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5 Manufacturing Content Marketing Hurdles and How to Overcome Them

Industrial Marketing Today

Are you a manufacturing or technical content marketer struggling to create good content that is seen and used by your target audience (Engineers and industrial buyers)? However, Industrial Content Marketing manufacturing content marketing

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3 Content Marketing for Manufacturers Myths Busted

Industrial Marketing Today

There are a few misconceptions or myths surrounding content marketing for manufacturers. Myth #1: Content marketing for manufacturers is all about SEO Manufacturing content marketing will certainly help in improving your organic.

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Manufacturing Content Marketing Distribution and Measurement

Industrial Marketing Today

That’s my take on the challenges and issues faced by industrial companies with manufacturing content marketing distribution and measurement. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Using CAD and BIM Files in Manufacturing Content Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

CAD and BIM files are not the first things that come to mind when one talks about manufacturing content marketing. However, they are two of the most valuable and effective content assets to use for. This is only a content summary.

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7 Key Insights from the "How B2B Marketing is Changing" Report

Speaker: Tom Pick, Independent B2B Digital Marketing Consultant

What are the top priorities, challenges, and trends in B2B marketing as we head into the final stretch of 2018? We conducted in-depth interviews with senior B2B technology marketers to find out. The results included a few expected areas of consensus but also some surprising divergence of opinions. Content marketing, for example, is widely viewed as the most effective lead generation tactic and area for additional spending in the coming year. But doing it effectively to optimize results is also the top challenge marketers face. Meanwhile, marketers report conflicting views about and are seeking guidance on search engine marketing, live events, and inbound vs. outbound tactics. And there's one promising avenue many marketers may be under-investing in. This webinar not only summarizes the issues raised in the study but also offers guidance from multiple sources on how to address the challenges of today's B2B marketers.

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Manufacturing Content Marketing—What’s Ahead in 2021

Industrial Marketing Today

What I do have is the brand-new report, Manufacturing Content Marketing, Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—Insights for 2021 published by the Content Marketing Institute. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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5 Misunderstood Best Practices in Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Have you ever fallen into one of these five best practice traps in content marketing? Almost everybody loves best practices. But too many equate “best” with “infallible” or “in every circumstance.” Continue reading → Company News

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Manufacturing Content Marketing—The Year It Was and Looking Forward

Industrial Marketing Today

I just received an advance copy of Manufacturing Content Marketing Benchmark, Budgets, and Trends (Thanks, Amanda!) published by the Content Marketing Institute (CMI). Refer to my post, Industrial Marketing: What. This is only a content summary.

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Digital Transformation & Content Marketing Technology

Contently

The content marketing landscape is changing… and fast. With thousands of MarTech tools on the market, it’s difficult to keep up with the content marketing technology needed to strategize, create, optimize, and measure content.

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9 Places to Source Authoritative Stats for Your Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

As content marketers, we are always on the hunt for interesting data to grab reader attention and support our claims. Examples: Accenture TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Source: Accenture Market research and analysis companies Market research firms come in all sizes and shapes.

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Rebooting your Strategic Content and Communications: A Formula for an Evolved Enterprise

Speaker: Mat Zucker, Partner, Prophet

Content is a B2B brand’s currency to demonstrate relevance and, with emerging channels and interfaces like chat and voice, it’s bringing brands closer to their customers. The engine underneath is training, governance and a modern content and communications organization.

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How Manufacturing Content Marketers Can Reduce Stress on Engineers

Industrial Marketing Today

Manufacturing content marketers can really help reduce the stress on engineers. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.]. Industrial Content Marketing manufacturing content marketing

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The 1-2-3 Guide to Creating Video Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Now is the time to become an expert on creating video content. Not only are 91% of businesses already using video as a marketing tool in 2023, but 96% of marketers are placing ad spend on video. If you haven’t already, this is your sign to hop on the video content bandwagon.

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62% of B2B Marketers Cite Content Marketing for Producing Valuable Leads

KoMarketing Associates

As B2B marketers look for more efficient ways to engage prospects, new research suggests that content marketing is growing in importance to them. Approximately 46% of respondents stated that they have not implemented personalization in combination with content marketing tactics.

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To Gate, or Not to Gate, That is the Question in Manufacturing Content Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Gated content is the most common way for manufacturers to generate leads from industrial websites. If you are not familiar with the term gated content, it refers to content that needs the reader to fill out a form and submit it before either downloading or reading the full version.

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Stream On or Tune Out: Personalize Your Buyer Journey so Audiences Click Next

Speaker: Randy Frisch, Co-Founder, CMO and President, Uberflip

The way we engage with technology has changed—from the way we watch TV (Netflix), to the way we consume music (Spotify), to the way we exercise (Peloton). We have tuned out on old one-dimensional experiences. Your buyer expects each stage of the journey to be curated so they can stream away! Join Randy as he presents an actionable framework for creating experiences that will engage your buyers to stream through more of your content so they don’t tune out.

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And the Oscar Goes to… Our 2023 Content Marketing Awards

Marketing Insider Group

In spirit of 2023’s Oscar Awards, we’re naming 10 small businesses that we believe deserve recognition for the best content marketing. Every great business owner knows that committing to the best content marketing practices can take your profits to the next level.

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Unique Challenges in Manufacturing Content Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

Manufacturing content marketing has its own challenges and frustrations as many industrial marketers have experienced. Read more The post, %Unique Challenges in Manufacturing Content Marketing% by %Achinta Mitra% was originally published on %Industrial Marketing Today%.

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How Content Marketing Builds Trust

Marketing Insider Group

If you do a little more research, you’ll soon discover that all of these brands are putting a lot of time and effort into content marketing. However, where Trader Joe’s really excels is with user-generated content. Content marketing gives your brand a voice.

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Content Marketing ROI Starts With A Strong Business Case

Marketing Insider Group

Content Marketing ROI is probably the biggest question I get from marketers who are struggling to build their own business case internally. It’s why I wrote my first book The Content Formula. Content Marketing is the about building measurable business growth.

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Developing Your Training Content So That It Actually Moves the Needle

Speaker: Bryan Naas, VP of Sales Productivity at Braze

Getting reps & marketers to engage in your content is half the battle of providing value that can ultimately impact the bottom line. How do we break through the noise? In this session, Bryan Naas will detail what it takes to build training and content resources that reps will actually take the time to engage with so you can help them reach their goals.

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Which Hogwarts House Are You? Content Marketer’s Edition

Marketing Insider Group

Every marketer today is hearing about the importance of brand personality — or the way a brand is personified in human terms. Fortunately for you, Marketing Insider Group is here to help evaluate your brand personality by the only standard that really matters — your Hogwarts House, of course.

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80+ Content Marketing Trends for Success in 2023

Content Marketing Institute

Will your content marketing plans weather the changes ahead? More than 80 thought leaders, award winners, and subject matter experts offer their advice and insights on the content trends that will have the most impact on your plans and success in 2023.

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Forget the Resume – Use Content Marketing To Land a Job

Content Marketing Institute

Turn a job loss into a content marketing journey to create a personal brand that helps land your next job. Dennis Shiao tells how he did it and what he wished he knew then and what he knows now. Continue reading → Company News

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Content Marketing for Manufacturers is filling the Trade Show Void

Industrial Marketing Today

Trade shows have always been a big part of manufacturing marketing for generating new leads that convert into sales opportunities. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Your New Schematic for Next-Level Sales Coaching & Enablement

Speaker: Matthew Hawk, President of B2bTrainers

The term “sales enablement” applies to a dizzying array of best practices and technologies. In addition, there is tremendous competitive pressure not to fall behind. No matter where you are in your current sales enablement strategy, one thing is key: success ultimately rides on the habits of your sales managers & marketers. In this webinar, Matthew Hawk will lay out an in-depth schematic for your next-level sales coaching, demonstrate the key activities that comprise success, and walk you through several examples of sales coaching cadences that apply to all salesforce sizes.

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5 Tips for Content Marketing Success in Fiscal Year 2023

Contently

When it comes to content strategy, the end of a fiscal year is the perfect time to assess what you want to change. Is your content speaking to the right people? Only slightly more than half of organizations have a content marketing strategy.

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Launching a Winning B2B Content Marketing Strategy

Fusion Marketing Partners

In my fractional CMO practice, I have to recommend content marketing strategies for my B2B clients. Content Marketing B2B content marketing Content marketing thought leadership

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Content Marketer for Hire—Why Marketers Are Prioritizing Talent

Contently

One of the biggest challenges to achieving content impact is a lack of people. That’s the word from the senior content marketers who answered the Contently 2023 State of Content Marketing survey. ROI content marketing talent hiring content marketers

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Is Your Content Marketing Strategy Ready for GA4?

Contently

For content marketers, GA4 offers more detailed data on the user’s journey across apps and websites and, using machine learning, GA4 can predict how users will behave. Marketers can then target these audiences with the appropriate content.

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When Executive Engagement met Account-Based Marketing

Speaker: Bev Burgess, Senior Advisor for ITSMA & Manasian and Co

Executives drive business. They can accelerate deals, find new budgets, and help shape your solution so that it fits their needs. And now that executives have stabilised their companies after the initial shock of the pandemic, they’re looking for ideas and inspiration on how to innovate their business models and return to growth. They want to engage.

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The Cost of Bad Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Every company is marketing with content, but not every company is doing content marketing. The difference between the 2 is often just straight up bad content. But what is the cost of all this bad content? What is Bad Content? Content Marketing

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Inbound Content Marketing: A Powerful Gravitational Force

Hinge Marketing

The mysterious force of gravity is the most vivid analogy I can use to describe the power of a successful inbound content marketing plan. In this article, we will enter the gravity well of inbound content marketing. What is Inbound Content Marketing?

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Is Twitter Still a Thing for Content Marketers in 2023?

Content Marketing Institute

Marketers share what they’re doing (and not doing) – and they don’t all agree. Now that Twitter’s “new normal” has taken hold, brand reaction is evolving. To what degree? Continue reading → Company News

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How to Do a Competitive Content Marketing Analysis

Content Marketing Institute

If your content is to be unique, it must be differentiated from your competitors’ content. Continue reading → The post How to Do a Competitive Content Marketing Analysis appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Redirect Your Indirect Channels by Enabling the Right People

Speaker: Jay McBain, Principal Analyst – Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems

We are in the middle of a major transformation of how companies go to market – in fact, 76% of global CEOs feel that their current business models will be unrecognizable in the next 3 years. Join Jay McBain from Forrester as he unpacks these future trends.

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11 TED Talks Every Content Marketer Needs to Watch

Marketing Insider Group

There’s nothing like one of the best content marketing TED talks to inspire a new perspective. At Marketing Insider Group, we love learning from the industry’s thought leaders to keep our own marketing efforts both innovative and effective. Content Marketing

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Adapting Your Industrial Content Marketing Strategy for COVID-19

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial content marketing strategy needs adjusting and fine-tuning to adapt to changes during this unprecedented time of COVID-19. This is only a content summary. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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How To Scale Your Content Marketing Strategy To Improve Efficiency

Content Marketing Institute

Scaling your content strategy doesn’t require hiring more people to produce more stuff. It involves building systems to produce more effective content with fewer resources per unit. Here are five ideas to get started. Continue reading → Company News

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The Hottest Content Marketing Trends for 2023

DivvyHQ

With 2023 well underway, you may be wondering what content marketing trends have arisen so far this year.

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How You Can Triple Your Results With a More Personalized, Empathetic Approach

Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO and Founder of markempa

Marketing and sales feel pretty tricky right now. What worked before now feels out of touch, but have you made plans for how you'll continue to move forward? You've likely tried everything: expert recommendations, best practices, the latest tools, and automation. But your results are falling short. Here's the thing: All the automation tools, best practices, data analytics won't help get better results now until you master empathizing with your customers. In this webinar, you'll learn how to go beyond rational-logic based sales/marketing and adjust your sales enablement strategy to better understand how buyers feel so that you can connect and help them on their journey.