If you’re like many companies, content marketing is a critical part of your inbound marketing strategy. But before you move forward and start building out your strategy, it’s important you take a...
If you’re like many companies, content marketing is a critical part of your inbound marketing strategy. But before you move forward and start building out your strategy, it’s important you take a...
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in December 2016 and was updated in February 2018.
Have you planned your marketing budget for 2018?
If you haven’t already mapped out your strategy...
Author and humor columnist Dave Barry once acknowledged his fear of covering a stock-car race. His idea of how he might cover such a race went something like this: “The red car was in front. Then the...
Developing buyer personas is an essential first step in building a successful inbound marketing strategy. Buyer personas help you better understand your customers and prospects by identifying their...
Goal setting. It sounds easy enough, but it’s often a challenge for marketers. After all, you want a goal that’s difficult to achieve and forces you to work your butt off, but it can’t be so...
Content, content, content, content, content. These days, everybody and their dog is trying to boost their business by writing blog posts. And many businesses subscribe to the philosophy that the more...
It’s not uncommon for a business to realize there’s a big difference between what they intend to say about their brand and what they actually communicate. Or for them to notice that the marketing...
Every business wants a number one ranking in Google search engine results pages (SERPs). Getting that coveted spot, however, isn’t quick, easy or guaranteed.
SEO remains an inexact science, and...
It’s that time of year – when marketing teams are held accountable to the goals they set for the past year, all while new goals for the new year are busy being made.
This emphasis on goals is the...
Today’s marketing is incredibly data-driven. We analyze buyer personas right down to their toenails, scrutinize every step in their buyer’s journey and comb over SEO reports to see what web searches...
Regardless of your industry, product or service, all great inbound marketing starts with one thing: knowing your target audience.
Without knowing who you’re targeting, it’s impossible to craft...
It’s where you get in political arguments with your mother’s cousin, share quizzes about which character from Game of Thrones you would be (I’m Brienne of Tarth!) and post photos of everything from...
Editor's Note: We recently revamped the way we conduct buyer persona interviews, and we've updated this previously...
When I first started working in marketing, one of my primary tasks was to write blog posts. While this should’ve been...
Goal setting. It sounds easy enough, but it’s often a challenge for marketers. After all, you want a goal that’s...
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