Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Highspot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A comprehensive sales and marketing plan sets up organizations for long-term growth and success. In this guide, we’ll dig into the differences between sales and marketing plans, how to create your plan, and templates to get the ball rolling. What is a Sales and Marketing Plan?

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Lead Fuze

JULY 24, 2023

Whether you’re a startup founder, a product manager, or a digital marketing specialist, SaaS marketing likely plays an integral role in your business strategy. According to recent data from Gartner’s 2023 Technology Marketing Benchmarks Survey, the SaaS industry is growing at an unprecedented rate.

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Hubspot

JULY 18, 2019

There are two popular search strategies by which organizations solve this problem -- Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC). What is SEO? Just as you turn to your favorite search engine to look up a new marketing acronym or where to get good pizza, so do your consumers. SEO vs PPC Statistics.

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Hubspot

MAY 21, 2019

If you work in content marketing, you probably know that its booming growth and ever-evolving ecosystem forces us to constantly be on the lookout for the next big thing. Read on to learn about the marketing trends that could move from hype to reality in 2019. Multicultural Marketing. Word of Mouth Marketing.

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PandaDoc

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

You’ve probably turned on CNBC long enough to hear about big companies hitting or missing their “sales forecasts,” and you’ve probably seen company stocks going up or down based on how analytics compare historical sales data to those forecasts. For a great example of that, consider the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. Publishers are free to experiment, as, historically, WSJ aggressively has. Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a marketer, you’re used to leveraging a variety of channels to promote your business, up to and including content marketing. There are millions of blog posts being published every day , and many of those posts will never see a lick of traffic. Download this ebook for an in-depth explanation of Vaughan's research. ).

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You can analyze your blog leads any time you want to. Last month, I wrote a blog post about why we all need to stop neglecting our old content. The impetus for the post came from some recent analysis I did about our blog leads. Results of Our Blog Lead Generation Analysis. Results of Our Blog Lead Generation Analysis.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 21, 2016

When it comes to marketing, the most successful companies view it as an investment, not an expense. Because when marketing is implemented efficiently (with a plan, driven by goals and with quantifiable metrics established), profound ROI isn’t just possible, it’s almost a given. A marketing plan prevents both. It’s that simple.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 25, 2023

Acting as an essential tool for businesses of all sizes and in all industries, a robust sales plan helps to identify sales goals, target markets, and sales tactics to achieve those goals. Start free trial New product This type of plan is specifically designed to introduce a new product into the market and achieve specific sales goals.

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Hubspot

JULY 14, 2017

Marketers are realizing this and dedicating more time, resources, and staff headcount to social media. In the 2017 State of Inbound report , more marketers said they planned to add social channels like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to their marketing efforts than in the previous year's survey.

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Hubspot

JULY 7, 2020

This retrospective takes a deep dive into buyer interest, marketing and sales outreach, and sales outcomes (spoiler alert: there's a lot of engaged prospects out there, but sales teams have work to do in capturing that interest). Marketing teams have been able to connect, but sales teams haven't. Email Marketing. Buyer Interest.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Take a moment to step back and contemplate all of the things we, as marketers, are responsible for. Content creation, SEO, email marketing, PPC, social media, lead generation, analytics. It''s important to have a good idea of the number of leads generated by each marketing channel. Email marketing?

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Hubspot

APRIL 4, 2016

Ever feel like your business is too "niche" to benefit from blogging? The great thing about an inbound marketing tactic like blogging is that it lets you attract the most qualified prospects to your business, wherever they may be. Take Conversant Bio , for example. What does that mean for Conversant Bio?

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Hubspot

MAY 27, 2015

Before I became an inbound marketer, I once made $50,000 a month spamming Google. This blog post will tell you exactly why. Most black hat SEOs think this way. Black Hat SEOs: Masters of Ethical Rationalization. I had built a spam machine, and the thing was brilliant enough to give my clients huge SEO ranking boosts.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2013

Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it''s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well. The Content Marketing Deluge.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

While Google''s kept us on our toes with all those algorithm changes they keep rollin'' out , one thing has stayed pretty consistent for inbound marketers looking to optimize for search: keyword research. If you''re a regular blogger, these are probably the topics that you blog about the most. What is marketing automation?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 5, 2016

Let's face it: 2016 (so far) has brought about a number of shocks, surprises, and setbacks for businesses -- from stock market instability to events like Brexit. Thankfully there’s an existing playbook marketers can follow to help navigate uncertainty. 5 Smart Ways Marketers Can Prepare for Unexpected Changes.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 22, 2012

While your website is definitely no one-trick pony, when it comes to its role as an inbound marketing tool, its ability to drive conversions -- both in terms of net new lead generation and reconversions -- is definitely one of its bragging rights. 9 Tips to Improve Your Website Conversions. Absolutely! Absolutely! The solution?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

There's one thing that absolutely all excellent inbound marketers have in common. That means they create and publish high quality content -- webinars, ebooks, blog posts, case studies, etc. -- and they do it on a consistent basis. More site traffic, better SEO, constant social sharing? Can you guess what it is?

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But while generative AI offers amazing content generation and optimization opportunities, balancing its capabilities and limitations is essential. Marketers are getting AI content right, from summarizing lengthy texts to crafting compelling social media copy. This enables you to test and improve engagement and conversion rates quickly.

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Hubspot

JULY 1, 2010

The following is a guest post by Teicko Huber is the founder of Focus To Grow , a SMarketing consulting and services company that specializes in inbound marketing and salesforce development for companies that sell business to business. Here are 10 ways to use inbound marketing methods to support your sales team.

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Lead Fuze

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Ever felt like you’re playing a high-stakes game of chess with your marketing strategy, but without all the right pieces? Many marketers grapple with crafting strategies that hit the mark every time. This is no fantasy tale; it’s real, it’s here, and it can revolutionize how we approach marketing.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This article dives into nine interesting Google patents from 2023, analyzing their potential implications for the future of SEO. SEO implications Understanding the nuances of these dynamic search filter systems is essential for SEOs. Do the patents reflect Google’s actual practices? Extracting relevant keywords.

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Hubspot

MAY 3, 2024

Aside from ChatGPT and my specific use for it, plenty of other AI tools on the market can help your small business. Marketing and Sales Nearly 90% of marketing professionals find that AI improves content quality. Meanwhile, 80% of bloggers say AI enhances user experience and can help improve their SEO efforts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

No market demand, running out of cash, and getting out-competed are among the leading reasons businesses fail. When I served as the VP of Marketing at Sales Hacker (a publication and community for B2B salespeople), I uncovered strategies and processes that exploded our growth. Email marketing insight. The good news?

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Hubspot

JUNE 17, 2015

Nine months ago, I analyzed a report that would transform not only my role on the HubSpot blogging team, but also the whole blog's editorial strategy. That shift is an ongoing internal project we call "historical optimization." That shift is an ongoing internal project we call "historical optimization."

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2019

And we’d love to share the essential SEO tips that helped us devise this strategy. >" src="[link]. Optimize your content for people before search engines. Implement a historical optimization strategy. Optimize your content for people before search engines. Leverage the pillar-cluster model. Compress your images.

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Heinz Marketing

DECEMBER 11, 2017

By Matt Heinz, President of Heinz Marketing. It’s just 30 minutes long, fast-paced and full of actionable advice, best practices and more for B2B sales & marketing professionals. Listen in or read our conversation below entitled: Sales/Sales Development/Marketing: The Trifecta for Successful Pipeline Development.

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Hubspot

APRIL 8, 2019

One of the most effective methods for spreading brand awareness and attracting new customers to your business is through content marketing. Ultimately, customer marketing is a critical component for long-term, sustainable growth. Content marketing tips. Adopt a historical optimization strategy.

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Hubspot

MAY 16, 2019

When content marketing was gaining steam, there were really only a few techniques you could leverage. On a typical day, you’d write a blog post, hope it ranked on Google, send it to your email subscribers, and post it to your social media profiles. Read on to add some tools to your content marketing arsenal.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 22, 2019

SEOs believe there are almost 200 ranking signals that Google considers when displaying results. This is why, as businesses and marketers, we must optimize our on-page SEO , off-page SEO , and technical SEO to make it easier for our pages to rank and so consumers can find our content.

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Hubspot

MAY 29, 2018

93% of B2B businesses use content marketing. Just a few years ago, you could post 1, 2, 3, 300 blog posts on your website; furiously direct traffic to them through all your social platforms; amass zillions of inbound links; target a bunch of keywords; aaand easily rank on Google. from marketers, at least. then slumped.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 13, 2021

If your top five blog posts—which were published years ago—account for 30% of new users, then those posts are your brand for one in every three people. The most important topics and high-traffic posts may be buried deep in your blog roll. This conversation with Kyndall, who sent out the newsletter, happened…often.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Neil Patel does a pretty good job explaining the concept and talking about its origin, saying that a growth marketer is someone who uses " analytics, inexpensive, creative and innovative ways to exponentially grow their company’s customer base. " You can also continue optimizing until you reach your goals. What is growth hacking?

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