Business Blogging, Inbound Marketing, Media and Web 2.0

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Optimization Web 2.0 Business

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

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.

Lead Generation

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How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

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?

Business Blogging

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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? I’ve read several articles about the impending death of email marketing because of the steady decline in open and click-through rates (CTR). Are those predictions a little premature?

Social Media

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Web 2.0

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. 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.

Marketing Budget Creation

Marketing Budget Creation B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Marketing Budget

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. If not, then you need to rethink your strategy to get the most out of optimizing your marketing content.

Optimization

Optimization Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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.

Webinar Metrics

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Marketing Strategy Product

Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

And even though bloggers stated feeling that they aren’t treated with the same respect as traditional media representatives, it’s the buyers who had the final say. They reported in a separate study by Technorati that blogs are right up there with many traditional media in terms of importance and influence on their buying behavior.

Marketing Mix

Marketing Mix Marketing Report Blogspot Blogger

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry. Not so fast!

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

It not just driving revenues for the company, 44% of marketers said their own compensation was tied to sales. See contradiction #4) Contradictions and Myth Busters: Only 17% of the marketers felt they were “sales driven.”

Lead Generation

Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Web 2.0 B2B Marketing

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Privacy Policies Buying Cycle RSS

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

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.

Sales Cycle

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies

Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

Social Networks

Social Networks Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Web 2.0

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

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

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Demand Generation Agencies

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

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.

Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Leave a Comment Previous post: Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part Professional Help Next post: Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing CMS Development Buying Cycle

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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

Distribution

Distribution Web 2.0 Lead Ranking Privacy Policies

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { As a practitioner in the field of Inbound Marketing Automation, I couldn’t agree more with you, and Mike Gospe’s view points about the need for a strategy before you embark on a quest for Automation tools.

Marketing Automation Services

Marketing Automation Services Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Marketing Automation

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

Budget Programs

Budget Programs Education Marketing Budget Lead Scoring

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

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?

Sales Cycle

Sales Cycle Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads B2B Sales

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Branding

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

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: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM).

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Marketing Automation Services Peer-to-peer Web 2.0

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

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

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However, realizing that your sign up forms and opt-in pages must contain both components – an irresistible offer or incentive as well as a clear call to action will go a long way towards boosting your email marketing’s open and conversion rates.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

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.

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Web 2.0 Allocation

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

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

CMS Development

CMS Development Marketing Websites Work Management Web 2.0

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter.

B2B

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

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

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

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. This was second only to downloading product data sheets.

Sales Management

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites

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

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both. That’s all you need for now.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. So, what should you do to revamp or redesign your current website?

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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

B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Leave a Comment Previous post: A Blogging Style to Call Your Own Next post: How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

Planning

Planning B2B Marketing Emarketing B2B

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Marketing Budget Web 2.0

Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 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

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: 5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial Buyers Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

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

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?

Optimization

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Solving the content conundrum It is our responsibility as practitioners of inbound marketing to coax relevant content out of the client, be it internal or external. We already have lots of brochures and data sheets to give to our prospects and customers. There’s nothing new we can say on our website.

Marketing Websites

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

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

Features

Features Web 2.0 Planning Work Management

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog.

Curation

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. You have to actively promote your optimized site using social media, press (news) releases, blogs and offline tactics to tell your target audience about your site.

Buying Cycle

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Many other media outlets have reported the same creativity crisis in America. What are consequences of this creativity decline to the business world? webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

Creativity

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. Rule #5: Use social media judiciously Social media is slowly gaining acceptance within the engineering and industrial community. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.”

Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0

What Not To Do For Better B2B Customer Relationships

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? Tagged as: customer realtionship , Industrial & B2B Customer Relationship , Industrial Marketing , McKinsey & Co.

Marketing Automation Services

Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 B2B Lead Ranking

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Trending Sources

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Report: Blogs Are An Important Part Of The Marketing Mix

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Business Value of Social Networking

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

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

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

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Content Creation Made Easy

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

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

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

What Not To Do For Better B2B Customer Relationships

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