Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. 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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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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). Use social media selectively to engage with your target audience in a more personal way and humanize an otherwise impersonal interaction that is purely transactional.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Because it is the mega-distributors that dictate terms and reduce the value of the manufacture’s innovations into commodity products. Wilkinson , PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing at Montana State University Billings. Non-core functions such as sales and distribution should be outsourced.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Content Marketing’s slogan is – “Don’t pitch. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. Resources

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary discovered this in May, after analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. The four steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Adding value to industrial website development and marketing I am going to illustrate my point about part DiY and part professional help by using three real-life examples from my own industrial marketing business.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. Scoring or qualifying your site visitors is largely dependent on their behavior. You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Depending on the stage of the prospect, your content needs to: Move them from ignorance to awareness – define the problem and make your target audience aware of generic solutions and the benefits of your offerings. Convert prospects into leads – a prospect that has made an inquiry or responded to an offer is now a lead.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. 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

JUNE 19, 2010

Personas do matter in B2B content marketing You would be wasting your scarce resources if you pumped out marketing content without first having a clear and complete understanding of the personas of your B2B buyers. And they use different sources to get their information. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. 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 of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

. – an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. Privacy Policy | Site designed by AMAInteractive a div. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now. All Rights Reserved.

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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. Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. The most simplistic approach to evaluating customer engagement is to measure conversion rates.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Don’t lapse into obvious corporate marketing speak to sound important (see point #4). Developing your unique value proposition is also a good way to differentiate your company from the competition. What they sorely need, is some strategic guidance that will produce measurable results, typically more leads and sales.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Creators, distributors, aggregators, and curators are all economically essential parts of the value chain. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { Maybe it’s my M.A.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Also see a very interesting post from Junta42, “Engage and Inspire Employees First, Customers Second.” ) Because of the longer cycles and the complexities of B2B and industrial sales, marketers find it very difficult to associate leads to specific marketing content. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. It is our job then as marketers to massage it and add some sizzle in order to persuade the reader to take a desired action. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

One way or another, you want it to be an integral part of your industrial marketing efforts in generating leads and driving sales. The term ‘long tail’ was first used by Chris Anderson to describe the strategy of targeting less-competitive niche markets instead of highly competitive broad keywords. Lead them to it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Additionally, when marketers create a nurturing program across the buying process, each new lead should start at the beginning of the program with touch 1. 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

Define your target readers – Are you trying to build a following among design engineers, plant or operations managers? Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. It has to be a value exchange for people to give up their contact information to you.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Are you targeting final decision makers, users and/or influencers? WHAT : What do you expect your list to do? While it is good to have multiple links in your email, don’t confuse your target audience by making multiple offers in the same email. How are you using email marketing to reach and engage with your target audience?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. See a video from Matt Cutts on Google official position on using keywords meta tag ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

.&# Features Tell, Benefits Sell It would seem that all a B2B or industrial marketer has to do is write benefits laden copy and magically prospects would become customers. However, it is not so easy to translate features into benefits that really engage and speak directly to your target audience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

It is heartening to see that content is at the center of most discussions about the state of B2B marketing today. However, industrial marketers face a challenge when it comes to producing a steady stream of fresh content to keep their target audience engaged. Try polls and surveys to gather data.

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