The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

Then with all the triggers in place, sit back and watch the software do the job of sending the right message to the right prospect at the right time. Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Wow, it’s magical! Yes, except for one little detail. Do you have the staff to do it?

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 16, 2009

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm and is filed under Communication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Web Design Webinar Yes, Please Share This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 How can a company’s history be used effectively?

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2009

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Online Marketing , productivity , Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 2 Responses to The Networker’s Dream Darren says: November 5, 2009 at 12:28 am Daniel, thanks for this post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site. 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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markempa

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Some of the other topics include: New B-to-B Search Marketing; Maximizing White Papers, Ezines Webinars & Podcasts; Marketing to Fortune 500; Video, Viral & Web 2.0 B-to-B Marketing; How to Measure & Manage Leads and more.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

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 Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief. 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. Sounds simple, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. Create an expertise blog to showcase your internal subject matter experts and allow your prospects and site visitors to interact with them directly.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

Free Marketing Stuff Can Sell As marketers our job is to generate brand awareness, educate our prospective customers on the benefits of our products and get them to purchase. And how do you reach even greater number of prospects? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Give away free stuff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Is it so outdated that you avoid sending prospects and customers to your site? It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Nothing will turn off your prospects more than outdated and stale content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

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

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

In order to get on the buyer’s short list as early in the buy cycle as possible, your B2B website needs to provide relevant information that your prospects are looking for. We want the prospect to contact us for pricing information so we can engage with them further 3. This may include basic pricing information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect along in his/her decision making process. Most B2B marketers find it relatively easy to create and use content to gain search engine presence.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. Prospects will tune you out until that happens.

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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. army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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 6, 2010

What I do want to talk about here is the how and not the why of you should translate your features into tangible benefits if you want your marketing content to engage with prospects and convert them into customers. To convert those prospects into customers, you must sell them on the benefits of the experience that they can expect.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People in sales are not very interested in spending time nurturing suspects and prospects, that’s marketing’s job. First focus on driving a critical mass of interested traffic by making sure prospects can find your business blog. They want better qualified and sales-ready leads. And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Think about new “arrangements&# of content as resource centers for prospects and/or customers. 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 23, 2010

Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect any closer to his/her decision to buy from you. That’s where you can use your content to segment your visitors, profile them based on their actions, capture pre-qualified prospects, leads and registrants for your webinars and downloads.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

If you need to Tweet about what you had for lunch because somehow this creates affinity with your prospects and will eventually translate into sales, then knock yourself out. This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 3 Responses to Inbound Marketing Training for Free David Meerman Scott says: June 22, 2009 at 3:29 am Hey Daniel, @repcor at Hubspot did a great job organizing these. There are several free online courses and resources on the web you can use to learn more about it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. 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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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

For example, our sales team can see my travel plans and perhaps pull me into a prospect meeting if I'm in that area. Blogger: Blogging is the Differentiator Some people may have written off blogging and I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with it but in 2009 I’m definitely seeing it as even more important social media tool.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. Interview them and then connect all the dots to develop compelling content that will move the visitor and/or the prospect in their decision making process. There’s nothing new we can say on our website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

You need to optimize it for search engines in order for your target audience to find your B2B blog (see my earlier post, “How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects” ). Here’s an example from my post titled “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

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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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

While this study was focused on IT Buyers, the implications for the B2B Marketer should be relevant across the prospect universe no matter which industries you serve. The study shows that there are specific keyword combinations used dependent upon the buying stage of the person searching on Google.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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 Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

April 30, 2009 — Laura Ramos Email, Search, and Direct Mail Deliver Results Over Time I am very appreciative to Roy Young and Ann Handley at MarketingProfs for partnering with Forrester and me on the B2B marketing budget trends and effectiveness survey. Want to hear more?

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Smashmouth Marketing

MAY 1, 2009

The exact quote was: "Companies that significantly reduce their sales and marketing investment in 2009 will be gone by 2010." Gerhard : Every sales executive wants to find out how to use social media to connect with more prospects. I know a salesperson who exclusively relies on Linkedin for finding prospects. Sales 2.0,

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