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 26, 2010

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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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

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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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

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. Read The Anatomy of a Great Web Persona by Brian Massey. And in a complex industrial buy cycle, things can get well…complicated.

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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

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

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 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

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 Your article with the examples helped me see it clearly.

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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

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

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

JUNE 3, 2010

Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. 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

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

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This is particularly true if your social media strategy is integrated into your entire organization. Everything from supply chain management, product design, customer service, accounting and beyond can be informed through analysing the data collected through your social media strategy. That is the value to me of Web 2.0

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Content Marketing & Thought Leadership Most often used in a B2B scenario, you create and distribute free information snacks so you can sell paid meals down the road. link] [link] davidweiner RT @jaybaer: Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches? link] [link] Glenn Taylor Very concise information! This is complex stuff!!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

To succeed in social media, set aside your marketing plan , October 31, 2010 Forget your marketing PLAN? I mean using social media technologies internally, within the large company kind of enterprise. I’m often asked what I think the next big thing in social media might be. Information sharing and education.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Robert Scoble argued that email faced deletion at the hands of Web 2.0 John Dvorak declared that email was a “carcass on the side of the information highway, rotting away.” Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. October 2007. services like Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku. March 2009. October 2009.

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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. She said, “Treat your website as if you were hiring a six-figure salesperson. If you were going to put them on the street, what would you do?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

" [link] [link] Mark Gervase RT @technorati: RT @jaybaer: Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media? link] [link] TheTARGETEDGroup Are you slow enough to succeed in social media? link] [link] Adrian Eden interesting and informative read by @jaybaer – Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media?

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