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Business Blogging: Boosting Your Financial Institution's Organic Traffic

SmartBug Media

Is business blogging a part of your financial institution’s marketing strategy? If the answer is no, keep reading to learn how blogging can help drive traffic to your website. The History of Blogging. The concept of blogging was introduced in 1994, when a college student wanted to publish his writing online.

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The Business Blog Editorial Calendar Every Marketer Needs [Free Template]

Hubspot

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. Authors and Due Dates. Offer/Call-to-Action.

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How One Company’s Investment in Blogging & SEO Increased Traffic By Over 2,500% in One Year

Hubspot

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. Setting Up a Blog Strategy. Write blog posts regularly for that new blog.

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How Content Accelerates Lead Generation

Brandpoint

They’re certainly an important part of the sales and lead-generation process but, at best, the effectiveness of cold calling has been stagnant over the last five years, according to sales and marketing expert, Toby Marshall. Content and inbound marketing can reduce the need for cold calling.

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4 Tips for a Successful Inbound Marketing Strategy (+ Webinar)

Leadspace

Whereas outbound marketing focuses on cold calling and making outbound interactions to bring in potential customers, inbound marketing is quite the opposite. Instead of outreach to actively generate awareness of your business, you go about it more passively. Create SMART inbound marketing goals.

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Why You Should Consider Inbound BEFORE Your Next Site Redesign

Hubspot

Why would you want to adopt inbound marketing strategies when your website is “not ready” for the public? Or you might flip-flop it so the redesign comes after you nail your inbound marketing strategy. Inbound marketing before a website redesign, or after? which way is better? Let''s talk about why.

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Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle

Industrial Marketing Today

They are: Buyer Personas – deep insights on the people who buy your products and services Buying Process – the steps buyers go through to acquire your products and services Buyer personas go a lot deeper than just demographics. There is plenty of information out there about buyer personas.