SmartBug Media

AUGUST 19, 2019

Content was updated August 19, 2019. The inventor of pop-up ads in the mid-1990s has publically apologized. You have run into countless pop-up ads on the internet—perhaps even in the last few minutes. With so much negative feeling towards pop-up ads, why on earth are they still being used? So what data is out there?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Digital marketing budgets continue to rise, often at the expense of offline advertising spend. But digital marketers must continue to evolve practices as they strive to make their content an asset, rather than an annoyance, to prospective buyers. Consumers hate online ads. Native advertising may be the answer.

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Outbrain

APRIL 9, 2019

There’s no doubt about the effectiveness of content marketing. In fact, research from Demand Metric shows that, while 62 percent less costly, content marketing generates about three times as many leads as traditional marketing. This isn’t because content marketing doesn’t work.

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Outbrain

JULY 3, 2019

What is advertising? From the Latin for advertere , which means ‘turn towards’, advertising is the paid dissemination of a message for the purpose of promotion or selling of a product, service or idea. In 2017 , global spending on paid advertising was forecast to reach $584 billion. Affiliate Advertising.

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Valasys

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When thinking about an all-inclusive content strategy, the first thing that comes to our minds is the original ideas generated from deep insightful research. B2B marketers need to look forward to nothing but the best B2B marketing blogs for entrepreneurs to accentuate their levels of creativity, industry benchmarking & Martech insights.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 5, 2015

Is your gated content worth the relationship currency you’re asking your customers to pay? What you think is valuable content may be considered worthless to the customer on their buying journey! Do your customers value your content marketing enough to provide their contact information, email address or social sign-in credentials?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 12, 2013

The growth in content marketing this year has continued to gather pace. There is no doubt this has been influenced by the changes Google has made to their algorithm; Panda , Penguin , and Hummingbird have all helped to shine the spotlight firmly on the importance of content. Proving the Value of Content.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2014

To read more content like this, subscribe to Insiders. Some people think content promotion isn’t complicated. It’s just making sure content is optimized for the search engines, sent to an appropriate email list, and then broadcast it socially, right? The Tactics of Content Promotion. Content Coverage.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When display advertising first surfaced in the world of marketing, many marketers were left with a bad taste in their mouth. The ads we were being presented with lacked context and value, and as a result, many of us were quick to deem them untrustworthy. At HubSpot, we held onto this notion for a while.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Even Digiday has referred to the social media site as one of the "trickiest platforms to crack.". Redditors might be less likely to connect with branded content than users on other major platforms -- like Facebook or Instagram. To put it plainly, this social media network puts discussion first, rather than just focusing on content.

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Hubspot

MAY 14, 2015

Content marketing is nothing new to marketers all over the world. Many of us know it's the fuel that drives many of the key inbound marketing techniques across web, search, social, and email marketing. To get ahead and stand out, the key is knowing where in your content strategy to invest.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I'm not trying to convince you to fly JetBlue, but I am trying to show you the power of relationship marketing. What is relationship marketing? Relationship marketing is a type of marketing that focuses on cultivating deeper, more meaningful relationships with customers to ensure long-term satisfaction and brand loyalty.

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ConvertKit

JANUARY 15, 2021

Chapter #1: General email marketing statistics for creators. 2021 is full of opportunities for budding podcasters, artists, freelancers, online coaches, musicians, and makers—and email marketing is the best way to grow your audience and turn your vision into reality. Chapter #1: General email marketing statistics for creators.

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Hubspot

MAY 1, 2017

I outline the story in our Content Optimization System (COS), copy and paste it into a Google doc, find a good photo to accompany it, do research, write, proofread, and carry it back over to our COS. Knowing what those habits are, I learned during step four of the above, is a veritable goldmine for marketers. The Takeaway.

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KoMarketing Associates

MAY 27, 2020

Google Ads extensions are a no brainer when it comes to adding extra information and benefits to ad copy in search engine marketing campaigns. You can add as many callouts as you want but usually, 4 or 6 will show in a single ad. Up-To-Date Market Data. Not really. Watch Live Demo. All the Latest.

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markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Tweet As the holiday season quickly approaches an end, and marketers prepare to make 2014 their best year yet, we pulled together the top blog posts on the B2B Lead Roundtable Blog to share the most popular topics, chosen by marketers just like you. Use social media to generate leads and connect with prospects.

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Hubspot

MARCH 22, 2018

trillion in 2014 to 4.5 Voice Search. Image Search. In an experiment we ran in 2017 , we found our Facebook audience favored native video content 160x more than non-native content. Ultimately, these added benefits are worth the initial investment in new technology. Voice Search Compatabilities.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

After all, these networks laid the groundwork for the social media giants we use today. From Six Degrees to Snapchat: A Brief History of Social Media. Friendster was the first network that allowed friends to create profiles and share content with their contacts. Orkut was launched by Google in 2004 and shut down in 2014.

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Social Networks Social Media Network Marketing Facebook 101

Hubspot

APRIL 12, 2018

D2C brands manufacture, market, and distribute their own products without using middlemen, which enables them to reduce costs, interact directly with consumers, and provide a seamless start-to-finish buyer’s experience. What is direct-to-consumer marketing? In New York, they've used MTA stations to post cheerful advertisements.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Let’s say, for example, you’re offering a piece of downloadable content to your site visitors. It’s “free,” in terms of the lack of money paid for it, but some other information is traded. I’ll admit it: For many marketers, the motivation behind these exchanges used to be, “So I can sell my product.” How We Got Here.

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2014

— David Ortiz (@davidortiz) April 1, 2014. Ortiz had taken the selfie with a Galaxy, and any brand worth its salt would want to promote that content on their own channel, too. Samsung even decided to amplify the tweet with some paid promotion of its own: All fun and games, right? so why not retweet them? Best photo ever.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 23, 2014

So you just created a piece of content for lead generation -- congrats! . You can''t just put a piece of content up on your website and hope that people will find it -- you''ve got to actively promote it to your audience. . At INBOUND 2014 , I went over the following 43 ways to promote marketing content.

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Hubspot

JUNE 30, 2014

Twitter isn''t just for getting followers, retweets, and replies -- it''s also a valuable marketing channel for generating qualified leads. Recently, Twitter''s Anne Mercogliano and HubSpot''s Kipp Bodnar teamed up to share their top tips for generating leads on Twitter in just 25 minutes a day. 2) Treat lead-gen tweets differently.

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

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Hubspot

APRIL 27, 2015

If you’re in the business of content marketing, there is a 100% chance you need marketing statistics. Statistics lend authority and weight to your blogs, ebooks, and social media posts. Using accurate data in your original content is powerful way to communicate that you’ve done your research. 3) Marketing Charts.

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Hubspot

MARCH 12, 2015

Tired of struggling to crank out the endless streams of content needed to appease today’s consumers? There is an option for burned out business owners, and that’s user generated content. In light of these trends, there’s never been a better time to start using user generated content to engage your readers and build trust with them.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 15, 2014

To read more content like this, join the ecommerce blog''s instant, daily, or weekly subscription. Search in 2014: A Glossary of Best Practices. Search engines continue to develop new ways to find -- and punish -- sites with unethical link-building practices. It’s been a pretty wild year in the SEO realm.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 3, 2014

After brainstorming a topic, doing a whole lot of research, writing a few drafts, adding a couple sweet images, picking a call-to-action, having a buddy edit it, and tightening up your title. You need to optimize that content, promote it, share it, and get it in front of the right people. Congratulations! You''ve published a blog post.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The story is no different when it comes to marketing on the internet. While many of us are familiar with “tried-and-true” ways to acquire and retain customers online -- paid search, email marketing, etc. -- there’s a whole new wave of exciting technologies that are emerging right now. 1) Native Advertising.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2014

Whether you''re planning your marketing strategy as a whole or developing a specific marketing campaign to achieve a particular goal, a little structure can help to reduce a daunting task to a manageable one. So go on -- use our outline below to get your marketing going strong to start 2014! Identify your audience.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2016

Your school has already been publishing some content to start capturing email addresses from potential students and parents. The beauty of digital marketing is you can actually connect the dots all the way through your enrollment funnel. Prospects are people visiting your school's blog, website, or social media pages.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 10, 2014

You just finished creating your latest asset for your inbound marketing campaign. Many companies make the mistake of only using one or two channels to market to their leads. In that spirit, here are some optimal channels you can (and should) use for your next marketing campaign , including specific ways you can do so.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Or have too many social media marketing statistics.” ” Well, she actually only said the first part (which is debatable), but certainly would have said the second part (which isn’t) had social media been around in the 1930s. How effective is social media in comparison to other digital marketing channels?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Deleting 3,000 pages from the HubSpot Blog. Deleted 3,000 pages from the HubSpot Blog. It was a project that our head of technical SEO, Victor Pan, and I had wanted to run for a long time -- because counterintuitively, getting rid of content on your site can actually be fantastic for SEO. Why run a content audit?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2013

We live in a time when the heart of marketing has transformed from static broadcasts to engines driven by two-way customer communications and real-time data. What was once as simple as a billboard or park bench ad is now a blend of attribution models, behavioral retargeting, continuous testing, and direct connections to revenue.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Setting aside time to brainstorm blog topics, structure posts around relevant keywords, optimize calls-to-action and social sharing buttons, and strategically place relevant internal links can sound daunting to many marketers. Create a new blog section on the HubSpot platform with blog posts catered to those buyer personas.

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Hubspot

MARCH 10, 2014

So I thought I''d share some of the things I wish I knew when I first started blogging for HubSpot five years ago. It takes time to get indexed in search engines, get discovered by the audience you''re trying to attract, climb the rankings, and build up a dedicated following of readers. Just ask the Cat in the Hat. And that''s okay!

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