Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action. Email strategy: FreightCenter.com teamed up with email service provider Delivra to devise an email marketing strategy. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They are: Buyer Personas – deep insights on the people who buy your products and services Buying Process – the steps buyers go through to acquire your products and services Buyer personas go a lot deeper than just demographics. Are your company, products and services visible in various online channels used across the stages?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Let’s say you are a developer of custom software for the Upstream Oil & Gas industry, you probably have a page or more on your site describing the various features of your software. Therefore, the easier you make it on them to share your site content, the more likely you are to be included in the final shortlist of vendors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It seems obvious that there is a big disconnect between the goals of B2B content marketing and true customer engagement. It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. How about you, do you see the disconnect? Leave a comment and share your thoughts here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

It seems the secrets of SEO are known only to a few high-priced consultants. In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs. An invisible blog doesn’t draw a crowd and neither will you have the opportunity to engage with them. However, you can do it too with some help. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. The focus is squarely on you, your company and its products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here. All Rights Reserved.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. B2B marketers looking for ways to turn their Web sites into demand generation tools have some new solutions to consider. Reverse IP look up appears to be the new thing here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. Cold calling is replaced by useful content and tools that help people find them and contact them for more information. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. For example, no software in the world can flag the error between their and there. Just follow my 5Rs of content creation and things will start to flow a lot more smoothly. Don’t just rely on the automatic spelling and grammar checker.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? 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. I’ve listed six business blogging tips here to get you started. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Follow these essential rules of a website redesign and you’ll truly create a powerful sales and marketing tool. As the founder of Tiecas, I have been helping manufacturers and engineering services companies boost their sales with better do-it-yourself (DiY) marketing for over 20 years. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues. Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Curation: Doing more with less is the topic of a video I found in a post by Steve Rosenbaum who is the CEO of Magnify.net , a video curation and publishing platform. Best regards, Achinta Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Tweets that mention Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? All Rights Reserved.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world. I service industrial companies, as you do. I suspect that as more understanding is gained of “how to&# use the tools the flood gates will open in the industrial sector.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Solution Mapping: Look across the company’s portfolio of offerings to identify and put together – or map a solution for each of that market’s key business requirements – incorporating products, services and programs as needed. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. All Rights Reserved. of Tiecas, Inc. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

As content strategists, we can build a standard format for content that includes page title, short description of the product or service, what problem it solves, who would benefit the most and additional pairs of product benefits and features. Develop content templates – sometimes it helps to develop a template for creating new content.

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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. Have a safe and happy 4th of July weekend!

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Webbiquity

APRIL 6, 2017

Social customer relationship management (CRM) was being written about as a distinct product category as far back as 2008, but market interest really began to take off the following year. Market interest has remained fairly strong since then. Pricing: $25 per user per month. 1) Infusionsoft. ” — Express Writers.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « We’re renaming the blog | Main | New networks in the news » April 16, 2008 Numeric Scoring: The Key To Lead Management Success [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Recently I saw a preview of Eloqua’s spring release and it got me thinking about the role lead scoring plays in determining campaign effectiveness.

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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. One of the best landing pages (actually targeting several different audiences, all rolled into one) that I’ve seen is for Cisco Eos software platform.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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