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7 Amazingly Effective Lead Nurturing Tactics

Hubspot

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. In most cases only a relatively small percentage of your inbound leads will be ready to make an immediate purchase, leaving upwards of 90% of your inbound leads on the table.

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Newsletters: Why the Best Marketing Tools Aren’t New

Content Standard

In content marketing, we’re so focused on mastering the next big channel or tactic that we sometimes forget about marketing tools that have worked well in the past. Interestingly, newsletters have only gotten more popular among B2Bs and B2Cs as content marketing has emerged as an essential component to any digital strategy.

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B2B Email Marketing: Batch and blast, mobile and other challenges

markempa

Tweet Earlier this year at MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2013 in Las Vegas, I had the chance to enjoy many conversations with my email marketing industry friends. At the same time, they are being told to get away from the traditional “batch and blast” or “spray and pray” efforts. Loren McDonald : Email marketing is not “either-or.”

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An Introduction to Social Media for Business

Sprout Social

One of the biggest advantages of social media marketing is it’s less reliant on a large budget. Marketers spent more than $8.3 Social media for business is a necessity just like paid ads, flyers and other traditional marketing efforts. It’s time to do away with the old mindset and outdated views of marketing.

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Busted! 23 Marketing Myths Held By (Some) Industries

Hubspot

Even though inbound marketing has been a huge success within so many different industries, there are still some companies that are shackled with misconceptions about whether it will work for them. In fact, we have identified 23 myths about inbound marketing that some people may think are true. Time to bust these myths!

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Why Marketing Automation Fails: 3 Common Reasons

Hubspot

Human-to-human connections are the heart and soul of marketing. You don’t need statistics to prove the value of personalized messages, multi-channel marketing, and high quality content. That’s why marketing automation is such an important topic in 2014. But marketing automation has a bad rap.

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A Year in Review: The Biggest Social Media Updates of 2013

Hubspot

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. One aspect of marketing (and my personal favorite topic) that saw tremendous strides for marketers was social media.