How to Create Social Media Buttons for All the Top Social Networks

Social media is an extremely valuable tool for promoting your marketing content. Additionally, embedding your social profiles on your website or blog posts can help increase traffic to your social networks, and ultimately create brand consistency across platforms.  But with so many social networks providing their own individual sharing and follow...

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What is a Web Crawler? (In 50 Words or Less)

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't describe myself as a "technical" person. In fact, the technical aspects of marketing are usually the hardest ones for me to conquer. For example, when it comes to technical SEO, it can be difficult to understand how the process works. But it's important to gain as much knowledge as we can to do our jobs...

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look into HubSpot's Newest Content Marketing Strategy (Part 1 of 3)

This post is a part of Made @ HubSpot, an internal thought leadership series through which we extract lessons from experiments conducted by our very own HubSpotters. How do customers discover new products nowadays? Despite there being many ways of becoming aware of a product, there is a simple route to considering it for purchase. If you’re like...

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How and Why You Should Run a Customer Panel for Your Marketing Team

As a marketer, we typically ask ourselves the following question at least a dozen times a day: "Would our prospects and customers like this?" Ideally, you'll use a mix of qualitative and quantitative data to arrive at the answer to that question. But one great place to know what your customers like (and love … and hate … ) is directly from the customers...

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How to Make an Instagram Business Account

When I worked at a marketing agency, one of my duties was to create Instagram accounts for our clients who had never used social media before. More often than not, those clients soon realized how helpful Instagram could be for their business. With 140 million estimated monthly active businesses across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp and over...

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The Ultimate Smarketing Glossary: 67 Common Sales Terms Explained for Marketers

Sales and marketing teams are both responsible for the growth and revenue side of the business -- and yet, many of them still tend to operate like two opposing teams. The goal of "smarketing" is to help bring sales and marketing together as one team, which involves constant, effective communication. It's pretty critical that sales and marketing...

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15 Key Performance Indicators to Help Improve Your Marketing

When I was cooking steak the other day, I had to use a meat thermometer to check and see if the meat was cooked all the way through. In other words, I had to look for an indicator to see how the cooking process was coming along. Marketing is fairly similar. As a marketer, instead of a meat thermometer, you're going to use key performance indicators...

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How to Build a Brand Through Live Streaming [+ Examples]

Nowadays, it's critical you invest in a video marketing strategy to build brand awareness and expand your reach, particularly since so many people prefer watching video over other types of content. But even the most robust video marketing strategy often misses one key element: live streaming. Over the past few years, live streaming has become a...

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12 Tactics That Take Webinars From Good to Great, According to HubSpot Marketers

In 2020, with conferences and events going virtual, a number of brands around the world have heavily embraced webinars.  Along with allowing marketers to educate audiences about topics related to their brand, webinars can also offer major lead generation benefits. But, while a number of successful marketing pros make creating webinars look easy,...

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8 Common Instagram Marketing Mistakes to Avoid in 2020

Since coming into existence in 2010, Instagram has given brands the opportunity to engage with their audience and tell their story through the power of visuals. The Facebook-owned app was one of the fastest growing major social networks in 2014, and is now home to more than 1 billion users. Along with growing its user base, Instagram has expanded...

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