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How a Global Distributor’s Online Community for Engineers Pays Rich Dividends

Industrial Marketing Today

A recent article by Paul Gillin ( @pgillin ) and published in BtoB Online , caught my attention because it talks about how engineers can have fun while doing serious business. Sometimes it feels like you are operating in a vacuum where nobody seems to be listening or responding to your initiatives. distribution arm.

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Alinean Builds on Momentum for a Strong Second Quarter 2011

The ROI Guy

Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based marketing and sales tool campaigns for customers including Quest Software, Polycom and Finlistics. Alinean today announced the addition of three new customers and four new strategic partners during the second quarter of 2011.

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The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

As a result, most BtoB marketers tend to credit sales-ready leads to the last marketing touchpoint. The report was based on a survey of over 70 BtoB marketers and was conducted by Genius.com. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies.

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PowerViews with Rich Vancil: Marketing Ops, Sales Ops & Mashups

ViewPoint

Rich earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, and he’s twice been named to BtoB Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential people. ” He characterizes this shift in the following ways: The new buyer wants education from vendors, as well as connections with peers and intelligent third parties.

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Tech Media Publishers looking more Like Interactive Marketing Firms Every Day

The ROI Guy

In the recent BtoB magazine article, " Tech Media Evolution a Bellwether ", the major technology publishers were examined to understand how quickly the shift to interactive marketing was occurring. The age of Internet fueled buying decisions means that traditional print publications just don't meet buyer or seller needs.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Using thought leader content as a lead generation tool

markempa

If you’re really good, people (you don’t even know) will start recommending you to their collegues and peers. B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 They said they were thought leaders.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries.