Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 22, 2011

I’ve heard some of my manufacturing clients call their subscribers free content leads. I’ve also read articles by other industrial marketers where they recommend using free content to generate new leads. However, I do have a problem with classifying these new subscribers as leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A Value Proposition plays an important role in differentiation, which in turn affects lead generation. Most manufacturers and industrial companies make generic claims that are often copied by their competition and lack validation. How do you rise above the noise when there is so much parity in Value Propositions?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 16, 2012

Upper management and key decision makers are skeptical about inbound marketing with content being able to generate qualified leads and set the table for sales. I am also convinced that these executives really want sales opportunities and not more of marketing qualified leads (MQLs). They are the specifiers of your product.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 16, 2012

Talking to manufacturers and industrial companies on a daily basis has convinced me that when they say they need help with their lead generation, they really want more RFQ (Request For Quote) opportunities. Generating new leads, qualifying and nurturing them until they turn into a RFQ is too much work for them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

They agree it helps them get found in search engines early and often, drives hordes of traffic to their site and fills the top of their funnel with qualified leads at a lower cost per lead. I know how strange that might sound, but for most companies, leads mean more work and very little to show for it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

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. It scored 8.6

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We want to rank high. My initial conversations with industrial companies about content marketing for manufacturers usually start something like this, “We can’t be found in Google or other search engines. We’ve read that content marketing is the way to go. Can you help us?” There is absolutely nothing wrong with that stated goal for.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

No matter the size of the company or the industry they are in, my conversations always boil down to them wanting more leads from their industrial marketing. Yet I see [.]. This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

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). Professor Quelch provides the example of Intel and its very successful advertising campaign “Intel Inside.” Definitely not.” Analytics is the new marketing creative!

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

It is 15 pages that are packed with bite-sized, actionable digital marketing ideas to help you score more wins for both sales and marketing. Use it to map out your own plays for generating more high-quality leads, increasing sales and growing revenues. Lead nurturing for better lead generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Generating leads is always the central theme in my daily conversations with manufacturing, engineering and industrial companies. However, a qualified lead means different things to different people and it is rare for me to find too many of these companies to have a clear definition of what a lead means to them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2011

Are you leaving additional sales leads and revenues on the table? By not using every opportunity to generate high-quality leads, they may be leaving money on the table. A business blog will help you do all that but what about finding new leads and more sales opportunities? Happy New Year! The answer is a resounding yes.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For the past six years, more than two thirds of manufacturers and industrial companies have said that lead generation or customer acquisition is their top marketing priority according to the latest industrial marketing survey released by GlobalSpec. To me, that is only the symptom that you are experiencing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 15, 2011

For a while now, manufacturers have been using online searchable product catalogs to generate new leads and sales. That in turn helps manufacturers get in early in the industrial sales cycle and generate more sales opportunities. It is driving engineers to take action, resulting in more leads and sales for manufacturers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I looked at my Google Analytics for the entire year and have selected the top ten blog posts using a combination of Pageviews, Engagement and Social Sharing data to determine the ranking. B2B Lead Generation without Lead Nurturing is Doomed to Fail. 7 Key Components of a Successful Lead Generation System.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2011

This increased focus on brand awareness is a surprising shift from the traditional industrial marketing goal of generating more high-quality sales leads. That in my opinion is exactly how inbound content marketing is supposed to work for lead generation. the report is free but it does require registration to download).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 27, 2012

For the sake of simplicity, I’ll refer to it as digital marketing in this post and state that content is what drives this engine for generating qualified leads and creating sales opportunities. Read my post, The Real Value of Content Marketing for Industrial Companies for a better understanding of the value of digital marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I hope you’ll get some value and practical help from reading or rereading these articles. Marketing automation is very effective in moving prospects through the middle of the marketing funnel until the handoff to sales and provides a good closed-loop system for lead recycling that would otherwise go to waste. Read full article….

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 1, 2012

Business as usual is not working – referrals are trickling in, if at all and the pipeline of leads is running dry. 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. Measure, refine and repeat.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2012

The number of site pages indexed by Google has a direct impact on your online lead generation. For every 50 to 100 pages indexed by Google, expect double-digit growth in the number of leads. Read my earlier post, B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog ). Types of internal links.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Because it is the mega-distributors that dictate terms and reduce the value of the manufacture’s innovations into commodity products. 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 29, 2009

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 article has actionable tips and advice from people like Seth Godin, Mark Cuban and Michael McLaughlin just to name a few.

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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. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 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 Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 5, 2012

After doing all the heavy lifting of SEO to drive traffic, site visitors reach a dead end because there has been no thought given to converting that traffic into leads. Answer – Create higher value content. Your process is more of a direct route, one that requires being “speced in” or “designed in” to generate an RFQ and/or sale.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead. Score this lead according to your preset BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timing) criteria to determine if they are “sales-ready.” Your content also needs to perform another key function.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Adding value to industrial website development and marketing I am going to illustrate my point about part DiY and part professional help by using three real-life examples from my own industrial marketing business. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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