Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2012, we feared the world would end and we would all just poof. I reached out to marketers with backgrounds in product marketing, SEO, YouTube, podcasting, and more and asked them, " Are Blogs dead? within the same five-year span, podcasts have risen in popularity and surpassed blogs in searches. In the U.S.

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Outbrain

APRIL 9, 2019

There’s no doubt about the effectiveness of content marketing. In fact, research from Demand Metric shows that, while 62 percent less costly, content marketing generates about three times as many leads as traditional marketing. This isn’t because content marketing doesn’t work.

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Hubspot

JULY 10, 2019

Effective marketing is difficult to get right. Between creative demands, budget limits, and channel decisions, marketers have a lot to juggle when developing their marketing strategy. The biggest determinant of effective marketing, however, is your audience. You might as well not be marketing at all.

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Digital B2B Marketing

MARCH 7, 2012

Inbound marketing is a hot topic in B2B marketing. However, as more B2B marketers grab the inbound marketing flag, many will miss the two keys to making inbound marketing effective: Be found through the recommendation of others. Here are other activities that can easily masquerade as inbound marketing: Paid search?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Rather, use an email marketing service to send a personalized email to your contacts and prospects. Aside from using options like MailChimp, Emma, or ConstantContact, you can also use Marketing Hub to reach out to previous attendees. When you plan an in-person conference, remember that the event’s location is prime marketing material.

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Confessions of a B2B Marketer

MARCH 15, 2023

Where is your market heading over the next 5-10 years and can you start skating there now? What content bridges the gap between someone searching and someone using your SaaS… and do you have to be the one to create it? This episode of Confessions of a B2B Marketer explains ? What did we learn? and you of course!)

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. In 2012, the top focus for B2B marketers was understanding and leveraging social media.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

In the last 11 months, there have been tons of updates to our favorite social networks, several of which were extremely relevant for marketers and business owners. Many of them were just little tweaks, but a lot -- 16 in our estimation -- had a huge impact on marketers' jobs. The Biggest Facebook Updates of 2012.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After all, these networks laid the groundwork for the social media giants we use today. From Six Degrees to Snapchat: A Brief History of Social Media. Friendster was the first network that allowed friends to create profiles and share content with their contacts. Eons.com was launched in 2006 and shut down in 2012.

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Hubspot

MAY 1, 2017

I outline the story in our Content Optimization System (COS), copy and paste it into a Google doc, find a good photo to accompany it, do research, write, proofread, and carry it back over to our COS. Knowing what those habits are, I learned during step four of the above, is a veritable goldmine for marketers. The Takeaway.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

We usually use this time to round up some marketing stories that we think you'd like to hear. HubSpot has a number of extraordinary employees who served before joining us at HubSpot. So we thought it would be interesting to hear what they had to say in terms of which inbound marketing stories most interested them this week.

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Hubspot

JUNE 20, 2017

And it’s one of the most underutilized lead generation tools we marketers have in our quiver. Sure, it has a paid lead capture form, but even without it, organic calls-to-action (CTA) work beautifully. Plus, with the embed feature, you presentations are highly portable and easily placed in blog posts, bylines, and on social media.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Combine multiple markets. Reboot an old market. According to Harvard Business Review , "Companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53% of incremental revenue growth and 74% of incremental market capitalization growth.". Social media gives you a great opportunity to do this at scale.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Well, it is, meaning it''s that time of year again to start planning for the year ahead and thinking about everything you want your marketing to achieve -- more leads, more website traffic, you name it. One aspect of marketing (and my personal favorite topic) that saw tremendous strides for marketers was social media.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 14, 2018

Steem is like YouTube on blockchain, but instead of paying content creators in fiat currency, publishers use Steem to pay content creators in STEEM, the platform’s cryptocurrency, which is easily convertible to Bitcoin and Ether. In August 2017, OmiseGO became the first Ethereum token with a market capitalization over $1 billion.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. Increase use of video marketing? What will likely be the hot trends in social media over the next couple of years? Social Media Stats and Demographics. Marketing Pilgrim ).

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2015

Tired of struggling to crank out the endless streams of content needed to appease today’s consumers? There is an option for burned out business owners, and that’s user generated content. In light of these trends, there’s never been a better time to start using user generated content to engage your readers and build trust with them.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Think Insights with Google , Google's new information and resource hub for marketers, has got you covered! Officially out of beta today , Google's new resource offers helpful tools, studies, trends, stats, and videos to give marketers the data they need when they need it. 12) Only 33% of advertisers have a mobile optimized website.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2013

Are you ready to build your dream team of inbound marketers? Hiring inbound marketers is a fairly new priority for businesses as they stray from traditional marketing to more inbound-driven, web-based tactics. Just recognizing that you need to invest in inbound marketing is step one. 1) Social Media Manager.

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Hubspot

MARCH 13, 2014

Videos were still called moving pictures when marketers started taking advantage of them. The company paid $9 to plug their advertisement. With consumers’ online video engagement higher, patience shorter, and free time smaller than ever, short-form video is an extremely important part of marketing strategy.

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EveryoneSocial

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Content marketing as we’ve known it, which is centered on search optimization and sharing links that drive traffic to websites, is no longer a leading strategy. We’ve entered a new paradigm that has social media at its center and relies on sharing content that can be consumed and engaged with on the networks.

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Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2012

When you think about inbound marketing, PPC isn't the first thing that pops into your head. That's because PPC is traditional advertising -- you know, that interruptive stuff you've become adept at blocking out -- except it takes place on the internet instead of a billboard on the side of the highway.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2011

And can A/B testing extend beyond landing pages to other areas of your marketing? (It If you're creating landing pages with forms, then you already understand how important lead generation is to monetize your site traffic and meet your marketing and sales goals. Captions on images: Does adding a caption to your image help clarify it?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2012

But you may have heard that we're in the heat of planning the biggest inbound marketing conference ever (at which Cyndi Lauper is indeed performing) -- INBOUND 2012. We're going to share some of our secrets with you that have helped drive our ticket sales for INBOUND 2012; hopefully these will help you promote your next event, too!

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Hubspot

APRIL 17, 2013

Small businesses with limited marketing budgets have always been at a disadvantage against big-name competitors. When you’re the shop on the corner, good luck competing with corporations with quarterly marketing budgets larger than your entire annual revenue. The results paid off. At least, that’s how the story used to go.

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Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2013

But you can teach a good, old-school agency how to adapt to changes in the marketplace, and transform themselves into a sleek, high-performance inbound marketing machine. Make a very tangible, meaningful commitment to inbound marketing.”. That’s very different than adding some inbound marketing services to your offerings.”.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2012

including search marketers ! And if you're a marketer who wants to give your holiday campaigns some extra oomph in the SERPs, it's probably too late to improve your organic search rankings -- at least if you want some quick holiday returns. Ask yourself, "When does my audience search?" You guessed it. What Is PPC?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2013

These companies just made some smart marketing decisions that led to some serious growth spurts along the way. The company spoke directly to the Google Reader audience and created a ton of content for likely searches, such as "Google Reader Alternatives.". For many, however, growth hasn''t always been straight and even.

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Hubspot

MAY 8, 2012

It's not an uncommon scenario: Business bloggers get so caught up in the grind of churning out quality content on a regular basis, they tend to forget about some of the other fundamental factors that contribute to a successful blog. The people who consistently read and share your content with their networks?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Even when things seem to be chugging along smoothly, most marketers and business owners always have a dark cloud looming over their heads. Now let's break down the steps for this effective lead generation recipe so you can ramp up your efforts this month, or start January 2012 with the formula for success. lead goals. Getting Found.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

As it turns out, many of our most beloved destination sites -- some of which we frequently write about and are essential to marketers -- were borderline unrecognizable when they first launched. And what can marketers stand to learn from it? Streaming media tools and devices. Founded: 2012. What were they then? 2) Netflix.

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Hubspot

APRIL 6, 2012

How many ebooks does your marketing team have in its content arsenal? According to a newly released report by Pew Internet , in mid-December 2011, 17% of American adults had reported they read an ebook in the previous year; by February, 2012, the share increased to 21%. Importance of a Brand Style Guide.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

According to a 2012 report by Adobe , a whopping 52% of marketers cite difficulties in accurately measuring ROI as their biggest source of frustration in social media marketing. I would like to try and alleviate some of that pain, at least when it comes to marketing on Twitter. And Vine doesn’t have any analytics.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

From P&G’s “Thank You, Mom” to American Express’s “Small Business Saturday” to Dos Equis’s “Most Interesting Man in the World,” marketing campaigns have a way of sticking with us long after an impression or purchase. Marketing campaigns can do the same for your business. Advertising is a component of marketing.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Not because small business owners aren't good marketers, or don't have good marketers on staff -- but because they have fewer resources and less time than companies with large marketing departments. Here's what I mean when I say Google's makin' it tough for SMBs to succeed there for marketing. These are the questions.

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Hubspot

JUNE 29, 2012

Sick of hearing the same "the internet is changing marketing" speeches? Want hard data to reference so that you can properly forecast and adjust future marketing plans and budgets? 21 Internet Marketing Statistics That May Surprise You. 3) On average, companies respond to only 30% of social media fans' feedback.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

To have a successful product launch, you need to craft a thoughtful, actionable, effective go-to-market (GTM) strategy framework. Without proper planning, it’s impossible to know if you’re chasing the wrong audience, are too early or too late to a given market, or targeting a market that's too saturated with similar solutions.

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