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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Content Marketing’s slogan is – “Don’t pitch. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

And they use different sources to get their information. Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters.

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

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. Primary goals of marketing content in the early stages of the buy cycle There are two main goals that your content needs to achieve in the early stages.

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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

Industrial Marketing Today

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.