B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 16, 2012

To succeed in social media marketing, your goals must be SMART. Today most businesses have gotten beyond the question of whether or not to have a presence in social media. The plan is essential to successful, consistent execution, because there are a lot of moving parts in social media. Measurable.

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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. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

This agrees with what I am hearing from my engineering and industrial clients, they are seeing a lot more activity but the average sales cycle has grown by an additional 90 ~ 120 days. However, the sales cycles have also become longer, making it much harder to close deals.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision. According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.” . – Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

The details page should show all available sizes, options and other selection criteria with active links to downloadable PDFs of datasheets. Create a more robust search application where engineers can select several design or performance parameters to find the exact part number.

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