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

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

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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

Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog. Capture visitor information – Implement a method to capture visitor information from your business blog. That’s all you need for now.

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RebelMouse

MAY 14, 2018

This year, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way thanks to Facebook's information scandal , which prompted both platforms to clean up their ad space and data management practices. The tech tug of war between publishers and the Facebook/Google duopoly is a never-ending power struggle. And they're right.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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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. According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.”

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Informative how-to blog posts? ” I think they like to see press releases added to a website, case studies uploaded on a regular basis, and blog posts showing up on the domain, on a consistent basis (I typically recommend around three new blog posts per week, for those clients who are able to do so). White papers? Case studies?

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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. As the decision maker or a business owner, you may not have the time to go hunting online for the right information or read a 50-page eBook.

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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

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. You have to actively promote your optimized site using social media, press (news) releases, blogs and offline tactics to tell your target audience about your site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

According to Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor , you are going to need two critical pieces of information to conduct a content audit. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey.

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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

JUNE 3, 2010

Figure out what the pressing issues are, what motivates them to act now rather than later and then write in a voice that addresses their concerns. Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. So curated content is not something new.

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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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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

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

JULY 23, 2010

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. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. That’s good news but it also creates a credibility problem.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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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

MAY 31, 2010

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Tomorrow People

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without thorough planning and research, your strategic decisions will be less informed and your product launch will have slimmer chances of long-term success. Your research brief should inform how you develop your questions. your website, social media posts, newsletters). Using a wide variety of sources (e.g.

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Tomorrow People

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Without thorough planning and research, your strategic decisions will be less informed and your product launch will have slimmer chances of long-term success. Also, the shorter your sessions are, the more Develop your interview questions Your research brief should inform how you develop your questions.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

I hope Michael Lasky will take a look at your comments and provide some more insight – he’s the lawyer (I’m just the lowly marketer) and I have found him to be a fascinating source of information around these issues. Freedom of the Press/Media – Should you feel obligated to cite sources if asked for it?

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Consumers are looking for information. Downloadable reports that enable you to capture viewer information. e-newsletters. Press announcements of new products and developments. Social media posting. Creating an integrated media plan and calendar is essential. Quality content serves all those needs.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. It’s an information annuity that can’t be replicated elsewhere. RT @jaybaer: Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You [link] [link] John Lane content marketing = information annuity.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. 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

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Home page is great for attracting prospects at the top of the sales funnel that may have found your site using generic search terms and are just looking for information on companies in your market. Do they ask for information that you feel is irrelevant to your intent? What’s the solution? How did they find your site?)

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Updated B2B Facebook Page Examples with Data - Social Media B2B , July 23, 2010 This short post is to let you know that we updated the 10 Examples of B2B Facebook Pages post. Using Twitter to have conversations and provide useful information to your intended audience can be a valuable part of your online strategy. Daily Clicks.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Radian6 For advanced social media listening, I often recommend my friends at Radian6 , who have – in my opinion – the most robust feature set and product development roadmap of all the widely available social listening platforms. Are you pushing email subscriptions to your blog hard enough? it is great.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

We all need to start thinking about how we can mine social and email data to create not just one list of subscribers/fans/followers, but multiple lists based on what people want from our brands, and how likely they are to respond to information of a particular type and context. It’s annoying, and I don’t usually follow them back.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Radian6 For advanced social media listening, I often recommend my friends at Radian6 , who have – in my opinion – the most robust feature set and product development roadmap of all the widely available social listening platforms. Are you pushing email subscriptions to your blog hard enough? it is great.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

You’d arm them with information about the marketplace. You’d arm them with information about your products and how people use them. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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