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

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

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

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 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. Mistake (And Why It Hurts): Your blog is published on its own domain, separate from your company’s main website.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Generating traffic to your website and blog is all well and good, but if you're a B2B company, chances are traffic isn't enough. In your case, turning traffic into leads and ultimately sales is where it's at. How to Convert Traffic to a Sale. How to Use Social Media Monitoring Tools for Outreach Marketing.

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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. Blog about it.

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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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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

The way marketers measure success seems to change about as quickly as my computer makes me change my password (usually about the time I finally memorize the old one). One day, it’s traffic. The B2B world, in particular, has seen an interesting shift in how marketers view success. The next day, it’s engagement.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2013

The first place I always start when evaluating a business' marketing is figuring out where the heck all their site traffic, leads, and customers come from. Organic search traffic used to just mean the amount of traffic that came to your site via someone who found your site using a search engine. 2) Referrals.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2010

How do you drive traffic to your blog? In order to start driving traffic to your blog, you will need to carve out a niche—focus on your industry and optimize your blog posts around specific industry key phrases. What has a greater effect on SEO: blog links or link building strategies?

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

If you can include your keywords. Javascript - You should be using some kind of tool for the purpose of tracking traffic, which means you will have to copy and paste some kind of javascript code into your website for that tool to track that information. Advertising – Unless you are generating tons of traffic this is a waste.

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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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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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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And 57 percent of marketers say they have “ gained customers specifically through blogging.” So, how do you turn your blog into a lead generation engine? The Benefits of Business Blogging. For marketers looking to build a scalable content marketing strategy, one of the most impactful places to start is blogging.

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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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Single Grain

DECEMBER 29, 2020

He started a job board website but was unable to drive any traffic, an obstacle which forced him to learn how to do marketing on his own. Nowadays, Patel regularly writes in-depth marketing tutorials. The Future of Content Marketing: It’s Not What You Think. Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing.

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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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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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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. Myth #2: Traffic and Leads Must Be Dependent on PPC.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

That’s why we perused our brand spankin'' new Marketing Library -- which is now free and available to everyone -- and created an inbound marketing syllabus so you can have a successful transition from summer to fall. Lesson 3: Business Blogging. Confused about where to start with blogging? just kidding!

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Most aspiring inbound marketers have a few business blogging hurdles to get over. Truly believing -- like, in the darkest recesses of your soul -- that blogging is an indispensable part of being a successful inbound marketer. Cool -- now you're pumping out blog content left and right.

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Hubspot

JULY 16, 2012

If you're an inbound marketer, you're probably already on board with the idea that business blogging is an effective way to generate leads. And you probably also know that you can increase your blog's ability to generate leads if you also promote it in social media -- the more exposure the better, right?

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 9, 2010

As vocational education choices increase, smart marketers are leveraging inbound marketing to reach a wider demographic of potential students. Inbound marketing allows your best prospects to find you as they search for education alternatives. Blogging can be easy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on 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.

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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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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. What has worked for you?

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Hubspot

MAY 20, 2010

However, it can become difficult to consistantly think of new ideas for your business blog. Organic Search Referrers - Take a look at the top fifty referring keywords for your website - what do these keywords tell you about your content? Produce a series of "do it yourself" blog posts. Check out Shaun's Bio.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Successful inbound marketing is all about attracting and converting more visitors to your website. Inbound marketers use calls-to-action to send website visitors to landing pages, where they can exchange contact information in exchange for an offer. Google serves ads based upon keywords from the content of the page.

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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. 16) Blog reading peaks around 10AM.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Rule #1: Natural or organic search engine optimization (SEO) In the research phase of the industrial buying cycle , engineers and industrial buyers tend to use broad keywords and phrases that describe their current problem. That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog.

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Hubspot

JUNE 15, 2010

These posts are the foundation of your blog. Be sure to use keywords in the title and throughout the body of each post. Choose your topics wisely and this type of post will set your blog apart from the competition. Mix some fun into your blog. Webinar: Advanced Business Blogging. Check out Shaun's Bio.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

> Oh, we need content, okay let’s just copy & paste from our old marketing collateral. Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. Why does online marketing content cause so much angst?

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 26, 2010

But here are some simple strategies you can apply to each of your blog posts that will make your blog traffic soar quickly. Make Your Blog Title Interesting and Engaging. The title is the most important part of each of your blog articles. If you want your readers to comment on your blog posts, ask them to!

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