How to Measure Inbound Marketing ROI
“We’re spending good money on B2B inbound marketing. What’s the return on our investment?” Your boss wants to see figures. Simply saying, “Umm … website traffic is up?” won’t cut it.
Read more“We’re spending good money on B2B inbound marketing. What’s the return on our investment?” Your boss wants to see figures. Simply saying, “Umm … website traffic is up?” won’t cut it.
Read moreThere's a common misconception that hiring a marketing agency is much more expensive than handling the efforts internally. The tricky part about digital marketing is that it's not one single job that you're paying someone to do.
Read moreBlogging. Writing social media posts. Promoting your company’s products on its homepage. How hard can it be, right? It happens all the time, across all industries: Execs and department heads hear about a digital marketing success story and suddenly want to invest in content writing to take their company to new heights. So they assemble a content writing team by … tapping random employees on the shoulder.
Read moreThe internet is full of business websites, all with their unique strengths and weaknesses. Some have pages that promise new content but haven’t been updated in *cough* years, some are VERY slow to load, and most sadly aren’t optimized for mobile devices. If your website is one of these – or if you’ve identified other issues that require a total site overhaul, it’s time to learn how to make a B2B website from start to finish.
Read more“Our company has a website.” Is that all you can muster when someone asks about your online marketing strategy? You may have a problem.
Read moreNew technology can be intimidating for everyone, and with the rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across the board in today’s economy, marketing is experiencing the same uncertainties that other industries face. So, how to use AI in B2B marketing effectively? The answer is: practice.
Read moreYou'd think the determining factor of "good design" would be, y'know, the quality of the design. Right? Right?
Read moreSEO and user experience go hand-in-hand. By providing both new and recurring visitors with a seamless and pleasurable website experience, you can naturally improve your SEO, which will increase your visibility on SERPs (search engine results pages).
Read moreIn digital inbound/content marketing, we say, “Work SMARTer, not harder.” Why all the caps? Because any data-backed, results-oriented marketing strategy has its roots in SMART goals. We define SMART goals as digital marketing KPIs (key performance indicators) and benchmarks that are:
Read moreThose pondering how to improve their leaky sales pipeline usually audit one of the following: The fit of the leads reaching the pipeline The process that turns those leads to sales (or causes them to circle the drain) An account-based marketing strategy -- and the templates below -- can address both.
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