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The More Industrial Marketing Changes, the More it Stays the Same

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68% of these companies will increase spending on Webinars in 2012, making it the top channel where industrial companies will increase spending. 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.

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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though the use of social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is growing exponentially, there is a raging debate about measuring its ROI. I use LinkedIn and Twitter quite a lot in my online networking and sure, I’ve grown my network in a short period of time.

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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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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%). Videos (48%) are the preferred content format over other digital tactics (podcasts, virtual conferences and e-books) by a wide margin.

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

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Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

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Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. Instead of thinking of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as lead generators, use them to increase awareness and drive traffic to your website.

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

Source: ITSMA ) Webinars: This is a very popular content marketing tactic used in industrial and B2B marketing. That’s unfortunate because when a webinar is done right, it can be a very powerful tool to educate and engage your audience.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

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Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content. Mapping content to the industrial buy cycle For this part of the article, I’m going to rely on what I learned from a webinar by GlobalSpec and Frost & Sullivan.