Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Make sure there are well-established guidelines for employees to participate in social networks. Follow these essential rules of a website redesign and you’ll truly create a powerful sales and marketing tool. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. The first is a diagnostic tool and the second one measures the health of the business. It’s a combination of tools, methods or procedures, and analysis and activities.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. You can read his entire blog post here.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., and professor of marketing at the University of Missouri.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

That’s unfortunate because when a webinar is done right, it can be a very powerful tool to educate and engage your audience. 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 20, 2010

Business blogs for lead generation Even though business blogging is not widely used in B2B marketing and especially in industrial marketing, it can be very effective as a tool for lead generation. A business blog can be one of the most powerful tools in driving traffic and generating high-quality B2B leads.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. 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

MAY 3, 2010

How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool? Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Parametric part number search – in addition to the standard word search tool on your website, build a parametric search application. Valve sizing programs – these are great and easy to use tools for any manufacturer of valves for chemical, hydrocarbon and industrial process, power, water and wastewater industries.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. 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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. I certainly do not support the Draconian position that somehow social networks threaten email’s existence as a marketing channel. Will you spend some time thinking about how to integrate your social messaging, not building a throne for it?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. The More Things Change, The More Things Change [link] [link] Aron Stevenson The More Things Change, The More Things Change – Social media hates the status quo the way Kobe hates Shaq.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. 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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. And it’s free.

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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. I suspect that as more understanding is gained of “how to&# use the tools the flood gates will open in the industrial sector.

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Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 60

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. They're bots and goofballs who followed you using one of the tools you alluded to. I once calculated time spent blogging vs. number of RSS subscribers. It's awesome!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. You would be entirely wrong. Visits are up. Page views are up. Retweets are up.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. How much can you afford to spend on the tool? •

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Juliansummerhayes Jay Now this is more like it; something that is *real world* and capable of being understood by business and those people like myself who, when discussing social media as tool for business, here the constant noise that it is simply irrelevant. I was surprised(ish) about the B2B findings; but not so surprised.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Using social media to acquire customers is like using email to acquire customers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Because tools will change. If you fall in love with tools, you’ll constantly be changing directions, with no real plan to guide your way. They always do.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. October 2007.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

The multitude of tools, platforms, and techniques can be overwhelming at times. In the last two-three weeks, I participated in 3 webinars and 5 software demos, with more planned this week. I have an RSS reader with 150 or so blogs to stay up to speed on the ever changing world of demand and lead generation. Paid Media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C. link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search You’re Invited to the Socialpalooza March 22nd, 2010 |Written (..)

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Use a free tool like Google’s Keyword Tool to find search terms and long-tail keywords that people are using to search for information related to your products and services. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. That will give you an idea of demand.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I advocate participating in Twitter, and I’ve certainly grown my own audience via that channel, and it should be part of almost every company or business professional’s social media tool kit. Retweet-style sharing tools? Tagging people with @ within status updates? Posting to Twitter directly from Facebook?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

Befor… [link] [link] Alyssa G I agree with your perspective on the iPad being the ultimate content consumption tool – and for that reason, I think it will be a great device for education, particularly for college students. It's a perfect tool for that and much less expensive than any alternatives in that space.

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