Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Over the past six months, their website traffic is up 89%, their free download program is up over 200% and they’ve generated over 1,500 leads. All I can say is WOW!

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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

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

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. I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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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. 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

JUNE 15, 2010

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. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Take a quick poll.

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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. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. If possible, add basic pricing information on your site to offer complete information without leaving your site.

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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. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Now, B2B content marketing’s agenda is to educate and inform customers and prospects. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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. This is where marketing automation software can be a big help.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. 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.

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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

APRIL 28, 2010

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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

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

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. It seems the secrets of SEO are known only to a few high-priced consultants. An invisible blog doesn’t draw a crowd and neither will you have the opportunity to engage with them.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. And they use different sources to get their information. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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? Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

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 Typically, that means understanding the prospect’s pain and then offering a solution for relief.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2009

Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } 7 | Industrial Marketing Today Previous post: Business Value of Social Networking Next post: 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

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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. However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

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. Don’t lapse into obvious corporate marketing speak to sound important (see point #4).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! And the way to get found by your target audience is to define your offerings in terms of solutions to their problems then build your content strategy around those problems instead of benefits and features of your products.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Creators, distributors, aggregators, and curators are all economically essential parts of the value chain. Industrial Marketing Today -- Topsy.com Previous post: Don’t Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead Generation Problems Next post: Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders?

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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. Don’t be persona non grata – take the time to really understand the persona of the target audience. I mean dig deeper than just the demographics like company size, job title, SIC code etc.

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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

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

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

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. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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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 14, 2010

However, industrial marketers face a challenge when it comes to producing a steady stream of fresh content to keep their target audience engaged. 2) Engage those visitors’ attention with industry leading content (website copy, white papers, videos, podcasts). Try polls and surveys to gather data.

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