Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2011

Are you leaving additional sales leads and revenues on the table? Industrial marketers who don’t use a business blog are missing a key component of feeding the top of their sales funnels. By not using every opportunity to generate high-quality leads, they may be leaving money on the table.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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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. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Webbiquity

JUNE 25, 2012

Sales leads generated through inbound marketing–the combination of content marketing, blogging, social media, website chat and SEM–cost 61% less than those produced through traditional demand generation techniques (e.g., Photo credit: DIY Marketers.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2013

Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it''s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well. And rightfully so.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Most inbound marketers understand that business blogging is a critical part of a comprehensive inbound marketing strategy. But how frequently does a blogger need to publish content in order to make a true dent in their marketing results? Wouldn't it be great to have some blogging benchmarks to go by?

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Hubspot

MAY 12, 2010

Great business blogs have to walk a fine line: they have to create value for current and prospective customers while at the same time supporting a strategy that provides business growth. Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Many business bloggers have learned that their blog is one of their most crucial inbound marketing assets. Not only do companies that blog generate 55% more web traffic, but 57% of businesses have also won a customer through their blog. Explain the blog's objective. Image credit: rahego.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Most marketers these days recognize that inbound marketing is a critical component of lead generation. A recent study released by the Hinge Research Institute revealed a remarkable correlation between profitability and online lead generation among professional services firms. Business Blogging.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Inbound marketing takes time, but most marketers only have a few hours in the schedule that they can carve out for inbound marketing, which can make prioritizing activites extremely difficult. If you only have a few hours to dedicate to inbound marketing per week, how should you allocate your time?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2012

Creating remarkable content is one of the core components of inbound marketing, and one of the best ways to generate a steady flow of fresh content is by publishing a business blog. Mistake (And Why It Hurts): Your blog is published on its own domain, separate from your company’s main website.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Having trouble wrapping your head all the way around inbound marketing? The links below will give you access to the best HubSpot ebooks of the last 18 months -- and they're organized in a way that makes it clear how they fit into the core inbound marketing methodology. Inbound Marketing Ebooks. 3) Analyze.

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Hubspot

MAY 20, 2013

and statistics from the recently released 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report. Feel free to use this data in your own content, tweet the stats you find most interesting, or just enlighten yourself about the current state of inbound marketing. 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2010

I previously took a deep look at leveraging Twitter for lead generation as the first in our series of social media lead generation articles. Today, let's take a deep dive into business blogging to ensure your business is doing everything it can to leverage its business blog for lead generation opportunities.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Yes, as an inbound marketer, your blog content has to be amazing. As a business becoming a blogging machine, it is easy to focus 100% on content and ignore valuable design elements of your blog that can act as powerful boosters of traffic and leads of your business.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You're an inbound marketing convert. This blog post (how meta is that?) will give you the facts, research, and know-how to explain the benefits of business blogging to a tentative boss and debunk many of the common myths inbound marketing professionals are frequently faced with during these difficult conversations.

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Hubspot

MARCH 3, 2011

In the world of inbound marketing and social media, lots of fluffy terms like engagement and conversation get thrown around. But for marketers social media should be about one thing: leads. Many marketers are leaving far too many leads on the table. 7 Missed Social Media Lead Generation Opportunities.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 13, 2019

In short, there’s no shortage of ways a recruiting company could start capturing leads on their website and building their pool of candidates and their pipeline of companies who have hiring needs. Inbound Leads. Can you come up with a better Inbound Marketing Haiku ?). Unfortunately, “Leads.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Your blog is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful inbound marketing tools at your disposal. But one of blogging's biggest benefits is in its huge potential for lead generation and reconversion. 8 Lead Gen Opportunities for Your Business Blog. On Your Blog's Homepage.

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Hubspot

JUNE 25, 2012

Do you consider your business to be "niche?" If so, inbound marketing was made for you! Think about it: if you're in a niche industry, any large-scale outbound marketing initiatives (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads) will reach an audience that is 99% irrelevant to your business.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 20, 2012

At this point, we know that consistent, frequent blogging is critical to your business’ online success. In fact, according to the 2012 State of Inbound Marketing , 70% of companies that publish articles 2-3 times per week have acquired a customer through their blog. Authors and Due Dates.

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Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2012

There is no shortage of different types of content you can create to feed your business blog. It's a business blogging classic. They're valuable and helpful, they make great pieces of evergreen content that stand the test of time, and they're an inbound marketing staple to reap the benefits of educating your prospects.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Turning your blog into a lead generation engine is no easy feat, but it is worthwhile and—better yet—completely achievable. In fact, marketers who consistently blog see 67 percent more leads than those who don’t. And 57 percent of marketers say they have “ gained customers specifically through blogging.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing. Marketing automation is very effective in moving prospects through the middle of the marketing funnel until the handoff to sales and provides a good closed-loop system for lead recycling that would otherwise go to waste. Source: Marketing Sherpa/ KnowledgeStorm).

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Use it to map out your own plays for generating more high-quality leads, increasing sales and growing revenues. What inbound marketing with content will do for you. Lead nurturing for better lead generation. How to feed your sales funnel with a business blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

In my conversations over the past few months, I have noticed a growing acceptance of blog sites among manufacturers, industrial distributors and engineering services companies. Blog sites as inbound marketing hubs. Industrial companies have realized the importance of inbound marketing and its impact on lead generation.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Call-to-Actions – Your blog should be a lead generating machine. Great blog call-to-actions are action oriented, positive, clear, and direct. View this document on Slideshare and click download at the top of the document to get a copy of this checklist for your business. Blog Checklist.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. Don’t think of it as the panacea for your lead generation problems. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. { I would take this a little further.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If there is one important takeaway from this exercise, it is that blog posts live forever and continue to attract traffic long after they have been posted. That’s the power of inbound marketing with content. Thought Leadership: Marketing Engineering Services with Technical Articles. Thank you for being a loyal reader.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I am seeing more manufacturers and industrial companies willing to try inbound marketing with content. A sure sign of that is the number of conversations that I have had recently with my current clients and new leads. They all want to either add a blog to their static industrial websites or convert them into dynamic blog sites.

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

From managing your day-to-day content to creating landing pages for your website, marketing automation platforms are your all-in-one tool. If you want to drive traffic to your website, set up marketing campaigns, or inbound marketing strategies, these kinds of software have the functionality you need.

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Hubspot

JUNE 21, 2010

Does your business blog have a unique, recognizable voice? If it doesn't, you could be in trouble, since voice is one of the most important elements of a successful blog , according to our top inbound marketing of the past week. So what is voice, and how can you express it through your blog?

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PureB2B

JUNE 29, 2021

Now, businesses can run targeted ads that guarantee a broader reach to potential customers. In terms of efficacy for specialized enterprises, inbound marketing outperforms digital marketing and is a near-perfect fit. An Overview of Inbound Marketing. Inbound Marketing for Niche Business.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Using content for inbound marketing HubSpot , calls inbound marketing as flipping traditional outbound marketing on its head. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing’s role is growing through the addition of what I call ‘sales enablement’ activities. These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). The Benefits of a Business Blog.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? B2B Lead Blog ).

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

From managing your day-to-day content to creating landing pages for your website, marketing automation platforms are your all-in-one tool. If you want to drive traffic to your website, set up marketing campaigns, or inbound marketing strategies these kinds of software have the function for you.

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