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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). So I went to YouTube to confirm the report’s findings. Here are three examples that I found on YouTube.

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Retrofitting Blogs and Converting Industrial Websites into Blog Sites

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Use your blog posts to deliver “proof of results” by summarizing your case studies. Link back to the full case studies on your site. Post them to social sharing sites like SlideShare and YouTube. Write about the availability of your data sheets and product catalogs in different languages (where applicable).

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

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Let’s look at two case studies to see how industrial marketers are using email to reach and engage with industrial buyers. Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix.

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How Manufacturers can Resurrect Product Content from the Dead Zone

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Most manufacturing websites are packed with product data sheets and catalogs, a few case studies, some application notes, may be a technical article or two and not much else. You can add text messages, full contact information, links to your social media profile, YouTube videos and invitations to webinars and events.

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Create a Content Series for Industrial Marketing

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Update the articles with more recent application notes and/or case studies. Post videos to your branded YouTube channel. Don’t just skim over the text). Extract 4-6 main ideas from the article and make each one a separate blog post. Add links within your posts to these longer content. Use social media to announce each new post.

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The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

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I also found a fascinating video interview on Andrew’s blog that really drives home the point with a case study featuring Mr. Fred Whyte, President of STIHL Inc. You can buy the book from Amazon and visit his site at www.distributiontrap.com. The interview is split over four videos.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.