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MAY 18, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Consider hiring a coach or an SEO expert to work up a strategic plan that you can execute. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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MAY 3, 2010

Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. You don’t want to create another of those unless you are planning to sell advertisement space on your business blog. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? What do you want the post to do for your company?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. Since each has their own questions, concerns and interests, one needs to develop content around those specific issues. See Do I Really Need a Content Strategy?)

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APRIL 22, 2010

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APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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JULY 9, 2010

As with any Process, the best way to design one is to follow the path of Continuous Process Improvements: Think, Plan, Do, Measure and Repeat. If you don’t think of Inbound Marketing Automation this way, and then design your whole approach as a Process, your results will be less than hoped for.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

While conversion may be the ultimate goal, building trust, increasing awareness, improving the company’s reputation, expertise and credibility and encouraging social sharing are all worthy content marketing goals too. In order to get there, you need to start with a content marketing plan and that starts with a content audit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 14, 2012

Back then, print media was the center of the universe for B2B marketing. Over the years, Tiecas began to offer more media planning, design and production of marketing collateral, four-color and prepress services. By the late nineties, I saw the writing on the wall; print media was becoming increasingly more digital.

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MAY 7, 2010

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. It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #2: Content comes before redesigning your website Avoid the site redesign cycle of frustration by first developing a clear game plan for creating or repurposing existing content for the new site. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

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AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

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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. That’s the goal of every branding effort.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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JUNE 15, 2010

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } 7 | Industrial Marketing Today Previous post: Business Value of Social Networking Next post: 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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JULY 29, 2010

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MAY 5, 2010

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JULY 20, 2010

Many other media outlets have reported the same creativity crisis in America. Then, the teams developed a plan of action. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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JUNE 12, 2010

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Leave a Comment Previous post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. What is content curation?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Next post: Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? A business blog can be one of the most powerful tools in driving traffic and generating high-quality B2B leads.

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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. Not so fast!

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog. This is “social proof” and is how you begin to build a community around your business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Community/Customer forums – forums have been around a lot longer than social media and have proven to very effective for engaging the engineering community. BTW, it recently won BtoB Magazine’s BtoB Social Media Awards 2010 in the blog category. Think carefully before you jump into either one of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. You have to actively promote your optimized site using social media, press (news) releases, blogs and offline tactics to tell your target audience about your site.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

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JULY 6, 2010

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JUNE 3, 2010

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MAY 31, 2010

You can see it in action at the bottom of this post, right after the social bookmarking icons. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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JULY 1, 2010

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