Industrial Marketing Today

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

Industrial Marketing Today

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.

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

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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.

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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%). Print magazines: 39% effectiveness (65% usage). There is a strong disconnect between content marketing effectiveness and its usage.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

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They provide examples of how the target audience behaves in their personal lives where they TiVo through commercials, use caller ID to ignore telemarketing calls, direct mail pieces go straight to trash and of course, nobody ever reads a newspaper or a trade magazine anymore. I agree that there is a lot of truth to all those findings.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

The primary ways industrial companies participate in social media today are through community/discussion sites for customers as well as similar internal sites for employees whereas adoption of newer social media tools like Twitter is very low at only 9% (Source: Social Media Use in the Industrial Sector by GlobalSpec ).