Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. What about good ol’ community forums? Community forums have been around a lot longer than the newer social media channels. How do industrial companies benefit from a community forum?

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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

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

This feature is very useful if you are serving the architectural and builder communities. Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community. Why not create a downloadable library on your website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. Engineers and technical professionals also showed a preference for interacting with peers and end-users by using community boards and engineering forums. While social media marketing may be cheap, it is not free.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog. This is “social proof” and is how you begin to build a community around your business blog. That’s all you need for now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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