Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content. Definitely not.”

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Avitage

MARCH 7, 2012

I’ve just read this compilation of insights and predictions published by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI).

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Valasys

JULY 17, 2020

The proven way to advance the inquiries of your business customers through the online creation of content and campaigns is called inbound lead generation. Consider weaving your content strategy around your participation in events, conferences, or something as small as participating in extracurriculars. Create SEO-friendly Content.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 24, 2015

Whether you are new to content marketing or not, developing a successful content marketing strategy can be very challenging and time-consuming. How do you know if the content you’re producing will reach your target audience and generate more leads or sales for your business? Step # 1 : Get Buy-in For Your Plan.

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Valasys

JULY 14, 2020

You need to understand and prioritize their pain-points and preferences at each stage of their buying cycles. You can use a sales funnel tool to customize your website pages, form, or webinars according to your requirements in no time. Bridges the Gap Between the Content Strategy of Marketing and Sales.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). The astounding growth in social media usage by B2B buyers reflects an accelerated tendency to eliminate salespeople from the early stages of the buy cycle. In complex B2B sales, people still buy from people.

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Valasys

MAY 15, 2020

Video content has evolved as a popular toolkit for modern content marketers. Leveraging video content boosts organic SEO by improving the online visibility of your brand, strengthening your brand equity, and improving the Click-Through-Rate (CTR) to drive more conversions over a period of time.

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Martech

MAY 12, 2022

Maybe they clicked a Facebook ad or Pinterest pin by mistake, looked at what was on your site for a minute, and then bounced out. You add their names to an ABM account tool, and surround them with ads and content that leads them to ungated pages with articles, white papers, webinar invites and the like in the hopes they will reach out.

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Valasys

JANUARY 13, 2020

Buyers like to have complete sovereignty in the methods they research about the potential solutions to their problems through specific products or services, engage with the pieces of content being delivered at various stages of their buying cycles & in ways they interact with the salespeople before they decide to close a business deal.

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. Leveraging Targeted Content Strategy.

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Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

To perform a better job of selling their products to the B2B customers, marketers must understand how to talk to them & help them at the individual stages of their buying cycles. According to Ann Handley, Digital marketing & content expert at MarketingProfs, B2B marketers need to make their customers the hero of their stories.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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Valasys

MAY 22, 2020

Expediting sales cycles by delivering the prospects with personalized and highly-tailored pieces of content, to optimize their experiences by providing them with seamless experiences across omnichannel is the ultimate secret to transcend your lead generation endeavors, in a way, that helps you outlast your competitors.

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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. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When thinking about an all-inclusive content strategy, the first thing that comes to our minds is the original ideas generated from deep insightful research. The website provides valued & well-researched pieces of content related to the cores of digital marketing, content marketing, social media, paid search, WordPress & SEO.

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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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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Are they using Facebook ? Content Creation (and Resharing) Throughout your initial investigations, you should — hopefully — have begun noticing patterns emerging around the type of collateral being consumed and shared more frequently in respective target regions. Most definitely.

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Valasys

JANUARY 23, 2020

All the effort would go in vain if you don’t engage with your prospects by providing them relevant, timely & personalized solutions as per their pain-points. According to the Content Marketing Institute , 76% of marketers accede that blogs are a vital part of their content marketing strategy. Use Intent Data.

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Outreach

APRIL 22, 2021

There are myriad other theories that estimate the minimum number of times a customer must engage with your brand before they make a purchase: While the actual number of interactions needed is debatable, there's no doubt that customer engagement is essential for moving prospects through your buying cycle. Offer Lots of Helpful Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. It is easy to simply dismiss social media as “hype”, create a half-baked Facebook page and call it a day. Allow your content to be shared. Social media?

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 30, 2020

Content marketing is a great way to do so: When you generate informative, useful, and interesting content for your audience, you can also directly or indirectly sell your products or services to them. Content marketing can give B2B companies a truckload of options to keep their audience engaged. Types of B2B Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I didn’t have the time to go through the content but it seems like this is a hot topic right now. 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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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Fueled by a wealth of on-line resources and social networks, buyers have seized control of the buying cycle, engaging with sales representatives later and later, and further elongating sales cycles. Having the right content and tools to help fuel buyer’s decision making process is essential.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At a recent webinar with Cory Munchbach, analyst at Forrester Research, and Jon Miller, Marketo’s co-founder and VP of Marketing, the two speakers clarified exactly that. The webinar, The Age of the Customer: Automating and Optimizing Audience Engagement , explained once and for all: The qualities of customer obsessed marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

At a recent webinar with Cory Munchbach, analyst at Forrester Research, and Jon Miller, Marketo’s co-founder and VP of Marketing, the two speakers clarified exactly that. The webinar, The Age of the Customer: Automating and Optimizing Audience Engagement , explained once and for all: The qualities of customer obsessed marketers.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

by Katie Byrnes In a recent webinar, Mac McIntosh, Founding Partner of AcquireB2B, and Jep Castelein, Founder of LeadSloth (and new Principal Consultant at Marketo!) Read the detailed summary below or download the full webinar here. Instead, offer useful content because everyone wants to learn best practices and new techniques.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The past decade has seen an exciting and dramatic increase in new digital marketing channels including Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, search engines, webinars, virtual trade shows and more. For example, the typical B2B prospect receives an average of 20.3 These three issues are having a measurable impact on marketing.

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Hinge Marketing

JUNE 25, 2014

Whereas the rest of your website is largely static, with content that rarely changes, your blog is flexible and changing. Content in blogs also help cast the widest net – attracting prospects early in the buying cycle looking for educational information such as trends, best practices or latest regulations.

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