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. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. 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.

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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

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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content. Definitely not.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. I use LinkedIn and Twitter quite a lot in my online networking and sure, I’ve grown my network in a short period of time. . – This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

This Marketing Data and Research Presentation includes data on: Lead Generation Blogging and Social Media Marketing Budgets Twitter and Facebook 50+ pages of marketing charts and graphs from original research Download the report from here. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Focus on Content in B2B Marketing Next post: 7 “Rs&# for B2B Marketing Content Planning FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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PureB2B

AUGUST 3, 2016

Sure, there’s software that can pull content off the internet for you. It’s as close to automating blog posts as you can get, but be forewarned, as these typically create posts based on RSS feeds. Which means that you’re likely to end up with sub-par or duplicate content which can come off as spammy. Worst case scenario?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Leave a Comment Previous post: Content Creation Made Easy Next post: Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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 This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

However, they do want to secure meeting content from people who are not invited to the meeting. Â We also added a Table of Contents web part showing just one level of navigation so that we would have a â??security The fact that navigation and the Table of Contents web part area â??security Microsoft news RSS feed.

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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

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I didn’t have the time to go through the content but it seems like this is a hot topic right now. 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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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Share Email This In my last post, I touched on the importance of B2B Content Creation and more specifically B2B Blogging, which is the easiest way to create B2B content. Today, I will touch on a few reasons why Marketers should consider video content creation and Youtube to get found online by the right prospects.

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PureB2B

AUGUST 3, 2016

Sure, there’s software that can pull content off the internet for you. It’s as close to automating blog posts as you can get, but be forewarned, as these typically create posts based on RSS feeds. Which means that you’re likely to end up with sub-par or duplicate content which can come off as spammy. Worst case scenario?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

I keep these checked to avoid any duplicate content issues. Now that you have a better idea of optimizing your WordPress blog to attract traffic, don’t forget, it is your content that will create fans and convert them into customers. Spend 80% of your time writing engaging content and the rest of your time on optimizing your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

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 Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Paul Gillin

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Just be aware that there are often copyright restrictions on these works that limit what you can do with them. You can also take a snapshot (essentially a cached image) of a page, which is useful for content that goes behind firewalls after a few days. You really come to appreciate RSS readers when you have a lot of topics to monitor.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Review of the first 5 classes: Class: How to Blog Effectively for Business (GF101) Professors: Ann Handley & Mack Collier, MarketingProfs This was a basic introduction to blogging, so for those already familiar with what blogging is, there wasn’t much new content. Free content will get you farther. Do you have the people?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. This 28-page white paper is chock full of useful information for aligning your marketing content with the industrial buy cycle. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Web Site - Were fans of content management platforms like Drupal , Wordpress , etc. We have serious questions about the time it takes to really make the networks work, especially Facebook. I agree about Facebook, but see Ning as lightweight. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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 Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? IMO, content is still the king in B2B lead generation, sales and marketing need to agree on a unified lead definition and figure out how best to use relevant content in driving sales. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 8, 2012

The RSS feed is: [link]. My thought of the week is all about this new Facebook thing. It requires some additional management of your Facebook presence as well as some additional aptitude with photos and uploading and things like that. I’ll tell you, my perspective on a lot of the Facebook changes. Listen Now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. Create fresh content: Don’t copy-paste static brochureware text and put it on your website. Nothing will turn off your prospects more than outdated and stale content. Search engines love sites with constantly changing fresh content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Note: Transforming copyrighted content into a link is not permitted.). You can also create color-coded schedules and link to them from Facebook profiles. Special features include RSS and email reminders. © copyright 2003 – 2008. Doctorate Degree Programs. School Choices: DeVry University. AIU Online.

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