Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

I came across two research studies that answer the last question with a big YES! Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

One of the key findings from the study was that B2B marketers are realizing that developing brand awareness among their customers’ customers can capture a larger share of channel margins and build loyalty that can protect them against lower-priced competitors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development. Refresh - Content gets stale over time.

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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

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. 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 14, 2010

The primary ways industrial companies participate in social media today are through community/discussion sites for customers as well as similar internal sites for employees whereas adoption of newer social media tools like Twitter is very low at only 9% (Source: Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector by GlobalSpec ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. On the other hand, you are not likely to develop a following if all you write about are topics that are of little interest to your audience. After all, blog content is what will influence people to take a desired action.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Then, the teams developed a plan of action. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. 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

JULY 1, 2010

That was the key finding of a research study done by McKinsey & Co. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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