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

Industrial Marketing Today

73% of the respondents use LinkedIn, 55% use Facebook and 40% use Twitter However, only 17% of these companies are satisfied with their social media efforts. Also notice that more traditional marketing tactics such as trade magazine advertising, PR and direct mail have made it to the top ten marketing channels in 2012.

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Industrial Companies shouldn’t Replace Email Marketing with Social Media

Industrial Marketing Today

In a March 2012 online survey of US marketing professionals, trade publication Chief Marketer found that the most popular tool in digital campaigns, according to 78% of the respondents was email marketing followed by Email newsletters (59%) and a close third was social media at 58%.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

Industrial Marketing Today

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. I agree that there is a lot of truth to all those findings.

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Using content for inbound marketing HubSpot , calls inbound marketing as flipping traditional outbound marketing on its head.

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

Number of campaigns sent out, trade shows attended or press releases published do not generate revenues. 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.

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Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles

Industrial Marketing Today

There are many ways to build thought leadership such as publishing articles, blog posts — either as a guest or on your own blog, public speaking at prominent industry events and being quoted frequently in trade publications. Tweet about the updates and announce them on your Facebook page to drive more traffic back to your Website.