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Industrial Email Marketing for Targeting Engineers in Long and Complex Sales Cycles

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Typically, […] The post Industrial Email Marketing for Targeting Engineers in Long and Complex Sales Cycles by Achinta Mitra appeared first on Industrial Marketing Today. Let’s say you are a provider of engineering services and you sell to the Medical Device industry. This is only a content summary.

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

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The top findings I got out of the release were: 47% of the sales professionals reported a slight increase in the size of their B2B pipelines this year as compared to last year. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

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That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Depending on the length of your sales cycle, conditions at your prospect’s end may change resulting in projects being put on hold.

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The Industrial Buyer’s Journey—What Manufacturing Marketers Need to Know

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Sometimes the sales cycles may be as long as 12 to 18 months, for example, custom-engineered systems. Of course, not all industrial sales take that long. The Industrial buyer’s journey can be complex and typically involves a committee of decision-makers. You may want to read my earlier post on the industrial customer journey.

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Industrial Content Marketing: Awareness to Conversion Takes Time and Hard Work

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Arguments about quality vs. quantity tend to fall on deaf ears because these companies with long sales cycles need a certain volume of quotes to keep their pipelines full and active. Industrial content marketing success for most manufacturers and other industrial companies is usually measured by an increase in the number of RFQs/RFPs.

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

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How has your role changed? Leave your comments below. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Content Marketing with Purpose

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However, creating content that will convert traffic into leads in one fell swoop is a challenge since industrial sales typically have long sales cycles and a multitude of stakeholders are involved in the purchase decision. (See Content Marketing: Think Like a Publisher, Act Like an Investor ).