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. 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

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. You need to have a process in place for your content optimization to evolve over time. Some of these marketing assets will change over time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

In the video below, Holly explains their process. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process. This way the company can see exactly where the leads are coming from, how old they are, where they are in the process, which account executive is handling them and where leads typically fall out. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage. However, they do have a strong influence.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). In this post, I’m going to focus on content for the early stages of the buy cycle.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent. The first step in that process of course is knowing why it is that you’re blogging.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

But here’s the thing: Inbound Marketing Automation, like most complex issues, is a Process. If you don’t think of Inbound Marketing Automation this way, and then design your whole approach as a Process, your results will be less than hoped for. I like your steps for Continuous Process Improvements.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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 3, 2010

Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process. A content audit is a process of mapping out the content you already have and matching it to the content you will need as determined by your marketing goals and/or new site map. He/she must take a desired action for that to happen.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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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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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

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. 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

MAY 14, 2010

Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries. Expertise blogs – starting your own company blog to showcase your internal experts is a great way to differentiate yourself from the competition.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5. We want our sales team to have some flexibility in order to close the sale I think Anne Holland summed it up nicely in her blog post by writing… Whatever the reason, you need to keep two human factors in mind: #1. We could have conflicts with our channel partners 4.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He explains it very well by saying, “Thus, for every feature about my company, the product that we use, the equipment that we operate or the process that we follow when completing work, I must transition the featured aspect into a believable benefit to the customer. According to Brad, the most important piece of the puzzle is the transition.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. However, they may not be good at articulating those benefits and features.

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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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Webbiquity

JANUARY 16, 2012

Despite any recent recent rants you may have seen about how blogging is dead or blogs are passé , the fact of the matter is that business blogging is now more important than ever. 12 things every business blogger should know how to do by Ragan’s PR Daily. Business Blogging Tips, Tactics and Best Practices.

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Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2013

And soon after, brands began to realize that creating content (actually they just called it blogging back then) could greatly benefit both SEO efforts and brand awareness. Social media was all the rage, and blogging was, well, old and worn out. 2) Blog posts give you extended reach through social media. Content is long-lasting.

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Hubspot

APRIL 26, 2013

When it comes to the role of business blogging in inbound marketing, there''s no question that it fits quite nicely into the ''Attract'' stage of the methodology. Not only can your blog help you bring in qualified visitors that you can convert into leads; it can also be a powerful lead nurturing tool. 1) Implement Smart CTAs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

If your sales team can just get these two basics right, it can boost its share of a customer’s business by an average of 8% to 15%. These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

5 Most Popular Blog Posts Content Marketing: How to get your subject matter experts on your corporate blog (7) Social Marketing: Twitter contest boosts followers 43% (6) Marketing Research: Cold, hard cash versus focus groups (4) Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? (4) We treat it as a privilege.

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PureB2B

MAY 29, 2016

If your company has a blog that runs on WordPress, a blog article entitled ‘3 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Lead Generation ’ will provide you with sources for apps to optimize your business blog for lead generation purposes. Demand Wave. Carl Marci of Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience on Marketing Smarts [Podcast].

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PureB2B

MAY 29, 2016

If your company has a blog that runs on WordPress, a blog article entitled ‘ 3 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Lead Generation’ will provide you with sources for apps to optimize your business blog for lead generation purposes. Demand Wave. Carl Marci of Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience on Marketing Smarts [Podcast].

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PureB2B

MAY 29, 2016

If your company has a blog that runs on WordPress, a blog article entitled ‘ 3 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Lead Generation’ will provide you with sources for apps to optimize your business blog for lead generation purposes. Demand Wave. Carl Marci of Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience on Marketing Smarts [Podcast].

Lead Generation 48

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Hubspot

JUNE 23, 2011

They think they want to use a platform like blogging or Facebook or Twitter specifically, and they are not a hundred percent sure why. So blogs are really good at this because blogs typically are almost articles, and a lot of business blogs are how-to articles. There are a lot of Twitter chats on topics.

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Hubspot

JULY 31, 2019

Although the content distribution process happens after you create your content, it should be step one of your content marketing strategy. Blog posts are universally consumed, easy to repurpose and localize (i.e. Consider these content types — and how you’ll repurpose and distribute them — as you create your blog posts: E-books.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

White papers continue to be very successful in generating registrations, especially in the early stages of the decision making process. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Grow your in-house list by implementing a lead generation tactic.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

That means they probably want to see you in their Twitter stream as much as possible, so you can bury all the content from the other users they're following. Don't give away anything to them that's form-free , like a helpful blog post or an answer to their burning question. Business Blogging. Preferences shmeferences.

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