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

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

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

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

AUGUST 26, 2012

Here at HubSpot, we've been super busy preparing for INBOUND 2012. If you're one of the 2,500+ marketers attending, we can't wait to see you! It's always a good idea to come brushed up on your inbound marketing current events, though, so go ahead and take in our top five marketing stories of the past week!

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Hubspot

JANUARY 20, 2011

EMarketer recently came out with a report that contains the online ad spending per internet user in the EU-5, Canada and the US in 2010. I then took a look at the UK Ad Spending Growth chart and saw that it doesn't look like the spending is going to slow down anytime soon. growth in Q2 2012. So what does this all mean?

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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

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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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

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

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. But what exactly can you test on the landing page ? Tons of things.)

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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

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

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

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

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

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. Converting traffic into leads. The frequency with which you post and update content matters in search engines, and to people. Create content around topics people care about.

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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. Let''s take a look at some of the decisions that proved to be watershed for seven companies and led to major increases in traffic, revenue, and brand evangelism. In 2011, the social medium''s traffic grew 40x in six months.

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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

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

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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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

JUNE 19, 2014

Spoiler alert: The worst that could happen is Google lands a direct hit on your search rankings with a flying roundhouse kick, your PageRank drops to 0, and you eventually get featured in a blog post (like this one) that''s filled with examples of companies that broke the rules and paid the price. Where were we? Toys R Us pays $5.1

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Hubspot

MAY 19, 2020

Like any major marketing strategy of the past decade social media has had plenty of time to accumulate some big, inaccurate, myths. Yes, social media landscapes change dramatically every day. Yes, social media landscapes change dramatically every day. 19 Social Media Myths to Leave Behind. In 2019, over 2.39

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Or have too many social media marketing statistics.” ” Well, she actually only said the first part (which is debatable), but certainly would have said the second part (which isn’t) had social media been around in the 1930s. How effective is social media in comparison to other digital marketing channels?

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Hubspot

MARCH 30, 2015

That''s the first thing I thought to myself when I heard him tell the audience at Social Media Week NYC that he is a full-time Instagrammer. The pictures he posts are a mix of the unbranded content that led to his Instagram popularity, and pictures he now posts to promote brands he''s partnered with, like Hyatt, Equinox, and Thom Browne.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

When you hear the word “advertising,” what comes to mind? Do you think of banner ads on your favorite website? While most of us have a pretty good idea of what advertising looks like , it’s a little harder to nail down exactly what it means — and how to do it well. Introduce a new product or service to the market.

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Hubspot

MAY 3, 2018

More Ad Content Competing for News Feed Space. This observed decline in organic Facebook reach began in 2014, when Brian Boland, Facebook's VP of Advertising Technology (at the time), said Facebook is simply managing more ad content than it used to, and News Feed space is thus more competitive among marketers.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

HubSpot's first season of Skill Up is all about SEO. In this series, HubSpot Director of Acquisition (and co-founder of Traffic Think Tank ) Matthew Howells-Barby and Academy professor Jorie Munroe dive into everything a search-oriented marketer or SEO needs to know this year. Experts on the Wire.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Despite a shaky IPO last spring, Facebook remains the 800-pound gorilla of social media marketing, as it now approaches the billion-user mark. Though often associated with bands and brands, Facebook is viewed as the most effective social media tool (by a fairly large margin) by both B2C and bB2B marketers.

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Hubspot

JUNE 18, 2019

You've even (over)paid that self-proclaimed "expert" to help you develop an SEO strategy that aligns with your business goals. Download our free SEO Starter Pack and access everything you need to get your website and blog ranking in search in 2019. It helps your site be optimized for both human eyes and search engine bots.

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Single Grain

APRIL 4, 2022

Digital marketing analytics is crucial for every business. Data-driven insights provided by top analytics agencies help marketing teams consistently measure the impact of their marketing strategies and benchmark their own efforts. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ↓ What Is Marketing Analytics? What Is Marketing Analytics?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 28, 2012

Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well). What’s the best process for developing a social media marketing plan?

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EveryoneSocial

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Whether you’re a marketer or social media expert — or even if you’re just a social media savvy executive — you’ve probably come across the term dark social lately. Many marketers, thought leaders, and general audiences are intrigued by this concept more than ever before. Content Platforms (Youtube, Apple Podcasts, etc.)

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently I had a conversation with a fellow marketer who challenged the notion that inbound leads costs less. They pointed to the high cost per lead of some paid search (PPC) campaigns as evidence. It’s about lining up marketing efforts more closely to the buying process. What is Inbound Marketing?

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Hubspot

JULY 24, 2013

Magazines, newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and online publishers -- let’s call them media companies -- have been producing news content for years, with the aim of attracting an audience. Some might even call them inbound marketers light years ahead of their time. Why Media Companies Are Struggling.

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