Back on September 20, I posted various tips from the Inbound Marketing Summit and HubSpot User Group. Naturally, the conference also included public and private discussions of HubSpot itself, but I thought those were best shared in a separate post. The conference yielded a clear picture of HubSpot’s business strategy for the coming year. HubSpot originally focused on “top of funnel” or “inbound” marketing, which boils down to helping marketers to attract Web traffic. HubSpot also plans to automate functions that are simply too hard for most marketers to do manually. MORE >>

When I created my own B2B Marketing Blog almost 3 years ago, I looked out across the blogosphere and asked “what do I have to say that is unique, valuable and helpful?” So I reached out to my connections across the social landscape and asked who they thought published the best B2B Marketing blogs around. am certain that I missed some great B2B Marketing blogs below, but these are the ones who were recommended by a majority of my readers and social media followers and those that have influenced me as well. The Best B2B Marketing Blogs. Content Marketing MORE >>

HubSpot added a new tool to its Grader suite, today. The Marketing Grader – a replacement for HubSpot’s Website Grader tool - analyzes 30+ measures of marketing effectiveness and grades the business on a 1-100 scale. Taking the concept of website grading a step further, Marketing Grader evaluates performance at the “top of the funnel” (the ability to generate new interest and traffic), “the middle of the funnel” (whether that traffic converts into prospects, leads and customers) and analytics (measuring and comparing the right things). Blogging). MORE >>

A big part of lead gen is content, and the simplest content machine on the web is a blog. The blog is our corporate thought leadership beacon, and it’s good mojo for our partners (blogroll!).  And as Neil Patel, Eloqua, Marketo and Hubspot have shown us, when B2B content is crafted correctly, it becomes a killer tool for attracting qualified prospects to your sales funnel. Let’s assume you’ve got a great blog, but it’s time for a refresh (like the simple weekend facelift we just had here at The B2B Lead ). By the way, we fixed this one already. MORE >>

When it comes to questions like which web metrics are most important, how to scrutinize Google Analytics reports for actionable data, how to create custom reports or evaluate social media ROI, and how to improve SEO, reduce bounce rates or measure YouTube success, these 18 articles and posts on using web analytics to improve marketing performance offer invaluable assistance. ” How To Track Mobile Visitors In Google Analytics by Local SEO Guide. 35+ tips and tricks for sexier Google analytics reports by Webdistortion. Fortunately, there is help. Brilliant. MORE >>