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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

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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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

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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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Manufacturers Need Lead Management to Close the RFQ Gap

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Here are the steps I go through to change their minds and have worked well for me: Step 1: Give them an overview of what inbound marketing is all about and how it differs from traditional outbound marketing. See my article, “Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales.”.

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Digital Marketing Can Increase Industrial Sales

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Call it digital marketing or inbound marketing with content , the fact is marketing is now playing a much more active role in complex industrial sales. In this world the celebrated “solution sales rep” can be more of an annoyance than an asset. Source: The End of Solution Sales, Harvard Business Review – HBR blog).

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Align Industrial Websites with Sales Process

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Now it boils down to price and delivery time. You can talk value until you’re blue in the face but your customers and prospects will push back on price. Read my post, Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales ). It is too late by then.

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You’ve Got Traffic. Now What?

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For example, “We have XX years of customizing solutions for the ABC industry and offer the lowest price.” A better content marketing strategy is to focus on answering the needs of your visitors and helping them frame the decision at the very early stages of their buying cycle. Prove it – are you always the lowest bidder?

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How an Industrial Distributor Uses Content Marketing Effectively

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The implied C2A is “interrupt your online activity and call us for a price quote.”. At Tiecas, my industrial marketing company , we use inbound marketing tactics to help our industrial clients generate more leads and drive sales from their Websites. It is rare to find explicit calls to action (C2A) on these sites.