A typical social media marketing campaign works like this—you spend weeks, or even months creating valuable content on your account. At the same time, you start following users in your niche, engaging with them and capturing enough attention for them to follow you back. Sometimes, if you have the budget, you may also consider bypassing […]
Inbound Marketing
How to Get Inbound Marketing Right for Your Small Business
If you have a small business and you want to maximize your returns, paying attention to inbound marketing is critical. First, let’s examine what it is and how inbound marketing can help your small business. A Bit About Inbound Marketing Inbound marketing is more about your customers than you. It is about providing them with […]
What Will Make an Inbound Marketing Campaign Successful in 2018?
The year 2017 was a landmark year for digital marketing, in which many brands suddenly “awakened” to the need for great content that attracts customers instead of interrupting them. Thus, content overload worsened…and a lot of good stuff ended up being ignored. So, if you’re looking to break through in 2018, your inbound marketing campaigns […]
Why Inbound Marketing Alone Likely Won’t Work Anymore
Much has been written opining the impact of high-levels of content publishing online across the globe and its impact on marketing. In fact, Mark Schaefer was the first to kick off the debate in January of 2014. To paraphrase his argument: The amount of content being published online is increasing at an exponential rate and […]
What is Account-Based Marketing?
So you’ve heard the jargons account-based marketing and inbound marketing thrown around by b2b marketing agencies, but do you know what they entail and which type of marketing your business should pursue? What Is Account-Based Marketing? Account-based marketing relies on aligned sales and marketing teams within a B2B organization. How many people can say that […]
4 Lead Sources to Incorporate in Your B2B Inbound Marketing Strategy
So you have your blogging and your top and middle of the funnel marketing activities that enable you to attract visitors and turn them into leads. But what if I told you that you may be letting potential leads slip away by ignoring certain marketing pursuits or failing to integrate them with you inbound marketing […]
3 Inbound Marketing Insights from the State of Inbound 2016 Report
It’s that time of year again. The eighth installment of HubSpot’s annual State of Inbound 2016 Report was recently published by the Boston-based inbound marketing automation software provider. Even though I read it every year, what I found particularly intriguing about this current offering is its generally brand-agnostic methodology. The vast majority (85%) of the study’s 4,500 […]
How Marketing to Millennials is Different
Generation Y, otherwise known as the millennial generation, is the most coveted demographic for marketers. Not only is this generation among the largest of demographics, but it is also one of the most “spendy.” If you can hook millennials on your product or service, you can set your business up for long-term success. The challenge […]
Combining IN and OUT Marketing Proven the Best Choice
A new study says that neither inbound nor outbound marketing tactics alone are adequate to drive a business. What it takes is a combination of both. According to the Inbound Marketing Effectiveness Benchmark Study Report – Q2 2016 from Demand Metric and Act-On Software, most study participants agreed that a blend of tactics drives their businesses. What’s interesting […]
What Will You Do with Your Inbound Sales Leads?
One of the biggest challenges for many small business owners is getting enough new sales leads—you’re always marketing and networking and getting customer referrals and buying PPC ads and posting on social media, all in the hope of finding new prospective customers. But ironically enough, many small business owners discover that once they get new […]
