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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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. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies 60

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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Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

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

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. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey.

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Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2006

It really works and I come away from the podcast with some better insight into the sales and marketing process. Like blogs, podcasts can help you in the search rankings if the content provided contains relevant keywords. Well if you're into online marketing and you're down with web 2.0. B2B podcasting, business blogs.

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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 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. 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

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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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

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. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured. Determine in advance who will be responsible for measuring and who will decide on what fine-tuning actions need to be taken.

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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. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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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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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. 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 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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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. Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job?

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 B2B Lead Ranking 60

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Being in marketing, I’m always amazed that in every pitch to a client, Don always hinges a million-dollar contract on one or two simple things, such as a tag line or a visual. Unskewing the Web: Curators as filters , October 11, 2010 Image by prettyflower via Flickr. This is my final post on the skewed Web. Tags: Best.

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Magisto

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If you want to run AB tests on the color of your call to action button, you can try as many colors as you like, then decide which one is performing best, while still calling that process an A/B test. Blog – A website full of articles, commentaries, content, with a reliable content calendar. Blogs publish content regularly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

These include: Lack of page titles No optimization of headlines and subheads (H1, H2 tags etc.) White papers continue to be very successful in generating registrations, especially in the early stages of the decision making process. Grow your in-house list by implementing a lead generation tactic.

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Marketing Websites Marketing Budget Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60