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

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Your business will grow.&# (See Content Marketing – The Ultimate Cheat Sheet ). Content Marketing’s slogan is – “Don’t pitch. Don’t sell.

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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. In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

The bottom line is for your content to engage your prospects and customers at every stage of the buying cycle. Embrace social media: Yes, the jury is out on making a business case for social media but ignore it at your own peril. Develop your message: Put some thought into who, what and why about your business.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

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?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. 4 comments… read them below or add one } Eric Goldman May 17, 2010 at 5:16 pm Achinta; This is a great article with much relevant information in it. Thanks for sharing!

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing has also changed how industrial and technical buyers behave, search and consume information that they need at different stages of the buy cycle. Here’s how I see the impact of the changes: Industrial buyers are using more and more online resources for initiating and going deeper into the industrial buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site. Having a search function on your website is no longer an option, it is a requirement.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. in Museum Studies, but the idea of acting as a curator of information to post on our website for the benefit of our clients and customers is extremely interesting. David Brazeal´s last blog. So curated content is not something new.

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Valasys

MAY 7, 2020

Using Guest blogging for high-quality link-building makes it a powerful tool for improving brand awareness, boosting your SEO endeavors, discovering new and useful contacts, and for streamlining the sales cycles.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Be a ruthless editor – business owners and product developers are passionate about their offerings. Harness that power by gathering all the information and then editing the material into cohesive content. They can wax eloquently and endlessly about their solution. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Thank you for a very informative post. I will visit this blog regularly. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Opportunity Development: Research, understand and distill the relevant industry-specific information, key issues and business needs in order to educate the company, especially the sales force, on the specific business requirements of a given market. According to Tim Riesterer of CMM Forum LLC (now part of Corporate Visions, Inc.),

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Hubspot

MAY 3, 2012

You know, those buttons you see to the left of this blog post that let you tweet, +1, LinkedIn share, Facebook like, and even sometimes pin our content. 3) Get New Blog Subscribers. Your business blog houses some of your best content, and it's all form-free! Just look at all the opportunities: Think about it.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

Longer sales cycles due to more complex products and services and business purchasing processes often require more information. It’s helpful to know what types of documents or information is published as you build out your content strategy and optimization plan. Guru J Great information and comments below.

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The Lead Agency

MARCH 27, 2018

The term covers several different activities that are all associated with providing information and convincing B2B decision makers that your service or product is right for them. B2B businesses of all sizes contain departments that are impacted by digital transformation. B2B businesses cater to customers that are information seekers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. There is a big difference between what B2B customers say they want and what really drives their purchasing decision.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

A Home page is great for attracting prospects at the top of the sales funnel that may have found your site using generic search terms and are just looking for information on companies in your market. Do they ask for information that you feel is irrelevant to your intent? What’s the solution? How did they find your site?)

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

analyzing the trends, and developing actionable insights to make better informed marketing decisions. An individual or group of people usually maintains a blog. A personal blog or business blog will traditionally include regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material, such as photos and video.

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Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2016

analyzing the trends, and developing actionable insights to make better informed marketing decisions. APIs are a series of rules in computer programming, which allow an application to extract information from a service and use that information either in their own application or in data analyses. 6) Blogging. 18) Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

You’d arm them with information about the marketplace. You’d arm them with information about your products and how people use them. The chart below shows how engineers and industrial buyers use the Internet in work-related purchases ( Source: 2010 GlobalSpec Industrial Buy Cycle Survey ). Audit your existing content.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Just assume you know which social networks your audience populates, even if they're actually way more active in an industry specialized social network than, say, Facebook. 9) Post something to your Facebook business page every five minutes. Isn't that how you get maximum visibility through Facebook's EdgeRank algorithm ?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Get the details behind these stats and many, many more here in more than 40 of the best articles and blog posts about social media, search, budgeting and digital marketing research, facts and statistics of 2011 so far. Social Media Stats, Facts and Research Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine? And 73% of U.S. Fridays at 4 p.m.

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