Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You are not alone, most business purchases, especially industrial products don’t lend themselves to a simple Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). This was second only to downloading product data sheets. This was second only to downloading product data sheets. Have you struggled to answer that question?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products Next post: How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

Lead generation and lead nurturing have been put on the backburner and clients are interested only in finding leads that are ready to buy now (see my previous post, “The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to Revenue Generation.” ). Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Give them hardcore specifications typically found in product spec sheets. The first thing an engineer wants to know is do your products, parts and components meet his/her design specifications and standards?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Email strategy: Milwaukee Tool worked with email service provider (ESP) ExactTarget in developing an aggressive email campaign containing links to product videos. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Don’t be afraid to tear apart your initial outline if you think it will improve the product. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Are you pre-selling a product or service? Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. What do you want the post to do for your company? It is all about them and not you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. You need to rethink your business model first and fast. All Rights Reserved. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Learn to connect the dots – many times product managers and engineers have very deep knowledge about their products and the problems they can solve. Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. This will also lower the client’s fear of “you just don’t get it.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

The answer lies in shifting from traditional company product marketing to customer problem oriented marketing. We need to develop customer-centric solutions-based marketing content instead of product-centric features and benefits marketing collateral. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

You can get more ideas from my earlier post, “7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products.&# Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. I’m glad that you found my article helpful. I can see how curating would appeal to you, given your education. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. Here’s how I see the impact of the changes: Industrial buyers are using more and more online resources for initiating and going deeper into the industrial buy cycle.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Each week we provide a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane. Written on 6/16/2008 by Steve Osborne, of TheWritersBag.com. names in the opening lines of your e-mails buys you a pound of personalization for an ounce of verbiage. Subscribe via Email. Greet them by name.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Basically they can take that gorgeous photo that you paid a photographer to shoot for your product, hotel or client and use it however they want. Having a privacy policy or a social media policy is not enough. You'll see a line that resembles this: © 2008-09. | I've just changed mine to © 2008-10.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

buy a link » SUBSCRIBE TO CIO. How to Be a Supremely Productive Person: A Chat With John Halamka. Forrester Wave: Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008. Webcast: Learn how Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are helping organizations overcome productivity declines. Privacy Policy |. About CIO |.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media. 10 Inspiring "Buy One Give One" Proje. Vice President of Portal Products at. Evernote 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. Here you can add a link to your Home page or a product page. Add a link to your privacy policy in the footer. That will give you an idea of demand.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. Even though B2B customers consider product features and price very important, what they are really looking for is a remarkable sales experience.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Product Development. In the groupware industry, product developers are looking at new ways to meet a critical need of HR systems that are more adaptable to changes in business processes. In the past year, groupware companies have started looking more critically at their products and services to see how their. Approvals. |.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 23rd, 2008 | 3 comments Papa’s got a brand new bag, maaan. Check… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 15th, 2008 | 3 comments Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

We'll get into buying lists later in this post. Email Sponsorships - Buying ad space in an email newsletter or sponsoring a specific article or series of articles. Copyright © 2008 Constant Contact, Inc. CPM (Cost Per Thousand) - In email marketing, CPM commonly refers to the cost per 1000 names on a given rental list.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Email newsletter ads or sponsorships - Buying ad space in an email newsletter or sponsoring a specific article or series of articles. Marketing Takeaway: Email newsletter ads and sponsorships allow advertisers to reach a targeted audience driving traffic to a website, store or office, signups to a newsletter or sales of a product or service.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

eMarketer research reveals that 46% of customers want to solve a problem when they're engaging with a brand on social media , and 39% are looking to give feedback about a product or service. A great example of a well run, scalable social customer service program is Best Buy's Twelpforce, launched in 2008. I think not.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

You’d arm them with information about your products and how people use them. The chart below shows how engineers and industrial buyers use the Internet in work-related purchases ( Source: 2010 GlobalSpec Industrial Buy Cycle Survey ). Map your content to each stage of the industrial buying cycle. Audit your existing content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Data Center - Feb 2008. Data Center - Aug 2008 Enterprise Architecture - Sept 2008 Security. Storage - Feb 2008. Storage - June 2008. Virtualization Directions - Oct 2008. April 2, 2008 (Computerworld). Microsoft scales out SQL Server 2008, wants to democratize BI. Data Center. Sponsorship.

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