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How Blogs Help Manufacturers Enter New Markets

Industrial Marketing Today

Acquiring new readers (traffic) by using social media to announce your posts. Sending warmed up prospects to your telemarketing team to qualify before your sales team gets involved. Positioning you as a thought leader in an industry where you have very little recognition.

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Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales

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It is up to marketing to create relevant content, optimize it for search engines, promote it online via social media and other outlets, score prospects, nurture leads until they are “sales ready” before handing them off to sales. It needs to complement other marketing efforts such as telemarketing and outbound marketing programs.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

Industrial Marketing Today

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.

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Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

In case you are not familiar with the term inbound marketing, it refers to marketing tactics that focus on helping your prospects and customers find and contact you as opposed to interruptive outbound marketing such as telemarketing, direct mail, radio and TV advertisements. Some marketers also refer to it as content marketing.