Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2015

Many manufacturers are using content marketing but few consider it effective in generating leads that turn into sales opportunities. According to the 2014 study done by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 86% of manufacturing marketers use content marketing but only 30% of manufacturing marketers say they are effective at it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It may seem obvious to say that you must build your industrial content marketing strategy around your buyers but it doesn’t happen with regularity with most manufacturers, distributors and engineering companies. This is only a content summary. This is only a content summary. They can [.]

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2013

I am finding industrial content marketing in [.]. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. Content Marketing Inbound Marketing Industrial blogging Industrial Marketing SEO' Please click on the headline to read the full article.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. What is On Site SEO? On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 5, 2012

In my daily interactions with manufacturing, engineering and industrial companies, inbound marketing or content marketing is a popular topic of discussion. The problem as I see it is that many of these industrial companies still think of content marketing as a one-off marketing campaign. Answer – Create higher value content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is my first post in 2012 and I want to start the New Year by answering a perennial question about content marketing for manufacturers and industrial companies. The answer – create a content series. There are many advantages to this content marketing strategy. Fresh Content = Better SEO. Repurpose your content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2011

This change is primarily designed to cleanse Google’s search results of low-quality content. Most SEO experts expect article directories or “content farms” to be heavily penalized by Google’s algorithm change. How does Google define low-quality content? Does your content address their WIIFM needs?

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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. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 7, 2011

You will find little evidence of best practices in content marketing – relevant, valuable and compelling content for customers. In other words, the online content is very product-centric. or better known as just Grainger, is one industrial distributor that has embraced content marketing in a very big way. Grainger, Inc.

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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

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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Content BOM is not a typo in my headline. I am amazed how often I find that creating content is an afterthought for people who are considering an industrial web design (more commonly a site redesign). The short answer – no content BOM (Bill Of Materials). What is a content BOM? What went wrong?

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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

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

APRIL 3, 2011

Customers in turn get 24/7 access via a secure online portal to personalized content such as: Detailed and critical cradle-to-grave records of every valve installed at their plant. Ergo, highly personalized and relevant content will build strong long-term customer relationships. Think again! Help to frame the discussion in their minds.

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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

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 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

JANUARY 10, 2011

According to a new report released by the Content Marketing Institute, manufacturers have some of the highest adoption rates for content marketing tactics as compared to other industries. Videos (48%) are the preferred content format over other digital tactics (podcasts, virtual conferences and e-books) by a wide margin.

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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

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

MARCH 18, 2013

Industrial distributors face a unique set of challenges when it comes to content marketing. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. These companies have traditionally depended on the depth and breadth of their line cards to highlight [.].

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 1, 2011

“We don’t have the time or the skills to write copy for digital content” is the most common reaction I get from clients when discussing their industrial marketing programs. I can sense the confusion in the room or over the phone when I tell them that creating engaging digital content is much more than copywriting. Easy, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 1, 2012

You’ve done all the hard work of optimizing (SEO) your industrial website and now you have a steady stream of traffic to your site. Before you embark on an industrial website redesign and organic SEO project, put a lot of thought into content, landing pages and calls to action. Congratulations!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 25, 2013

This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. Content Marketing Industrial Blogs Industrial Marketing Blog Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Industrial Marketing SME Subject Matter Experts' Please click on the headline to read the full article.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 18, 2012

The two main reasons are 1) Not showing up in Google search results ( SEO – Organic Search Engine Optimization ) and/or 2) Not getting enough qualified leads from the website (Traffic and Conversion). Poor SEO and conversions are the symptoms that are obvious to you. Keep in mind that SEO is not the same as a website redesign.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2014

It isn’t too difficult to guess, they are: Get found in Google (SEO) Get site visitors [.]. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. Content Marketing Industrial Lead Generation Industrial Marketing' Please click on the headline to read the full article.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Google changing its search algorithms is not news to most SEO experts. It’s a fact of SEO life. What caught my attention and IMO applies to industrial marketing, are these four changes: Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content: Google’s explanation: This change helps us choose more relevant text to use in snippets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. Organic or natural search engine optimization (SEO) has always been shrouded in mystery, bordering on voodoo. It seems the secrets of SEO are known only to a few high-priced consultants.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 3, 2012

Manufacturers, industrial distributors and engineering companies that I talk to do understand the benefits of using a blog as the hub of their inbound marketing strategy for SEO, lead generation, thought leadership and branding. However, they are struggling with the challenge of creating engaging content for their industrial blogs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO). You may want to read the following: Industrial Website design and management. Download the free Website redesign guide from my company’s Website. Social media marketing. B2B Email marketing. How are you allocating your 2011 B2B marketing budget?

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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. It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Some even consider it the original crowdsourcing platform for content. However, the more modern incarnation of community forums support rich media content, file attachments and social sharing options. Blogs have great search engine optimization (SEO) benefits that community forums will have a tough time matching.

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