I’ve been hearing that people don’t read long-form content for decades now. “Nobody has the time,” they say. “People only skim content nowadays,” they say. “People have a shorter attention span than a goldfish,” they...
I’ve been hearing that people don’t read long-form content for decades now. “Nobody has the time,” they say. “People only skim content nowadays,” they say. “People have a shorter attention span than a goldfish,” they...
Editor's Note: Please enjoy this blog post originally published in May 2016 by our guest author, novelist and former Chicago Sun-Times journalist Neil Hayes.
Quote: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned...
There’s a truth that’s not often discussed openly in inbound marketing: Leads generated from inbound marketing are not like other kinds of leads.
I crave grammar. I make a study of punctuation. I swoon at spelling bees.
I detest comma splices and abhor the use of single quotes when double are called for. I’ve never encountered a situation where it makes sense...
Many online marketers understand that bounce rate can be an important factor in a web site’s analytics, but it’s also a metric that can cause needless confusion. What exactly does this KPI measure?
For most people, LinkedIn is a tool for staying connected with others professionally, or perhaps for finding a job. Marketers tend to think of LinkedIn as the B2B equivalent of Facebook – in other words, good...
I had just moved to Boston. In November. My legs were freezing, cold air was whistling up the back of my jacket and I couldn’t stop shivering.
I recognized I had a problem, so I turned to Google to do some research....
As December winds down, you’re probably thinking a lot about those marketing goals you set at the start of the year. Did you crush them? Or were those stretch goals too much of a stretch?
We hope you were able to hit...
As Clariant Creative’s social media coordinator, I spend a ton of time on social media – whether it’s doing competitive research, developing a publishing strategy, creating content, designing graphics, taking...
Most businesses know that creating a remarkable customer experience is important to their brand and critical to success. But to compete on customer experience, you need to understand the experience you’re currently...
You’ve created your content strategy and are committed to regularly publishing new content. But with all the other marketing projects on your plate, how can you ensure your content marketing stays on track?
How many of you use email for prospecting?
How many of you believe your prospecting emails always (or almost always get opened, clicked, read, and acted upon?
I thought so.
Whether we’re inbound or outbound...
Editor's Note: We recently revamped the way we conduct buyer persona interviews, and we've updated this previously...
Author's Note: We've updated this previously published post with some new insights. Enjoy!
Like many companies, at...
Have you ever wished you were a mind reader, so you could finally understand how your customers think? After all,...