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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

Even though her article is about the B2B buy cycle in general, it is a perfect follow up to my earlier post “Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle.” She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. How can you accomplish all that?

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

In the slideshow, Rohit shows you 25 different styles of blogging and when to use each one. With each style, he has provided a brief description, frequency of blog posts, ability to go viral (buzz index) and the level of difficulty. There are examples and additional resources too.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

Professor Quelch provides the example of Intel and its very successful advertising campaign “Intel Inside.” 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.

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How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

Industrial Marketing Today

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. Without passion and expertise, you will have a hard time sustaining your business blog over the long haul.

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

Source: CMP (now United Business Media ) Electronics Group’s Global Media Usage Study, 2006) 74% industrial buyers went looking for prices but only 23% of manufacturers published them on their website. You can see an example of B2B web design prices from my company’s online marketing division’s website.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?