Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 1, 2012

When that doesn’t work, they turn to the Internet in search of information on how to do industrial marketing on a shoestring budget. In desperation, they start looking for a quick “Band-Aid” fix for their lead generation problems while spending as little as possible since budgets are tight or non-existent.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. They are very effective in delivering the right information to satisfy the diverse needs of the various stakeholders within your prospects’ companies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 22, 2011

Visitors who sign up to download your white papers, eBooks and other free content definitely grow your list of contacts but calling them leads without taking the next step is premature at best if not a costly mistake. See SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation ). Timeframe.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

By the time buyers reach the Procurement stage, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Those that drop off the list are often those who did not provide the right level of information to buyers or did not meet some other perceived or real need in the buyer. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 2, 2012

Infographics, short for information graphics are hot right now. In the early stages of lead generation, you are primarily dealing with “suspects” – people who you have not yet qualified as prospects or leads. Does your design communicate the information clearly? It seems everyone is creating one these days.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

This is when I have to take a step back and start talking about how the job of inbound marketing does not end with lead generation but extends into setting the table for sales so they can be more productive. See SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation ). just like in the movie Jerry Maguire.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2011

A business blog is a powerful online marketing tool for inbound lead generation. A continuous stream of high-quality leads to feed the sales funnel and keep it humming is the lifeblood of industrial marketing. Doubling or tripling your potential new leads by adding a social sharing component to your business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Lead generation and lead nurturing have been put on the backburner and clients are interested only in finding leads that are ready to buy now (see my previous post, “The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to Revenue Generation.” ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

What kind of content will educate your customers and help them make an informed buying decision (Move away from price). How to use content to convert visitors into qualified leads (Lead generation). How to research keywords and write optimized copy to attract the right traffic (SEO).

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2012

Lead generation and conversions will only happen when your content is relevant and engages your visitors. We don’t want to give away free information. Because search engines don’t convert into customers, people do. Your content must strike the right balance between the needs of your human readers and those of search engine bots.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site. Having a search function on your website is no longer an option, it is a requirement.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2012

Put these higher value content behind simple sign-up forms for lead generation (Readers are more likely to part with their contact information if they find value in your blog posts). Update the articles with more recent application notes and/or case studies. Add links within your posts to these longer content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Capture visitor information – Implement a method to capture visitor information from your business blog. Install some kind of a sign-up form to capture basic contact information such as name, company name and email address. It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Using content or Inbound Marketing , you are able to make that key connection with your prospects by delivering specific content needed in order to make an informed decision. The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 1, 2011

Plenty has been written about the importance of lead nurturing in B2B and industrial marketing. If you need a quick primer, read my earlier post, “ B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. ”. Most of the lead nurturing best practices guides and articles that I’ve read are from a marketing perspective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 17, 2011

The same repurposing and compilation tactic can be used with other existing content such as engineering data, performance characteristics charts and regulatory compliance information. stop you from launching or using a business blog as a powerful tool for inbound lead generation for feeding the top of your sales funnel.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Your site visitors are typically coming from general search engines and/or industry verticals like GlobalSpec or ThomasNet. The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. That’s good news but it also creates a credibility problem.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2011

In general B2B and technology (software and IT) marketing, there is usually a well-defined path for lead generation and nurturing with content. A QR code can hold a lot more information than just a simple URL. These B2B marketers seem to have a bottomless well of content to tap into.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

After sampling your content, your blog readers are more likely to download the complete article/white paper in exchange for their contact information (lead generation). Use these as valuable free content for lead generation and nurturing. Blogging can a be a two-way street. Another option is content curation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

And they use different sources to get their information. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. in Museum Studies, but the idea of acting as a curator of information to post on our website for the benefit of our clients and customers is extremely interesting. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation? Maybe it’s my M.A.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Provide this information in plain English with compelling reasons for people to do business with you. Provide multiple ways to access relevant information with minimal clicks. What they sorely need, is some strategic guidance that will produce measurable results, typically more leads and sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 4, 2011

There are three key ideas in the headline of my post – 1) Industrial blogs, 2) Lead generation and 3) Inbound marketing. Various studies and my own experiences with industrial clients show that filling the top of the lead-gen funnel is still the number one goal. Why is it so important? Does your company use a blog?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

(See my earlier post, “Add Google Analytics to Emails and Gain B2B Lead Generation Intelligence” ). Even though it is more complex than standard HTML e-mails, dynamic content is well worth it as it creates highly personalized emails with information, offers and calls-to-action that very closely match the subscriber’s needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Once they find the correct part number, offer datasheets with performance characteristics, applications and tolerance information, include a way for the visitor to send a quick question to your engineering department and if applicable, add a “buy now” button to take advantage of online sales. Thanks for sharing!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Industrial companies have realized the importance of inbound marketing and its impact on lead generation. In my conversations over the past few months, I have noticed a growing acceptance of blog sites among manufacturers, industrial distributors and engineering services companies. Blog sites as inbound marketing hubs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

Just as publishers start by learning everything about their target audience and what information they want, content marketers must realize it is not about them but about their customers. He/she is inundated with business plans, presentations and proposals but only a chosen few get called back for more in-depth information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Thank you for a very informative post. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 This guide will walk you through each step involved in creating a roadmap for a successful business Website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

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. With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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