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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

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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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How a Global Distributor’s Online Community for Engineers Pays Rich Dividends

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Building a thriving online community around your social media strategy takes a lot of hard work. It is heartening then to read about an industrial company’s success in building an engineering community, which in turn generates leads, produces sales and increases the company’s awareness among its target audience.

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Industrial Companies Underuse the One Social Media Tactic with Proven ROI

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Social media usage by industrial companies has received some coverage lately. I’ve read two different survey studies about how companies within the industrial sector use or plan to use social media. Blogging is a proven social media channel and yet, industrial companies seem to severely under utilize this proven social media tactic.

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Content and Social Marketing: Connecting and Engaging with 10K+ Engineers

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Most marketers agree that content marketing and social media have become mainstream B2B marketing strategies. TI just didn’t set out to adopt a content marketing strategy and use social media marketing because everyone else is doing them or that they are the hottest (coolest?) B2B marketing tactics to use right now.

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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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The online survey addressed the marketing trends, challenges, and expenditures within the engineering, technical, manufacturing, and industrial communities. 73% of the respondents use LinkedIn, 55% use Facebook and 40% use Twitter However, only 17% of these companies are satisfied with their social media efforts.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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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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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

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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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