Hubspot

MAY 28, 2014

While many of the people in that class know why blogging is important for business growth, I''m supposed to teach it as if that''s not the case. Fresh off the heels of last month''s training class, I realized it''s a little ridiculous that I''ve never written a post that explains business blogging in those terms on this very blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 3, 2011

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. The answer is a resounding yes.

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Hubspot

JUNE 1, 2010

Are you sick of business blogging ? Do you feel like you brain is empty and out of ideas for blog posts? The reality is that the web is full of too many great ideas and different types of content, that you should never run out of things to blog about, regardless of your industry. This is a common feeling. (I

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NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

B2B buyers are time deprived and risk averse – and also enormously well informed. They resent and ignore interruptive marketing approaches such as advertising and cold calling. Marketing’s role is growing through the addition of what I call ‘sales enablement’ activities. The Benefits of a Business Blog.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Blogs and podcasts are both powerhouse marketing tools. Company blogs are well-established inbound marketing channels, while business podcasts are the up-and-comers garnering a lot of excitement in the industry. A few stats in the blog corner: 59% of marketers find business blogging valuable.

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Hubspot

MAY 12, 2010

Great business blogs have to walk a fine line: they have to create value for current and prospective customers while at the same time supporting a strategy that provides business growth. Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A common enough question, but it got me thinking: in more than five years and nearly 500 posts about web presence optimization, SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, and inbound marketing on this blog, I’ve never actually answered that question here. click to enlarge). Not a place for me to “sell.”

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Let's say that a couple of months ago, you decided to really start drinking the inbound marketing Kool-Aid, and you took the plunge: you started a business blog. 12 Reasons Your Blog is Failing. But if you want to generate leads and business from your blog , keep all that me-centric product talk away.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 23, 2019

We live in an information age. This action keeps search engines like Google busy. So how do you attract people looking for help relevant to your business? So how do you attract people looking for help relevant to your business? Focus on Educational Content as Opposed to Branded Content.

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The Lead Agency

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to marketing guru Neil Patel, guest blogging is the best inbound marketing strategy. Guest blogging benefits both the blog that hosts the content and the person writing the content. In addition, 62.96% of people perceive blogs that have a number of contributors to be more credible.

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Hubspot

JUNE 25, 2012

Do you consider your business to be "niche?" If so, inbound marketing was made for you! Think about it: if you're in a niche industry, any large-scale outbound marketing initiatives (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads) will reach an audience that is 99% irrelevant to your business.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Yes, as an inbound marketer, your blog content has to be amazing. However, even the best content can be hampered by bad design. A clear, lead-focused blog design will help turbo-charge the results of your inbound marketing content. So what does a great business blog look like?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2012

Creating remarkable content is one of the core components of inbound marketing, and one of the best ways to generate a steady flow of fresh content is by publishing a business blog. Easy Fix: The ideal home for your blog is either on a sub-domain of your main website (e.g.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Don’t sell. Don’t interrupt.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Inbound marketing takes time, but most marketers only have a few hours in the schedule that they can carve out for inbound marketing, which can make prioritizing activites extremely difficult. If you only have a few hours to dedicate to inbound marketing per week, how should you allocate your time?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kanye West is an incredible rapper, but he's also an amazing case study in inbound marketing. Below are 5 do's and don'ts we can learn from Kanye West about inbound marketing: DO: Collaborate to Increase Your Exposure. Interruption-based marketing can cause ill will from a company to a customer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 20, 2012

At this point, we know that consistent, frequent blogging is critical to your business’ online success. In fact, according to the 2012 State of Inbound Marketing , 70% of companies that publish articles 2-3 times per week have acquired a customer through their blog. Titles and Content Details.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I remember my first marketing job like it was yesterday. My boss, the marketing director at the time, asked me: “Do you know what inbound marketing is?”. I knew marketing was about branding, sharing product information, and understanding consumer psychology. What Is Inbound Marketing?

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Webbiquity

MARCH 20, 2018

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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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Excellent content leaves the reader with something new that they didn’t have before. People like to get something from blogs they read. You don’t have to be Shakespeare to have a good blog. Remarkable Content – A mix of content is good. Keep content topical, informative, and non promotional.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

That however is only part of the solution because if your content doesn’t engage the visitor s/he won’t take a desired action to move forward in the sales cycle. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. You can’t satisfy all of them with one-size-fits all content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

In my conversations over the past few months, I have noticed a growing acceptance of blog sites among manufacturers, industrial distributors and engineering services companies. Blog sites as inbound marketing hubs. Industrial companies have realized the importance of inbound marketing and its impact on lead generation.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a B2B marketing manager, how do you deal with changing digital trends in marketing and deliver the type of growth your organization expects? The answer: inbound marketing. An Inbound Marketing Refresher. Give Old Content New Life. Content development should always be seen as an iterative process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

For a while now, marketing consultants have been preaching the benefits of making B2B blogging the cornerstone of inbound marketing. It is difficult nowadays to find a marketing company or an independent expert not using a business blog to attract and engage with its target audience.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

That is pretty much the mantra of B2B content marketing. Nothing happens until your site visitors and blog readers take some kind of an action after reading your content. And they use different sources to get their information. What marketing content you serve at each phase of the buying cycle also matters.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 17, 2011

The mantra for effective business blogging is to regularly pump out fresh content that is reader-centric and not focussed too much on you, your products or your company. More power to you if you already have a horde of avid readers who visit your blog every time you post new content. Add a link…you know the drill!

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 25, 2010

In an inbound marketing world, the careful alignment of sales and marketing can be tremendously beneficial to business success. In this week's top inbound marketing article, Todd Defren discusses the problematic disconnect between many businesses' sales and marketing teams in terms of social media engagement.

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PureB2B

JUNE 29, 2021

In terms of efficacy for specialized enterprises, inbound marketing outperforms digital marketing and is a near-perfect fit. An Overview of Inbound Marketing. Inbound marketing is simply a set of interconnected, strategically planned marketing activities to attract prospective customers to your content or website.

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Hubspot

MAY 10, 2010

Whether you're talking about location-based , mobile, local search, or geo-marketing, the ability to segment your message by location is one of the newest developments in marketing. Marketing Takeaway: Always measure your marketing programs , but make sure your first taking steps to ensure you're focusing on the appropriate data.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

There are also inbound marketing software packages that have blog software included. Determine who your audience is going to be and why you are blogging. Think about what you are trying to accomplish with a blog. This will help you target your audience and solid blog content. You must produce work.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So curated content is not something new.

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

Since the early 90’s the internet has evolved into the most flexible marketing channel we’ve ever seen. As a customer, you’ve seen online ads, search engine rankings, social media, and hundreds of different content marketing formats. This allows the business to personalize the interaction each customer interaction.

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Hubspot

JUNE 22, 2011

How can you use content marketing to grow your business? Social Media Examiner founder Mike Stelzner joins HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe in a discussion on building a loyal following leading to business growth. Nothing remains still in the world of business.". Attract masses to your business. The Strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Content creation doesn’t have to be hard.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I am seeing more manufacturers and industrial companies willing to try inbound marketing with content. They all want to either add a blog to their static industrial websites or convert them into dynamic blog sites. One way to get over this hurdle is to repurpose some of your existing content into blog posts.

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