Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you believe everything you read (and lately there’s been a lot) about marketing automation, you’d think it is the killer app to solve all your lead generation problems. Then there are scores of B2B marketers who swear by inbound marketing as the path to lead generation nirvana. How manufacturers are marketing today.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

by Dayna Rothman Here is a scenario that resonates with many marketers using inbound marketing as part of their marketing mix. You create your blog, social accounts, maybe a couple of ebooks, and invest in marketing automation software. But, as the year comes to a close, your inbound growth has slowed.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

Here are three ways that content marketing and marketing automation go hand in hand: 1. Engage and Stay Top-of-Mind Across Channels. Marketing automation is not a one-and-done tactic. Your marketing automation platform keeps track of every prospect and client, to deliver personalized content on every channel.

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The Point

APRIL 22, 2020

However, as much as it has a reputation as a way to generate “guaranteed” leads, content syndication is not a cure-all, and indeed, more than most demand generation channels, is likely to generate sales leads that gravitate towards the early stages of the buying cycle. Place leads immediately into nurture.

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Stevens & Tate

JANUARY 31, 2022

Every consumer will go through different steps of consideration and purchase throughout the life cycle of a brand or service. In the past, the consumer buying cycle was explained by four stages: awareness, interest, evaluation, and purchase. As such, consumer journey mapping is a vital part of your marketing strategy.

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Tomorrow People

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Inbound marketing technology allows you to view and track your buyers’ behaviour - from first touch through to first sale and well beyond. This approach also makes it easier to retain any potential customers, whatever stage of buying cycle they are at. Build a stronger profile.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

An effective B2B marketing campaign is one that’s delivered on time. Most B2B buyers are already 57% of the way through the buying cycle by the time they reach out to a company for more information. Across any marketing channel, relevancy is always key. Purchase intent (the final step in the buying cycle).

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2020

B2B lead nurturing is all about engaging with a targeted group of prospective customers by providing hyper-tailored solutions to their pain-points according to their specific stages in the buying cycles. Read more on How to Build Customer Loyalty with Content Marketing. If you get that part right, selling is easy.”.

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Tomorrow People

APRIL 25, 2012

To be truly effective, copywriting needs to be part of a well considered and carefully planned content and inbound marketing strategy , based on the specific demands and needs of your target audience. Work with content that connects across all the relevant marketing channels to create one strong strategy.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The best way to help your salespeople get over this prospecting issue is to provide them with marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) who are in the process of making a buying decision. Inbound marketing requires you to create content that encourages your prospects to raise their hand (in a virtual sense) and shout ''That''s me!

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The best way to help your salespeople get over this prospecting issue is to provide them with marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) who are in the process of making a buying decision. Inbound marketing requires you to create content that encourages your prospects to raise their hand (in a virtual sense) and shout 'That's me!

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 16, 2013

A video library lets you carefully present content you’ve mapped to the buying cycle and control the content journey that your leads navigate through. Your brand can use video throughout the inbound marketing funnel and this post outlines how to get started.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 29, 2015

Content Marketing Costs Less than Traditional Marketing. Inbound marketing uses content to earn prospect and customer attention, attracting the company’s target audience to their website and converting them. Source: Hubspot, State of Inbound 2014. Content Marketing Conquers the Buying Cycle.

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KEO Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2017

In today’s competitive business to business (B2B) technology environment, accumulating prospect names and contact information and sending out generic marketing collateral is simply not enough. Tech firms must take advantage of various methods and multiple channels to connect with leads throughout the buying cycle.

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Kaon

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Ample research shows that buyers are already more than 70 percent through the buying cycle before reaching out to a sales rep. According to Inbound Marketing for Dummies, in 2015 mobile searches (85.9 According to multiple studies, 42 percent of those buyers are using their mobile devices during the B2B research process.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Disconnected thinking : Businesses might be strategic when it comes to their core activity, but many still miss the mark when it comes to linking up their marketing thinking. Instead of using an inbound marketing approach to join their message up across channels, they’re sending out disconnected marketing emails.

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ClickZ

JANUARY 22, 2020

In this article, we have focused on the top 10 tools that marketers should definitely know about. Perfect for: Content Marketing. Hubspot is currently one of the most popular marketing automation tools. Key Features: Offers web-based email marketing platform. Provides lead generation.

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KEO Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2016

An abundance of online resources and communication channels is rapidly blurring the line between traditional B2B marketing and sales activities. Using brand-relevant social media channels , marketers can effectively syndicate what a recent Harvard Business Review article describes as “dialogue-provoking” content.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 19, 2011

You are a savvy inbound marketer. Inbound marketing initially emerged as a response to the negative impact that traditional outbound marketing methods, like advertising and direct mail, had been having on prospective customers. But there’s a whole other part of inbound marketing that often gets overlooked.

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PureB2B

MAY 30, 2022

An effective B2B marketing campaign is one that’s delivered on time. Most B2B buyers are already 57% of the way through the buying cycle by the time they reach out to a company for more information. Across any marketing channel, relevancy is always key. Purchase intent (the final step in the buying cycle).

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It is possible & some of the most successful content marketers have been doing this for years now. The trick lies in focusing on every part of the buyers’ journeys & accordingly designing pieces of content tailored to each of the individual buying cycles of the prospects. Swear by an Indomitable Vision: .

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Thought I’d give it a shot as well, running through a master list of “resolutions” as preparation for improving your inbound marketing and lead generation strategies for 2012 and beyond. How long are their buying cycles? What are their preferred communication channels? What their needs are.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Model the appropriate marketing mix. In my last post, I talked about using math to build the business case for changing from an outbound to an inbound marketing strategy. If you’ve read most of my recent posts you’ve heard my plea to marketers: Create an audience-first marketing mentality.

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KEO Marketing

MAY 11, 2016

The new marketers guide highlights the latest industry trend and current best practices being used by marketers who have incorporated programmatic advertising into their digital strategies. Download this complimentary marketer’s guide to targeted programmatic advertising from KEO Marketing here. KEO Marketing Inc.,

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Smashmouth Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Tom Searce (channeling Peter Tosh): "Humanize it." I'm fairly confident that Tom's direction was that buyers want to be in control of the buying cycle. If our potential customers are not in the center of that program, we have no hope at all at filling our funnels (or clouds). They don't want to be sold to. They want experts.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 24, 2011

Been thinking about content marketing again and after some recent engagements with some clients, I thought I’d better shed some light on some important considerations as a further understanding of what content marketing is and how it is deployed. Let’s briefly take a deeper dive into each destination channel.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 24, 2011

Been thinking about content marketing again and after some recent engagements with some clients, I thought I’d better shed some light on some important considerations as a further understanding of what content marketing is and how it is deployed. Let’s briefly take a deeper dive into each destination channel.

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Engagio

JUNE 10, 2019

You need to identify the individuals and determine the concerns and questions they may have during each phase of the buying cycle. At the same time, learn as much as possible about their issues and any upcoming or recent changes, such as acquisitions or high-level personnel moves, which may trigger buying decisions. Conclusion.

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KEO Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Create mobile-optimized content for various channels. Using real life examples of mobile marketing in action, the guide shows readers how to connect mobile marketing tactics to every stage of the buying cycle. Increase online engagement and in turn, web traffic.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2012

Marketing has always been about crafting a relevant message and distributing that content via the channels where your target audience spends time learning about his/her industry. The channels have changed over the years; but the basic marketing principles remain. . That’s the history of b2b marketing, isn’t it?

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 24, 2012

Yes, content marketing is just another term for marketing because effective marketing should already seek to deliver on the needs of individual buyers at different stages of the buying cycle with helpful information and educational content. How Can Companies Get Started In Content Marketing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 9, 2012

by Dayna Rothman I was driving to work the other day and the song “The Freshman” by the Verve Pipe starting playing on XM radio’s Lithium channel–the Lithium channel being my all-time favorite 90s alternative music station. Keep them coming back for more through your content machine, lead nurturing programs, and social media.

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NuSpark Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I thought I’d have fun with this post and attempt to explain key principles of lead generation and inbound marketing in an A-Z glossary format. I- Inbound Marketing. Inbound marketing is the combination of marketing tactics that draw traffic to your digital destination when prospects search for your solutions.

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NuSpark Consulting

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The Ad Planner assists in researching placements, topics, interests, and YouTube channels. . If a prospect downloads a white paper, you can serve the prospect a banner ad that offers a new piece of content that promotes a topic that complements the white paper or is more promotional as you guide the prospect through his/her buying cycle.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Each interview is only about 25 – 30 minutes and all are available on our blog and YouTube channel. Tony Jaros, Sirius Decisions, talked about “Establishing Presence at the Earliest Stages of Buying”. Buying cycles are changing. Below are some highlights (a couple of minutes each).

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation. Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs. The original book from Hubspot that started the transition from outbound marketing and push advertising to inbound marketing; the process of making prospects find you. Content Marketing.

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ViewPoint

JUNE 8, 2012

High Outbound Presence Drives Inbound at the Right Time. Click to start video at this point — In response to a question about the ongoing outbound marketing vs. inbound marketing debate, Ginger notes that companies need both, and balance is the key. Buying cycles are changing.

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