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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

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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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs. 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 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. There are plenty of free to inexpensive online tools around.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics.

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. A business blog can be one of the most powerful tools in driving traffic and generating high-quality B2B leads.