Hubspot

JANUARY 21, 2019

Maybe you think of the founders and inventors who present on Shark Tank. Startups scale fast because they 1) target the right customers and 2) continually work to grow their customer base. Think about it this way: If you had a goal to lose weight, you wouldn’t continually lose weight until you die, right?

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Veloxy

JUNE 27, 2022

If you ever find yourself out of a job, do you think you could win an employment competition at Google? You’re tenacious, you think outside of the box, and you’re the kind of person that people would want to get stuck at an airport with for six hours. Shark Tank. Is there something missing from our list? The Internship.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Often, “successful” cold email strategies end up in a blog post, which leads thousands to replicate it, destroying its effectiveness in the process. Summarizing the experience in another article, Lemkin argues that “Everyone needs solutions to their top 1 or 2 biggest problems. Examples: Read the blog post; Check out the guide.

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Hubspot

JULY 18, 2018

Check out this blog to learn about another classic business read. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra. Most importantly, she teaches the reader to “think before you act.” Hauser realized two things prior to writing this book: 1. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Management.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Just like no website wants to send their readers to a hoopty blog post, no one wants to share it with their friends, family, and colleagues on social media networks. People tweet and post content that they think their network connections will enjoy, and (duh) people don't enjoy bad content. People buy from people they trust.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2014

You may be thinking, "Wait! So the best way to begin is to think about the problem you want to solve. Do you want to see how many leads you have generated from the blog? 1) How many leads are generated from my blog? Not all page views or marketing channels are treated equally when it comes to conversions!"

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Hubspot

JANUARY 17, 2018

Host: Anthony Iannarino, entrepreneur, sales coach, and founder of The Sales Blog. Kloyda believes strongly in serving the customer and thinking about the “why” behind your goals. Here are 18 sales podcasts to get you started. B2B Growth Show. Length: Approximately 20 minutes. Listen on: iTunes | Stitcher | SoundCloud. In the Arena.

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Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2019

This concept goes hand-in-hand with brand recall , which is the ability to think of a brand without any visual or auditory identifiers. ???? I order their vitamins because 1) they’re proven to work , and 2) I trust and respect the brand (and it’s gorgeous!). Strong branding keeps your business top-of-mind. We’ve talked about that.

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ClickFunnels

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’ll never forget when, as a budding marketer, I repeatedly discovered HubSpot’s blog content through various Google searches related to online marketing. Before you even think of trying to rank in Google, you need to have a solid understanding of your target market. SEO is a great way to generate leads and increase brand awareness.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2015

With the help of some of the top experts in conversion optimization, here is a list of the 7 most poisonous conversion optimization myths: 1. One thing that works for them might tank your conversion rates. They can create misunderstanding among practitioners and confusion for beginners. CRO is a List of Tactics and Best Practices”.

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The Sales Hunter

JANUARY 23, 2012

Today’s post will particularly resonate with sales managers, but I think anyone in sales could glean some valuable points. My wing tanks just wouldn’t feed and there was nothing he could do. To learn more about Waldo or how to be a more trusting wingman in business, visit www.YourWingman.com or call 1-866-925-3616.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Think of NPS, or Net Promoter Score, like rocket fuel. All you have to do is ask customers: “On a scale of 1–10, how likely are you to recommend this product?” 1) Use it to polish interactions with prospects and customers. The company has been setting record highs for growth, gaining a $1 billion valuation in just a year.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

During the conference and its preparation, some guidelines for giving great presentations emerged, and we wanted to share those lessons with all our awesome blog readers. 1) Understand Your Audience's Sacrifice. Think about it: if you're speaking to 100 people for an hour, you're consuming 100 hours of time.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This is a guest blog post by Dave Clarke, an award-winning editor and editorial director in the marketing departments of Fortune 500 companies, such as Oracle and Symantec. Publish enough variations of these keyword-driven titles and you could virtually own Page 1 of Google organic search on tens of thousands of keywords.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Williams-Cook saw it all – big names in affiliate marketing saw their traffic go down the drain, agencies were getting the boot from clients whose rankings tanked, and suddenly, folks were charging money to remove links. Turns out, most of the traffic loss was from the blog. He shares his own brush with Penguin quite candidly. “I

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Think of it like a buffet — take a few things from the podcast section, enroll in a course or two, subscribe to three or four blogs. Previous interviewees include the former Director of SEO for eBay and Nick Eubanks, co-founder of Traffic Think Tank and FromTheFuture (there's some list overlap here!). you get the drift.

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Hubspot

JUNE 23, 2016

Some lucky entrepreneurs get the chance to pitch their businesses on ABC's hit TV series Shark Tank, where promising entrepreneurs pitch to a panel of five "Sharks" -- self-made multimillionaire and billionaire investors who've achieved enormous success in their respective industries. 8 Tips From Successful Shark Tank Product Pitches.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2021

In this example, the “People also ask” section and “Videos” take up a significant portion of space, reducing the visibility of organic results shown on Page 1. And there’s no sense targeting a term for which you’ll never see the light of Page 1. Side note: Always use images in your blog posts as images can boost your conversion rate.).

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Lead Fuze

JULY 11, 2021

Every sales pitch consists of these four elements: 1 Audience. Some might think this isn’t an issue for them or their industry but the truth is, we all have to face problems day in and day out – especially if you’re running your own company. 1 One-word pitch. LeadFuze in action. What are their needs?

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Hubspot

MAY 3, 2018

You've probably heard how paramount blogging is to the success of your marketing. But it's important that you learn how to start a blog and write blog posts for it so that each article supports your business. So why, oh why, does almost every marketer I talk to have a laundry list of excuses for why they can't consistently blog?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2019

I want/chose a sales career because sales is one of the few professions where your hard work, strategic thinking, thorough preparation and perpetual action, literally pays off. Or maybe sales came to you later in life by studying it in college, or selling t-shirts for your fraternity, or when you stumbled upon a blog about sales.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

In a study by Google in August of 2012 , researchers found that not only will users judge websites as beautiful or not within 1/50th – 1/20th of a second, but also that “visually complex” websites are consistently rated as less beautiful than their simpler counterparts. What is a Prototypical Website? image source.

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Hubspot

APRIL 30, 2018

You've probably heard how paramount blogging is to the success of your marketing. But it's important that you learn how to write a blog post correctly. So why, oh why, does almost every marketer I talk to have a laundry list of excuses for why they can't consistently blog? Step 1: Understand your audience.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

How do you know which word or phrase might tank a sale? On a scale of 1 to 100…”) and qualitative (i.e. A blog post earns more traffic than a product page, which earns more traffic than a checkout page …). Step 1: Develop research goals and questions. Do people who bought it think it’s worth $75?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

And – an 8% drop would never happen at smart internet businesses such as Amazon, because they would have spotted it at 1% or less, abd rolled back to a better-performing version. Year-on-year, same-store sales tanked, and they have been negative for eight quarters now. less than 2% add product to cart), completely re-think it.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Establish Product-Market Fit Creating a go-to-market plan can prevent many of the mistakes and oversights that can tank new product launches. This can be in the form of a blog, whitepaper, or video. Type of Content Topic Promo Strategy Lead Generation Blog post What is sales AI? Take Apple, for example. You must optimize.

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Hubspot

JUNE 20, 2012

You know blogging is critical, paramount, indispensable to the success of your marketing. So why, oh why, does almost every marketer I talk to have a laundry list of excuses for why they can't consistently blog? Maybe because, unless you're one of the few people who actually like writing, business blogging kind of sucks.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

1) Leo Burnett Moscow. We envision our office space as а modern art gallery," the folks at Leo Burnett wrote in a blog announcement. "We TBWAChiatDay's Los Angeles home is decked out in otherworldly details, such as a massive gargoyle sculpture, a 1,000 gallon fish tank on wheels, and a bar made entirely of surfboards.

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Hubspot

MARCH 16, 2015

Whether you write romance novels or technical blogs, you can get it. 1) Keep reading. Belle Cooper writes at the Buffer Blog , “Read things you hadn’t thought about reading.”. The ''willpower tank'' has to refill before we can use it again. The walks gave them the ability to think without inhibition.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 4, 2014

What that structure looks like can hugely impact your program''s effectiveness -- whether a fledgling content program takes off in the first place, or whether a successful program stalls or tanks. But please use your judgment if, after reading this description, you think you better fall into the Enterprise bucket, or the SMB bucket.

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Hubspot

APRIL 27, 2016

And I wondered: Was the fear of completely tanking holding me back from doing better? A few blogs suggested getting in front of more crowds in different ways. One blog in particular suggested improv sketch comedy. 1) I learned what it meant to bomb, gracefully. That's what I set out to uncover.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

How do you think that will change your competitive strategy moving forward? Best: Many people view your competition as Y and Z, but I really think long-term that Company A could be a threat, given that you’re both converging toward the ecommerce space. Didn’t think so. Do you think Reese Witherspoon will get the Oscar?”

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Because your standards have been raised, and now all you can think about is how much better the other options may have been. Version 1: Version 2: Verson 3: Version 4: The results? The highest revenue increase, the overall winner, went to version 1 (the simplest option). Buyer’s Remorse. Choice Can Be a Good Thing, Too.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2018

1) Training SDRs as if they were Account Executives. 5) Thinking you can pay little money. Mistake #1: Training SDRs as If They Were Account Executives. Mistake #5: Thinking You Can Pay Little Money. Think about it. Two email blasts to your 20,000 person list won’t get you 2x the meetings as 1 email.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You may have noticed that some of our blog post topics on Inbound Hub are similar to the topics of the ebooks we develop. Repurposing content from blog posts into ebooks is actually a very effective way to create new content. First off, you may be using multiple blog posts to create an ebook. Let me explain.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

1) Social Media Publishing Tools - It's wonderful to be able to actually enjoy your time off as a social media manager -- and social publishing tools let you do that. We use it all the time -- including in this very blog post! 17) HubSpot Sources - I think our marketing team looks at our Sources dashboard every single day.

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Hubspot

JUNE 6, 2016

Whether you’re writing a blog post, putting together a presentation, or working on a full-length report, using data in your content marketing strategy is a must. 1) Statista. The Pew Research Center, one of the leading think tanks in the U.S., 6) Think with Google. It gives your readers context. Price: Free.

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