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Small Manufacturers Use Social Media Effectively

Industrial Marketing Today

Many engineers, specifiers, users and buyers of industrial products regularly use social media in their personal lives but work-related usage is limited among this audience. I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how some manufacturers are using Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to listen, engage and market to their customers.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

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They provide examples of how the target audience behaves in their personal lives where they TiVo through commercials, use caller ID to ignore telemarketing calls, direct mail pieces go straight to trash and of course, nobody ever reads a newspaper or a trade magazine anymore. An updated website serves them well as a point of reference.

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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

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Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. It does require someone/team from the company to moderate the forum to prevent abusive language, personal attacks and outright SPAM. What about good ol’ community forums? It will require some amount of labor.

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

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Influence: This is a measure of the likelihood of a person recommending your company or brand. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. If you have a blog, look at the number of comments left by your readers.

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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). In-person events: 71% effectiveness (64% usage). Here are the main points of disconnection: Articles: 43% effectiveness (80% usage).

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Digital Marketing for Control Engineers, Machine Builders and Designers

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Social media continues to show low adoption and usage among these control and automation professionals – Twitter and Facebook garnered only 1% each for weekly work related usage and as high as 62% of the people said they never use them (personal or work), LinkedIn faired a little better at 4% weekly work related usage, Blogs and Podcasts also suffered (..)

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

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I found a very helpful presentation on blogging styles by Rohit Bhargava , a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy and author of the award winning new marketing book, Personality Not Included. In the slideshow, Rohit shows you 25 different styles of blogging and when to use each one.

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