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Making Email the Cornerstone of Industrial Content Marketing

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You may think email marketing is dead or passé with all the talk about social media. However, that is far from the reality that I see every day, working with manufacturers and engineering companies, especially when it comes to industrial content marketing. This is only a content summary.

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Content Marketing for Engineers

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I’ll go out on a limb and state that content marketing for engineers is different. And I agree that at the end of the day, marketing to engineers is still all about communicating with people. Call it P2P (Person-to-Person) marketing if you will. Content marketing for engineers doesn’t have to be dull and boring.

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Industrial Content Marketing with Purpose

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In this post, I want to continue with a similar theme and talk about why your content marketing must have a purpose. With the abundance of content available on the Internet these days, it is difficult to rise above the noise and get noticed. See Content Marketing: Think Like a Publisher, Act Like an Investor ).

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Industrial Content Marketing is Not Just for SEO

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Content marketing is a central topic in most of my recent conversations with industrial companies. The not so good news is that they have a mistaken belief that content marketing is for search engine optimization (SEO). However, your industrial marketing content must do a lot more than just SEO. Now What?”.

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Content Marketing Delivers Lead Insight to Sales

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Content marketing has become indispensable for addressing this changed buyer behavior. That does not mean that content marketing has reduced the role of industrial salespeople to mere order takers. See my earlier post, “Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales.”. Content marketing cannot do it all.

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Manufacturing Infographics for Content Marketing

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If done right, they can be very effective in content marketing for manufacturers and industrial companies. Filling the top of the funnel with interested readers is one of the key objectives of content marketing. According to him, suspects want content that is: About what you know and not what you sell.

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Don’t Take “Selling” Out of Content Marketing

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Notice how discussions about content marketing are full of words like engagement, helpful, sharing, nurturing and community building. However, have we gone too soft with content marketing when it comes to selling industrial products and services? And that is… content marketing must deliver a real business value.