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Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

His 4C’s are: Content – the creation of a steady stream of engaging content Connection – connecting with the audience you wish to attract Communication – communicating with them in an ongoing conversation Conversion – and then converting them at the illusive moment of need What is content marketing?

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates.

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

Industrial Marketing Today

They’ll ask friends at other companies, post queries to industry email discussion groups and boards, ping analysts or surf the Web researching. You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. Dale Underwood of B2B Conversions Now has a step-by-step procedure for this on his blog. If not, what’s stopping you

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. The most simplistic approach to evaluating customer engagement is to measure conversion rates. For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

While conversion may be the ultimate goal, building trust, increasing awareness, improving the company’s reputation, expertise and credibility and encouraging social sharing are all worthy content marketing goals too. The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers.

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Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

Industrial Marketing Today

As the conversation gets more serious, ad-hoc sales materials created by the sales team take over and do most of the heavy lifting. Instead of engaging the prospect in a meaningful conversation and discovering their real business issues, we resort to “Here’s what it is. Here’s what it does.

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5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

How do you engage engineers and technical buyers on your website and build deeper relationships and achieve higher conversion rates? Select the best social media outlets depending on where your target audience hangs out and use them for starting your conversation. Instead of taking sides, I say use it to your best advantage.

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