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Why Your Sales Funnel May Run Dry Without a Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

Industrial marketers who don’t use a business blog are missing a key component of feeding the top of their sales funnels. You can find lots of online articles about the advantages of using a business blog for building thought leadership, communities and humanizing your company. Source: HubSpot ).

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What the Future Holds for Business Blogging

Hubspot

Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it''s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well. And rightfully so.

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9 Awesome Ways to Market a Business Blog

Hubspot

While content works, bloggers need to employ other tactics to help market their business blog to aid the achievement of their business objectives. Leverage Employees and Customers - The people who already know and work for/with your company are a great source of reach for your business blog content.

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The Ultimate Resource for 2013 Inbound Marketing Stats and Charts [SlideShare]

Hubspot

and statistics from the recently released 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report. Feel free to use this data in your own content, tweet the stats you find most interesting, or just enlighten yourself about the current state of inbound marketing. 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report.

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10 Common Business Blogging Questions Answered

Hubspot

Is it good to have a Contact Form page on my blog? Contact forms are not the best performing elements you can add to your blog (or, for that matter, to any other web page). Today your community can reach you instantly using social media, a practice that made contact forms even clumsier and more obsolete.

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Business Blogging Turns 20 This Year (Plus 12 More Stellar Stats and Facts)

Webbiquity

The original term “weblog” was shortened to just “blog” a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. Business blogging is now commonplace. Three-quarters of B2B marketers and 61% of their B2C counterparts use blogs as part of their social media content.

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Top 5 Inbound Marketing Articles to Start the Week: Blogging Motivation

Hubspot

Leyl's article addresses the misconception that there is no business benefit for B2B companies on Facebook and shares four helpful tips for creating a powerful presence on Facebook specifically for this audience. Her advice includes becoming an industry resource, engaging the community, expanding beyond your wall, and lightening up.