markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ann wanted to know how happy the group was with the lead generation results of their social media campaigns. How many leads have you generated? There weren’t the hard-and-fast lead generation and sales conversations that will be featured in our 2011 report, which I’m working on right now. she queried.

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markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ann wanted to know how happy the group was with the lead generation results of their social media campaigns. How many leads have you generated? There weren’t the hard-and-fast lead generation and sales conversations that will be featured in our 2011 report, which I’m working on right now. she queried.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 14, 2012

April 2012 marks a milestone for my industrial marketing company Tiecas, Inc. In the past, it was virtually impossible for me to reach these people with traditional outbound marketing. Inbound marketing with content doesn’t get any better than this! We are celebrating 25 years in business!

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Hubspot

APRIL 30, 2013

At some point or another, we’ve all heard people spout off about the “death” of social media. One day someone announces a boycott of Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest -- the next day, the social network is growing exponentially. So how should you, as a savvy inbound marketer , make sense of it all?

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Hubspot

APRIL 13, 2012

As the two newest social networks, Google+ and Pinterest have gotten a lot of attention recently. Each has experienced rapid growth and adoption, leaving marketers wondering how to effectively leverage each new platform for business. So which -- if either -- are worth a marketer's time? It's no surprise. million users.

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Hubspot

JULY 29, 2012

Crispy bacon with a side of the most tantalizing marketing stories of the week? Start sipping your mimosa and join me in reviewing the most interesting inbound marketing stories of the week! B2B Marketers Have a Blind Spot: The Buyer's Journey From Forrester. After all, you do want to generate leads from Pinterest, right?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Marketers are really starting to understand the impact social media can have on their businesses. A recent survey conducted at the Pivot Conference revealed that 37% of marketers plan to move beyond just experimentation in social media in 2012. 15 Ways to Step Up Your Business' Social Media Game.

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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2012

So our new edition of 120 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts & Graphs was in a way a demonstration of our passion, and an opportunity to share some insightful stats with fellow marketers. 2) 89% of marketers are maintaining or increasing their inbound marketing budgets. 5) More web pages mean more leads.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 19, 2012

Others spend it working -- good for you, you diligent marketers , you. If you're spending this Sunday on your computer, it's time to take a break and read up on some interesting inbound marketing content that came to us from around the internet this week. Talk about growing your brand's social reach !

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Hubspot

MARCH 24, 2013

Nowadays, it feels like every social network and online platform has some sort of tool designed for marketers. Whether we know it or not, many of these networks and services are adding business pages, analytics, and even automation into their functionality. For us marketers, this is wonderful news.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today: Current model: " The world’s leading Internet television network. ". Original model: " An online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges. ". Founded: 2012. Original model: " To enable great content from the world of inbound marketing to get noticed. ". 3) Facebook.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 29, 2014

Many, if not all, of them will have a presence on one or the other and interact with their customers, leads, and partners through the platforms. If your prospects are on social media, that tells you -- and your boss -- that they’re accustomed to that way of communicating and understand its value.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 23, 2012

Studies have shown and my own experience confirms it that engineers prefer recommendations from their peers to reading something on a social network. I know it is a challenge (sometimes daunting) for marketers to get engineers to contribute content on a regular basis.

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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. So, we pulled the top two or three updates to your favorite social networks from 2013 and what they mean for marketers everywhere.

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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. So in this post, I will make my best attempt to show that inbound leads do indeed cost less.

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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.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2012

But you may have heard that we're in the heat of planning the biggest inbound marketing conference ever (at which Cyndi Lauper is indeed performing) -- INBOUND 2012. Oh, P.S., do you have your tickets to INBOUND 2012 yet ? ;-). Ticket Sales Tip #1: Get Cyndi Lauper to perform at your event. Just kidding.

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Hubspot

JULY 3, 2012

Note: This post's photo and many of the tips are courtesy of HubSpot Inbound Marketing Specialist and father of 4, "though it feels like 8," Dan Sally. 20 Marketing Tactics to Get Your Kids to Simmer Down Now. When you create lead gen offers , you don't just give them away for free. 1) Create an offer. First prize?

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Hubspot

APRIL 11, 2013

Here''s some food for thought: Companies see a 55% increase in leads when increasing their number of landing pages from just 10 to 15 , according to our 2012 Marketing Benchmarks Report. Landing pages are a fundamental -- and undeniable -- part of a sucessful inbound marketing strategy. 1) Get to the point.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 15, 2014

It''s no wonder that we love our own apps for B2B marketing, but since so many of our readers are inbound marketers and HubSpot customers, this app was well worth the list. The HubSpot App first launched in 2012, with on-the-go analytics and a built-in Marketing Grader. Up-to-date marketing analytics.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

That's all well and good for companies with dedicated social media or community managers -- but for many small businesses that have a social media manager who is also playing the role of blogger, site manager, email marketer, and salesperson, adding yet another social network to your repertoire is a much taller order.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2012

You're telling me your customers aren't using any of those social networks? 2) Social media is awesome! Join every network right now! Just because I can name a lot of social networks, doesn't mean I should set up a profile on all of them. By all means, research other social networks.

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Hubspot

JUNE 29, 2012

Source: Epsilon and DMA ) Using personalized and timely lead nurturing with marketing automation is an important strategy for improving the overall performance of your email marketing and customer generation. 3) On average, companies respond to only 30% of social media fans' feedback. Tweet This Stat!

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

These are the leaders in the information and communications technology sector who truly “get” social media and social business. We’re proud to acknowledge these 50 women from 41 different organizations as the top #Nifty50 women of technology on Twitter for 2012. Liz also writes the Lead With Intuition blog.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

These are the leaders in the information and communications technology sector who truly “get” social media and social business. We’re proud to acknowledge these 50 women from 41 different organizations as the top #Nifty50 women of technology on Twitter for 2012. Liz also writes the Lead With Intuition blog.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In Q2 2012, Google racked up a 42% year-over-year increase in paid clicks. As your inbound marketing initiatives gain traction and the percentage of new business you get from organic search results increases, doubling down by placing costly PPC ads alongside your free organic links makes less and less sense. Maybe more.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2013

Back in 2012, we were able to more than double our blog email subscribers in just 3 months'' time -- from 28,538 at the beginning of July to 65,036 by the end of September. This is how it looks: We put these check boxes on all of the forms we use for lead generation -- on landing pages for offers we use to convert visitors into leads.

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Hubspot

APRIL 27, 2012

Any savvy inbound marketer "gets" that once you've done all that hard work to get visitors to your website, the next big step is to convert them into leads for your business. Unfortunately, there seems to be a major disconnect between the importance of landing pages and their use by marketers. Landing pages , that's what!

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2013

We inbound marketers are a unique bunch. As more and more companies begin to turn on their inbound marketing machine and start creating content, let's remember that our inherent data chops as marketers can help us create content that's high-quality, shareable, and insightful. 5) Lead and Customer Data.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

This is Episode 9 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

This is Episode 9 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Penn , the Director of Inbound Marketing for enterprise email company WhatCounts. Read on for insights from Chris, and Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week (this week: social media as a B2B lead generator!).

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Hubspot

AUGUST 28, 2012

I know that at HubSpot, we’re currently busy hosting our INBOUND 2012 conference (seriously -- it's happening RIGHT NOW). If you are, have you thought about your social media strategy? Just like all the other inbound marketing content you create, your event content needs to be remarkable.

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Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2011

By 2012, 20% of all search engine queries will be via a mobile device (source). 200 million Facebook users access the social network via their mobile (source). eCommerce Inbound Marketing: Register today. The following is a guest post from James Agate , SEO Director and founder of UK SEO Consultancy Skyrocket SEO.

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Hubspot

APRIL 9, 2013

Whether you''re trying to develop your personal career or forge new business relationships, making offline, personal connections has become even more critical as online social networking becomes the norm. Networking” is a buzzword that many of us have a serious love/hate relationship with. 4) When Conversation Loses Steam.

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Hubspot

JULY 28, 2017

We bring up these concerns out of love for you and modern marketing. You see, social media marketing has changed, but most social media marketers haven’t. A modern social strategy is light-years away from the definition we used in 2012 and it’s time to adapt. Flash back to 2012 with me for a moment.

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Hubspot

MAY 3, 2012

According to a 2012 NACE survey , an all-time-high of 58% of interns are hired full-time after the internship has ended. While the internship requirements for different businesses will vary, there are a few traits that every marketing intern should possess in order to succeed and make a positive impact on your inbound marketing strategy.

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Hubspot

MAY 26, 2017

According to our report , generating traffic and leads and p roving ROI are the leading challenges marketers face. Here's a look at this year's data: Image Credit: The 2017 State of Inbound Report. Let's go through each of these top challenges and how marketers can address them. Why It's a Challenge.

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