Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 25, 2010

BLOG HOME ARCHIVES RSS/XML BECOME A MEMBER MARKETINGPROFS Adam Needles BIO 01.21.10 Without getting into all of the math, responses from 290 of the nearly 600 B2B marketers who attended the event series point to the potential for somewhere in the range of 70 to 75% net increase in total adoption of marketing automation technology in 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

To find answers to that question, I went to HubSpot’s Lead Generation Marketing Hub and I found an incredible video featuring Holly Allison , vice president of marketing at Vico Software , a successful Boston-area startup that provides construction software to engineers and contractors.

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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. Passive reading of your content will not move the prospect any closer to his/her decision to buy from you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 3, 2011

Send pertinent messages related to where your prospect is in the buying cycle offering them information to help move them from one stage to the next. Online marketing (such as search engine optimization and Pay Per Click) works best for inbound marketing. Communicate with leads in time.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Here are seven content marketing strategies that you can use to engage your prospects and move them forward in their buying cycle. Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. I encourage you to add your own ideas to my list of seven.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. I hit the mother lode!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It seems obvious that there is a big disconnect between the goals of B2B content marketing and true customer engagement. It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. How about you, do you see the disconnect? Leave a comment and share your thoughts here.

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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. You can read his entire blog post here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Savvy B2B email marketers are being very creative in order to rise above the noise, get their lists to open their emails and take a desired action. Email strategy: FreightCenter.com teamed up with email service provider Delivra to devise an email marketing strategy. Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

In this post, I’m going to focus on a powerful DiY SEO tool for WordPress blogs. 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. For example, no software in the world can flag the error between their and there. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

The bottom line is for your content to engage your prospects and customers at every stage of the buying cycle. Make judicious use of Facebook, LinkedIn and Tweeter to communicate directly with your core audience and gather free market intelligence.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? Are you pre-selling a product or service? Write about what matters to your readers: You are passionate about your company and want to write everything about its products and services. I’ve listed six business blogging tips here to get you started.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Of course, you don’t have to copy word for word any of the examples from above, you are the only one who can decide which approach works best for your product, service or list. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And the tug-of-war between sales and marketing continues. Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. Conduct a content audit and make sure you have mapped your content to the buy cycle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. 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.

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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. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

As content strategists, we can build a standard format for content that includes page title, short description of the product or service, what problem it solves, who would benefit the most and additional pairs of product benefits and features. Develop content templates – sometimes it helps to develop a template for creating new content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Solution Mapping: Look across the company’s portfolio of offerings to identify and put together – or map a solution for each of that market’s key business requirements – incorporating products, services and programs as needed. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

Buyers of technical products and services do look to vendors for providing relevant information for solving their problems. after they surveyed more than 1,200 purchasing decision makers in small, medium, and large companies throughout the United States and Western Europe who are responsible for buying high-tech products and services.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. One of the best landing pages (actually targeting several different audiences, all rolled into one) that I’ve seen is for Cisco Eos software platform.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

They have added new capabilities for delivering highly personalized direct mail, SMS/voice reminders, and on-demand fax and RSS delivery – interesting stuff that, while I’d need to talk to a client or two to be convinced of their specific usefulness, show that Eloqua is delivering a broader range of lead nurturing, drip marketing capabilities.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing. Audit your existing content.

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