Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? Is the promised/perceived benefit strong enough to overcome the readers’ need for privacy, or their reluctance to add another marketer to an already overcrowded inbox?

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APRIL 28, 2010

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MAY 18, 2010

Let me end this post with a humorous video that I found on YouTube. 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 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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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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APRIL 22, 2010

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JULY 29, 2009

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AUGUST 17, 2010

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AUGUST 10, 2010

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MAY 26, 2010

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JUNE 19, 2010

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JUNE 24, 2010

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APRIL 26, 2010

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you interested in lead generation, lead nurturing and/or building authority and brand awareness? Case study #1: B2B lead generation through better segmenting and more focused email content Business challenge: FreightCenter wanted to change its customer mix of 70/30 (B2C/B2B) to a more B2B-centric mix.

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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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JUNE 15, 2010

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JUNE 29, 2010

Let’s prove our point that branding is not an expense but an investment by showing them hardcore data like number of inquiries, market share gained, search engine rankings, cost per lead, number of times the CEO or the company is mentioned online and in the press, customer satisfaction ratings, revenue growth, incremental profits and stock prices.

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JUNE 12, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Instead of taking up more space here, let me direct you to some of my earlier posts about industrial websites and SEO.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. For example, at Sopheon , a software provider, measures qualified leads by their source, their region, volume per region, the speed of aging, movement through the sales cycle and other metrics.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

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JANUARY 26, 2010

What they sorely need, is some strategic guidance that will produce measurable results, typically more leads and sales. 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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MAY 3, 2010

One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. Lead them to it. How effective has it been for generating leads? I’m assuming you want your business blog to be more than just a personal journal. Do you want them to sign up for your newsletter?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Additionally, when marketers create a nurturing program across the buying process, each new lead should start at the beginning of the program with touch 1. 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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AUGUST 20, 2010

Design wins lead to production volume orders. 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 Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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JULY 6, 2010

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MAY 21, 2010

I’d add that B2B blogs which provide individual contact information of the bloggers or experts referenced in the posts can lead to new sales opportunities. That is a very good way to generate a qualified lead from your blog. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

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JULY 14, 2010

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JUNE 8, 2010

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MAY 14, 2010

It helps to view the process behind Inbound Marketing Automation as consisting of 4 phases: 1) Attract more visitors to the website through Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Marketing, and Pay Per Click advertising. 2) Engage those visitors’ attention with industry leading content (website copy, white papers, videos, podcasts).

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JULY 23, 2010

This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource. Instead of thinking of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as lead generators, use them to increase awareness and drive traffic to your website. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.”

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JULY 20, 2010

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JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. 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. of Tiecas, Inc.

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MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. 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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Great pointers on what not to do with social media. Leave a Comment Previous post: B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Next post: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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