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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

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If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

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Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. Inbound marketing requires prospects to be actively searching for products and solutions.

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Inbound Marketing Tactics to Get Bulk of B2B Marketing Budgets in 2011

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While low cost is very important, I think there are other key reasons for the shift towards inbound marketing. Accountability and ROI – inbound marketing coupled with lead nurturing and scoring from marketing automation , optimizes the funnel for marketing to demonstrate contribution to revenues and prove ROI.

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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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Here are some other key findings from their report: 83% of the companies expect their sales to increase in 2012 and 35% of them are spending more on marketing in 2012 than they did in 2011. 47% of the industrial companies spend more than a third of their overall marketing budget online. Click on the image to enlarge).

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Industrial Companies shouldn’t Replace Email Marketing with Social Media

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The answer is YES according to the research report, “Trends in Industrial Marketing 2011: How Manufacturers are Marketing Today” published by GlobalSpec. 70% of these companies use email marketing to in-house lists as compared to 57% using social media.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

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Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Using content for inbound marketing HubSpot , calls inbound marketing as flipping traditional outbound marketing on its head.

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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.