Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. Similar studies have shown that engineers and industrial professionals prefer more peer-to-peer interactions for work-related purposes. What about good ol’ community forums?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Sure, they are human beings like the rest of us but they have very different emotional triggers and needs when it comes to making work-related decisions. I should know — I am an engineer too. So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Engineers are creatures of habit.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. Unless your website shows up in the initial phases, you are probably not going to be considered in the next step, which is the comparison stage.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2011

For one thing, you don’t have a ready-library of product data sheets, engineering and performance information to use as relevant content. By default, many engineering services companies resort to bragging about themselves on their Websites. There is very little to differentiate one from another. What is thought leadership?

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