Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. 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 5, 2012

Decision makers in these companies want to jump on the content marketing bandwagon but they really don’t have a strategic plan of action and/or a clear idea of how it will drive sales and generate revenues. See my post, “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle” ).

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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. This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Because B2B and industrial buyers tend to be more sophisticated in the use of online content in making their decision over the entire buying cycle. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 22, 2012

I understand that it is not always easy to recognize exactly which marketing strategy generated an actual sales lead, especially in a long sales cycle involving many decision makers as is typical in industrial sales. This problem results in not being able to truly recognize marketing’s contribution to every stage of the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Use it to map out your own plays for generating more high-quality leads, increasing sales and growing revenues. Content includes: Understanding the industrial buy cycle. Lead nurturing for better lead generation. What inbound marketing with content will do for you. How to feed your sales funnel with a business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

ThomasNet study, 2006) For IT solutions in excess of $50,000, the most wanted data in the early stage awareness was price ( Source: Joint study done by MarketingSherpa and Enquiro , 2007) Today, a majority of industrial buying decisions begin online. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 1, 2011

If you need a quick primer, read my earlier post, “ B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. ”. Lead nurturing when done right can actually shorten the buying cycle. Lead nurturing has become even more important these days because of the fundamental change in the buying process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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 Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle. 7 Key Components of a Successful Lead Generation System. Innovative Uses of QR Codes by the AEC Industry. Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here are some marketing content ideas for helping your buyers move closer to the procurement stage of the industrial buy cycle. The marketing content ideas I have listed here are best suited for the late stages of the buying cycle to move industrial buyers closer to specifying your products in their BOMs and RFQs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. See my earlier posts on industrial buy cycle ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Here’s a screenshot of my setting: Changing permalinks after your blog has been live for a while can cause you to lose pagerank in search engines and generate “404 page not found” errors. To overcome this problem, install the Redirection Plugin.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 2, 2012

Manufacturers usually want their industrial marketing to generate leads that result in RFQs as quickly as possible. Generating better qualified leads at a lower cost and reducing wasted resources on RFQs that are not a good fit for you. Cutting down on specification errors in BOMs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 27, 2012

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll refer to it as digital marketing in this post and state that content is what drives this engine for generating qualified leads and creating sales opportunities. The industrial buy cycle has not changed. P.S. That article has generated a very active conversation for both sides of the argument.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused. Try polls and surveys to gather data.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 25, 2011

That’s why more B2B and industrial marketers are turning to content marketing to lift their lead generation ROI. Several studies have shown that these lead generation challenges hold true across the board in B2B marketing. This was followed by Lead Generation (ToFU) at 48% and Lead Nurturing (MoFU) at 40% (See chart).

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. To most C-level execs that really means answering the question, “How much revenue did it generate?” Or do we need to show a verifiable ROI?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Because of longer sales cycles, more promising opportunities are being lost since business conditions change at the other end and projects are put on hold indefinitely or being eliminated. A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Here’s a chart from the revised data, which shows the top three gobbledygook business adjectives as 1) next generation, 2) robust and 3) flexible. He has updated the original analysis with new data from November 1, 2006, to July 31, 2007. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

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 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

To rescue your website and deliver you to the Promised Land, the SEO consultant wants you to generate loads of content optimized for keywords and phrases. And the cycle of frustration continues. Poor results stemming from bad or no content strategy and focusing solely on the design aspects.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. Conduct a content audit and make sure you have mapped your content to the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

The bottom line is for your content to engage your prospects and customers at every stage of the buying cycle. 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

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Even though the process of buying industrial products and services has not changed much over the years, how industrial buyers prefer to go through their buying cycle has changed dramatically. Content marketing has become indispensable for addressing this changed buyer behavior.

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