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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Webbiquity

MARCH 13, 2019

But, they’re clueless when it comes to generating leads via their website. But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do. Inbound Leads. Unfortunately, “Leads. Inbound Leads.”

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2013

to someone just getting started with inbound marketing. For instance, business blogging. What''s the difference between regular blogging and business blogging? What Is Business Blogging? That definition raises two questions: What is "blogging," though? Why Should Businesses Blog?

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The Lead Agency

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to marketing guru Neil Patel, guest blogging is the best inbound marketing strategy. Guest blogging benefits both the blog that hosts the content and the person writing the content. In addition, 62.96% of people perceive blogs that have a number of contributors to be more credible.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses.

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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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Webbiquity

JUNE 25, 2012

Sales leads generated through inbound marketing–the combination of content marketing, blogging, social media, website chat and SEM–cost 61% less than those produced through traditional demand generation techniques (e.g., Photo credit: DIY Marketers.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

Of course, Marketing Automation alone cannot live up to those hyped up expectations and has to take the brunt of the blame. Let’s get one thing straight from the get go, if you are in a declining market with low demand for your products and services, no amount of automation will help you generate new leads.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This is an excerpt from HubSpot's ebook, " An Introduction to Business Blogging." Download the complete ebook for more marketing tips about business blogging. Business blogging without measuring results is a complete waste of time. Visits are the count of people who actually read your blog content.

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Hubspot

MAY 20, 2013

and statistics from the recently released 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report. Feel free to use this data in your own content, tweet the stats you find most interesting, or just enlighten yourself about the current state of inbound marketing. 86 Revealing Charts From the 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Report.

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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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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

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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

A vast majority of the survey respondents reported that outbound tactics outperformed inbound initiatives for generating qualified leads. I am wondering if it is a result of the age-old disagreement between sales and marketing on the definition of a qualified lead. This one caught me by surprise.

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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. You put in the time to get it going, published a few posts, and waited for the leads to start rolling in. WHERE ARE ALL THE LEADS?!

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2012

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. Furthermore, according to our 2012 Marketing Benchmarks report , companies that increase blogging from 3-5X/month to 6-8X/month almost double their leads.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This shift has put increased pressure on B2B marketers to execute a strategy focused on demand generation and growing the lead pool. As a B2B marketing manager, how do you deal with changing digital trends in marketing and deliver the type of growth your organization expects? The answer: inbound marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

How does one generate high quality, educated leads, not just site visitors on a marketing budget that is less than 1% of the projected revenue? Now, that doesn’t sound very different from most b2b and industrial marketers but wait till you hear/read about the phenomenal results that Holly and her team have produced.

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

Since people first started engaging in commercial trade, they’ve learned how to develop unique selling propositions and sales strategies to maximize the perceived value of their offerings. Since the early 90’s the internet has evolved into the most flexible marketing channel we’ve ever seen. Social Media Marketing Software.

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Industrial Marketing Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

It is 15 pages that are packed with bite-sized, actionable digital marketing ideas to help you score more wins for both sales and marketing. Use it to map out your own plays for generating more high-quality leads, increasing sales and growing revenues. What inbound marketing with content will do for you.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 20, 2018

The original term “weblog” was shortened to just “blog” a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. Business blogging is now commonplace. Three-quarters of B2B marketers and 61% of their B2C counterparts use blogs as part of their social media content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. Organizations are spending considerable amounts of time and money on tracking and measuring lead generation metrics. However, the role of B2B marketers is changing and evolving more into revenue generation.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Kanye West is an incredible rapper, but he's also an amazing case study in inbound marketing. Below are 5 do's and don'ts we can learn from Kanye West about inbound marketing: DO: Collaborate to Increase Your Exposure. Interruption-based marketing can cause ill will from a company to a customer.

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PureB2B

JUNE 13, 2017

Since people first started engaging in commercial trade, they’ve learned how to develop unique selling propositions and sales strategies to maximize the perceived value of their offerings. Since the early 90’s the internet has evolved into the most flexible marketing channel we’ve ever seen. Social Media Marketing Software.

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Hubspot

JUNE 5, 2012

There is no shortage of different types of content you can create to feed your business blog. It's a business blogging classic. They're valuable and helpful, they make great pieces of evergreen content that stand the test of time, and they're an inbound marketing staple to reap the benefits of educating your prospects.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2011

If there is one important takeaway from this exercise, it is that blog posts live forever and continue to attract traffic long after they have been posted. That’s the power of inbound marketing with content. Unlike David Letterman’s Top Ten list; my industrial marketing blog posts are listed in decreasing order of popularity.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? Marketing Charts ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Educate, inform and provide value to customers and prospects. Your business will grow.&# (See Content Marketing – The Ultimate Cheat Sheet ).

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Hubspot

JUNE 21, 2010

Does your business blog have a unique, recognizable voice? If it doesn't, you could be in trouble, since voice is one of the most important elements of a successful blog , according to our top inbound marketing of the past week. So what is voice, and how can you express it through your blog?

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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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Hubspot

JUNE 4, 2013

If I had to boil down the definition of high-quality content into one phrase, it''d be " content that provides value." There''s a reason entertainment value is an actual thing. For many of us at on the marketing team at HubSpot, one of these happens to be BuzzFeed. And for us, that''s adding value. Super vague, right?

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 22, 2010

from my Google Analytics, the number of inbound links received, retweets and other social sharing. I hope you’ll get some value and practical help from reading or rereading these articles. Marketing Automation vs. Inbound Marketing. Just like any marketing tactic or tool, there are pros and cons.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Even though B2B branding is difficult to quantify, as content marketers we need to learn to speak in the same language as the CEO and other C-level execs.

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Hubspot

MAY 10, 2010

Whether you're talking about location-based , mobile, local search, or geo-marketing, the ability to segment your message by location is one of the newest developments in marketing. Marketing Takeaway: Always measure your marketing programs , but make sure your first taking steps to ensure you're focusing on the appropriate data.

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