Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The idea of combining a website with the benefits of a blog is very appealing to many industrial marketers. In my conversations over the past few months, I have noticed a growing acceptance of blog sites among manufacturers, industrial distributors and engineering services companies. Blog sites as inbound marketing hubs.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I remember my first marketing job like it was yesterday. My boss, the marketing director at the time, asked me: “Do you know what inbound marketing is?”. I knew marketing was about branding, sharing product information, and understanding consumer psychology. My boss told me about inbound versus outbound marketing.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The B2B marketing landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years. Digitalization has taken the B2B journey online and empowered buyers to self-educate and collaborate with their peers before ever speaking to a sales or marketing person. The answer: inbound marketing. An Inbound Marketing Refresher.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 11, 2011

They now find themselves in uncharted waters where they have to think of and appreciate marketing as something more than mere sales support. Business owners and executives crave stability and predictability but expectations and behaviors of industrial buyers have changed. Don’t look at your blog to be the primary lead generator.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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PureB2B

JUNE 29, 2021

Before digital marketing came to be, niche firms had to waste a considerable portion of their marketing resources on advertising and campaigns that were utterly irrelevant to the majority of the people who saw them. Digital marketing changed that. An Overview of Inbound Marketing. Get Visibility for Your Expertise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. You need to rethink your business model first and fast.

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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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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

After months of sunny weather and hopefully a little vacation (come on, you deserve it), getting back to the grind can be difficult, and finding inspiration to create killer marketing campaigns can be a challenge. Review where marketing has been as a whole and where your company has been. Lesson 3: Marketing Analytics 101.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation. In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The chart below shows the variety of content used at different stages of the industrial buy cycle (Source: Understanding the Industrial Buy Cycle: How to Align Your Marketing with Your Customers’ Buying Process from GlobalSpec). One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. 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 sales team must report to marketing and put these leads back into the hopper for nurturing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I am seeing more manufacturers and industrial companies willing to try inbound marketing with content. A sure sign of that is the number of conversations that I have had recently with my current clients and new leads. They all want to either add a blog to their static industrial websites or convert them into dynamic blog sites.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” 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

MARCH 17, 2011

The mantra for effective business blogging is to regularly pump out fresh content that is reader-centric and not focussed too much on you, your products or your company. More power to you if you already have a horde of avid readers who visit your blog every time you post new content.

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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. 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

AUGUST 1, 2011

Notice how discussions about content marketing are full of words like engagement, helpful, sharing, nurturing and community building. However, have we gone too soft with content marketing when it comes to selling industrial products and services? And that is… content marketing must deliver a real business value.

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Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2012

When you think about inbound marketing, PPC isn't the first thing that pops into your head. But that doesn't mean there's no place for PPC in an inbound marketing strategy. But that doesn't mean there's no place for PPC in an inbound marketing strategy. Myth #2: Traffic and Leads Must Be Dependent on PPC.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 29, 2011

With 2012 just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about your marketing strategy for the New Year. As more and more companies catch on to the most effective strategies for getting found online and generating more leads and customers, the future of inbound marketing is looking more competitive and fast-paced than ever.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 14, 2011

Thriving in today’s content-driven online marketing world, demands that you think like a publisher. That’s the battle cry among content marketers. Just as publishers start by learning everything about their target audience and what information they want, content marketers must realize it is not about them but about their customers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. This will lead to your visitors bookmarking your site for future reference and becoming a valuable resource. Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 9, 2010

As vocational education choices increase, smart marketers are leveraging inbound marketing to reach a wider demographic of potential students. Inbound marketing allows your best prospects to find you as they search for education alternatives. Blogging can be easy.

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Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2013

And soon after, brands began to realize that creating content (actually they just called it blogging back then) could greatly benefit both SEO efforts and brand awareness. Social media was all the rage, and blogging was, well, old and worn out. The Blog Post as the New Ad Unit. What good is that to a marketer?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 13, 2011

Inbound Marketing is a new concept for many, which is why there are so many terms and acronyms that need defining. questions and arm you with business reasons for making these tools part of your 2011 marketing strategy. How can a CRM help your business? Why is a blog important to my business?

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2010

With all of the online buzz today about social media, blogging may seems like an old idea to some businesses. I previously took a deep look at leveraging Twitter for lead generation as the first in our series of social media lead generation articles. Make a Blog Part of Your Website.

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Hubspot

MARCH 21, 2012

MarketingSherpa reports that 60% of marketers have fewer than 10 landing pages on their website. But the more landing pages you have, the more opportunities you have to generate leads. Well, before you generate leads, before you create a landing page, before you even craft your call-to-action, you need something to offer your leads.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 18, 2012

Well luckily, every business blogging challenge we've heard has a solution that you can implement immediately if you truly want to keep that New Year's blogging resolution. There are many other things you can include on your blog , but if you start with the basics we've mentioned here, you'll be off to a great start.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Your blog is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful inbound marketing tools at your disposal. But one of blogging's biggest benefits is in its huge potential for lead generation and reconversion. 8 Lead Gen Opportunities for Your Business Blog. On Your Blog's Homepage.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You know content marketing works, so you''ve been plugging away at blog posts, ebooks, and other valuable, educational content for your potential customers. And people come -- they find your content in search results and in their social media feeds. But they may not fill out a form and become a lead right then and there.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Here on the HubSpot blog, we’ve written glossary-themed posts that cover some of the core components of inbound marketing -- we''ve covered email marketing , website optimization , social media , and the list goes on. An individual or group of people usually maintains a blog. Business Blogging.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Turning your blog into a lead generation engine is no easy feat, but it is worthwhile and—better yet—completely achievable. In fact, marketers who consistently blog see 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. And 57 percent of marketers say they have “ gained customers specifically through blogging.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A business blog is an important and integral component of inbound marketing. While there are plenty of business blogs from B2B marketing consultants (including this one), industry portals and vertical search engines, there aren’t too many from manufacturers and industrial companies.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The world of digital marketing is constantly changing. Whether it’s a global pandemic, racial unrest, political upheaval, new channels and apps, demographic shifts, or changing consumer dynamics – the job of today’s marketing leaders is not getting easier. Overall, there are 3 billion social media users.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

But any savvy inbound marketer knows that forms are the way of the online conversion world. After all, how would we generate and reconvert leads as effectively without them? It's about creating lovable marketing after all, right? Advances in marketing technology to the rescue! Heck, so is mine!

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Hubspot

MARCH 2, 2016

Think back to the last digital marketing campaign that blew you off your feet. The fact of the matter is that running a successful digital marketing campaign takes a lot of time and energy, not only during its implementation but also during the build up to go-live. Maybe it was one that made you stop and think. 1) Personas.

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