Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Summary: Social Agency’s Spredfast helps marketers schedule social media campaigns the same way they schedule paid advertising. If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others. links for each event.

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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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APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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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

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Some of these marketing assets will change over time.

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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

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. Definitely not.”

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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? Just as I was wrapping up this post, I received an email from Omniture with the subject line, “Will Social Media Replace Email?” He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. And they use different sources to get their information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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 10, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. 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 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not. As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Score this lead according to your preset BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timing) criteria to determine if they are “sales-ready.” Your content also needs to perform another key function.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It is critical that your company be found early and often in the initial phases if you hope to make it to the short list of vendors who are asked to submit a RFQ. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company? Lead them to it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? And that begins with thinking like an investigative reporter by asking the 4Ws and the 1H questions. WHY : Why are you sending out this email campaign?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Additionally, when marketers create a nurturing program across the buying process, each new lead should start at the beginning of the program with touch 1. Another way to consider response is to plan for content as a follow-up to other content. Hold some in reserve to use as an offer during an inside sales call to follow-up.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. Design wins lead to production volume orders. I should know — I am an engineer too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Or are you trying to position your company or yourself (consultants and coaches) as a thought leader to influence C-level execs and decision makers? Create content – It is easy to get bogged down with the design aspects of a company blog. The focus of your blog will be determined by how well you can define your readership.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. You may be surprised by how different some of those terms are from those used within your company. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines.

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