Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. And they use different sources to get their information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 11, 2013

Last week I downloaded and read the new research report, “Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector” published by IHS GlobalSpec. Some of the findings are consistent with their reports [.]. 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

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help. The only problem is, you’ve now lost control of your pricing messaging.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. However, are you addressing the concerns of your readers? It is all about them and not you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Refresh - Content gets stale over time. Put it on a refresh schedule and spiff it up to keep it in tune with constantly shifting markets. Change the title, heads and subheads and reword the bullets or key points.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006. And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases. Drive traffic – Don’t expect your prospects to find your blog just because you’ve built it. You have to take steps to direct traffic to your business blog by various means.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases. Search engine optimization (SEO) and content are two peas in a pod – working with a SEO expert while developing new content is a smart redesign strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

I’d like to produce research with some metrics but that too costs quite a bit, especially from someone reputable like Forrester. The biggest struggle for me is getting buy-in from the upper management on making a big expenditure on something like community or forum development. Do you have any strategies for this?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 4, 2011

The single biggest benefit of blogging that I know of is getting found early and often when engineers and industrial professionals are researching solutions using search engines. Industrial marketers who don’t use a blog are missing a key component of feeding the top of their sales funnels. It is not an either/or proposition.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

That was the key finding of a research study done by McKinsey & Co. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. {

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Your objectives must be driven by the former and not the other way around Creating high converting landing pages Here are the steps you should take for creating optimized landing pages that convert well: Do some research – don’t guess or go by your gut feel as to what your prospects are searching for. Place your logo at the top left.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I just finished reading an excellent research report from the good folks at Content Marketing Institute (CMI). 74% of B2B content marketers reported using Twitter followed closely by LinkedIn (71%), Facebook (70%) and YouTube (56%). This report is chock full of statistics and graphs about B2B content marketing.

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