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

AUGUST 3, 2010

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. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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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. We can only provide prices after a formal RFQ process 5.

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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. Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries.

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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. One-size-fits-all site content will not help you engage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The “Mapping Marketing to the Transforming Buying Process,” report released by DemandGen Report revealed serious disconnects. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO. There is a breakdown between the customer’s reality of engagement and the B2B marketer’s perception of it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

But here’s the thing: Inbound Marketing Automation, like most complex issues, is a Process. If you don’t think of Inbound Marketing Automation this way, and then design your whole approach as a Process, your results will be less than hoped for. I like your steps for Continuous Process Improvements.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

They eat, breathe and sleep factor of safety or safety factor (used to provide a design margin over the theoretical design capacity to allow for uncertainty in the design process). Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. So the overwhelming emotional trigger is fear of failure or risk aversion. of Tiecas, Inc.

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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. You do a great job of showcasing your experts at Emerson Process Experts. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Not every action or behavior needs to be tracked and measured. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process. However, they may not be good at articulating those benefits and features. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

He explains it very well by saying, “Thus, for every feature about my company, the product that we use, the equipment that we operate or the process that we follow when completing work, I must transition the featured aspect into a believable benefit to the customer. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Content for Thought Leadership We have seen effective thought leadership-style posts aid in the sales process -- particularly when dealing with complex B2B buying cycles. If they do, it can provide a valuable human face to an organization, particularly when the buying decisions of company solutions involve executive leadership.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

These findings were consistent across most B2B industries with complex, multi-touch buying processes. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

The chart below shows how engineers and industrial buyers use the Internet in work-related purchases ( Source: 2010 GlobalSpec Industrial Buy Cycle Survey ). Manufacturers and industrial companies have now realized that the vast majority of their target audience is online during a major portion of the buying cycle.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

That means they probably want to see you in their Twitter stream as much as possible, so you can bury all the content from the other users they're following. Don't include any links to your privacy policy on or near your forms, and don't display any third-party seals of approval (e.g. 6) Send out a tweet every 30 seconds.

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