PureB2B

JULY 14, 2020

By establishing yourself as a thought leader early in the buying cycle, you can help them not only identify their problem more quickly, but build a solution. Enter content syndication—like novocaine, give it time and it always works. Content syndication is the fuel that can keep your events rolling for the next 3-6-12 months.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2019

So we typically send emails that link to juicy, relevant content. In 2005, HubSpot gave birth to the concept of inbound marketing , which was all about attracting people to your company with informative content, search-engine-optimization and social media marketing. I became involved in content marketing about a decade ago.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 12, 2010

Why should B2B organizations commit a growing percentage of their budget to content creation? Why should you conduct content audits and create content maps to extract the most value possible from existing content assets by repurposing them in as many ways as possible? What actions should marketers take in 2010?"

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WriteSpark

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute about content marketing efforts in the computing and software industry presents interesting data on how technology marketers use different promotional techniques and their perceptions of the effectiveness for each. Has your company made this analysis?

Paid Search Agency 120

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WriteSpark

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

A study conducted by the Content Marketing Institute about content marketing efforts in the computing and software industry presents interesting data on how technology marketers use different promotional techniques and their perceptions of the effectiveness for each. Has your company made this analysis?

Paid Search Agency 120

Paid Search Agency Companies Content Marketing Buying Cycle 120

Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 21, 2010

Why should you quickly groom internal resources for content assets and blogging? We asked Galen De Young "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?". The smartest B2B marketers will master how to leverage and optimize content across search, email, and social ".

B2B Marketing 100

B2B Marketing B2B Thought Leadership Long Tail Marketing B2B 100

The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 30, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing Content That Sells When talking with lead nurturing and marketing automation vendors they all make it seem very easy. Who’s going to write all that new content? But why the focus on 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

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

billion in 2010, to over 3.8 In 2010, the typical corporate user was found to send and receive about 110 messages daily. unwanted newsletters, alerts, etc.) ( Source: The Email Statistics Report, 2010, The Radicanti Group ). billion by 2014.

Email Marketing 120

Email Marketing B2B Marketing Effectiveness B2B 120

The Effective Marketer

MAY 9, 2011

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking The Rise of the Content Marketer Content Needs a King I know I don’t have to argue the value of content to readers of this blog.

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DemandBase

MARCH 30, 2020

This quickly grew into broader buys on sites that catered to obvious themes and contexts. By the 2010’s we were starting to see the concept of account-based advertising take shape that led us to the current evolution of identifying and targeting buying committees. So what is the key takeaway here?

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 17, 2010

Why should you engage prospects consistently across the complete buying cycle? We asked Ardath Albee "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Ardath Albee's Marketing Prediction for 2010. Ardath Albee's Marketing Action for 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content. Why is it important?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Relevant marketing content – key to thought leadership Positioning your company as a thought leader is critical in complex technical sales that have long buying cycles with many decision makers involved. We are all used to seeing case studies and they are powerful marketing content.

Relevance 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Wikipedia defines content marketing as “an umbrella term encompassing all marketing formats that involve the creation or sharing of content for the purpose of engaging current and potential consumer bases.”

Marketing Budget Creation 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision. How well is your content performing for you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Buyers do the vast majority of their research online and consume content in a fragmented way. We asked Craig Rosenberg "What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010? What actions should marketers take in 2010?" " Craig Rosenberg's Marketing Prediction for 2010. Consume content in a fragmented way.

Peer-to-peer 100

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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

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

B2B Marketing 60

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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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. The instant gratification mindset of B2B content consumers means they’re demanding more content, faster. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful. See my post Rule of 5 for B2B content development.

Planning 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Unfortunately, the answer is a big NO.

B2B Marketing 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That’s more than 40 times the amount they invested in 2010 (Source: Mckinsey ). The top 3 most effective marketing channels as reported by respondents were social media, organic search and content marketing. Video is a flexible and engaging content format that not only captures eyeballs but is easy to share across various platforms.

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Top of Funnel Marketing Budget Paid Content Paid Search Agency 98

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You may have heard that social media can improve not only your more traditional tactics but also allows you to engage with your prospects sooner in the buying cycle. Allow your content to be shared. It may even allow you to identify those influential network hubs whose recommendations can mean big referral business for you.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Follow these 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drive Leads.

Tactics 100

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

and then provide targeted content based on that information. Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. We have also had success with creating specific content around each step in the buy cycle on each landing page. Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

and then provide targeted content based on that information. Share: Read more from Strategy 2 Comments Post a comment Denise Williams Nov 4 2010 Great info Michael. We have also had success with creating specific content around each step in the buy cycle on each landing page. Click here to cancel reply.

Landing Pages 100

Landing Pages Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Work Management 100

Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I figured these companies would be great examples of marketing with content. What I found was somewhat contrary to conventional content marketing practices. www.jacobs.com , NYSE: JEC) — about $10 billion in 2010. billion in Q2-2010. Fluor Corporation ( www.fluor.com , NYSE: FLR) – $22 billion in 2009.

Paid Search Agency 60

Paid Search Agency Companies Content Marketing & Strategy 60

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

Budget Programs 60

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring 60

The ROI Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2010

As a result, most buyers have taken charge of the buying cycle , engaging with sales representatives later and later. As a result, Internet fueled buying cycles have required B2B marketers to deliver more content and tools over more and more channels to actively engage ever more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Companies Buying Cycle Budget Programs 40

Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I figured these companies would be great examples of marketing with content. What I found contradicts the rules of content marketing as practiced today. www.jacobs.com , NYSE: JEC) — about $10 billion in 2010. billion in Q2-2010. Fluor Corporation ( www.fluor.com , NYSE: FLR) – $22 billion in 2009. billion in 2009.

Rules 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

Sales Management 60

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites 60

Industrial Marketing Today

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

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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