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6 Steps for Creating an Original Research Report (+ Examples)
Thought leadership comes in various forms of content. It’s one of the most important strategies you can adopt as a marketer. Your company reaps many benefits from thought leadership, including the following: It ...
What Is the ROI of Inbound Marketing? Everything You Need to Know
By now, most professionals have at least heard the term “inbound.” If not in the context of HubSpot’s massive annual business event, then they’ve heard it in the context of marketing. It’s easy to shrug it off as just ...
4 Steps to Execute a Kickass Healthcare Branding Strategy (+ Examples)
How often do you consider a healthcare organization's branding strategy? Probably not that often, right? That alone is a pretty large indication that it should be taken a bit more seriously. Branding is an important ...
How to Master Your New Employee Onboarding Process (w/ Free Checklist)
After all the hunting, interviewing, and assessing, you finally found an A+ player to join your marketing team. But finding and hiring top talent is just the start. One of the most important processes within your ...
5 Tips for Using the Free HubSpot Sales Hub to Drive Revenue
HubSpot has taken providing value to the next level by opening up their sales software in a free plan. Admittedly, it's a limited version to their sales hub, but there's still a ton of goodies to be found that won't ...
10 Digital Marketing Challenges That Are Hurting Small Businesses
Small businesses looking to grow in the digital world know that internet marketing is a must. And this focus on marketing in the digital age brings plenty of unique challenges along with it. Unfortunately, most small ...
7 Great FAQ Page Examples That You Can Copy (+ Best Practices)
Clients and customers are bound to have a few questions about your products, services, or company. While we want to try and answer those questions in our web copy, blog posts, and content, it can sometimes be difficult ...
What Is Progressive Profiling and How Do You Use It? (w/ Tips + Example)
When you’re getting to know someone, chances are, you aren’t going to probe them with deeply personal questions that violate their privacy. Unless that’s what you’re going for, but we don’t recommend it. In a situation ...
10 Lead Generation Strategies For Tech Companies to Drive Conversions
In a world flooded with businesses and corporations, it can be difficult for salespeople to find leads and vice versa. This is especially true for technology and software companies, where it can feel like there’s a ...
How to Create an Incredible Editorial Calendar (+ Templates)
Catchy title? Check! Personas? Check! It's important to have all your information in order before you start creating content, and that information includes buyer persona research, awesome titles, keyword research ...
15 Landing Page Optimization Tips That Will Help You Convert
Your marketing machine won’t be able to operate fully without practicing lead generation. That’s pretty common knowledge. But converting those leads requires high quality landing pages, and those aren’t as common as you ...
What Is a Microsite? 10 Microsite Examples That Build Brand Awareness
What the heck is a microsite and why do you need one? First, the good news: If you’ve never heard of microsites, you’re not missing out on something that will make or break your entire digital marketing strategy. ...
How to Pick The Perfect Font for Your Brand ( +10 Free Font Sources)
Defining your brand identity isn’t easy. There are so many different little pieces and puzzles to try and optimize or perfect. When it comes to your business’ brand, you’re expected to nail everything, from the ...
10 Pipeline Management Tips to Drive Revenue
Pipeline management is a major part of maximizing sales revenue – and the longer your average sales cycle is, the more important it is to have full visibility throughout your pipeline. All too many B2B deals fall ...
6 Tips for Making the Most of the Free HubSpot Service Hub
Whenever businesses consider customer relationship management software or platforms, all they usually see are dollar signs. And it's true. At times, a full deck of analytics, metrics, and automation tools can come with ...
How to Write the Best Alt Text for Your Images (w/ Examples)
Images provide context to your articles, web pages, and other campaigns, but what provides them context? Alt text is often seen as a tool to improve search engine optimization (SEO), and they wouldn’t be wrong. But it ...
30 Email Opening Lines That You Can Steal to Drive Engagement
You already know that your email’s subject line is important: It helps prospects to decide whether or not to read your email. But once they make that choice, what will they find inside? With all the talk about subject ...
30 Employee Incentives to Motivate Your Team (+ Examples)
Do you want your employees to strive to do their absolute best for themselves and your company? One way to boost morale and motivate them is by offering a variety of incentives. Of course, you’ll also want to sprinkle ...