Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Every manufacturing or industrial company that I talk to wants more leads. However, there is a serious disconnect between sales and marketing when it comes to defining a qualified lead. Google sales and marketing disconnect and you will find thousands of articles written on this topic. This is not a new problem.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Lead nurturing plays an important role in industrial lead generation programs because it is rare that an industrial sale is completed on the first call or the first visit to the manufacturer’s website. Forrester, CSO Insights and Marketo reported that lead nurturing produced much better results. Still not convinced?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

I wrote this post because Chris, a regular reader of this blog, emailed me recently with a question on B2B lead scoring. His question – “Could you briefly describe the tools/process you use to ‘score’ sales leads?”. Instead, I’ll give you my “Go-To” list of online resources from marketing automation software companies.

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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. That is good advice and it is a proven tactic for inbound marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lead scoring has become very important in today’s B2B marketing. Especially now since industrial and technical buyers are relying more and more on online resources for their decision making process. Marketing’s role in interacting with prospects has expanded and goes further into the buy cycle than before.

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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? Now, that doesn’t sound very different from most b2b and industrial marketers but wait till you hear/read about the phenomenal results that Holly and her team have produced.

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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. Downloadable CAD files have played a major role in components and parts being designed in – a key and necessary step in the industrial buying process. Now that’s truly relevant and engaging content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 17, 2010

While working on an email campaign for a client who markets to manufacturers in the Process Controls and Automation industry, I was asked if there was an easy way to combine web analytics with email marketing. Once you do this, you’ll see all your email marketing campaigns.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HubSpot is a great “marketing-in-a-box” solution for those getting started with inbound marketing. It is a good fit for companies with a one-person marketing department or a small staff. It will save you considerable amount of time and streamline the whole process of lead generation, nurturing and conversion.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 21, 2017

Some of the people I talk to about industrial content marketing seem to be hung up on adding more technology to solve their lead generation problems. The thinking behind it is that technology will cover up the many holes in their strategy, content and help speed up the process. This is only a content summary.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 27, 2012

Call it digital marketing or inbound marketing with content , the fact is marketing is now playing a much more active role in complex industrial sales. This has worked great in the past but the Internet and digital marketing have changed how that process works today. See Problem-centric Industrial Marketing ).

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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. Next, they try a series of marketing tactics without a strategy or a plan, hoping something will produce results. In short, they are now looking for Cheap Miracles or may be, Industrial Marketing Made in China.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I’m sure every time you’ve talked with an industrial marketing consultant about content marketing, you’ve been told that you need to start with a “content marketing strategy.” That’s very good advice but what does it really mean if you are on the other side of the table and are responsible for marketing your industrial company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2012

In my last post, I talked about using content to convert website traffic into leads and customers. In this post, I want to continue with a similar theme and talk about why your content marketing must have a purpose. See Content Marketing: Think Like a Publisher, Act Like an Investor ). See Problem-centric Industrial Marketing ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 5, 2012

In my daily interactions with manufacturing, engineering and industrial companies, inbound marketing or content marketing is a popular topic of discussion. Not that I’m complaining, this gap means more business opportunities for me as an industrial marketing consultant. Does that mean content marketing is useless for you?

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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. Why do you need to implement a particular industrial marketing tactic?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 16, 2012

In today’s uncertain economy, manufacturing and industrial companies are taking more than a hard look at their marketing spends. These companies have always thought of marketing as sales support, so it requires a lot of convincing to change that mind-set. According to them, that has always been a job done by sales and not marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2012

67 percent of manufacturers, industrial and engineering companies stated that customer acquisition or lead generation is their primary industrial marketing goal in 2012, the same top two marketing goals for the past six years. Either that or we industrial marketers haven’t quite figured out the lead generation puzzle yet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

In my conversations with industrial companies about inbound marketing, I find my audience agreeing with me up to a certain point and then there is a big disconnect. I see heads nodding in face-to-face meetings or hear plenty of “Uh-huhs” on the phone when I talk about the benefits of inbound marketing.

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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. Let’s take a closer look at both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 1, 2015

Manufacturers, distributors and engineering companies want to jump into industrial content marketing because they’ve read the buzz about its effectiveness in generating high quality leads for selling solutions. They want to educate the market about their solutions and in the process create “thought leadership.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

It is not surprising then that many of these industrial web redesigns are nothing more than a cosmetic facelift with copy-pasted content from their old site and/or outdated marketing collateral. I’ve had people call me and start the conversation by saying, “We’ve spent a lot of money on a site redesign but it hasn’t produced any leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The problem becomes more acute for the industrial sector because the industrial buy cycle can be a long and complex process that often involves multiple decision makers. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Confused about Inbound Marketing? View this hilarious and entertaining video from HubSpot and it will tell you everything you ought to know about inbound marketing. and their success stories of inbound marketing with content. and their success stories of inbound marketing with content. Never heard of it?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2012

We spent a lot of money on SEO and PPC programs but our site hasn’t generated good quality leads. Source: 2011 GlobalSpec Marketing Trends Survey). Here is a quote from MarketingSherpa’s findings from their 2011 survey of 1,500 B2B marketers: Organizations devote one-quarter of their online marketing budgets to their websites.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process. This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. These metrics are all linked to 10 stages in Sopheon’s sales process.

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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

APRIL 3, 2011

Building strong customer relationships is probably a close second only to lead generation for most manufacturers and industrial companies. It makes perfect sense then to put a good deal of effort into nurturing new leads and building strong relationships in order to convert them into loyal customers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

Industrial marketing for manufacturers is a complex process that takes time, expertise and money to produce tangible and repeatable results (aka more quality sales leads). Marketing to engineers and technical professionals has always been a challenge. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. There could be a number of reasons.

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