Applying HubSpot Education to Every Aspect of Your Organization.

Douglas Phillips
10 minutes

5 Reasons Every Marketer Should Get HubSpot Certifications

Jul 24, 2024
Rob Steffens
I am the Director of Marketing here at Bluleadz. I'm a huge baseball fan (Go Yankees!). I love spending time with friends and getting some exercise on the Racquetball court.
Douglas Phillips
6 minutes

Mastering Account-Based Marketing with HubSpot Tools

Account-based marketing (ABM) is a marketing methodology where you identify high-value accounts in your target market and create a personalized buying experience for those accounts.
Marketing
Jul 23, 2024
Eleanor Hecks
5 minutes

Top 6 Marketing Insights From HubSpot's State of Service Report 2024

When it comes to excellent marketing tactics, customer experience (CX) ranks pretty high on the list of considerations. HubSpot’s State of Service Report 2024 aims to improve understanding of how CX impacts retention.
HubSpot
Jul 26, 2024
Kathryn Bouchard
5 minutes

BANT: 30 Questions You Need to Ask To Qualify Your Prospects

BANT is a fast and easy scheme for qualifying leads that has everyone excited. With BANT, you have the opportunity to learn everything you need to know from a prospect in a structured and precise way. This saves a huge ...
Sales
Jan 25, 2024

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Rob Steffens
4 minutes

How to Get Your Team Excited About Your Customer Engagement Strategies

Employee buy-in is a powerful, often invisible factor that drives your business success. Pew Research calls it engagement. Engaged employees are “cognitively and emotionally” connected to their work and workplace. They ...
Service
Apr 19, 2019
Rob Steffens
5 minutes

How to Use Social Selling to Engage Your Prospects on Social Media

Social selling is a major part of how B2B enterprises flourish online. Microsoft’s decision to buy LinkedIn back in 2016 was probably mostly about the revenue the company could gain by facilitating recruitment ...
Sales
Apr 16, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

5 Big Challenges for Marketing Managers (& How Agencies Conquer Them)

There are many day-to-day challenges for marketing managers. How they navigate each of those determines the success of their marketing – and, in the long-term, their business.
Marketing
Apr 14, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

The Best PR Tools You Need to Start Using

In today’s digital agencies and B2B enterprises, digital marketing experts are often the ones called on to lead inbound PR. The crossover between marketing and PR is obvious, but there’s a learning curve: PR has its own ...
Marketing
Apr 12, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

Removing Friction Points in Your Sales Process: What You Need to Know

Most sales professionals, even those on the cutting-edge of inbound, are used to looking at sales as a funnel. As leads go from Awareness to Consideration to Decision, they take actions that qualify them and clarify ...
Sales
Apr 11, 2019
Rob Steffens
7 minutes

How to Shift Your Marketing Tactics to Sell New Products

When your company has a sudden shift in its product mix, your marketing tactics need to evolve. Exploring a new product category is a huge opportunity, but it can be tough to define its place in your universe. It’s up ...
Marketing
Apr 10, 2019
Rob Steffens
6 minutes

3 Simple Ways to Crush Your Next Sales Call

Sales calls are integral to inbound selling, but they have to be done right. Gone are the days of the cold call. Sales pros using pushy, interruptive techniques often find decision makers won’t give them the time of ...
Sales
Apr 09, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

Your Team Hates Your New Sales Process. How Do You Turn the Tables?

Change is inevitable, but it can be slow, especially for your sales process. Lots of enterprises have been switching up their sales processes over the last few years. Old-fashioned outbound selling is on the way out: ...
Sales
Apr 07, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

What If You Disagree With Your Marketing Manager's Goals?

Clear goals are absolutely essential for business – and almost anything else in life, too. Goals are those big picture outcomes that keep you pushing in the right direction. When goals are vague or nonexistent, you ...
Leadership
Apr 05, 2019
Rob Steffens
9 minutes

9 Email Marketing Mistakes and Solutions You Need to Know For 2019

Email plays a big role in the lives of digital marketers, both for internal use and for email marketing initiatives. You probably generate a lot of emails every day. Even though there are plenty of successful tactics, ...
Marketing
Apr 04, 2019
Rob Steffens
6 minutes

Urgent Public Relations Challenges that Affect Most Companies

Public relations is the art and science of accentuating your brand’s best features to produce a favorable impression with the public. Not so long ago, businesses would only think about PR when they needed to perform ...
Marketing
Apr 01, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

7 Signs Saying You Need to Finally Update Your Sales Collateral

The market landscape is always changing, and decision makers change with it. Your leads are always out there, getting smarter and more informed by the day. At any time, they could raise an objection in your sales ...
Sales
Mar 30, 2019
Rob Steffens
5 minutes

The Best Customer Service Skills List You Need to Hire Reps

Looking for a good customer service skills list? You’re in luck! Hiring decision makers need to look at the big picture when building their team. Not only is it crucial for candidates to have the right technical skills, ...
Service
Mar 29, 2019
Rob Steffens
5 minutes

6 of the Best Examples of Content Marketing in Education

When you think about the best content marketing examples you’ve ever seen, a college or university probably isn’t the first publisher to pop into your mind. But education content marketing has huge potential to be fun, ...
Marketing
Mar 21, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

Why You Need to Add Your Blog to Your Website Navigation Menu

Your website’s navigation menu is one of its defining features. It is, quite literally, the interface by which people can work with your site (or not).
Marketing
Mar 19, 2019
Rob Steffens
4 minutes

6 Ways to Finally Clean Up Your CRM Database

A good CRM is one of your best inbound selling tools. By providing a complete picture of the buyer journey, it allows you to comprehend exactly where a lead stands in relation to your brand. You’ll know what content ...
Sales
Mar 19, 2019
Rob Steffens
5 minutes

6 Things You Need for Your First Inbound Recruitment Campaign

Inbound recruitment is transforming the way businesses source talent. The core ideas of inbound are the same no matter what aspect of your business you're focusing on – marketing, sales, and, yes, even recruiting: ...
Leadership
Mar 18, 2019
Rob Steffens
6 minutes

5 Friction Points You Need to Know About in Customer Service

Speed and ease of use have always been important customer service elements, but now they are central to how customers evaluate every aspect of your brand. When customer service falls short, it sticks out like a sore ...
Service
Mar 18, 2019