Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Email strategy: FreightCenter.com teamed up with email service provider Delivra to devise an email marketing strategy. Email strategy: Milwaukee Tool worked with email service provider (ESP) ExactTarget in developing an aggressive email campaign containing links to product videos. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. Are you pre-selling a product or service? You don’t want to create another of those unless you are planning to sell advertisement space on your business blog. What do you want the post to do for your company?

Business Blogging 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Give them hardcore specifications typically found in product spec sheets. The first thing an engineer wants to know is do your products, parts and components meet his/her design specifications and standards?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Let’s say your business offers a software product designed to help business owners efficiently allocate revenue to related expenses to ultimately reduce costs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

Creativity 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Learn to connect the dots – many times product managers and engineers have very deep knowledge about their products and the problems they can solve. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

Marketing Websites 60

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics. I know you’ve got a bunch of exciting new products that I’m excited to try.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I service industrial companies, as you do. 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 Kerry OMalley September 28, 2010 at 4:01 pm Excellent post, Achinta.

Social Media 60

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. And it’s free. what do you do?

Social Media 116

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

Social Media 122

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Won’t we soon see forms that ask us to choose one or all of these contact methods: Email newsletter Blog (via RSS or email) Twitter Facebook Remember, social media is an ingredient, not an entree. Those two areas are a lot more interesting than the devolution of Social Media into direct marketing. Great article!

Social Media 114

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 114

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. Buy your own product. Call your own customer service department. Great list, looks a lot like the discovery we do prior to content planning.

Social Media 151

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 151

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? A new product launch. A write up on a blog. Trade show.

Social Media 117

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media can enable conversations and participation but the real value comes from what we do with those conversations. This is particularly true if your social media strategy is integrated into your entire organization. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

Social Media 152

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

In the last two-three weeks, I participated in 3 webinars and 5 software demos, with more planned this week. I have an RSS reader with 150 or so blogs to stay up to speed on the ever changing world of demand and lead generation. We constantly review keywords that prospects use on search engines to find our services. Paid Media.

Demand Generation Agencies 100

Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Paid Content Lead Generation 100

Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

The mere act of opting-in is an expression of interest in your products and services, so it stands to reason that relevant product or service promotions to this audience would stimulate sales. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. services like Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku. October 2007. March 2009.

RSS 129

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job. Any factors you look for or service you use that I didn’t mention? Bonus: My list of social media monitoring tools that I collect to share with others and test myself. Some huge brands should consider using several premiere services. What about you?

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Paid Content Work Management 158

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience. Bruce Rasmussen´s last blog.

Marketing Automation Services 60

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

[link] malmy (Michael Malmrose) Twitter Comment Here’s a good read on developing a social media strategy in 7 steps: [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] Production Video Services Well, I must say…I found this blog post via Twitter. I have subscribed to your rss feed as well. Thanks again.

Social Media 168

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. Here you can add a link to your Home page or a product page. That will give you an idea of demand. Add a link to your privacy policy in the footer.

Traffic 60

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

I have not bought an iPad but, from what I have read, the consumption vs. production of content distinction is valid. I may be wrong about this, but it seems that most Apple products (and tech products in general, for that matter) are better in their second and third iterations. Maybe they'll add a camera, USB, etc.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Note that nearly 40% of all subscribers to this blog are via email, not RSS. It’s not perfect, but it’s free and easy to implement.

Social Media 167

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). Could be a nefarious scheme by Facebook to prevent people from reading my post that exposes their master plan!

Social Media 167

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). Could be a nefarious scheme by Facebook to prevent people from reading my post that exposes their master plan!

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2016

” or “what social media platform features your target audience?” Start putting together a plan in writing that you and your team can refer to when you need it. Your social media plan should consist of mini-plans for each social media channel you expect to be active on.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Note that nearly 40% of all subscribers to this blog are via email, not RSS. It’s not perfect, but it’s free and easy to implement.

Social Media 40

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Probably the best reason I’ve read is by Linda Rigano, Executive Director of Strategic Services at ThomasNet. You’d arm them with information about your products and how people use them. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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