers? Number of visitors?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Now, she simply shares the metrics from the team’s blogging and social efforts to show the rest of the company how important their contributions are. July 29, 2010 at 2:43 pm Related Topics: Business To Business blogs 23 Comments » 23 Responses to “Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?&#

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Corporate websites are often little more than interactive brochures that display basic information and describe what the business offers. “A blog has the flexibility to produce content easily, syndicate that content through any medium using RSS, and convert that audience into customers.&#

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

And lastly, I drew lots of happy faces, one with a graduation cap and one holding out out a stack of bills representing how the quality of their user base would be improved and that they’d be inclined to make more informed and more frequent transaction decisions. Have fun drawing and winning business! Comments RSS.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2011

Marcus Reply Nick Stamoulis Posted March 30, 2011 at 4:00 pm | Permalink Content is an important aspect of any marketing strategy. When it comes to online marketing Google is now cracking down on bad content, so it’s important to be original. The key is that it needs to be relevant and engaging.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing.

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