You’ve heard it before: it doesn’t matter how large your business is, you have to have an inbound marketing strategy. But online marketing is much more than just throwing up a website, writing a blog and setting up a business page on Facebook. In fact, a successful inbound marketing strategy can be quite hard.

Not every company has jumped onto the inbound marketing bandwagon as of yet. If you’re still thinking about whether or not you want to put your company’s resources into creating an inbound marketing strategy, then you should consider the advantages inbound marketing has to offer. 

What are the Goals of Content Marketing?

Without establishing a specific goal for your content marketing strategy, it’s hard to determine whether you are getting results or not.

Inbound marketing is a long process that requires a number of steps. The first of which is to create qualified web traffic, and then to turn that traffic into leads. Many companies make the mistake of focusing all of their efforts on the first step.

An email marketing campaign is a good tactic to go with any marketing automation platform.

If an email marketing strategy is part of your inbound marketing campaign, then hopefully you’ve employed good email marketing practices in order to make your campaign as successful as possible.

If you have never designed a content market strategy before, or have struggled to do so effectively, you may feel intimidated by what can seem like a complicated process.

Interactive marketing is a lot more than just web site visits and traffic, although increasing web traffic is a major goal of any interactive marketing campaign. While SEO and SEM (search engine marketing) are excellent tactics for increasing traffic, there are four more pillars that must be met in order to step out from the crowd. These are: 

Content marketing is something you hear about in every major trade journal and articles on the web talking about how you can help your business grow.

In this day and age, a social media marketing strategy is an absolute must in order for your Internet marketing campaign to succeed. Social media is one of the easiest ways to connect directly with your consumer base and is a fantastic way to increase both brand awareness and brand loyalty. However, this all depends on whether or not you are using your social media platforms correctly

Online Note-Taking Applications

Evernote, Google Keep, Pocket, Springpad

Note Applications: Web-based 

These are information collection, organization & retrieval tools that work across a multitude of devices,

Hubspot's annual conference, Inbound, will be held September 15-18 2014 in Boston, MA. The event is expanding to the BCEC (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)this year. Registration opens March 3rd

Sign Up for Pinterest for Business

Get your business Pinterest account (profile) or convert a personal account profile to a business account profile.

Create a Pinterest Business Account or Convert to One

You have agreed to do an interview with a reporter or editor. What do you do now? Below are some guidelines for a successful interview.

Employees Are Your Best Advocates

Written by Matt Foulger. Originally posted on HootSource.

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