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How I Learned the Hard Way Not to Associate My Company With Buzzwords

Hubspot

By the time “growth hacking” had become a common term -- but not yet a ubiquitous buzzword -- our ads and articles using the phrase performed exceptionally well, which told me our audience thought growth hacking was important. After Sean Ellis coined the phrase in 2010, growth hacking caught on quickly.

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Key Benefits the Right Domain Name Adds to your Brand

Biznology

It’s a differentiating factor between building a solid and memorable brand and getting lost in a sea of similar businesses. Back in 2010, Google’s former head of the webspam team, Matt Cutts, emphasized that the difference between new and old domains is not a big deal. A domain name is far more than your site’s address.

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Taming Your Brand Mascot « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

A recent article I read on Harvard Business Review, “ Aflac’s CEO Explains How He Fell For The Duck ” made me think about brand messaging and the use of mascots. The article is great because it gives you an insider’s view of how the famous Aflac duck came to being and the challenges Aflac’s CEO had to overcome to get it adopted.

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26 Google Webmaster Tools Videos Addressing Common B2B Link Building Questions

KoMarketing Associates

What Is Google’s Thinking About Links From Article Marketing, Widgets, etc? Should I Build Links Using Article Directories? Created: March 4, 2010. Interesting question on differentiation between the use of paid links and paid advertisements that incorporate links. Created: December 17, 2010. Guess what?

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Are You in a Boring, All-the-Same Industry? Your Content Doesn’t Have to Be

Content Marketing Institute

In this article, I cover Jonathan’s tactics for creating content about products that are: Boring. According to Jonathan, “As a consequence of this one article, they closed two or three additional deals with garden apartment complexes representing over a million dollars each.”. Undifferentiated. Click To Tweet. Undifferentiated.

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The Dark Future of Native Advertising

Digital B2B Marketing

On a typical article two-thirds of people are engaged for more than 15 seconds, on native ad content that plummets to about one-third. But content marketers committed to producing valuable and differentiated content have an alternative. Unfortunately, they are still the exceptions. It is a downward spiral. Build Your Own Content Brand.

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B2B Lead Generation Blog: Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department

markempa

« Lead generation and the number | Main | Reaching Decision Makers » Customer Referrals and Your Sales and Marketing Department For the complex sale you need enthusiastic referrals to help you build your reputation, differentiate yourself, demonstrate your value proposition, shorten your sales cycle, and drive revenue.