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Industrial Email Marketing for Engaging Engineers and Technical Professionals

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Engineers and technical professionals know how to opt out and have much higher expectations from vendor emails. It would be easy to jump to that conclusion given the declining click rates and the difficulties in getting past the sophisticated email spam-filtering methods. This is only a content summary.

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Making Industrial E-mail Marketing More Relevant

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If you are using an outside email service provider (ESP), at the very least, they should provide automated subscription management – one-click opt-ins and opt-outs, manage hard and soft bounces and suppress “do not contact” names so you don’t accidentally email them again. Check any rented list against your house list.

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Is Mobile Marketing Right for Industrial Companies?

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Mobile marketing is strictly opt-in, far more than regular permission-based email marketing. And it goes without saying – measure, track, refine and repeat to get the most out of your mobile marketing strategy. Integrating mobile into your existing email marketing strategy is a very good idea.

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

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Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates. However, for email marketing to be a true driver of sales, your need something even more valuable and every email that you send out should have it. What is it?

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Digital Marketing for Control Engineers, Machine Builders and Designers

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BTW, I found out about the study from a discussion posted on a LinkedIn group called Automation & Control Engineering. However, 44% of the 30-39 year-old group opted for this option, compared with 28% of the 40-49 year-old group and 37% of 50-59ers. Yup, social media does work in the industrial sector, sometimes.

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Boost Email Relevancy With Dynamic Content

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Otherwise you will continue to see declining open and click through rates, increasing number of opt outs and SPAM complaints. Whenever you are tempted to use “batch and blast” emails, stop! Instead, incorporate some form of dynamic content. Where can you find the tools for dynamic content?

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2012 Content Marketing Trends for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies

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See my post “How to Coax Content Out of Engineers” ). Video production is one area where I have found more manufacturers opting for DiY videos to avoid the high cost of outsourced production. You may require the help of a professional copywriter to interview engineers and other subject matter experts to get the core ideas.