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Industrial Content Marketing Fails to Engage with Target Audience

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Industrial content marketing used by manufacturers, distributors and engineering companies is failing to engage the target audience – engineers, technical professionals and industrial buyers. Back in 2014, Forrester had published their research report titled B2B Content Fails The Customer Engagement Test.

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Industrial Marketing in the Age of the Customer

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Let me give credit where credit is due, I first heard the phrase “The Age of the Customer” from Forrester Research. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. It has a nice ring to it and IMO, [.]. Please click on the headline to read the full article.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

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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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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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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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Manufacturers Use Evaluation Kits for Effective Lead Nurturing

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Forrester, CSO Insights and Marketo reported that lead nurturing produced much better results. Lead nurturing is usually done by sending out helpful content to prospects and moves them from the top of the funnel (ToFU) to the bottom of the funnel (BoFU) where they are ready to make a purchase decision.

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B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail

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Additional research from Forrester , CSO Insights , Brian Carroll and Marketo demonstrates that lead nurturing does produce measurable results as follows: Reduced the number of marketing-generated leads ignored by sales to as low as 25%. Content is what drives the lead nurturing engine. How do you nurture leads?

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

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I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

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