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

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I figured these companies would be great examples of marketing with content. What I found contradicts the rules of content marketing as practiced today. Free and valuable content is usually in-depth technical articles written by engineers and not produced by marketing as bait for capturing someone’s contact information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It is a fact of life that the bulk of your site visitors and/or conversions from landing pages are not ready to buy now. This is because of the prevalent trend of industrial buyers using online resources to go deeper and deeper into their buying cycle before engaging with your sales people. How do you nurture leads?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. Create fresh content: Don’t copy-paste static brochureware text and put it on your website. Nothing will turn off your prospects more than outdated and stale content. Search engines love sites with constantly changing fresh content.

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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

MARCH 11, 2011

Tweet The challenge for many industrial marketers is making their content relevant to their prospects and customers. Industrial sales cycles are usually several months long and involve numerous people in different roles. question for each of the stakeholders involved in the industrial buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 8, 2012

One caveat to the above rule of thumb – a page for downloading case studies probably will have a very high bounce rate but that doesn’t mean it is bad. It must provide relevant content that will help your site visitors make interim decisions and move them in a logical manner towards an RFQ or contacting your sales team.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 10, 2011

One of the big draws of inbound marketing with content is that it helps a website get found early and often by its target audience. Search engines and SEO will drive traffic to your industrial site but it is your site’s content that must convert it into qualified leads. After all, why would you create a site that no one can find?

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