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

DECEMBER 29, 2011

You're an inbound marketing convert. You believe in the importance of creating relevant and interesting content for your prospects to consume. This blog post (how meta is that?) Is blogging really effective? Inbound marketing, of which blogging is a crucial part, costs 62% less per lead than outbound 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.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Yes, as an inbound marketer, your blog content has to be amazing. As a business becoming a blogging machine, it is easy to focus 100% on content and ignore valuable design elements of your blog that can act as powerful boosters of traffic and leads of your business.

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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

MARCH 3, 2011

In the world of inbound marketing and social media, lots of fluffy terms like engagement and conversation get thrown around. But for marketers social media should be about one thing: leads. Many marketers are leaving far too many leads on the table.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2015

Our marketing agency Revenue River''s blog was boring. As an inbound marketing company that specializes in creating custom, beautiful websites for our clients in HubSpot’s COS, we were embarrassed when we looked at our blog compared to the designs we had implemented for others. Poor blog subscription rates.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. An Inbound Marketing Refresher. Fuel the Buyer’s Journey with Additional Relevant Content Offers. Invest in Your Blog.

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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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Hubspot

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Most business bloggers understand that it is important to create interesting content on a frequent and consistent basis. Bloggers understand that their reward for this content is increased traffic and leads from search engines, social media, and other sources. Webinar: Blogging for Business. Photo Credit: batmoo.

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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. 3 Business Blogs with Proven ROI from Industrial Companies.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Businesses in particular can capitalize on this because businesses that blog experience 126% higher lead growth than non-blogging businesses. Anything relevant and useful, interesting, thought-provoking, controversial, and entertaining. Try things like current news, opinion, and media rich content.

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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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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

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of interrupting people with television ads, inbound marketers create videos that prospects want to see.

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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

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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SmartBug Media

JANUARY 23, 2019

So how do you attract people looking for help relevant to your business? You need to create consistent, relevant content that’s meant to educate and engage your audience. Check out HubSpot Academy’s free Business Blogging Strategy course. Promote Your Content Often via Social Media in a Fresh Way.

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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. Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. According to Bob Carrigan, CEO of International Data Group , “It [content] fulfills the promise of the Web, which is relationship marketing.”

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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

JULY 9, 2010

I’ve seen too many marketers crash and burn because they believed that by “automating” all of their lead gen problems would be over. They forgot to first set a strategy that carefully targets prospects with relevant messaging. Automating the “garbage in, garbage out” marketing approach benefits no one.”

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

The campaign against B2B marketing clichés Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: Creating Relevant B2B Marketing Content: Walk the Talk Focus on Content in B2B Marketing Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

BtoB marketers need to create and deliver content that is relevant to those searching for their solution while mapping it to the prospect’s buying cycle. To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

In short, this is good, practical and actionable stuff and not some marketing theory. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 11, 2011

That’s where a blog can be a big help by: Building awareness and interest about your company’s offerings. Acquiring new readers (traffic) by using social media to announce your posts. Driving interested visitors to your corporate Website, product and landing pages by weaving in links within your blog posts.

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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. This ebook shows you how to implement a strategy that helps you create relevant, stellar content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 11, 2010

He also said, “Use of information from social media sources and web mining is growing as sales professionals are looking to leverage every piece of intelligence they can find to help progress deals.&# Wait a minute, isn’t that what Content or Inbound marketing is all about?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Put it on a refresh schedule and spiff it up to keep it in tune with constantly shifting markets. If the market has shifted and it’s no longer relevant.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 17, 2011

The mantra for effective business blogging is to regularly pump out fresh content that is reader-centric and not focussed too much on you, your products or your company. More power to you if you already have a horde of avid readers who visit your blog every time you post new content. Add a link…you know the drill!

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. With the rising popularity of social media in B2B marketing, it is now more a method of tracking your friends or fans on Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

This trend towards lower-cost content marketing is likely to continue well into 2010. It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Don’t assume they’ll navigate your site the way you do.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

This timeless classic, one of the first bestselling self-help books published in 1937 and sold over 15 million copies globally is still relevant today. As a B2B marketer, we want to reach our ideal prospects and communicate with customers to maintain top-of-mind awareness throughout their buying cycle. I say you need both.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 25, 2012

Successful inbound marketing requires a hand in a number of different marketing channels, from blogging , to social media, to email, SEO, PPC, and even live events. Here are 8 ways you can give your marketing more leverage with a more integrated approach to the channels you're likely already working with.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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