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How to Run a SWOT Analysis for Your Business [Template Included]

Hubspot

A SWOT analysis is a useful technique to evaluate a new project or objective your business faces, or your business as a whole. Essentially, a SWOT analysis is a roadmap for how you should move forward with your business, which opportunities you’re missing out on, and which challenges you should tackle. What is a SWOT analysis?

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eCommerce Explained: The Basics of B2B

Navigate the Channel

Some people recommend doing a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats), but because SWOTs are so often done poorly – so as to be almost ineffective—you might try looking at the Cs. If you’re interested, HubSpot explains them well here. Yes, like ABCs. What are their skills and areas of expertise?

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How to Align with Your Sales Team, According to HubSpot Marketers

Hubspot

At HubSpot, we have thousands of employees who have different goals and varying geographic locations, we understand how it can be difficult to communicate and align. To help you better align with your sales colleagues, I asked a few HubSpot marketers to share their experiences and tips for working with sales teams.

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The Beginner's Guide to the Competitive Matrix [Template]

Hubspot

SWOT analysis. SWOT Analysis Template. A basic competitive matrix is the SWOT analysis. Conducting a SWOT analysis will help you identify areas where you could improve. You should conduct a SWOT analysis for yourself, but also for your competition. Competitive strategic overview. Content marketing strategies.

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Why You Need a Content Marketing Plan [+ Free Templates]

Litmus

Together with our good friends at HubSpot , we’ve teamed up to bring you a guide that will serve asa blueprint for creating an entire content marketing plan that focuses on your desired results. With these resources, you will be able to: Analyze your current content marketing efforts with a SWOT analysis.

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Demand Gen vs. Lead Gen: Which is ‘Best’ for Startups?

Zoominfo

Market intelligence Includes internal surveys, external focus groups, and SWOT analyses Why is this distinction important? This, combined with the conventional wisdom about inbound demand-generation pioneered by the likes of HubSpot as long ago as 2009, perpetuates ideas that no longer align with how companies do business.

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Mission Impossible: Making Hard Choices as a First-time CMO (Part 2)

DiscoverOrg

Conduct a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis with your marketing and sales teams to identify these areas, and then don’t be afraid to shift your direction. A 2018 HubSpot survey reports that 73% of marketers feel generally or tightly aligned (up from 22% of companies reporting close alignment in 2017!).

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