HubSpot is a powerful marketing automation software. So as you plan your next big marketing idea, you want to use HubSpot campaign best practices to truly take advantage of this tool: Marketing automation users report three times more leads passed to sales after one month. – Marketo Here are major...
Nonprofit content marketers struggle with a few top content challenges, according to the Content Marketing Institute/Blackbaud: Measuring content effectiveness (54%) Producing engaging content (53%) Lack of budget (45%) Producing content consistently (42%) Measuring the ROI of a content marketing...
While many organizations use a combination of inbound vs. outbound marketing. tactics, recent 2017 statistics show that the majority of companies are finding success in inbound. Source: HubSpot's 2017 State of Inbound Report But first, what is the difference? Outbound Marketing includes tactics...
Your nonprofit newsletter content is essential to spreading news, bringing in donations, and keeping in touch with advocates. But while having a dedicated person to deploy email would be ideal, many nonprofits lack the time and resources to truly strategize their email sends. This can lead to poor...
If you're like 68% of B2B businesses, you use landing pages to strategically get more leads (Marketo). But just having these pages isn't enough. Your landing page strategy is extremely important to the success of your website, to lead generation, and to business growth. We hear many marketers and...
Sometimes, your B2B marketing campaign won’t “work.” Your traffic or lead goals fall short, your team gets stressed, or you just don’t complete the pieces on time. While many factors can affect your campaign during execution, you can often pinpoint the failure to shortcomings in your marketing...
As a nonprofit, exposure to a wide audience is huge. But that can be costly and time consuming. Little known to many nonprofits, there's an opportunity to shine online: a $10,000 monthly Google AdWords grant. image from Google Ad Grants Using this AdWords grant, nonprofits can get more visibility...
Workflow automation is the process of automating a repetitive task, so it's done automatically, not manually. And by using an automation tool like HubSpot or Marketo, you cut resources and time out of your equation. But most importantly, automation can increase your B2B lead close rate: Companies...
By now, you've probably heard the buzz about "growth hacking." It sounds catchy, but it's no magic — it's more of a data-driven science experiment. So what are growth hacking strategies, and how can this method grow your B2B technology company? Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation...
You can find tons of techniques in a Google search for blog post ideas. But usually, these include a list of topics that someone else already brainstormed. They may or may not be relevant to your business. So what good are someone else's ideas if they don't relate to your audience — and, of course,...