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Winning the Engineer’s Mindshare with Industrial Blogging

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They are always on the lookout for gaining knowledge from their peers. Business Blogs Content Marketing Industrial Blogs Industrial blogging Industrial Marketing Marketing to engineers technical SMEs' They trust and have more confidence in reading or hearing something [.]. This is only a content summary.

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Content and Social Marketing: Connecting and Engaging with 10K+ Engineers

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Nine out of ten B2B marketers are now using content marketing to grow their businesses, according to the recent study released by MarketingProfs and Junta42|Content Marketing Institute. TI then balanced that with their business and marketing objectives to formulate their content and social marketing strategy.

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How a Global Distributor’s Online Community for Engineers Pays Rich Dividends

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A recent article by Paul Gillin ( @pgillin ) and published in BtoB Online , caught my attention because it talks about how engineers can have fun while doing serious business. Building a thriving online community around your social media strategy takes a lot of hard work. In “Who says engineers don’t know how to have fun?”

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Lead Generation: What’s Working – Tactics, Budgets and Preferences

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Summer is a good time to look back at what has worked for lead generation and compare yourself with your peers as you plan for the second half of the year. Here is a key takeaway from the report, “When it comes to generating new business, industrial companies are focused on quality, rather than quantity. And the survey says….

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Digital Marketing Can Increase Industrial Sales

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Source: The End of Solution Sales, Harvard Business Review – HBR blog). Only 22% of companies surveyed still follow the traditional RFP path, 78% are narrowing the field long before the RFP process, by conducting anonymous web research and relying on information from peers and others via social media venues ( Source: SiriusDecisions ).

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How to Coax Content Out of Engineers

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They love to engage in long discussions with their peers but are not very patient with others. Read my earlier post 3 Business Blogs with Proven ROI from Industrial Companies to learn how these companies have convinced engineers to actively participate and contribute to their content marketing programs. consider outsourcing this task.

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

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The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not.