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Inbound Marketing

Calculating Your Marketing ROI

In business, we frequently ask what the ROI is of an investment of time/money. We want to know that if we spend $100, we're getting at least $101.00 back from it. That is a really ...

Donny Kemick · Dec 2024
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B2B

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 i...

protocol 80 · Nov 2024
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Strategy

Manufacturer Marketing ROI: 11+ Statistics Your Boss Will Love

The manufacturing industry is slowly coming to terms with the influence of the Internet. However, online marketing is throwing many small manufacturers for a loop. Some companies a...

protocol 80 · Nov 2024
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CMS

HubSpot Pro vs. Enterprise: 2023 Features & Pricing

HubSpot is the biggest and best in a sea of CRM (customer relationship management) tools. As B2B companies and customers evolve, so does HubSpot's software, and keeping pace with t...

Adam Vosler · Nov 2024
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Websites

How to Build a B2B Website Strategy That Generates Leads

“Our company has a website.” Is that all you can muster when someone asks about your online marketing strategy? You may have a problem.

protocol 80 · Jun 2024
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News

AI in B2B Marketing: Benefits, Challenges, & Best Practices

Robots once felt like something from a far-off future, when humans might zip from place to place in a spacecraft instead of cars.

protocol 80 · Jun 2024
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Inbound Marketing

B2B Marketing Services: Outsourcing vs. Coaching vs. Hybrid

Balancing the different aspects of a business is much like carrying the groceries into the house without bags: lots of different shapes and sizes (when it comes to projects), and s...

protocol 80 · Jun 2024
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Usability

What Makes a Well Designed Industrial Website? [B2B Examples]

You'd think the determining factor of "good design" would be, y'know, the quality of the design. Right? Right?

protocol 80 · May 2024
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CMS

11 Reasons We Choose HubSpot vs. WordPress + Plugins ('FrankenSpot')

If you're getting ready to flip the switch on your website creation strategy for lead generation, you'll need to decide what platform to use to power the strategy. Two of the most ...

Donny Kemick · May 2024
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CMS

HubSpot CMS vs. WordPress: Best Content Management System 2024

If your content is the foundation of your business website, the CMS is its backbone.

protocol 80 · May 2024
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