Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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DealSignal

APRIL 27, 2023

While both look to define your buyers, ICPs are account-based while Buyer Personas are lead-based. Buyer Personas focus on the buying committee roles of your Ideal Buyers. Bombora’s intent is based on activity such as keyword searches, article views, and white paper downloads.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Marketing can use these insights to develop content in the form of a FAQ page, manuals, white papers, blog posts, or other content you can easily share to advance deals. Prospects love this, as research reveals that 87 percent of buyers select a vendor who provided them with relevant pieces of content at each stage of the buying process.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Most companies in the technology sector evolve in a very competitive environment, and leads generated by Marketing represent more than 50% of the opportunities signed by sales representatives. What content do you have at your disposal (white paper, thought leadership , demo videos, etc )? How often do you publish new content ?

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 13, 2016

The Webbiquity report also indicated that companies view increasing brand awareness as their top objective on social channels, followed by lead generation. However, many are still missing the boat when it comes to using social platforms to nurture those B2B leads. Who Can Nurture B2B Leads?

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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.

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Kaon

JUNE 26, 2019

Industry leading speakers at the seminars included: Sarilyn Johnson-Carter, Director of Sales at Bio-Rad Laboratories. Siemens’ transition to creating, deploying and adopting an interactive application initiated and propelled this transformation for them. From Product Sellers to Interactive Storytellers.

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KEO Marketing

APRIL 13, 2017

With so much advancement in the field of technology and easy accessibility of the Internet, more companies have begun using online resources for lead generation. However, finding new customer leads can be a time-consuming and frustrating task for most businesses. Access to a Team of Lead Generation Experts.

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Marketing Interactions

AUGUST 8, 2021

It’s akin to filling out a form to get a paper making them a lead, instead of just a contact interested in the topic. Others often start with “why you need our solution” or “why choose to buy our solution.” A case also exists for how we develop our lead scoring schemas. What context does that content indicate?

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 22, 2012

There are over 20 presentations available, ranging from Social CRM and Lead Generation, to Case Studies and Sales Enablement. Buying cycle control (you need to facilitate the buying process and understand what is required of you as a result). This all leads to a few things. The Customer Buying Cycle Framework.

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Conversica

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If your emails are sent to the right person at the wrong time, the chances of conversion are lower than if the same person receives a message at the right time in their buying process. If someone downloaded a specific white paper or viewed a video, reference that action in your messages to them. Always be testing. Parting thoughts.

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Litmus

APRIL 11, 2022

Using form-protected content like ebooks, webinars, or white papers that sit behind a “gate” helps you collect first-party data. But don’t overlook the value of the preference center. To get the full value out of your preference center, be honest. Reimagine your preference center.

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Sana Commerce

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When content is personalized, people feel that they have a certain amount of control over what they’re interacting with. Key differences between B2C and B2B buying behavior B2C shoppers tend to buy mostly based on emotions, personal tastes and opinions. This leads to customer loyalty and repeat sales.

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MarketJoy

JULY 27, 2018

The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. This white paper will give you a road map for how to attract more customers and win more deals in a rapidly changing B2B landscape. Have Higher Transaction Values. Involve a More-Complex Value Proposition. Group Purchasing Dynamics.

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Everything Technology Marketing

APRIL 8, 2010

They want to be able to engage with a vendor when they are ready and actively seek out advice, often very late in the buying cycle, and have the vendor guide them through a complex buying and problem solving process - outsourcing part of the buying process to the vendor community if you will.

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Hinge Marketing

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Generating new leads is among, if not at the top, of most Marketers priorities, this has not changed. So today, savvy firms are utilizing their websites to not only communicate with their target audiences but also to deliver high-quality leads and nurture prospective clients. Optimize your website for online lead generation.

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Valasys

JANUARY 17, 2020

Learn more: How to Use Account-Based Marketing to Acquire High-Value Customers. To perform a better job of selling their products to the B2B customers, marketers must understand how to talk to them & help them at the individual stages of their buying cycles. B2B customers value the testimonials. &

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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). As marketers, we need to shorten the industrial buy cycle by producing marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

With marketers who seem more focused on gaming the channels themselves than in the value of the dialogue being created, buyers are now inundated with more product related and meaningless offers than ever. Rounding up the challenges, recent studies indicate that 9 out of 10 of buyers say that when they are ready to buy, they find you.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tech Media publishers have seen an exponential shift in buyer behaviour, recognizing that the B2B buying decisions these publications support are now Internet driven , and that buyers are in control of the buying cycle like never before - seeking trusted sources of diagnosis, advice and recommendations.

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ANNUITAS

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lead nurturing is a hot topic right now. It seems that most of my recent conversations with prospects, customers and others in the B2B marketing industry are centered on lead nurturing. My personal experience is that marketers definitely want to (and in some cases, are planning to) deploy lead nurturing of some kind.

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KoMarketing Associates

JULY 12, 2018

Scheduling or using an on-demand online demo can be a great lead generation tool. Prospects that have gotten that far in the buying cycle are likely to be extremely interested in the product and want to see how it can work for them specifically. This can lead to additional profit. Online Training. Online Training Formats.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We asked our panel of B2B marketing experts "How can B2B marketers measure return on investment (leads generated, market awareness etc) for the money/effort spent on creating and marketing content? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. B2B buying cycles are lengthening. " Ardath Albee. Maria Pergolino.

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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 same holds true for video white papers. To improve engagement, build interaction into your site.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. " Match Content to the Buying Process " Ardath Albee's Bio. Her company Marketing Interactions helps companies with complex sales and quantify marketing effectiveness by using interactive e-marketing strategies driven by compelling content. Ardath Albee.

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Outreach

APRIL 22, 2021

There are myriad other theories that estimate the minimum number of times a customer must engage with your brand before they make a purchase: While the actual number of interactions needed is debatable, there's no doubt that customer engagement is essential for moving prospects through your buying cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Your online content needs to play a much more active role in moving site visitors along in his/her buy decision.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Read these interesting blog posts on B2B marketing ROI: Kevin Joyce's Untangling B2B Marketing Campaigns ROI , Jon Miller's Improving B2B Marketing ROI: Thought Leadership With Merry Elrick , Tom Scearce's Three metrics that are more useful than Cost per Lead. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Customers.

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Madison Logic

AUGUST 31, 2023

Your content becomes a guide for your buyers, and you deliver the same messaging and value propositions across each channel. Research supports using multiple sources to validate assumptions, identify buying group members, and map out the buying cycle stages. Which Channels to Include in Your ABM Strategy?

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Single Grain

MARCH 9, 2021

B2B SEO refers to getting your business site ranked higher in the SERPs in order to drive more traffic and sales to you. In this way, you get high-quality inbound marketing leads, which in turn bring in more sales and higher revenue. . 57% of B2B marketers say that SEO generates more leads than any other marketing strategy.

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SnapApp

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

It’s not enough to create a variety of content—the best-in-class specialize their content for each stage in the buying cycle, for every target persona, and for each campaign type. Uses content to score leads. Using content to generate leads is great, but the best-in-class go a step further.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 20, 2010

Marketers have changed the way they handle online demand generation by using thought leadership like white papers, surveys and videos to drive interest in their industry or solution. But for many companies, leads from these inbound methods don’t necessarily mean an increase in potential sales opportunities. interests and timing).

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Hubspot

MARCH 14, 2018

Typically, whitepapers require at least an email address for download (usually they require information more than that), making them great for capturing leads. The goal of a whitepaper is to inform and persuade based on facts and evidence, not tell the world why people need to buy your product right now. What Is a Whitepaper Not?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

For an eCommerce site that is easy, it is typically the value of transaction per visit. However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here are some marketing content ideas for helping your buyers move closer to the procurement stage of the industrial buy cycle. Online interactive and real-time design tools. They are very good for engaging with prospects and leads that are at the top and the middle of the sales funnel. Online product configurators.

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Vidyard

APRIL 1, 2014

The only difference is that your content should map to your buying cycle and turn viewers into customers. When a prospect encounters your site, they typically go through lots of text-heavy assets and get through nearly 60% of the buying process without ever interacting with sales. Set up a video content journey! (I

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