NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Are these B2B companies e-commerce or online catalogs, where a lead can be classified as a “request-a-quote” or are they complex products, meaning that multiple touch points via media and content have to occur before the prospect becomes a lead? Among the contents: Developing a search strategy via the buying funnel.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. Without a clear understanding of the stages, it is difficult to align your marketing content with your customer’s decision-making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. Is that a good thing? This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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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. You’ll receive your first issue immediately even if it is 2:00AM on a weekend. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. Are you pre-selling a product or service? You don’t want to create another of those unless you are planning to sell advertisement space on your business blog. What do you want the post to do for your company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Search engines love sites with constantly changing fresh content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

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. However, B2B and/or industrial marketers must learn to use it correctly in order to harness its true power.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

For example, segment your products and services by application and/or industry. Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. Make sure your primary navigation and site pages conform to a familiar user interface.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

For example, if you’re searching “ how to know if you need an ac repair company ,” you most likely wouldn’t find this type of content on a corporate website. Don’t you think that it makes sense for Service Experts to be exposed to people searching for this?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: You have two primary responsibilities; a) make sure your website is easily found so your company can get on the shortlist early if you hope to be considered in the decision making stage and b) serve up content in different formats and be relevant to various stakeholders. Solution: Curate content and make it easily searchable.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. And it’s free.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. The Content You Want, via the Channel You Choose The future of integrated communications is in consumer choice and personalized preference centers.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Call your own customer service department. Buy your own product.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. You often are buying in part because of the service and personnel of the company in question. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence? telegraph service).

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

In the last two-three weeks, I participated in 3 webinars and 5 software demos, with more planned this week. I have an RSS reader with 150 or so blogs to stay up to speed on the ever changing world of demand and lead generation. Content Marketing. Therefore website content should be updated based on these keyword audits.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

But be careful—stray too far from what consumers wanted from you in terms of content or frequency, and you’re likely to see your inbox invitation revoked in the form of an unsubscribe. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. services like Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku. Why is email such a steady producer? October 2007.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job. Any factors you look for or service you use that I didn’t mention? Bonus: My list of social media monitoring tools that I collect to share with others and test myself. What about you? Leave your additions, and any questions, in the comments!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Terrific content, per usual. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-. Terrific content, per usual. Thanks for sharing.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

Because as a content consumption device, the iPad is simply without peer. Using the iPad to do something as mundane as check headlines on your local newspaper’s Web site becomes a visceral, tactile experience as your ability to touch and move content redefines the physiology of the task. Same with email.

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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. Don’t make the visitor scroll vertically or horizontally to read your primary content. That will give you an idea of demand. Place your logo at the top left.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

So as expected, Facebook just added Twitter-style features and functions to its service , to evaporate Twitter’s competitive angle. Twitter lists can help in this regard, but many Twitter power users lament that the way they use the service is forced to change significantly as their own Twitter connectivity increases.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Apture is a handy plug-in that finds photos, videos, links and related content that you can embed or link to within your posts with a single click.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. I particularly liked your sentiment on building one's marketing program on rented land, especially regarding content-copyright. Build a website.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. I particularly liked your sentiment on building one's marketing program on rented land, especially regarding content-copyright. Build a website.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps The More Things Change, The More Things Change philsimonsystems Pretty neat tool. It's weird on RSS.

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2016

” or “what social media platform features your target audience?” Start putting together a plan in writing that you and your team can refer to when you need it. Your social media plan should consist of mini-plans for each social media channel you expect to be active on. Entertaining.

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