Strategic-IC

MARCH 5, 2018

For Marketing Directors today, that means having the confidence to change strategy; earning visibility through helping buyers reach the solutions they need. 3 out of 4 marketers across the globe prioritise an Inbound approach to marketing - HubSpot State of Inbound 2015. HubSpot State of Inbound 2015.

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SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Creating marketing personas is an important part of marketing strategy in any industry. Personas help you craft spot-on messages that resonate with your audience and elicit an action or response. In this blog post, we’ll discuss what marketing personas are, why they’re important, and how you can create them.

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SmartBug Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Rather than glorifying the brand through the right pitch, as many cable companies have done, Netflix built a brand that crafts its entire business model around the customer’s convenience, which brings customers directly to its door—just like companies who adopt inbound marketing. Buyer personas and journey.

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SmartBug Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

SmartBug helps businesses meet these goals with HubSpot training and workshops designed to give teams the skills and expertise needed to drive their business forward and stay ahead in the market. What Types of On-Site Business Training Workshops Does SmartBug Offer?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 3, 2023

One of the best things about inbound marketing is that you can offer content to potential buyers before they even raise their hands. It starts with buyer personas. How Buyer Personas Affect Personalized Marketing Content and Generate More Leads This is where it all begins. How is this done?

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

Are those stereotypes or personas? presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. The key to powerful buyer persona development comes down to three important factors: grounded in fact, functional, and more than demographic data.”.

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SmartBug Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In this blog post, we’ll talk about four steps to take to set scalable lead nurture workflows in HubSpot, so that all of your contacts are being touched with relevant content that moves them closer toward a purchase. Know Your Personas. Objections and Challenges: What barriers might keep the buyer from purchasing a solution?

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Kaon

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

by Lisa Toner of Hubspot. ” Why is marketing trying to do it all on their own? Why not leverage other companies to work on getting leads and creating a partnership or marketing relationship that compliments your brand. Understand your buyer personas. “When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”

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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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SmartBug Media

JUNE 28, 2021

When I first joined SmartBug®, I was welcomed onto a team of individuals that weren’t just proficient in HubSpot—they were experts. As self-proclaimed experts at HubSpot, to say SmartBugs have mastered the platform would be an understatement. Although it’s time-consuming, reviewing data duplication in HubSpot is incredibly necessary.

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Valasys

MAY 27, 2019

ABM focuses on optimizing marketing mediums by focusing on individual accounts rather than leads, channels or products through the unification of the entire buyers’ journey from online research to (re) purchase, to advocacy. Benefits of Integrating ABM & Inbound Marketing.

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 13, 2022

Ideal client profiles and buyer personas are essential building blocks that ensure everything else you build remains relevant to consumer needs. Define Buyer Personas & Ideal Client Profiles. Having ICPs clearly defined helps your sales and marketing teams to understand which businesses would make great prospects.

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Envy

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Will content marketing agencies yield measurable results, or are inbound marketing agencies at the end of the day that all-around better approach? Burning Question #1: What is Content Marketing? Burning Question #2: What is Inbound Marketing? Content marketing is essentially a subset of inbound marketing.

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Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Raechel Lambert , Product Marketing Manager, Intercom. Inbound marketing, sales, and customer service platform. Product marketing superpower. Persona development. Hubspot might not have invented the concept of the marketing persona, but they certainly helped to develop and popularise it.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Here’s how you can market to the adult child of prospective senior residents. Build Your Personas. The key to any good inbound marketing initiative is to understand who you’re creating content for. Buyer personas are a fictional personification of your ideal target audience.

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Strategic-IC

DECEMBER 4, 2017

9 Core Components of Successful Inbound Marketing Campaigns. Buyer Personas. Defined buyer personas (in-depth profiles of your ideal, target clients) are crucial as they inform and determine all other aspects of your campaign. Topic Keywords (Relating to Your Persona Challenges). Related: 2.

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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

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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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Sales Qualified Leads Marketing & Strategy 98

SmartBug Media

APRIL 2, 2020

You want to make sure you’re driving the right personas. This tends to happen when internal staff—the marketers and salespeople—create a list of topics that they think their buyers care about but use a lot of jargon that their buyer personas may not have heard of yet. What Is a Buyer’s Journey?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The first rule of buyer personas: Take the time to create buyer personas. The second rule of buyer personas: Take the time to create buyer personas! For anyone who is unfamiliar with the concept, a buyer persona is a semi-fictional, generalized representation of an ideal customer.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Creating buyer personas is an essential part of building a successful inbound marketing strategy. Buyer personas help you better understand your current and potential customers, what their pain points are, what information they need, and how you can position your offering to meet their needs.

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Strategic-IC

JUNE 4, 2018

What results can you expect from an inbound marketing campaign? We review three inbound case studies as an example of what can be achieved. Why Inbound Marketing? Inbound marketing puts customers - your best-fit buyer personas - at the heart of your marketing strategy.

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Hubspot

JULY 1, 2015

It’s commonly known that buyer personas are essential to any successful inbound marketing strategy. But, in the B2B industry there have been some interesting (and even seismic) shifts in the last two years, causing the need for the buyer personas you created even just six months ago to be re-evaluated and possibly redone.

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Hubspot

MARCH 24, 2015

At first, creating buyer personas seems simple. One of the biggest challenges you are likely to encounter revolves around actually gathering the information you need to construct your personas. How can you use it to create buyer personas? Coworker Collaboration. Google Docs can work in a similar way.

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Martech

MARCH 10, 2022

Most of the B2B buying journey is conducted anonymously until the buyer gets closer to the point of purchase, which is why a tech-driven “zero-touch” demand gen strategy is critical for growth. And with ABM tech platforms becoming mainstream, it is much easier to implement (think of platforms such as Marketo, Pardot, and HubSpot).

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Account Based Marketing Ideal Customer Profiles Enterprise Management Work Management 102

SmartBug Media

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Has your inbound marketing agency embraced the idea of Intelligent Inbound® marketing being about a “culture of experimentation”? All this is part of the unique alchemy for inbound marketing strategy success for one former CMO turned SaaS co-founder. We see so many abandoned experiments in marketing.

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Hubspot

MARCH 19, 2014

In a noble effort to get to know the customer better, many marketers have turned to creating buyer personas -- archetypes that represent the customers they most commonly encounter. Sure, it’s nice to have that printout of your persona “Chris the CIO” tacked up in the lunchroom.

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Hubspot

MAY 15, 2017

Account-based marketing or inbound marketing? With all the confusion between account-based marketing and inbound marketing, we thought we would clear the air -- and hopefully help show you how the two work together. Here's a visual explanation from Terminus, an account-based marketing company.

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Hubspot

MARCH 8, 2014

A buyer persona is a semi-fictional representation of your ideal customer based on market research and real data about your existing customers. When creating your buyer persona(s), consider including customer demographics, behavior patterns, motivations, and goals. Inbound Marketing'

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Hubspot

MAY 8, 2014

Creating a buyer persona is easy -- heck, you probably already have a picture in your head of your company''s ideal customer. But creating an accurate buyer persona is hard. And creating a few different buyer personas -- which almost every business will need to do -- and deciding which ones to prioritize is even harder.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 9, 2020

Most blog articles are anywhere from 800-1,500 words, although a HubSpot study found the blog articles that generate the most leads are more than 2,500 words on average. According to HubSpot , 55 percent of marketers say blog content creation is their top inbound marketing priority. Tips for Writing Marketing Copy.

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Hubspot

MAY 22, 2014

Ah yes, the excitement of creating your company’s first buyer persona. The interviews, the surveys, the extensive research … the PowerPoint presentation you put together so you can properly unveil your personas in all their persona-y glory. Take Your Personas Off the Fridge and Put Them to Work.

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Buyer Personas Long Tail Marketing Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

Only B2B

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Demand Generation and Inbound marketing: The new couple in town! There are lots of articles that compare demand generation (as an outbound marketing strategy) and inbound marketing only to give a gold medal in marketing Olympics to the latter. Demand generation as a beginning point to inbound marketing?

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 24, 2023

Building brand awareness starts with building strong buyer personas. Once your personas are developed, keep them in mind while you develop a consistent content schedule. Every content marketing strategy should lead toward generating revenue for your organization. With HubSpot, lead nurturing is a breeze.

Content Marketing 98

Content Marketing Planning Word of Mouth Content 98

SmartBug Media

JULY 21, 2020

These may always be staples for B2B businesses, but there are many inbound marketing strategies and tactics that you can implement to not only get ahead, but more importantly, stay ahead of your competition. Buyer’s Journey Stage #2: Consideration.

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Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2020

Consider the following example of how we could describe HubSpot in a “gobbledygook” way: HubSpot helps companies across multiple countries reduce churn by backfilling the sales pipeline with highly qualified traffic that generates leads that convert into customers with high lifetime value. Define your buyer persona(s).

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FunnelEnvy

JUNE 13, 2022

The same idea can apply to your inbound marketing funnel. Like people, B2B marketing funnels are extremely complex, and each is slightly different. Refreshing your buyer persona may prove beneficial in fixing this issue. HubSpot provides an excellent list of vanity metrics and some alternative numbers to track.

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