Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You can see an example of B2B web design prices from my company’s online marketing division’s website. 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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic. 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

APRIL 30, 2010

Marketers need to create a process for content planning that helps them maximize the return from their investments in developing the content resources that fuel their online marketing programs. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 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

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Select the best social media outlets depending on where your target audience hangs out and use them for starting your conversation. The objective here is to drive people to your website, which should be the hub of your online marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

In his post, Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future, he defines a content curator as “someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online.” Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Incorporating these five simple steps into your online marketing efforts can go a long way in shortening your buy cycle. 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 3, 2010

Why does online marketing content cause so much angst? 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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Social media and online marketing have forced the traditional salesperson to change his/her tactics like the rest of us but have not made them expendable. Death of an industrial salesperson Does this mean the industrial salesperson’s job function is dead? Not so fast!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging. Now, the rules are changing, and noteworthy, quality content is the future of online marketing success.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Then Linkedin. All the while you’re feeling like you’re playing catch-up, that something awesome may have happened, and you missed it because you weren’t online. You run over to check your Twitter account. Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. Maybe your blog. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

While it's obviously not as public as a social network, it seems that the mindset is, “I trust their opinions, I'll ask them a question.&# link] (Facebook, friendships, and voyeurism) [link] David Goldie Interesting cross between physical and online marketing, through Facebook and Diesel.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It’s a boullabaise of advice and observations on social media, viral marketing, and customer experience, with a side order of social media how-to. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service? 6 things you need 2 incorporate into your social media plan.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

I totally agree that repurposing content across social networking platforms is a necessity, and that saying what you mean and meaning what you say across every channel is very important. I also think that there is a lot of potential in the often overlooked message board communities that existed well before both Facebook and Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. link] [link] Brad Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Your LInkedin page. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Post it to your Facebook page. Your blog, naturally. Put it on YouTube of course.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Over ~30 days, there are 24 sessions about everything social media , and because it’s totally virtual, one registration can cover your entire team or company, and you get access to a registrants-only Linkedin group and other networking opportunities.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Social Media in B2B Marketing - Survey Results - Everything Technology Marketing , November 16, 2010 The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted a survey earlier this year to explore the rapidly changing landscape of social media in the context of B2B marketing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you wanted to create a system that replicated as best as possible the physical act of two people speaking to one another in the same place at the same time, would you build Twitter, or a WordPress comment system, or Facebook, or Linkedin? I’ve seen some linkedin groups with great discussions. Absolutely not.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] via @JayBaer [link] Viaspire RT @jaybaer: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] [link] Mark Smiciklas RT @jaybaer: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] [link] Jay Oatway Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master – [link] (..)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. I was joined by Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 , Ann Handley from MarketingProfs , and Brad Kleinman from Online Marketing Connect.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Here’s another to add to the list – in the social media listening section check out Viralheat.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

If we like it we want to pass it around to our network so that they can interact with it. This is how we connect with each other online, by sharing content. This means your content should be capable of easily sharing through the major social networking sites as well as any niche sites your market is using.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

The drawback is that they are only tracking Twitter and Facebook for now, so if you need to monitor blogs, blog comments, discussion forums, Linkedin or anything else on behalf of your company or clients, you’ll need to gather that data elsewhere. The ease-of-use and Excel format of RowFeeder are big pluses for me.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Here’s another to add to the list – in the social media listening section check out Viralheat.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Free Download: 2010 Online Marketing Blueprint. Find New Customers releases new white paper on email marketing - Fearless Competitor , July 21, 2010 Very exciting to finally announce the release a new white paper from Find New Customers , a leading demand generation company. Media Plan (5). Linkedin (103).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

However, my preference is for the baby naming approach – selecting key performance indicators (KPI) before a single Tweet is sent, blog post is written, or Linkedin group is christened. This is because social media success is inherently slow , not fast. I’ve worked in both camps, and have seen both succeed.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I think point 5 is a great one, and applies to many social networks – the more 'friends' you have, the more unmanageable it becomes. I'm not even going to try. I mean content should be king, not one-liners on the likes of Twitter. But for good reasons. Thanks for the thought-provoking post! dell is one example.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Edward Brice pretty much nailed the significant b2b marketing developments for 2010 (e.g. mass adoption of social media, but no clear way to measure ROI from it) in this predictive post. 2010: Social Network Advertising and Marketing Outlook by Brian Solis. Are B2B Marketers Missing the Point?

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