Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation 60

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Research & Books. Get the latest headlines each day: Wired Campus e-newsletter | RSS. Campus Piracy Company Watch Distance Education Gadgets Leadership Legal Troubles Libraries Offbeat Open Access Research Search Engines Security Social Networking Student Life Supercomputing Teaching TechForum2008 Video Virtual Worlds Wikis.

Copyright 100

Copyright Peer-to-peer Privacy Policies RSS 100

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.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com. Analytics is the new marketing creative!

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

For the answer to that question, I went to the “The 9 Metrics Every Marketer Must Track” webinar by Megan Heuer, Research Director, SiriusDecisions and Craig Rosenberg , Vice President, Products & Services, Tippit. Number of campaigns sent out, trade shows attended or press releases published do not generate revenues.

Marketing Automation Services 60

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Defining B2B Customer Engagement Forrester Research has proposed a definition of customer engagement that makes a lot of sense to me. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. The trick is to learn how to use all its power.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Your prospects will find pricing information even without your help.

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The content mapping discussed here is based on the four stages of the industrial buying cycle identified as Needs Awareness, Research, Consideration & Comparison and Procurement (See my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ).

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases. Use other marketing tactics like article marketing, press releases, forum commenting, social bookmarking and networking to generate high quality traffic to your business blog.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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B2B Marketing 60

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer 60

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 29, 2009

Companies sometimes 'park' their company names on social networking sites before actually utilizing the functionality on that site. Name squatting may indicate that your presence may be valuable on a social networking site.   Friends on Parked Names.   Someone Speaking for your Brand. .

Social Media 48

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Social Networks 48

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. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Do a bit of keyword/phrase research before deciding on a topic or a title of your posts. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

For example, if you reference research conducted a year ago, is there a new source that will increase relevance? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Planning 60

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B 60

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Figure out what the pressing issues are, what motivates them to act now rather than later and then write in a voice that addresses their concerns. Retrofitting optimization is much harder and it isn’t as effective as creating content from the ground up that is optimized for carefully researched keywords and phrases.

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

Creativity 60

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 60

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

I’d like to produce research with some metrics but that too costs quite a bit, especially from someone reputable like Forrester. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. Do you have any strategies for this?

Webinar Metrics 60

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product 60

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

A fter Nancy White pointed me to Chris Lotts articles on Northern Voice, and on love, and Chris replied to my Tuesday post on how easily we unintentionally hurt each other through our actions, I did a bit more research on Chris work and discovered the remarkable chart above on Information Fluency. Category: Social Networking.

Lead Ranking 100

Lead Ranking Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Guerilla Marketing 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking sites, mash up technology, etcâ??but s a huge and terrifying step to press a button and potentially allow the whole world to read your words. Sara Schroter, Senior Researcher, BMJ Editorial, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, UK. [1] Bmj.com has its Web 2.0

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Personalization Terms and Conditions RSS 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Id been asked to investigate a leveling-off of use of the firms award-winning centralized knowledge resources, and decided to do the research through personal interviews with non-users , rather than the usual user surveys. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Personalization Peer-to-peer 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Id been asked to investigate a leveling-off of use of the firms award-winning centralized knowledge resources, and decided to do the research through personal interviews with non-users , rather than the usual user surveys. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

Peer-to-peer 100

Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Lead Ranking Work Management 100

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

While most marketers have now embraced social media for monitoring and participating in brand conversations, questions still abound. How are b2b buyers actually using social media in their research and buying decisions? What's the best method for approaching social media marketing?

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Forrester 20

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Be a Knowledge Source Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB), a global, mid-size market research and consulting firm, uses social media to increase its reach within the market research community, demonstrate thought leadership, and increase the likelihood of being found via the Internet Internet , according to Josh Mendelsohn, CMB’s VP of marketing.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric plus Eric Boggs ‘s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : Twitter gets 15% more media mentions than Facebook.). The RSS feed is: [link]. They did some research around media attention and visibility for social media platforms. via Highbeam Research. Listen Now.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media API Twitter 115

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Subscribe to our RSS Feed Subscribe via Email Your email: Learn Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Software Learn how HubSpot can help turn your business into an inbound marketing machine. It also delivers our customers a sophisticated source of support. Bottom line -- I wanted a win: win scenario.

Blogger 40

Blogger RSS Inbound Marketing Internet Marketing 40

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

· Social Networking. · Island Press. Bloglines My RSS Subscribers. want to see more: original research, surveys etc. The Environment. · · Diagnosis & Solutions. Working Smarter. · · Knowledge. · · Innovation. · · Entrepreneurship. Blogs & Technology. ·

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Guerilla Marketing 100

Hubspot

MAY 23, 2012

If you found an opportunity to write a blog post , launch a social media campaign, get press coverage, or generate some sort of sales or lead gen offer in all of those scenarios, then you're a newsjacker -- and that's a great thing to be as an inbound marketer! Or in an industry tangentially related to yours. somewhere in the world.

Inbound Marketing 28

Inbound Marketing Advertising Agencies Hubspot Marketing & Strategy 28

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Don’t send a regular pitch with a press release to a blogger. Bloggers don’t typically scan press releases and write stories. They point to press releases hosted elsewhere, or better yet, point to stories other people have written based on a press release. It has enlightened me a lot.

Online Marketing 40

Online Marketing Blogger PR Digital Asset Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and Email 23. Subscribe to SmartBrief newsletters, RSS feeds, and Google alerts in order to find ideas for new content (that’s how I found this blog!) Post and link your content on the Delicious social bookmarking site. Provide “share this” buttons to Facebook and Twitter as a minimum 22.

Paid Content 40

Paid Content Tips Webinar Metrics Ideal Customer Profiles 40

Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. You have to commit to social media for the long haul to see the benefits. Lastly, the people factor is huge.

Social Media 132

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Budget Programs 132

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). The RSS feed is: [link]. It was a study that came out of Pew Research Center project for “Excellence in journalism.”

Paid Content 113

Paid Content Digg Marketing Budget Work Management 113

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

A free DIY approach to social media by iMedia Connection. In this short but useful post, Dave Fleet outlines the set of social media tools he finds most useful on a daily basis, such as Google Reader for keeping up with blogs, Twitter for real-time communications, Radian6 for social media monitoring, and LinkedIn for social networking.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Budget Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2012

Read on for insights from Ryon, and our Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: 44% of Americans see tweets mentioned nearly every day, but only 10% of Americans actually use Twitter). The RSS feed is: [link]. Some people know you, many people on the podcast of course know you for your work in the social media research area.

Twitter 115

Twitter Social Media Facebook Paid Search Agency 115