Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. Offer engineering kits with a full range of standard values with free refills to help the electronics design engineer evaluate his designs without having to go to multiple sources. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Avoid common phrases like, “World-class manufacturing using cutting-edge technology.” Developing your unique value proposition is also a good way to differentiate your company from the competition. What they sorely need, is some strategic guidance that will produce measurable results, typically more leads and sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Here’s an example, let’s say your target audience is engineers, instead of writing “our valves are manufactured to world-class standards and continue to operate trouble free in the harshest of operating conditions,” you can simply say “Manufactured to ASME Code standards, designed to handle up to 300 psig and 415°F.”

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In fact, I believe that ultimately SM will be viewed largely as a customer retention tool, with budgets from those departments and metrics that focus on customer lifetime value and how it’s impacted by social media touches. Using social media to acquire customers is like using email to acquire customers. Unlikely at best.

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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. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? &# My take on it may surprise you … and provide uncomfortable reading if you are a parent or social media junkie.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Vampires have class. While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. March 2009. October 2009.

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