Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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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. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? 25 Social Media Facts and Statistics. e-Strategy Trends ). Visual.ly ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Webbiquity

JUNE 16, 2015

While most content sharing efforts by marketers are focused on the “big four” social networks, most (72%) content sharing done by buyers is on “dark social”–primarily email and apps. • And use video. – Videos (63%). – Blogs (62%). Social Media Today ).

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 22, 2017

Create your own online platform such as a blog or customer community , and use it to consistently produce high-quality content that is interesting and useful for your target audience. Producing videos you share on YouTube as well your website. Publishing a series of blog posts around interviews of industry experts and influencers.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. The report’s authors begin by noting that: “An important transition in the use of social media for marketing purposes is taking place. In business and consumer services, the figures are 54% increase, 1% decrease.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2018

84% don’t have visibility into sales partner opportunity pipelines, and just 21% have total control over their sales network and overall customer experience. 75% of B2B buyers use social media to support their purchase decision. Digital Media Stream ). Search, social, and live chat are the best ways to reach buyers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

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Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2020

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. This also goes for social media tools — 90% of millennials use social media. 75% of millennials watch video on social media daily.

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Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2012

Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+, a company’s online presence and brand is often enhanced through engagement and interaction on such social media sites. New social networks are born every day. Trying to keep up with the latest social trends alone is overwhelming. Let's get to it.

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Hubspot

MAY 12, 2010

Great business blogs have to walk a fine line: they have to create value for current and prospective customers while at the same time supporting a strategy that provides business growth. Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? It was called “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the British band The Buggles and was aired at 0001 hours on August 1, 1981, the day the cable station was launched in the U.S.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your writing sounds like someone could be saying it to you face-to-face, you have a strong sense of “voice&# in your posts) It also doesn’t hurt to mix in a video post now and again, or to make a video post available on every page, as I do over there on the right hand side. That would be a fun discussion, right?

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Writing on the Web

AUGUST 29, 2012

Yet how many of us post on a blog or upload a video to YouTube without taking time to survey what are our target audience ‘s interests, wants and needs? Content marketing requires that you publish frequently on your site, your blog, and in social media. Which e-newsletter and blogs do you subscribe to?

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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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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Whether it’s a webinar or a multi-day conference, leveraging social media can help event organizers extend an event’s visibility, attendance and pre-event conversations. Sharing photos, videos, press releases, media coverage, speaker updates, etc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. Since each has their own questions, concerns and interests, one needs to develop content around those specific issues.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Combining traditional B2B marketing and using new and creative options, business marketing becomes more than just dry marketing of the same old technologies and services. Let's look at a few areas it pays to be creative: Business Blogs - To traditional marketers, a business blog is not worth the time and effort.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Writing on the Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

You’re probably already on Facebook , sharing photos of your kid’s first birthday party and links to your favorite articles , recipes and videos. But when it comes to using social media for your business, do you really want your professional network colliding with your personal life?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

I also found a fascinating video interview on Andrew’s blog that really drives home the point with a case study featuring Mr. Fred Whyte, President of STIHL Inc. The interview is split over four videos. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors. In the video below, Holly explains their process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Let me end this post with a humorous video that I found on YouTube. 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 It is by IAS – a B2B marketing agency from England.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

After-sales support such FAQs, How-to videos, Troubleshooting guides, User forums are all examples of after-sales content. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. That closes the loop in your content marketing cycle while minimizing loss of qualified leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. For example, you can track how many times site visitors clicked on the play button for a video on a particular page. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2016

This final installment covers some fascinating though sometimes contradictory and confusing stats about business blogging and the value of marketing. For example, what percentage of businesses maintain company blogs? ” Blogging is the ideal vehicle for communicating brand purpose, beyond just “selling stuff.”

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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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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