Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 11, 2015

Imagine this all too common scenario if you are a manufacturer, distributor or an engineering company. Sales are slow; you need to do something right now to make the phones ring. The directive comes from the top – add more sales people, start working the phones and drop those prices just to book orders. Uh […] The post Digital Marketing for Manufacturers: Making a Business Case by Achinta Mitra appeared first on Industrial Marketing Today. This is only a content summary.

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Oracle

AUGUST 31, 2015

If your company is considering marketing automation or you have recently implemented it, you are not alone. According to The State of the Marketing Technology Industry , only 3% of businesses surveyed use one of the four most common marketing automation systems. Clearly, a lot of marketers are going to be very new to this. They will have to try and convince stakeholders to budget for marketing automation. They need to get buy in from marketing, sales and IT.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 30, 2015

Google Chrome extensions offer some great tools to help with digital marketing. These extensions can do anything from speeding up your outreach efforts to checking for broken links. Following are my top four Chrome extensions for marketers. Note: This list was created in part by Margaret Hakobyan, CEO of MoversCorp.). MOZBar. This tool helps you quickly view the power and authority of a website to determine if the site is worth reaching out to for partnership and/or advertising opportunities.

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The Point

AUGUST 11, 2015

These days it seems to me that you can’t read a marketing blog, attend a marketing conference, listen to a marketing podcast, without hearing someone drone on about the customer journey. Suddenly, we are led to believe, the customer journey is all that matters. Lead nurturing , for example, must now coddle the buyer through every step of his/her journey to customer nirvana. Well, not so fast. Look, I’m all for the general notion of our marketing being more targeted, personalized, and relevant.

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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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Sales Engine

AUGUST 25, 2015

Content creation starts with access to subject matter expertise. It then must be communicated in a meaningful, educational, and entertaining way (assuming that you actually want people to read it). In most companies, the expertise comes from an executive, such as the CEO or President, senior level sales and product managers, and customer service. These are the people who are talking to clients on a regular basis and learning about their issues.

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The Forward Observer

AUGUST 14, 2015

Are you overwhelmed and confused about creating the ideal content for increasing traffic, leads and sales? It's nothing a stiff drink can't cure. Many Great Ideas Started Over Drinks In A Bar The. United States Marine Corps , Southwest Airlines and. Shark Week , to name just a few. So when it comes to growing your business, there’s no reason a similar approach can’t help you. And the way to grow your business is by selling a lot of something.

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Oracle

AUGUST 14, 2015

Today, marketing is leading a significantly higher percentage of the buying process than ever before. For example, according to a study by Google and Corporate Executive Board, “buyers are 60% through their decision process before engaging with a sales person.” ” That market reality has caused companies to vastly rethink their CRM strategy and make lead management a core component.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 17, 2015

Increase in brand awareness, or the extent to which consumers are familiar with your brand, is one of the most common content marketing business cases. Another way to think of this, is how many early-stage prospects are finding their way to your brand’s website? We can measure brand awareness a few different ways: Paid vs. Organic Search Traffic: Search traffic your site receives from paid search advertisements versus traffic due to a high organic search ranking.

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The Point

AUGUST 20, 2015

Results are in from a recent survey on B2B Lead Generation by the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn ( free report download here ), and the numbers tell a disheartening story. Key findings from the survey of more than 600 B2B marketing professionals include: * 80 percent of those surveyed report their existing lead generation programs are only slightly or somewhat effective. * 24 percent said they’re unable to gauge how well leads convert to revenue.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Every sales forecasting model has a different strength and predictability method. It’s recommended to test out which one is best for your team. This way, you’ll be able to further enhance – and optimize – your newly-developed pipeline. Your future sales forecast? Sunny skies (and success) are just ahead!

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 13, 2015

Paul Rafferty, co-founder and CEO of Sales Engine Media, was a recent guest on the TechnologyAdvice Expert Interview Series. The series, which is hosted by TechnologyAdvice’s Josh Bland, explores a variety of business and technology landscapes through conversations with industry leaders. In this episode Paul went over modern marketing, lead generation, and how important storytelling is for the buyer's journey.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 18, 2015

A few weeks ago, I was with some friends and family and we decided to dust off the Monopoly box for some old-fashioned fun. I moved my piece around the board, bought some properties, made some trades, and eventually paid all of my money to my opponents.

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Crimson Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2015

The book “Big Data-Driven Business” suggests that some 90% of marketers are paralyzed by the bewildering amount of choice within the marketing technology (martech) ecosystem, while the other 10% are “using technologies to create incredible changes to the trajectories of their businesses.” So what separates the ‘movers’ from the ‘shakers’? According to Russell Glass, Head of Products, Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn, “the 10 percent tended to start with the customer.

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Oracle

AUGUST 6, 2015

Today’s channel marketing professionals are certainly savvier than ever before. We’re recognizing the complexity of the marketplace and better meeting the needs of today’s self-empowered buyers. We’re providing an array of marketing and sales tools and leveraging channel marketing automation to deliver the content and resources our direct sales teams and channel partners need to engage and nurture prospects through the sales cycle.

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Speaker: Christopher Ryan, Founder and CEO of Fusion Marketing Partners

Sales & Marketing departments that work together guarantee higher acquisition, better nurturing, and more effective sales. Join Christopher Ryan for this insightful webinar, presenting the wide funnel lead nurturing model. Don't miss out on this opportunity to get your teams working together and your revenue performance optimized.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

Perhaps the most valued business case for content marketing is driving conversions. When done properly, content marketing attracts prospects at the top of the funnel and guides them through the buyer journey until they convert to become customers. Therefore, content marketing conversions are the prospects who became customers because of either helpful, useful and/or entertaining content your brand provided them.

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2015

It’s important to recognize that content syndication leads are not like most sales leads. When someone registers to download a white paper or podcast or case study about the business challenge that your product solves, he or she is expressing an interest in that topic, not necessarily in your product. That individual may well be a great candidate for your product, it’s just that he/she doesn’t know it yet.).

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The Forward Observer

AUGUST 20, 2015

Are you frustrated trying to explain how a blog can generate leads? Start with the facts. Then use an old school example that was ahead of its time. One of the biggest changes in recent marketing history is that companies no longer must go through a media gatekeeper in order to reach their prospective customers. In the past, companies had to, as David Meerman Scott says, “buy, beg or bug” to get attention: "1) You can BUY attention. This is called advertising). 2) You can BEG for attention.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 6, 2015

How do you learn SEO? It’s something I hear quite frequently and something we are continuously figuring out here at KoMarketing as the team grows. One of the main challenges with learning SEO is the number of facets involved in an SEO program. From technical challenges to writing requirements to communication and project management, an SEO needs to have a variety of skill sets. Now, it’s worth noting that one doesn’t have to be an expert in everything.

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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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Crimson Marketing

AUGUST 20, 2015

Do you look at marketing as a cost center or as a revenue center? If you answered “cost center,” you’re missing out on a big opportunity. However, don’t feel bad. For a long period of time, marketing has been seen as just that: a necessary but overall costly part of doing business. Revenue? How could it actually impact that? But things are changing, and fast. Buyers are much more self-educated than they were ten years ago (or even ten months ago).

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Oracle

AUGUST 27, 2015

A few months ago I started working for a new company. A big company. If you are reading this blog post, I’m sure you’ve heard of it. It’s called Oracle. And we have over 135,000 employees. Imagine how big my LinkedIn network would be if I connected with all of them. Or 10% of them. Even 1% of them would significantly grow the reach of my network. There is power in connecting with others in your company even before you get to know them personally.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 22, 2015

I’ve noticed a content marketing backlash, recently, with a particular vitriol directed toward business storytelling. For example, four weeks ago, the author of The Art of Storytelling in the Age of Content Marketing lashed out at brand journalism. Former journalists,” he said, “who once gave voice to the downtrodden and spoke truth to power, have latched on to this trend with good paying jobs as content marketers.”. Two more articles showed up this week.

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Biznology

AUGUST 4, 2015

Even of you have enough money to hire an entire social media symphony as well as a social media monitoring and response task force, there are too many hours in a day and, according to some, the sweet spots aren’t even during the work day anymore. So, social media automation is key. It’s not optional, it’s not nice to have, it’s de rigueur. Some say from 9-midnight on Sunday.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.

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Writing on the Web

AUGUST 26, 2015

When it comes to business blogging , how do you save time and still get results? How do you make blog tasks so easy your cat could do it? It’s the dog days of summer but around our house that expression isn’t acceptable. Doodles and Buster would have a cat fit. Here in Mexico we’re in the rainy season, when the heat of the Summer is tempered by the cool nightly rains. Which brings our year-round average temp to a mild 73.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 20, 2015

There are 1,025,109.8 words in the English language (not sure what qualifies as.8 of a word, but let’s go with it). That’s 1,025,109.8 different ways to start a sentence and 1,025,109.8 different ways to continue a sentence and 1,025,109.8 different ways to end a sentence. So why, then, does every content marketer, at one point or another, head straight into the proverbial wall ?

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Sales Engine

AUGUST 20, 2015

Christopher Kogler, Narrative IQ. When we’re providing information in a business environment such as spreadsheets, a series of bullet points in a presentation or a list of facts, the two parts of our brain that are activated are for language processing, but that’s about it. Alternatively, something fascinating happens when we listen to a story. Not only is language processing activated, but also other parts of our brain become activated as if the same events are occurring in reality.

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Oracle

AUGUST 17, 2015

Social selling is the latest trend to hit the sales world in years. Or maybe it’s just a new term for how the best salespeople have been selling all along. Or it might even be the hook that finally aligns marketing and sales at B2B companies. Before you can consider implementing it at your organization, you have to understand what it is. It is no secret that the buyer’s process is changing. Many techniques that used to work no longer do.

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Speaker: Ruth Stevens, President of eMarketing Strategy

In a pandemic, it’s more important than ever to focus on retaining and expanding current customers. So, how can sales and marketing support the retention effort? Join Ruth Stevens as she dives into this fast-paced session and reviews the 7 key strategies for current customer marketing, to enable sales and expand customer value.

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