SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

How can you ensure that your marketing strategy is helping your organization achieve the goal of continual growth? Maintain a Consistent Marketing Strategy. If you’re familiar with inbound marketing , you know that it is a marathon, not a sprint. A home-run marketing strategy doesn’t happen overnight.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

Building brand awareness starts with building strong buyer personas. We’ve taken the first step toward achieving our goal of lead nurturing. Once you have their contact info, you can begin the process of lead nurturing. With HubSpot, lead nurturing is a breeze.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Free Marketing Training from IMU After watching the classes, my take on the University is: Positives: Online archives from each class including slides available on-demand helps a lot when you have busy schedules like mine, and also allows watching at your own pace (i.e. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Hubspot

MARCH 15, 2016

As companies adopt inbound marketing as a way to generate more leads, the importance of having an effective lead nurturing strategy becomes very clear. Implementing an effective lead nurturing strategy can have a huge impact on the results of your inbound marketing strategy.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

Building brand awareness starts with building strong buyer personas. We’ve taken the first step toward achieving our goal of lead nurturing. Once you have their contact info, you can begin the process of lead nurturing. With HubSpot, lead nurturing is a breeze.

Content Marketing 52

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Buyer personas are an integral part of any inbound marketing strategy. Take a moment and consider your personas in healthcare marketing. Are each of them clearly defined in a way that helps you achieve optimal inbound marketing results, or do they overlap and complicate your marketing message?

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2016

We look at what they’re doing to generate and nurture leads, how they’re utilizing their website and other digital (and non-digital) communication channels and how that all aligns with and connects to their sales approach. 1) Buyer Personas. I figured that for multi-year veterans, personas would be a given.

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NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 29, 2015

It takes time, but delivers, in the long term, a higher number of leads and sales opportunities. It’s the foundation for search engine optimization that helps to attract website visitors, the fodder for social media and lead nurturing , and the bait for lead conversion. Source: Hubspot, State of Inbound 2014.

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SmartBug Media

AUGUST 4, 2020

Instead, start with a select few—those that make the most sense for your business and are likely to be trafficked by your buyer personas—and scale your efforts over time. For example, there’s MarTech Health Directory for healthcare software, ClickZ for marketing services, and OpenTable for restaurants.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2014

Whether you''re planning your marketing strategy as a whole or developing a specific marketing campaign to achieve a particular goal, a little structure can help to reduce a daunting task to a manageable one. So go on -- use our outline below to get your marketing going strong to start 2014! Identify your audience.

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Hubspot

MAY 25, 2014

This week at HubSpot, we dedicated a lot of our content to improving conversions -- a critical part of every stage of the inbound marketing methodology. This blog post offers a few strategies to help you get started with lead generation for your website. Dear HubSpot: My Blog Isn''t Generating Leads.

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Hubspot

APRIL 29, 2011

The following is a guest post from Greg Elwell, owner of B2B Inbound , an inbound marketing agency for B2B companies. And that means getting into an inbound marketing mindset. What’s an inbound marketing mindset and how do you cultivate it? How do you know what your users want?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

What should you focus on first, building an effective inbound marketing/lead generation process or implementing a CRM to manage your sales and customer acquisition process? The Purpose of an Inbound Marketing Program. Increasing lead velocity and generating more sales qualified opportunities for the organization.

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Brandpoint

APRIL 3, 2019

The marketing flywheel is an upgrade to the traditional funnel we’re all familiar with. While the funnel is a straight line from acquisition to sale, the flywheel is, as Jon Dick of HubSpot explains, a “ circular process where customers feed growth.” Read more: Interactive Buyer Persona Template ].

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2012

General B2B Marketing & Lead Generation. Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs. The original book from Hubspot that started the transition from outbound marketing and push advertising to inbound marketing; the process of making prospects find you. Brian Carroll.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 9, 2019

Inbound marketing doesn’t stop when a visitor clicks a call to action and fills out a form. If you haven’t been implementing lead nurturing into your inbound plan, you may be missing out on engaging the 96 percent of your website visitors who aren’t ready to buy. Step 2: Determine Which Persona You’re Targeting.

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Albacross

DECEMBER 30, 2019

According to Hubspot, inbound marketing is a “business methodology that attracts customers by creating valuable content and experiences tailored to them.”. Well, inbound marketing was developed as an alternative for the traditional way of attracting new customers through ads, commercials, promotions, and so on.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 28, 2014

You might think that mind games are just another part of the job, but we want to show you the data behind why these games will make you lose leads. Mind Games and Misconceptions - How Marketers & Salespeople are Irritating Their Leads from HubSpot. Lead Nurturing. Source: The Marketing Donut ).

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2014

The following is an excerpt from our new guide, Inbound Marketing MythBusters. The misinformed marketer may think of inbound marketing as only being effective at filling the top of the funnel. The reality, however, is that inbound marketing can help with all areas of the marketing funnel, including the very bottom.

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Hubspot

JUNE 28, 2016

Even though inbound marketing has been a huge success within so many different industries, there are still some companies that are shackled with misconceptions about whether it will work for them. In fact, we have identified 23 myths about inbound marketing that some people may think are true. Time to bust these myths!

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Valasys

AUGUST 13, 2019

As a business expands its outreach to new buyer personas, expands its niche market, launches new products, acquires new firms & targets new geographies, the dynamics of the business change. Marketers need to carefully apply marketing strategy & assimilate the discovery aspect from the sales processes as well.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 16, 2020

We talk a lot about the importance of lead nurturing here at SmartBug. It’s one of the most important aspects of inbound marketing, especially when you’re creating top-of-the-funnel content. When you create your first e-book and turn on your first lead nurturing workflow in HubSpot, all's right with the world.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 9, 2014

In inbound marketing , this often means focusing on front-facing channels. These are the parts of inbound marketing that turns visitors into leads. But once you''ve secured those leads, what do you do with them ? All leads in the United States. Leads working at a company with 200 - 1,000 employees.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It will also help you determine how many visitors and leads the marketing team needs to generate to hit its goals by working backwards from these metrics. HubSpot data clearly indicates that by going through this process, the odds of your team meeting these goals goes up dramatically. Photo Credit: State of Inbound Marketing.

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Hubspot

APRIL 18, 2012

” And as a marketer, you need to be able to deliver an experience that makes it clear to those visitors exactly what's in it for them, and why they should care. That's why it's so crucial to craft your website's design, content, and experience with your business' buyer personas in mind.

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Hubspot

MARCH 21, 2012

Use these shortcuts to create new offer content, quickly build a new landing page (following these landing page best practices , of course), and start generating more qualified leads for your business! If you're a dedicated inbound marketer, you're probably blogging on a regular basis and have built up a great arsenal of short-form content.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

A new study of over 6,000 HubSpot customers shows that among those who use email marketing , companies that blog get 2X more traffic from their email than those that don’t. A good example of this is the State of Inbound Marketing Report we included in one of our HubSpot emails, featured below.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 1, 2014

Maybe you''ve thought of ways to better manage your time or come up with fun ideas for team outings, but if you don''t have a list of resolutions to take your marketing to that next level , it''s time to start developing one -- and we can help. 6) Take a look at your buyer personas, too. inbound marketing'

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But there are certain things that, when put behind a form, just won't contribute much of anything for your lead gen or lead nurturing initiatives. What we're saying is that you shouldn't put them behind forms or rely on them to effectively generate and nurture leads. Create a lot of targeted offers.

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2016

The great thing about an inbound marketing tactic like blogging is that it lets you attract the most qualified prospects to your business, wherever they may be. Not only that, but they saw the number of quality leads increase by 700%. Step 3: Solving for Leads With Gated Content.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 21, 2021

And last but not least, we’re finishing up this year’s INBOUND recap series with a blog around the best sessions from our favorite HubSpot Academy professors. We hope you’re as pumped as we were to learn from the ultimate HubSpot connoisseurs as they provide hacks to make our HubSpot usage as easy as possible.

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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 4: Creating Personas. Start now with this customizable template for buyer personas.

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PureB2B

JULY 26, 2021

The strategy will incorporate both outbound and inbound marketing. Many businesses like startups, small local businesses, and big companies with limited marketing budgets may struggle with outbound marketing risks and costs. Content Marketing. It is an important part of inbound marketing.

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Hubspot

MAY 8, 2014

Just as you should be optimizing your website pages around the keywords that your buyer personas are searching for, you should be doing the same thing with your blog posts. What are your personas’ most frequently asked questions? Check out HubSpot Academy’s free Inbound Certification program !

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Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2013

Are you ready to build your dream team of inbound marketers? Hiring inbound marketers is a fairly new priority for businesses as they stray from traditional marketing to more inbound-driven, web-based tactics. Just recognizing that you need to invest in inbound marketing is step one.

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FunnelEnvy

APRIL 1, 2024

The rise of inbound marketing focused on attracting potential customers through valuable content and building trust, perfectly complements the SaaS model. Source: Hubspot Eventually, the sales teams will take over lead nurture, and both activities will fall under the marketing umbrella.

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Hubspot

MARCH 30, 2015

The site is not designed to support the buyer’s journey and lead conversion. Here’s what you should do in this scenario: First and foremost, review your buyer personas (you have developed your buyer personas, haven’t you?) 5) Weak Traffic, Weak Conversion, Strong Sales. This is where everyone starts.

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