Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 23, 2012

If you are on LinkedIn, head over to either the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) or the SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) groups and do a search for skills shortage. Here is a brilliant example of humanizing an industrial product with a healthy dose of humor. Watch “It’s a Tight, Tight World!”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You are not alone, most business purchases, especially industrial products don’t lend themselves to a simple Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). This was second only to downloading product data sheets. Have you struggled to answer that question?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Give them hardcore specifications typically found in product spec sheets. The first thing an engineer wants to know is do your products, parts and components meet his/her design specifications and standards?

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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. That business model works for a while but in the long-term, it fails badly. Dr. Thomas calls this “The Distribution Trap.” He has co-authored a book by the same name with Timothy J.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

She defines it as “Contagious content must educate them [prospects and customers] about what they need to know, apply your company’s unique expertise in addition to your product and prove you walk your talk through the sharing of evidence. Are your company, products and services visible in various online channels used across the stages?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Sounds simple, right? In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products Next post: How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Learn to connect the dots – many times product managers and engineers have very deep knowledge about their products and the problems they can solve. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Don’t be afraid to tear apart your initial outline if you think it will improve the product. Rearrange words, paragraphs and may be entire chapters until you feel comfortable how each paragraph and chapter flows into the next respectively. This is where you need to wear your editor’s hat rather than be the creative writer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Are you pre-selling a product or service? Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. What do you want the post to do for your company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Email strategy: Milwaukee Tool worked with email service provider (ESP) ExactTarget in developing an aggressive email campaign containing links to product videos. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to Revenue Generation Next post: 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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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. However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Too often, marketers create new educational content based on internal triggers, such as a new product launch or the adoption of a new marketing strategy. Sean Donahue of MarketingSherpa put it best when he said, “We’ve been recommending for a while now that marketers think like publishers when it comes to their marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

You can get more ideas from my earlier post, “7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products.&# I’m glad that you found my article helpful. I can see how curating would appeal to you, given your education. Good luck in your day-to-day content marketing role in the manufacturing industry.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

If nothing else, it makes the mobile sales force much much more productive. His comment to me was “This is fantastic! This is the kind of thing you lay in bed at night and wonder “how can i do that?&#

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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. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 4, 2011

You could write a blog post titled “Injection molding using engineered resins for automotive products.” Here’s more proof that blogs do generate leads; the same study found that nearly three in five respondents had acquired a customer through a company blog or LinkedIn (the best performing social media channel for B2B).

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. Here you can add a link to your Home page or a product page. That will give you an idea of demand. Add a link to your privacy policy in the footer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Link building is easier too and adding links to product pages deep within your site will seem more natural when they are part of the text within your posts. 74% of B2B content marketers reported using Twitter followed closely by LinkedIn (71%), Facebook (70%) and YouTube (56%). See my post “How to Coax Content Out of Engineers” ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

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? You’d arm them with information about the marketplace.

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