Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. Let’s say you are a developer of custom software for the Upstream Oil & Gas industry, you probably have a page or more on your site describing the various features of your software.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! My take: Now it is time to winnow your list from step 3.

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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. In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs. However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It seems obvious that there is a big disconnect between the goals of B2B content marketing and true customer engagement. It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. How about you, do you see the disconnect? Leave a comment and share your thoughts here.

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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. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action. Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3

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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 do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

However, it is not so easy to translate features into benefits that really engage and speak directly to your target audience. I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. For example, no software in the world can flag the error between their and there. Just follow my 5Rs of content creation and things will start to flow a lot more smoothly. Don’t just rely on the automatic spelling and grammar checker.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Follow these essential rules of a website redesign and you’ll truly create a powerful sales and marketing tool. As the founder of Tiecas, I have been helping manufacturers and engineering services companies boost their sales with better do-it-yourself (DiY) marketing for over 20 years.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues. Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. How do you drive more traffic?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Curation: Doing more with less is the topic of a video I found in a post by Steve Rosenbaum who is the CEO of Magnify.net , a video curation and publishing platform. Best regards, Achinta Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Tweets that mention Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world. I service industrial companies, as you do. I suspect that as more understanding is gained of “how to&# use the tools the flood gates will open in the industrial sector.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

It is our job then as marketers to massage it and add some sizzle in order to persuade the reader to take a desired action. Don’t be persona non grata – take the time to really understand the persona of the target audience. I mean dig deeper than just the demographics like company size, job title, SIC code etc.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There is an amazing amount of great content about B2B marketing out there, ranging from trends in demand generation to best practices in lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to how to buy and select marketing automation systems. Seven Lead Nurturing Tools and Resources. blog post).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. after they surveyed more than 1,200 purchasing decision makers in small, medium, and large companies throughout the United States and Western Europe who are responsible for buying high-tech products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

For example, fill out a form to download a white paper, register for a webinar, submit an order etc. The above two web analytics are not mere statistics for your webmaster. Hordes of traffic that convert poorly are useless for generating qualified leads that convert well into paying customers.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

MarketingSherpa released a 2-part series called “Bridging the Gap: 5 Objectives for Improving Relations between Sales and Marketing” (Part 1) and (Part 2). The 5 objectives are: Sales is your target audience. Or as I say “Sales is the customer of marketing.” Just think of webinars, case studies, etc. Thanks for the post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing.

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