Demand Generation, Marketing Leads, Web 2.0 and Webinar

Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

We discussed the great lead quality vs. lead quantity debate. However, you must continue to nurture those leads that are not yet ready to buy. Contacts from companies that are qualified as leads but not yet passed to sales can end up landing in the target list for an email blast or an event invitation.

Work Management

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Lead Generation Programs That Work

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

During my presentation titled Lead Generation Programs That Work I walked through the 5 Steps to Achieve Lead Generation ROI. I defined the top tactics for driving leads in today’s environment and listed those that aren’t working as well as they used to.

Lead Generation

Lead Generation Budget Programs Work Management Lead Scoring

Demand Generation vs. Inbound Marketing – Is There a Difference?

Hubspot

JUNE 16, 2010

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between demand generation and inbound marketing ? What does each phrase mean for marketing and sales? If you find yourself scratching your head trying to hammer out the differences between demand generation and inbound marketing so you can execute, well, this post is for you.

Demand Generation

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Webinars

Scan to Success: How to Leverage QR Codes for Offline and Online Marketing Power

Cracking the Code: Turning Intent Data into Go-to-Market Success

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Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

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.

Budget Programs

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The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. 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

Optimization

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A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

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Web 2.0

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The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. 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

Lead Generation

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101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing Blogger Web 2.0 Tips

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

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.

Business Blogging

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Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? 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.

Social Media

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The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

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Distribution

Distribution Web 2.0 Lead Ranking Privacy Policies

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

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Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing Web 2.0

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

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Marketing Budget Creation

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

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). In the later stages, supplier Web sites and catalogs are the most important information sources.

Relevance

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity

Business Value of Social Networking

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

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Social Networks

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Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

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B2B Marketing

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Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: ITSMA ) Webinars: This is a very popular content marketing tactic used in industrial and B2B marketing. Some marketers argue that they’ve been overused to the point that people think of them as nothing more than a 45-minute long sales pitch.

Buying Cycle

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

How can you use marketing content to generate a decent volume of sales-ready leads at a low(er) cost? What is effective content marketing? Content marketing does not mean churning out white papers, case studies, articles, blog posts, podcasts and webinars for the sake of putting out content.

Buying Cycle

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5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

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.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. Sounds simple, right?

Buying Cycle

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Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

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. Move them from awareness to inquiry – get the prospect to sign up for a webinar.

Sales Cycle

Sales Cycle Web 2.0 Buying Cycle Privacy Policies

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

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.

Relevance

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How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. You want your blog post to attract the largest targeted readership.

Business Blogging

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Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

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Email Marketing

Email Marketing Web 2.0 Planning Opt-in

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

CMS Development

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Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

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Sales Cycle

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Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I don’t mean to suggest that you should ignore other channels of customer engagement such as your email opens, click-throughs, landing page hits, webinar sign-ups and Contact Us forms. Google Analytics may be all the power you need.

B2B

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Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.” Here are the key takeaways from the webinar: Don’t confuse marketing activity with results.

Marketing Automation Services

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B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Don’t put lead generation before traffic Traffic is the lifeblood of any business blog or website. Don’t spend all your time and resources crafting lead generating offers (white papers, webinars, online demos etc.). How do you drive more traffic?

Lead Generation

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B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

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Sales Management

Sales Management Pricing Price Marketing Websites

Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

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Rules

Rules Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Buying Cycle

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

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B2B Marketing

B2B Marketing Top of Funnel BtoB Peer-to-peer

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

To complicate matters even more, it is a moving target since search engines are constantly changing their algorithms and most of it is not public knowledge. There is still a lot of debate about whether social media is truly useful in industrial marketing. And yes, it does cost money. The same holds true for video white papers.

Rules

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

Webinar Metrics

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Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

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.

Buying Cycle

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7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

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Planning

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High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

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?

Email Marketing

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

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.

Features

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Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

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Curation

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How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

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. Reaching your target market doesn’t have to be difficult.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Buying Cycle B2B Blogger

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

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. Proof Building : No solution story is complete without references.

Creativity

Creativity B2B Marketing Lead Ranking Lead Scoring

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

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. 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.

Marketing Websites

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Solution: Make more efficient use of tools like webinars and online meetings to bring together stakeholders who may be spread out all over the world. 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.

Social Media

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning

Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity

Lead Generation Programs That Work

Webinars

Trending Sources

Demand Generation vs. Inbound Marketing – Is There a Difference?

Webinars

Generating More “Educated Leads” on a Small Budget

The Twofold Benefit of Optimizing Marketing Content

A Blogging Style to Call Your Own

The Role of B2B Marketing is Shifting from Lead Generation to.

101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers

Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities

Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well

Focus on Content in B2B Marketing

How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Business Value of Social Networking

Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content

Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the.

Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

5 Things Industrial Marketers Must Do to Attract Engineers and.

Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Using Content to Move Prospects Forward in the Sales Cycle

Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be

Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing?

Successful Industrial Websites Require Part DiY and Part.

Survey Finds Growth in Pipelines and Sales Cycles for B2B Lead.

Industrial and B2B Customer Engagement Simplified

Don't Count on Marketing Automation to Solve All Your Lead.

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog

B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The.

Content Creation Made Easy

The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your.

The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement

5 Rules of Website Redesign for Engaging Engineers and Industrial.

7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Shortening the Industrial Buy Cycle in 5 Simple Steps

7 “Rs” for B2B Marketing Content Planning

High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging.

Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing.

Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More.

How to Use a B2B Blog to Win Customers and Influence Prospects

Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving.

How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project

Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial.

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