Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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The Effective Marketer

DECEMBER 8, 2009

That’s why I liked when the Modern B2B Marketing blog posted a list of must-read B2B marketing ebooks. Quality varies: [link] Can you recommend other resources for free marketing knowledge? link] 2 days ago Virtual Events win marketers over low costs, but are attendees really paying attention?

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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?

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

My answer: spend your budget on great content that the market will value, then use low cost tactics like SEO, email and social media to push that content out. My answer: use your customers and sales people to write about, videotape and blog about successes and tips on navigating through the buying process.

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Hubspot

JUNE 16, 2010

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between demand generation and inbound marketing ? What does each phrase mean for marketing and sales? If you find yourself scratching your head trying to hammer out the differences between demand generation and inbound marketing so you can execute, well, this post is for you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see.

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The Effective Marketer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

An advisory firm that focuses on linking marketing to financials, they have great stuff when it comes to marketing ROI and on marketing measurement. And enjoy… free is always good This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm and is filed under Marketing Training , Webinars.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 23, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Because You Can’t Beat Free Marketing Training This is the second post finalizing the review of the Inbound Marketing University program from HubSpot.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. The focus of your blog will be determined by how well you can define your readership. I say you need both.

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Hubspot

APRIL 17, 2014

Teach.com recently came out with Teach100 , which ranks and scores hundreds of education blogs across the web. Each blog is scored on four components: Social Reach : The combined social shares on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook of the ten most recent posts, as well as the blog''s main domain. 4) Classroom 2.0.

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

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.” Using content or Inbound Marketing , you are able to make that key connection with your prospects by delivering specific content needed in order to make an informed decision.

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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

APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Preventing Marketing Automation Failures Let’s first look at why Marketing Automation fails to live up to its promises. I found a good answer to that in a comment by Mike Gospe on a blog post at leadsloth.com where he wrote, “But when it comes to marketing automation, I recommend caution.

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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? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.” 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. 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

APRIL 22, 2010

Wilkinson , PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing at Montana State University Billings. I also found a fascinating video interview on Andrew’s blog that really drives home the point with a case study featuring Mr. Fred Whyte, President of STIHL Inc. You can buy the book from Amazon and visit his site at www.distributiontrap.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

They have compiled over 50 marketing charts and graphs based on analysis of their 2,500 business customers. NOTE: Requires registration to download) Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: Social Media Marketing: Time Trap or Opportunity Magnet?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). As marketers, we need to shorten the industrial buy cycle by producing marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

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. Transforming that concept into an actionable reality is a very different story. In other words, it is time to walk the talk!

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

There is a natural resistance among marketers to give whitepapers, webinars, even product spec sheets out for free, especially without requiring any kind of registration. Back to the free marketing stuff. I am enrolled in a free course called Inbound Marketing University , created by HubSpot. Give away free stuff.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic. Source: ITSMA ) Webinars: This is a very popular content marketing tactic used in industrial and B2B marketing. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. An article I read on Eloqua’s blog “It’s All About Revenue,” shed some light on this. Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about? This one caught me by surprise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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? Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2010

Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can read his entire blog post here. Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site. If you have a blog, look at the number of comments left by your readers. This is a little more involved than I can explain in this blog post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Instead, I choose to keep my credibility intact and provide the professional help my clients need to supplement their do-it-yourself (DiY) industrial and B2B website capabilities and online marketing efforts. For DiYMers: Read my earlier post Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Take a quick poll.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Just adding a sign up form in the sidebar of your site or blog stating “Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter for the latest news and handy tips” may be a direct call to action but is it really an irresistible offer or incentive? No, telling your readers what to do next is only half the battle.

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Hubspot

MARCH 16, 2011

Web 1.0 - Web 1.0 Web 2.0 - In Web 2.0, has been described in many ways, but Hoffman believes that the next generation of the Web is all about data. Now individuals are sharing content as themselves across blogs, social networks, and other platforms. was an era of low bandwidth. applications.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

This is not a new problem; business marketers have been debating the pros and cons of publishing prices on their websites for several years now. I found a series of blog posts on pricing on your website at Dave Jung’s B2B Blog , some of those articles date back to 2006. Why do we need prices on B2B websites?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. Is SEO a DiY (do-it-yourself) job?

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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? For example, “content creation.”

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