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. Mistake (And Why It Hurts): Your blog is published on its own domain, separate from your company’s main website.

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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.

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Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2020

Every time I think about making a big purchase, want to learn about new Twitter or Facebook updates, or even plan a trip, I do research. And I always take the same first step: I read a blog post I find on social media. You may run a blog that's struggling to gain millennial readers. Source: Pew Research ).

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Both provide PR and social media professionals with extensive capabilities for tracking and growing media coverage of their organizations or clients. How to Write an Effective Business Blog (January 8, 2010). Helpful advice on choosing a blogging platform, authors, topics and frequency for an effective business blog.

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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. Most still focus on the same basic areas: • Keyword research. • Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love.

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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. While three-quarters of marketers consider measurement of social media impact important, 70% say that measuring those results is difficult. B2B Lead Blog ).

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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.

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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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This key chart compares the difficulty and effectiveness of various social media tactics, as well as their level of usage. Finally, when using social media for research purposes, buyers are most interested in hearing from independent third parties, with blogs, boards and forums being the most popular tools. The lessons?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. There are plenty of charts and graphs too. You can download it from here (does require registration).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

And they use different sources to get their information. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. That led me to other popular search terms like blog content creation, content creation help, online content creation etc.

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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. That’s all you need for now.

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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. Submit your blog to AllTop.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor , you are going to need two critical pieces of information to conduct a content audit. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. If you feel stuck for ideas, you can type in the URL of your closest competitor’s website into the research tool, select website content and let Google do the work for you.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

A fter Nancy White pointed me to Chris Lotts articles on Northern Voice, and on love, and Chris replied to my Tuesday post on how easily we unintentionally hurt each other through our actions, I did a bit more research on Chris work and discovered the remarkable chart above on Information Fluency. Category: Social Networking.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

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. For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve seen it happen with our clients time and again, as well as with our company blog. My own business depends on creating blog content that outranks my competitors. While cultivating a winning business blog requires commitment and planning, it’s not as hard as most business owners think. Share Regularly.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I had a co-worker email me the other day asking for a blog post about the benefits of business blogging. I told her I'd shoot over one of our up-to-date blog posts about why businesses should blog and. The Benefits of Business Blogs for Marketing. It's for a friend," she said. Sure it was.

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Hubspot

JULY 16, 2012

If you're an inbound marketer, you're probably already on board with the idea that business blogging is an effective way to generate leads. And you probably also know that you can increase your blog's ability to generate leads if you also promote it in social media -- the more exposure the better, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Over the last decade, business blogs have gone from being a novelty to a leading-edge practice to an essential element for any company seeking to optimize its presence on the web. Why are so many companies now embracing blogging? Why are so many companies now embracing blogging? Informative? Intellectual?

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Webbiquity

MAY 10, 2011

Feature a newsletter signup box prominently near the upper-right corner of your blog. From time to time, write “teaser&# posts informing readers of what content they are missing, but could be getting, as a newsletter subscriber. Link to product information from within your blog posts. Gather market intelligence.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Once they find the correct part number, offer datasheets with performance characteristics, applications and tolerance information, include a way for the visitor to send a quick question to your engineering department and if applicable, add a “buy now” button to take advantage of online sales. Thanks for sharing!

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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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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2012

In addition to information on inbound marketing, SEO, blogging, and social media, the 2012 edition of this presentation also includes data on email, Pinterest , Google+ and mobile marketing. 1) Research is a vital part of online shopping. 4) Search engines are often a starting point for product research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. The four steps are: 1.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This a huge missed opportunity for businesses, especially given that because many businesses aren't leveraging features likes company updates, the clutter on LinkedIn is significantly less dense than on other social networks like Facebook or Twitter. function (sales, research, etc.),

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 7, 2011

With more than 120 million business professionals registered, LinkedIn is an online marketing must for B2B marketers. While personal and business profiles get most of the attention on LinkedIn, the social network has several other valuable features that can shine for inbound marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

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. They can wax eloquently and endlessly about their solution. After all, what good is your redesigned website if no one can find it?

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Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2014

So before it gets replaced by the next trendy buzzwordy term, here’s some marketing-related big data for you: 83 valuable facts, stats, and research findings covering strategy, social media, SEO, online advertising, email marketing, content, blogging, social networking, video and more. Social Media Today ).

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

LinkedIn users will be shown events that match their specific business needs based on the information they’ve added to their LinkedIn profile (Job Title, Industry, etc.), It’s a year old but the information is still useful. LinkedIn Events Setting up an event in LinkedIn is a fairly simple process.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Id been asked to investigate a leveling-off of use of the firms award-winning centralized knowledge resources, and decided to do the research through personal interviews with non-users , rather than the usual user surveys. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Id been asked to investigate a leveling-off of use of the firms award-winning centralized knowledge resources, and decided to do the research through personal interviews with non-users , rather than the usual user surveys. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

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