Hubspot

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Blogs and podcasts are both powerhouse marketing tools. Company blogs are well-established inbound marketing channels, while business podcasts are the up-and-comers garnering a lot of excitement in the industry. A few stats in the blog corner: 59% of marketers find business blogging valuable.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How do you turn your business blog into a powerful sales tool?

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2013

Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it''s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well. And rightfully so.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 16, 2012

Creating remarkable content is one of the core components of inbound marketing, and one of the best ways to generate a steady flow of fresh content is by publishing a business blog. Even worse: Your blog is published on a free blogging platform’s domain such as Blogger.com, WordPress.com, or TypePad.com.

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Hubspot

MAY 12, 2010

Great business blogs have to walk a fine line: they have to create value for current and prospective customers while at the same time supporting a strategy that provides business growth. Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 3, 2011

So you've made the decision to start a business blog. A blog is a powerful tool to help your business get found online, increase organic traffic, and generate leads and customers. But before you dive head-first into the blogosphere, it's important to take precaution when evaluating blogging software options.

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Hubspot

JUNE 25, 2012

Do you consider your business to be "niche?" If so, inbound marketing was made for you! Think about it: if you're in a niche industry, any large-scale outbound marketing initiatives (TV ads, billboards, newspaper ads) will reach an audience that is 99% irrelevant to your business.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 23, 2019

This action keeps search engines like Google busy. In fact, Google processes more than 336 million search queries in just one hour. So how do you attract people looking for help relevant to your business? In 13 months, this site page received over 16,500 visits from search engines.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Let's say that a couple of months ago, you decided to really start drinking the inbound marketing Kool-Aid, and you took the plunge: you started a business blog. 12 Reasons Your Blog is Failing. If your blog is all theory with no actionable, how-to type content, its performance will suffer.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Inbound marketing takes time, but most marketers only have a few hours in the schedule that they can carve out for inbound marketing, which can make prioritizing activites extremely difficult. If you only have a few hours to dedicate to inbound marketing per week, how should you allocate your time?

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Brandpoint

DECEMBER 27, 2018

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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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If you're a business blogger who is trying to make the most of your blog by regularly cranking out content, chances are you're familiar with the pressure. In this week's top inbound marketing article, Chris Brogan shares his thoughts and tips on consistently creating remarkable blog content. Cranking Out Content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

Optimizing your marketing content around keywords or phrases is the first step in your content marketing strategy. After all, that’s how your prospects and customers will find your blog and/or Web site. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.)

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Go Beyond SEO

DECEMBER 20, 2018

When users leave your site so quickly, it raises your bounce rate which hurts your search engine optimization, or SEO. Blog and Blog Well. Blogging is an important way to improve your digital marketing. Prioritize Local Search Engine Optimization.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I remember my first marketing job like it was yesterday. My boss, the marketing director at the time, asked me: “Do you know what inbound marketing is?”. I knew marketing was about branding, sharing product information, and understanding consumer psychology. My boss told me about inbound versus outbound marketing.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Give your readers something to chew on – A blog post should be 400-600 words on average. Search Engine Optimization Basics - As you create remarkable content you will want to optimize that content for search engines as well as users. If you can include your keywords. Blog Checklist.

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Go Beyond SEO

DECEMBER 20, 2018

When users leave your site so quickly, it raises your bounce rate which hurts your search engine optimization, or SEO. Blog and Blog Well. Blogging is an important way to improve your digital marketing. Prioritize Local Search Engine Optimization.

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PureB2B

JUNE 29, 2021

Now, businesses can run targeted ads that guarantee a broader reach to potential customers. In terms of efficacy for specialized enterprises, inbound marketing outperforms digital marketing and is a near-perfect fit. An Overview of Inbound Marketing. Inbound Marketing for Niche Business.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 11, 2011

By now, most industrial marketers are aware of the power of inbound marketing for lead generation. A blog is considered the cornerstone of an effective inbound marketing strategy. What if you could combine the best of both these marketing tactics? This can be done easily via the Admin panel.

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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. Setting Up a Blog Strategy. Why start there?

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In this week's top inbound marketing article, Chris Brogan shares some simple steps you can take to turn the traffic you're getting into coveted leads and sales. If you're looking to get the most of the traffic coming to your business blog, Brogan's article can help by highlighting some preparations you should make.

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Go Beyond SEO

AUGUST 3, 2017

In our last blog post we discussed the importance of Bing for your law firm marketing strategy based mainly on the cost and amount of searches. It’s safe to say that there are thousands, if not millions of people in your area searching for the services you offer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

As such, you are solving the problem of inefficient cost management because at the end of the day, your software helps business owners save money. Given that, you would want to have visibility on the keyword phrases that a business owner is going to search on for a solution to the problem. The steps are: 1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

The focus there is to optimize it for keywords or phrases for people to find your website when searching for relevant terms. According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.” Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. And yes, it does cost money.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Leadspace

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Intimacy: This is measured by looking at the search terms used to find your site. In Google Analytics look at Traffic Sources > Keywords. To gauge intimacy, you want to see how many site visitors found you by your brand name and not any keywords. Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

I should know — I am an engineer too. So I’m not only familiar with an industrial marketer’s target audience, I am the audience or at least a member of it. Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work.

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Hubspot

MAY 31, 2013

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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool. I use it to research key words/phrases that people are using to search for answers to their particular problem. That led me to other popular search terms like blog content creation, content creation help, online content creation etc.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

It is cost effective and is looked favorably upon by the search engines to see that you are confident that your business is going to be around for a number of years. You will instantly receive search engine optimization credit for increasing the time to expire date. Start a business blog.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 29, 2011

With 2012 just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about your marketing strategy for the New Year. As more and more companies catch on to the most effective strategies for getting found online and generating more leads and customers, the future of inbound marketing is looking more competitive and fast-paced than ever.

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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

MARCH 19, 2012

When you think about inbound marketing, PPC isn't the first thing that pops into your head. But that doesn't mean there's no place for PPC in an inbound marketing strategy. But that doesn't mean there's no place for PPC in an inbound marketing strategy. Perhaps stories got crossed along the way, though.

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