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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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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 Companies Underuse the One Social Media Tactic with Proven ROI

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The study done by GlobalSpec reported “Only 22 percent of industrial companies use Twitter, which reflects its low value among engineers as a social media resource.”. It is a lot easier to set up free Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts and use them to promote products and announce new ones.

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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. I’ve read a few articles and blog posts about how some manufacturers are using Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to listen, engage and market to their customers.

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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. Community members ask questions relevant to their needs, seek answers from others like them, users express their opinions and experiences with your industrial products, teach and learn from one another.

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Digital Marketing for Control Engineers, Machine Builders and Designers

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Primary and preferred method of researching products – supplier’s Website. Most important things these professionals want to see on a supplier’s Website – pricing information, even if it is only ballpark estimates, detailed product information (datasheets, manuals, etc.) This year, that view is shared by only 64% of respondents.

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Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

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Credibility is built over many years of performance in the field and not by the frequency of blog posts, number of Twitter followers or Facebook likes. These buyers are not looking to engage, they want complete product specifications. Inbound marketing requires prospects to be actively searching for products and solutions.