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

Industrial Marketing Today

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk

Industrial Marketing Today

And they use different sources to get their information. The chart below from a research study done by Forrester illustrates this point very clearly. 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.

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Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

The stages are: Needs Awareness Research Consideration & Comparison Procurement The white paper then goes on to explain how industrial marketers must match their marketing content to the buyer’s stage in the buy cycle. There are plenty of charts and graphs too. You can download it from here (does require registration).

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How Relevant Marketing Content Helps B2B Branding

Industrial Marketing Today

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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

Industrial Marketing Today

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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Content Creation Made Easy

Industrial Marketing Today

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. You’d be surprised how many different ideas and variations you can get from your initial thought after doing your research.

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7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products

Industrial Marketing Today

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.