Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on June 24, 2010 in B2B E-Mail Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Lately, social media seems to garner all the attention in the media and blog posts with very little mention about email marketing. The first study done by AWeber (aff. See charts below).

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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. According to a study done by Professor John A. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content.

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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

JUNE 19, 2010

The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. 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

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3 Let’s look at two case studies to see how industrial marketers are using email to reach and engage with industrial buyers. email campaigns per week, up from 15.4 per week in 2006.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The majority of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) consider customer engagement as their top priority according to a recent study done by Forbes Insights and George P. That was the good news part of the study. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. Johnson (GPJ).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Brandon Hall Research Innovations in Learning : This group is for. Challenges 2009 : The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning. 2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0 2.0 : for those interested in Web 2.0 College 2.0 : Online Learning and Web 2.0 application of Web 2.0

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

Class: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research (GF401) Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz SEOmoz is one of the best places for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) information, and the presentation was full of nice tidbits about SEO. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Here I talk about the final 5 classes.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content. How can you use marketing content to generate a decent volume of sales-ready leads at a low(er) cost? What is effective content marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool.

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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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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 8:47 pm and is filed under Communication , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 9 Responses to Why Social Media Is Not For Everyone neoco says: July 22, 2009 at 3:44 am Nice post and very relevant.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

What's the best tool for social media research and learning? He also quotes a HubSpot study finding that three-quarters of bloggers in small to midsize companies say that " their company blogs were 'useful,' 'important,' or 'critical' to their business." Tags: Web 2.0 tools (delicious, Feedburner, LinkedIn et al.),

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Research keywords and phrases used by your prospects and write blog posts with headlines that use those words and phrases. 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

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2009

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. New media and Web 2.0 Fouts presented yesterday in Boston.

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Smashmouth Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. New media and Web 2.0 Fouts presented yesterday in Boston.

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readwrite

APRIL 22, 2010

That’s the day after Web 2.0 According to a recent study from Juniper Research , the market for cloud-based mobile applications will grow 88% from 2009 to 2014. Expo (2-6 May), so we hope you’ll extend your trip to the West Coast to help us define the future of mobile! Cloud Computing.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 2, 2009

Interest in social media marketing is surging, with several recent studies showing that a majority of companies, of all sizes, are now using social media in some form for business purposes. Tags: Web 2.0 I've also seen dramatically increased interest in hiring social media consultants. Social Tagging.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

That was the key finding of a research study done by McKinsey & Co. The table below shows results from the study that shows what sales reps do wrong to turn off B2B customers. Glad to hear that “sales experience&# was validated/reinforced in another study.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

philosophy, Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. Robert Scoble argued that email faced deletion at the hands of Web 2.0 March 2009. October 2009. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. This is my final post on the skewed Web. In the early days of Web 2.0

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B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical). Social Networking: Like Falling In Love.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Research and writing usually equate to insight and comprehension. Perhaps most important, but third in this study, blogging positions its financiers and the company they represent as thought leaders. In 2009 and 2010, we saw microblogs and tumblelogs such as Posterous and Tumblr gain in prominence and universality.

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