Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing? Are those predictions a little premature?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2012

Remember media plans? If you believe all those social media experts and SAAS platforms, you’d think advertising has gone away. Let’s look at the mind-set of potential buyers of a b2b complex solution (with 6-18 month buying cycle, provided they enter the funnel in the first place). Remember advertising?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 11, 2015

At the same time, they want to provide the information buyers want through a positive experience, and use technology to effectively manage and measure the buying cycle. Maybe you’ve got a great social media plan, but are your buyers even using Twitter? What is the plan for those that choose to engage with your company?

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs. The book covers the entire buying process including lead capturing, content, offers, lead nurturing, and measurement. One of the first books to discuss the complex buying cycle of B2B and how to align sales and marketing to engage and nurture prospects.

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing.

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Rev

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Understanding the number of people and companies you are trying to reach is a sanity check on your media plans and your deployment of sales resources. Factor in such considerations when assessing your target market. It’s also a sanity check on any forecasts you might make. Definition. Definition.

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Digilant

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As advertisers, it’s our job to stay up to date with these new solutions and how best to implement them into our digital media plans. Make your media budget work harder with Digilant. In the ever-evolving world of digital advertising, new terminology is popping up left and right. So, what is omnichannel marketing ?

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Terminus

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That allows us to retarget the audience with different, higher-bar offers moving forward, like ‘Request a Demo’ to better identify those people who are actually in a buying cycle vs. just researching/learning. We are focusing on being more efficient with the budget,” says Kallie.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 28, 2009

I suggested a few different places like investing in more Content Marketing, Lead Nurturing and Social Media. Social Media - unlike traditional media – Print, TV and Radio - which can cost big money. Also try to map your tactics more to the buying cycle when you deploy them. And finally. My response - Content.

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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

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. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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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. More and more B2B marketers are shifting their marketing budget out of expensive pay per click (PPC) advertising and traditional media and into content creation, optimization and social media.

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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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6sense

MAY 16, 2016

Reaching the Right People (Omni-Channel Orchestration & Media Planning). Having the creative freedom to tell compelling stories is built on the ability to collect customer data and derive insights that help orchestrate omni-channel campaigns and inform media spending.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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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

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

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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

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Ad units and rich media. If budget allows, display should be part of an integrated marketing plan. This doesn’t take the place of email lead nurturing, but can complement the nurturing process, much like social media. . • Services offered- social- retargeting-behavioral targeting, mobile, affiliate. Cost models- CPM, CPA, CPL.

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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. Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. The bottom line is for your content to engage your prospects and customers at every stage of the buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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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. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. What is content curation? I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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