Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Now it boils down to price and delivery time. You can talk value until you’re blue in the face but your customers and prospects will push back on price. Even though the last bullet point is not directly related to your website, it is important for optimizing the processes of handoff between marketing and sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Website copy optimized for keywords and phrases is how your technical audience will find you. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

Web 2.0 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Promote: Once you have built out your new website content and optimized for the targeted keyword phrases, you need to promote it. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. Hand over sales-ready leads to sales – your sales team may provide them with additional content such as data and price sheets, set up an online or a face-to-face demo and ultimately move them to the RFP/RFQ stage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Instead, I choose to keep my credibility intact and provide the professional help my clients need to supplement their do-it-yourself (DiY) industrial and B2B website capabilities and online marketing efforts. Take a quick poll.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2011

B2B companies are spending more of their marketing budgets on channels such as trade shows, Website design, management and optimization and e-mail marketing. In the current tough economy, cutting edge and innovative marketing is taking a back seat to proven strategies for lead generation.

B2B Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 3, 2011

I am sure not too many of these customers will go price shopping every time they need new valves or spare parts. More importantly, they allow you to monitor, test and refine your content for optimal results. Ready to use reports for planning preventive maintenance work without costly shutdowns. Assistance with regulatory compliance.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic. Instead of taking up more space here, let me direct you to some of my earlier posts about industrial websites and SEO. Instead of taking up more space here, let me direct you to some of my earlier posts about industrial websites and SEO.

Buying Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

One of the key findings from the study was that B2B marketers are realizing that developing brand awareness among their customers’ customers can capture a larger share of channel margins and build loyalty that can protect them against lower-priced competitors. Analytics is the new marketing creative!

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Marketing must be willing to adjust scoring rules based on feedback from sales to refine lead scoring for optimal results (closed loop system). For example, a site visitor with a very high level of activity (several pages visited including pricing information, downloaded white papers, and viewed online demos) would score high on engagement.

Lead Ranking 60

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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?

Rules 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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Small Business Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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Distribution 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

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Social Media 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Optimizing (SEO) business blogs and lead generation Instead of focusing on achieving top ten ranking in Google, your lead generation efforts will receive a bigger boost by growing the number of keywords ranking in Google’s top 100. The key is to tie the two together for boosting your lead generation efforts.

Lead Generation 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

This white paper aims to change that perception of them. 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

Buying Cycle 60

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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?

Marketing Websites 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

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Budget Programs 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

More and more B2B marketers are shifting their marketing budget out of expensive pay per click (PPC) advertising and traditional media and into content creation, optimization and social media. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information.

Marketing Budget Creation 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

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Social Networks 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Optimize your business blog: There are thousands of blogs on the Internet. You need to optimize yours if you want to be found in major search engines. Do you want them to sign up for your newsletter? Or do you want them to download a white paper? Give them multiple ways to do so. Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.

Business Blogging 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 7, 2011

The implied C2A is “interrupt your online activity and call us for a price quote.”. Grainger has taken extensive steps to optimize (SEO) their online content so whenever someone searches for one of their 900,000 products (worldwide), they always come up in the search results first, or second or third. There’s an app for that!

Enterprise Management 60

Enterprise Management Effectiveness Content Marketing Marketing Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

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B2B Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

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Lead Generation 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

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Social Media 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

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Relevance 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

This white paper aims to change that perception of them. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Johnson , Industrial Marketing , Junta42 , Lenskold Group About the Author Achinta Mitra calls himself a “marketing engineer” because he combines his engineering education with 20+ years of practical industrial marketing experience to connect the dots between strategic advice and tactical implementation.

B2B Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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Email Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

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Sales Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Select only those that will help you optimize your nurturing campaigns and accurately gauge where the prospect is in their decision making process. Draw up a detailed schedule for delivering each phase of the campaign, map out events and actions that will trigger appropriate follow-up emails based on email recipient and site visitor behavior.

Email Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

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Web 2.0 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog.

Rules 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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Buying Cycle 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

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