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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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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. Use a social publishing site like scribd.com to gain a larger audience for your white papers. Definitely not.”

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

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According to them , “customer engagement is the level of involvement, interaction, intimacy, and influence that an individual has with a brand over time.&# In essence, to measure customer engagement accurately, we need to track four components — involvement, interaction, intimacy and influence.

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

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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. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

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The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. 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.

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

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Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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While conversion may be the ultimate goal, building trust, increasing awareness, improving the company’s reputation, expertise and credibility and encouraging social sharing are all worthy content marketing goals too. Ardath Albee of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey.

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

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Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates. by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales?