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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

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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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Including at least three social sharing options boosted the rate to 11.2%

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

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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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

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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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

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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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

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? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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E-commerce: An Important Channel for Industrial Sales

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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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

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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Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

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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The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? In short, they are doing things that help them get found online. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. However, they do have a strong influence.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. This is “social proof” and is how you begin to build a community around your business blog.

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory. In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory.

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. My take: Go back to the drawing boards and brainstorm with your R&D, engineering, sales and marketing people to make a list of problems that existed and are solved by your offerings. How can you accomplish all that?

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

The HTML code looks like this: How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects | Industrial Marketing Today Notice how I have customized my title tag to bring the keywords to the beginning of the title tag instead of the default page title that makes more sense to human readers. Don’t hang around bad online neighborhoods.

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Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2011

Are you an in-house marketer or a consultant tasked with promoting engineering services? Then you know very well that it is fundamentally different from marketing industrial and/or manufactured products. The content from one of his slides summarized nicely what it means to market engineering services. What is thought leadership?

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?Tis the Season for Website Redesigns: 7 Lessons Learned from Redesigning Industrial Websites

Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 17, 2010

A website redesign is a common marketing kick off in Q1 for many manufacturers, industrial and engineering companies. See How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project. See The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content. Integration with other online lead generation and management tools.

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Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? If you need more empirical proof, then look at the recent study done by GlobalSpec, Trends in Industrial Marketing 2010: How Manufacturers are Marketing Today.

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

E-commerce: An Important Channel for Industrial Sales

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Business Value of Social Networking

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

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

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Content Creation Made Easy

How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles

?Tis the Season for Website Redesigns: 7 Lessons Learned from Redesigning Industrial Websites

Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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