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How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

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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. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

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

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

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Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads. You need to rethink your business model first and fast. Don’t think of it as the panacea for your lead generation problems.

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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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). Too often, marketers create new educational content based on internal triggers, such as a new product launch or the adoption of a new marketing strategy. Definitely not.”

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The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

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That business model works for a while but in the long-term, it fails badly. Because it is the mega-distributors that dictate terms and reduce the value of the manufacture’s innovations into commodity products. Dr. Thomas calls this “The Distribution Trap.” He has co-authored a book by the same name with Timothy J.

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

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Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Give them hardcore specifications typically found in product spec sheets. Design wins lead to production volume orders.

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