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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

Back in 2006, David Meerman Scott had a done comprehensive analysis over a nine-month period of the large number of meaningless phrases used in corporate marketing and PR materials. He has updated the original analysis with new data from November 1, 2006, to July 31, 2007. He called it “The Gobbledygook Manifesto.”

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Is the Marketing Campaign Dead?

Hubspot

Even Bill Lee , in his Harvard Business Review article, " Marketing Is Dead ," said, "Traditional marketing may be dead, but the new possibilities of peer influence-based, community-oriented marketing." which some of us might call 'inbound marketing'. Marketing is a commitment.". wink wink) “.

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

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Three Key Insights on How B2B Marketing is Changing

Webbiquity

extreme example would be — imagine if, back in 2007, Steve Jobs had decided to market the first iPhone only through AdWords. How would anyone have found it? “Smart phones” didn’t yet exist as a product category. “iPhone” was brand new as a product name.

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Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles

Industrial Marketing Today

Back in 2007, I had attended a presentation made by Jim Cahill of Emerson Process Experts. He was talking about his long journey in convincing upper management about the value of starting a business blog. The content from one of his slides summarized nicely what it means to market engineering services.

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Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?

Online Marketing Institute

Now, she simply shares the metrics from the team’s blogging and social efforts to show the rest of the company how important their contributions are. July 29, 2010 at 2:43 pm Related Topics: Business To Business blogs 23 Comments » 23 Responses to “Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?&#

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101 Sure-Fire Ways to Make People Hate Your Marketing

Hubspot

Don't give away anything to them that's form-free , like a helpful blog post or an answer to their burning question. Business Blogging. 11) Make your business blog all about promoting your products/services. Your business blog should be all about how awesome your business' products and services are.