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How Manufacturing Content Marketing Sets the Table for Sales

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Both these companies had used telemarketing and other conventional marketing tactics with very little success in generating sales qualified leads. I recently received two emails from two different manufacturers. They both inquired about using manufacturing content marketing to help their sales efforts. This is only a content summary.

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Traditional Marketing is Alive and Well for Industrial Companies

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Despite all the buzz about digital marketing and proof of results, manufacturers, engineering and industrial companies continue to use traditional marketing tactics such as trade shows, print ads and telemarketing. [.]. This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article.

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Manufacturers: Don’t Start a Lead Generation Campaign Without Sales

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Inside Sales Manager – “Lead generation is outbound telemarketing and appointment setting for my sales people.”. That is when the proverbial “The excrement made physical contact with a hydro-electric powered oscillating air current distribution device.” (The The s**t hit the fan!). VP of Business Development – “This all a bunch of BS!

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How Blogs Help Manufacturers Enter New Markets

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Sending warmed up prospects to your telemarketing team to qualify before your sales team gets involved. Acquiring new readers (traffic) by using social media to announce your posts. Driving interested visitors to your corporate Website, product and landing pages by weaving in links within your blog posts.

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Inbound Marketing Must Set the Table for Industrial Sales

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It needs to complement other marketing efforts such as telemarketing and outbound marketing programs. I’m not implying that inbound marketing alone will do everything needed to generate leads and drive industrial sales. See my post, “Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies. ”).

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

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They provide examples of how the target audience behaves in their personal lives where they TiVo through commercials, use caller ID to ignore telemarketing calls, direct mail pieces go straight to trash and of course, nobody ever reads a newspaper or a trade magazine anymore.

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SAL is the Glue that Binds Sales and Marketing in Lead Generation

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Your needs may very well be satisfied by a simpler manual system made up of a Visitor Identification program (Caller ID for the Internet) and outbound telemarketing to fully qualify your prospects. Then it is likely that you deal with only a handful of leads and not hundreds of them at any given time.