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Small Manufacturers Use Social Media Effectively

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Many engineers, specifiers, users and buyers of industrial products regularly use social media in their personal lives but work-related usage is limited among this audience. Probably the most common use of social media is videos on YouTube. These people have readily embraced video marketing, YouTube and social media.

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More Manufacturers Are Using Videos For Content Marketing

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Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). So I went to YouTube to confirm the report’s findings. Here are three examples that I found on YouTube.

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Are Community Forums Good for Manufacturers and Industrial Companies?

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Blogging and mainstream social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube get all the attention these days. It does require someone/team from the company to moderate the forum to prevent abusive language, personal attacks and outright SPAM. What about good ol’ community forums? It will require some amount of labor.

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

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I found a very helpful presentation on blogging styles by Rohit Bhargava , a founding member of the pioneering 360 Digital Influence team at Ogilvy and author of the award winning new marketing book, Personality Not Included. In the slideshow, Rohit shows you 25 different styles of blogging and when to use each one.

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Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

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Success story #3: Consultant specializing in accelerating business growth for global companies Redesigned his business website with personal branding and highlighting his expertise using an online article library. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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The first type uses a self-serve model and is typically completed in the very first sales interaction, be it in person or online. Much of the time spent in those traditional face to face sales calls is about getting to know the other person and deciding whether or not you like him or her enough to do business with them.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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Use social media selectively to engage with your target audience in a more personal way and humanize an otherwise impersonal interaction that is purely transactional. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.