Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

I get a few blank stares at times when I talk about social media technologies with friends and colleagues but I’m starting to win people over day by day. LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. How am I doing this?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? Can we deliver a powerful 1-2 punch by combining social media and email marketing? Including at least three social sharing options boosted the rate to 11.2% The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Yes, too many people think curation is nothing but copy & paste or adding a RSS feed to their site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Keep in mind your marketing content may exist in various forms and formats; company website, blog, email campaigns, press releases, marketing collateral and social networks. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. See Do I Really Need a Content Strategy?)

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APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2009

So let’s go through some of your options when it comes to the tactics of social networking marketing. Have a Strong Presence A Facebook presence, like a website, is a fundamental tactic and should be on everyone’s list of must haves for social network marketing. There are 2 basic types of ads: Display ads and Social ads.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Class: Social Media and Building Community (GF201) Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs Chris Brogan’s presentation was more of a theoretical overview of community building than tools for doing that. Veredict: If you are new to social networks, community building, etc. and measure it religiously.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Leave a Comment Previous post: Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well Next post: The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 9, 2010

Design #1 Email Sender: Marketo Email Title: Social Best Practices for Marketing in the Cloud What I Like: Clean design; date and time of the webinar on top easy to find; orange “Free Webinar&# button calls attention to the important action (register now!) You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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AUGUST 10, 2010

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MAY 7, 2010

Despite all the hype surrounding social media in B2B marketing, 50% of the marketers said they didn’t blog, 49% don’t use Twitter and 25% don’t use LinkedIn. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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MAY 18, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

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APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. More and more B2B marketers are shifting their marketing budget out of expensive pay per click (PPC) advertising and traditional media and into content creation, optimization and social media.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 12, 2009

The Five Rules of Effective Meeting Scheduling For those of us networked and connected to a calendar system such as MS Outlook, we have the advantage of being able to share our calendars with the rest of the company. But seriously, I think that the networked calendar has more advantages than disadvantages if you know how to use it.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. In a sea of “me too&# books about social media, Cognitive Surplus stands out as about so much more. Who we are. Who we want to be.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec.

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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. Use a social publishing site like scribd.com to gain a larger audience for your white papers. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing.

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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.&# Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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MAY 5, 2010

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JANUARY 26, 2010

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. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter. Google Analytics is not specifically set up to measure social media activity but you can modify it by adding a free plugin like Social Media Metrics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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JUNE 12, 2010

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

Results achieved: The company has seen a 26% increase in engine and automotive shipping customers since the campaign began in 2009 FreightCenter.com exceeded its original goal of a 50/50 split in only 18 months. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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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? Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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JULY 29, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. Rule #5: Use social media judiciously Social media is slowly gaining acceptance within the engineering and industrial community. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

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APRIL 30, 2010

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AUGUST 20, 2010

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