Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2012

73% of the respondents use LinkedIn, 55% use Facebook and 40% use Twitter However, only 17% of these companies are satisfied with their social media efforts. Also notice that more traditional marketing tactics such as trade magazine advertising, PR and direct mail have made it to the top ten marketing channels in 2012.

Planning 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

The recently released B2B Marketing Skills Survey jointly done by Genius and BtoB Magazine reveals some new trends and contradicts certain popular beliefs. Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn.

Lead Generation 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2011

Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). Print magazines: 39% effectiveness (65% usage). There is a strong disconnect between content marketing effectiveness and its usage.

Video Marketing 60

Video Marketing Content Marketing Co-Registration High Quality Lead 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category. Engineers tend to respond much better to peer-to-peer recommendations than some stranger tweeting about your company or its products. The best example of an expertise blog that I know of is the Emerson Process Experts blog moderated by Jim Cahill.

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