Article: Manufacturing pros look to leads; Tough times have industrial marketers looking for ways to improve ROI.(NEWS)(Return on investment)

Byline: MARY E. MORRISON

MARKETERS IN THE industrial space continue to face a number of significant challenges this year, most notably that their budgets have been cut; their target audience often isn't buying; and they're under more pressure than ever to proveand improvemarketing ROI.

As a result, industrial marketers are heavily focused on lead generation and customer acquisition, said Chris Chariton, VP-marketing services and product management at GlobalSpec, a search engine and information resource for the engineering, industrial and technical communities. In fact, according to the company's annual Industrial Marketing Trends Survey, conducted ...

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