Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

The campaign against B2B marketing clichés Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk Focus on Content in B2B Marketing Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less?

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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

AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

IMO, content is still the king in B2B lead generation, sales and marketing need to agree on a unified lead definition and figure out how best to use relevant content in driving sales. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril. Make judicious use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Tweeter to communicate directly with your core audience and gather free market intelligence. Don’t assume they’ll navigate your site the way you do.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

This timeless classic, one of the first bestselling self-help books published in 1937 and sold over 15 million copies globally is still relevant today. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Without passion and expertise, you will have a hard time sustaining your business blog over the long haul.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

This is where you’ll begin to identify redundant and missing content in order to be relevant throughout the industrial buy cycle. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets. This may include basic pricing information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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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. Don’t just rely on analysis, refine your list based on relevance to your business, products and services. How can you accomplish all that? My take: Now it is time to winnow your list from step 3.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He has spent over 20 years consulting, coaching and delivering practical and relevant advice to construction businesses. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

In his post, Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future, he defines a content curator as “someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.” Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

4 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman May 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm Achinta; This is a great article with much relevant information in it. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { Thanks for sharing! Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: You have two primary responsibilities; a) make sure your website is easily found so your company can get on the shortlist early if you hope to be considered in the decision making stage and b) serve up content in different formats and be relevant to various stakeholders. Great pointers on what not to do with social media.

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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. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Solving the content conundrum It is our responsibility as practitioners of inbound marketing to coax relevant content out of the client, be it internal or external. Here are some ways to make life easier for everyone: Add the sizzle to the steak – it is true that the client knows his/her business better than any outside expert ever will.

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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. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors. On the other hand, if your goal is to attract qualified traffic for “safety relief valves” and your visitors land on the home page that has very little information relevant to their search, you will get a quick exit.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. People use LinkedIn to connect with coworkers and industry peers, get business advice, and even find new jobs.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Flowtown is perfect for small and medium businesses ( see my review here ).

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Search engines look at on-site factors to determine relevance, but at external links to gauge authority. A Simple B2B Marketing Framework - Everything Technology Marketing , July 10, 2010 We often discuss in this blog how B2B marketing is becoming more complex, and how to manage this complexity. Social Media Strategy?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Use social media judiciously to increase name recognition, drive traffic and build a community. Engaging your visitors with relevant and fresh content will help to convert them into fans, followers and ultimately to loyal customers. These include: Lack of page titles No optimization of headlines and subheads (H1, H2 tags etc.)

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