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

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

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

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. Are you pre-selling a product or service? army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign?

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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

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.” ). The success of outbound marketing does make sense in this context.

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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. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc. Resources

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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. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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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. For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit.

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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. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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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. However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power.

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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.&# Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Storage Virtualization and Data Migration » June 10, 2008. Now, in the web 2.0 Now consider the "2.0" But -- is this call part of a pattern of calls, either around this product, or from this customer? Did we design the product correctly? Chucks Blog. Why Supporting Knowledge Workers Is Hard For IT.

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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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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Together, this offers clues about what the visitor might be interested in buying. Zoho BPM (3) Business Intelligence (14) Cloud Computing (13) Content Mgmt (15) CRM Best Practices (493) CRM Industry News (314) CRM Technology (521) Customer Experience (16) Customer Service (156) E-commerce (28) Enterprise 2.0 (6) ERP Internet Cust.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Try Introducing Tools in the Context of Productivity and Making Work Easier A lot of staff feel overwhelmed by their workloads and may see the introduction of PLE tools as another thing on the To Do list. The 23 Things series Web 2.0 Posted by: beryl | May 24, 2008 at 03:10 AM. Productivity. Post a comment.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Get the answers to these questions plus learn more about the largest and the fastest-growing social bookmarking and social networking sites in this installment of some of the best SMO blog posts and articles written so far in 2008. How Can Marketers Harness The Social Web? The only difference is the ugliness."

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Onto the good stuff… I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute at the e-Learning Guild in two different forums this week: Tony Karrer , hoodwinked Brent Schelenker , Steven Downes and yours truly to talk about Web 2.0 (and This is also one of the coolest things about Web 2.0 Learning Matters! April 13, 2007.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Everything from supply chain management, product design, customer service, accounting and beyond can be informed through analysing the data collected through your social media strategy. What I have learned so far is what I don’t like: those who use social media to shill their products and services, and those who post trivia.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Also, $0.30 You know what’s not a good idea?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Written by Sarah Perez / May 21, 2008 7:00 AM. / Advice for students: buy yourname.com to secure your brand, make a video resume, start a Wordpress blog, use Google Reader, participate (comment on blogs and link to them), get on Facebook and LinkedIn, network, and more (see slideshow below): | View | Upload your own. 25 Comments.

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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

JULY 24, 2008

April 2008. March 2008. February 2008. January 2008. July 22, 2008. July 17, 2008. Unlike yesteryear, people buy printed newspapers to get hard news, sports and finance, and maybe comics or the weather. July 08, 2008. June 26, 2008. Sites of Interest. December 2007. November 2007.

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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. That will give you an idea of demand. Add a link to your privacy policy in the footer.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

There is an amazing amount of great content about B2B marketing out there, ranging from trends in demand generation to best practices in lead nurturing, lead scoring, and landing page optimization to how to buy and select marketing automation systems. Improving Lead Quality Can Improve Sales Productivity (blog post). white paper).

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments June 2009 Watch the Velocity web seminar on Content Marketing Stan just presented our web seminar with B2B Marketing magazine, called “Content Marketing: Thought Leadership in a Web 2.0 Seemed to go really well.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Based in Minneapolis, Abby is Senior Manager Creative Services at Best Buy, and also Board President at FamilyWise, a non-profit organization that provides programs for families that encourage self-determination, self-sufficiency, and healthy family lifestyles. ” ‘Nuff said. Abby Bailey. AbbyBailey. And she’s amazing.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Based in Minneapolis, Abby is Senior Manager Creative Services at Best Buy, and also Board President at FamilyWise, a non-profit organization that provides programs for families that encourage self-determination, self-sufficiency, and healthy family lifestyles. ” ‘Nuff said. Abby Bailey. AbbyBailey. And she’s amazing.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 5, 2012

81% of the people believe that CEOs who engage in social media are better equipped to lead companies in this fantastic Web 2.0 Jay : I’m pretty sure you guys have never tried to buy Twitter, so there’s that. It was in about 2008, the first part of 2008. There were two key nuggets from the report.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. I’ve scoured the web looking for news and insights that related around sales, CRM and social selling tips to come up with a list of [.]. In the early days of Web 2.0

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Social PR & Influencer Outreach Using social connectivity to introduce your company or products to influencers. Social Campaigns & Apps (social media marketing) In this approach, you’re using contests, promotions, offers, and self-contained applications and widgets to promote your company or product.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

The mere act of opting-in is an expression of interest in your products and services, so it stands to reason that relevant product or service promotions to this audience would stimulate sales. Robert Scoble argued that email faced deletion at the hands of Web 2.0 Why is email such a steady producer? October 2007.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Eventually, inbound marketing boils down to, as web marketing professional Jonathan Mallia noted, “knowing your customers’ needs and feeding them with the right content that ultimately links to the product you wish to market and finally sell. You can build your community even before you have a product. 10) Web 2.0.

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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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