Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Most manufacturers including precision CNC machine shops and fabricators have difficulty understanding the true value of digital marketing for manufacturers. Some that have implemented it, struggle to produce tangible results, meaning a boost in sales that they can attribute to marketing. This is only a content summary.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 19, 2016

An industrial website redesign shouldn’t be a quick decision because your site is the very foundation of your online presence. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. Why is it such an important decision? This is only a content summary. This is only a content summary.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 16, 2015

After all, traffic is the lifeblood of online […] The post SEO Must Complement Conversion Optimization for an Effective Industrial Marketing Strategy by Achinta Mitra appeared first on Industrial Marketing Today. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. This is only a content summary.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 25, 2012

It is very common to find marketing content from manufacturers and industrial companies that is all about how great their products are or that their technology is innovative. Sellers may be too close to the forest to see the trees and firmly believe their marketing content is helpful to their buyers. Online product configurators.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 27, 2012

Call it digital marketing or inbound marketing with content , the fact is marketing is now playing a much more active role in complex industrial sales. This has worked great in the past but the Internet and digital marketing have changed how that process works today. See Problem-centric Industrial Marketing ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 7, 2011

You will find little evidence of best practices in content marketing – relevant, valuable and compelling content for customers. In other words, the online content is very product-centric. The implied C2A is “interrupt your online activity and call us for a price quote.”. Grainger, Inc. Need to create a bulk order?

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 1, 2011

“We don’t have the time or the skills to write copy for digital content” is the most common reaction I get from clients when discussing their industrial marketing programs. Myth: Content for digital marketing is the text on your Website or blog. That’s why headlines, subheads and bullets play such an important role in online content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2012

67 percent of manufacturers, industrial and engineering companies stated that customer acquisition or lead generation is their primary industrial marketing goal in 2012, the same top two marketing goals for the past six years. Either that or we industrial marketers haven’t quite figured out the lead generation puzzle yet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. However, there is another strong reason for optimizing your marketing content that has nothing to do with SEO. I am referring to optimizing customer engagement in B2B marketing. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 1, 2012

Next, they try a series of marketing tactics without a strategy or a plan, hoping something will produce results. When that doesn’t work, they turn to the Internet in search of information on how to do industrial marketing on a shoestring budget. How can industrial marketing remove this disconnect?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

Thriving in today’s content-driven online marketing world, demands that you think like a publisher. That’s the battle cry among content marketers. That mindset is even more important today if you don’t want to drown in the deluge of online content. Content marketing succeeds through quality, not quantity.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2012

Content marketing is a central topic in most of my recent conversations with industrial companies. The not so good news is that they have a mistaken belief that content marketing is for search engine optimization (SEO). However, your industrial marketing content must do a lot more than just SEO. That is the good news.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 15, 2012

Right off the bat let me say that this post is not about email marketing versus social media. However, I’ve had conversations with manufacturers and industrial companies where I am asked if email marketing is still relevant and effective since all the talk these days is about social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is my first post in 2012 and I want to start the New Year by answering a perennial question about content marketing for manufacturers and industrial companies. There are many advantages to this content marketing strategy. The most important ones are: Bite sized content is easier to consume online and on mobile devices.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 25, 2011

B2B and industrial marketers are usually tasked with two main responsibilities: Fill the top of the sales funnel (ToFU) with high quality leads. That’s why more B2B and industrial marketers are turning to content marketing to lift their lead generation ROI. See chart ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 22, 2011

The current buzz about mobile marketing is probably second only to the hype surrounding social media. There is a good reason for industrial marketers to seriously consider and/or revisit their mobile marketing strategies. As an industrial marketer, how do you know if mobile marketing is right for you or not?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

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. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Most manufacturers of industrial products agree that digital marketing is essential for their success now and going forward. Yet, many of these industrial companies are struggling to implement digital marketing because of lack of relevant content. Existing marketing collateral focuses primarily on the company and its products.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 22, 2012

The adoption rate has been much slower as compared to the online retail industry but B2B marketers are catching on fast. According to a survey conducted in 2011 by BtoB and Rainmarker Systems, while only 35% of B2B marketers are involved with selling directly online, 58% of those companies have an increasing commitment to the channel.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 3, 2011

Relationship Marketing or Personalized Marketing as some marketers like to call it, recognizes the life-time value of a customer rather than focusing on quick sales transactions. That is its key differentiator from other forms of marketing that tend to focus more on advertising and promotional messages.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 1, 2011

In my conversations with industrial companies about inbound marketing, I find my audience agreeing with me up to a certain point and then there is a big disconnect. I see heads nodding in face-to-face meetings or hear plenty of “Uh-huhs” on the phone when I talk about the benefits of inbound marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For the past six years, more than two thirds of manufacturers and industrial companies have said that lead generation or customer acquisition is their top marketing priority according to the latest industrial marketing survey released by GlobalSpec. Why do you need to implement a particular industrial marketing tactic?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2011

E-mail marketing to in-house lists is the most popular marketing channel for reaching engineers and industrial professionals. The chart below shows the different online marketing tactics that manufacturers and industrial companies plan to use in 2011. Email marketing metrics. Industrial email marketing today.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2011

According to a new report released by the Content Marketing Institute, manufacturers have some of the highest adoption rates for content marketing tactics as compared to other industries. According to the same report, 82% of B2B manufacturing respondents indicated that they rely on content marketing to build brand awareness.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. Add a link that carries the part number to the shopping cart if you also have an online store or to the RFQ form on your site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 1, 2011

Plenty has been written about the importance of lead nurturing in B2B and industrial marketing. Most of the lead nurturing best practices guides and articles that I’ve read are from a marketing perspective. Salespeople mail out marketing brochures and product datasheets in an effort to maintain a relationship.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 26, 2011

Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. Inbound marketing requires prospects to be actively searching for products and solutions.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. There is no doubt that content curation is here to stay.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Depends – are you in marketing or in sales? SAL – Sales Accepted Leads is the bridge between Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) and Sales Qualified Leads (SQL). Quantitative lead definitions reduce the friction between sales and marketing. These days, respect for B2B and industrial marketing is spelled as M E T R I C S.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

In most manufacturing and industrial companies, engineering, sales and marketing operate in their own silos, barely acknowledging each other’s existence. As clichéd as this may sound, it seems Engineers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus. One of the reasons I am retained is to bridge this gap between marketing and engineering.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. There could be a number of reasons.

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