If you’re a writer, blogger, creative head, content marketer or just have a way with words, you’ll know how hard it can be to write a satisfying headline. And it’s not just all about making it compelling, well written and punchy anymore; if the net is your platform then you need to think about SEO, click-through rate and length as well. In a recent Hubspot article, Corey Eridon describes an easy-to-follow, six-step guide to writing your best title yet.
You have heard it time and time again; Inbound Marketing is all about engaging your readers, giving them educational, interesting and valuable content that helps solve a problem. If you do this well, the reader starts moving along on the buyer’s journey and turns from a target into a real lead, and that’s exactly what you want. So it’s crucial you know how to attract your readers, prospects, and potential buyers to turn them into qualified leads.
By now, you fully understand the concept of Inbound Marketing and you’re ready to get started and show your boss that this is the strategy your marketing team has been missing all along. You know Inbound and content go hand in hand, you know that in order to succeed with your Inbound tactics you need a solid content plan, you know how to build this, you have all the technical necessities in place, you even got your hands on a shiny new marketing automation system – yes, the IT team finally gave in.
As a B2B marketer, you know that your campaigns call for more serious and educational content than those within the B2C field. While companies such as Coca Cola or Old Spice are able to play with crazy, even ridiculous ideas and can be as creative as they like, B2B marketing can often feel a bit dry and dull. You end up being stuck for ideas on how to engage your customers and generate leads.
No matter if you’re a published journo, someone who loves to write or your company’s chosen wordsmith, if you’re challenged to shift your skills into the blogging sphere, you need to be across certain rules in order to master the art of successful online content creation.
I engage with many experienced journalists on a daily basis, and it is surprising how little even the most seasoned writers seem to know about the difference between writing for print publications and blogs.
Mid last year, Forbes, rightly so, predicted an inevitable shift towards Content and Inbound Marketing. One year on, this prediction has turned into reality. Content is more in demand than ever and traditional marketing agencies have made the move to online and towards Inbound. Now, an established marketing method, the concept itself has started evolving. Online as a playing field, provides us with endless challenges, not only because it’s an ever evolving and changing space but because trends and hypes emerge and die faster than anywhere else. As someone who uses the medium for business purposes, you need to be aware of any shift, as small as it may seem, in order to be successful and get the most out of what we now call Inbound. With 2014’s marketing shift came a wave of change, from the emergence of location-based content marketing to the rise of marketing automation, here are the top 5 digital marketing trends, you need to know about right now!
As we all know, your website is your shop window. In this day and age your website’s look and feel along with its functionality can really turn your customers on or off, there is hardly anything worse than a dated website that gives you a sense of the early 2000s. Nostalgia is a no-go when it comes to your inbound marketing and B2B lead generation. Your website is the tool which lets you attract, engage, convert, close and delight. Obviously, the conversion part is fundamental to this process, but how do you get there? The answer is simple; you need to be creating high-quality, sales-ready leads. And while this sounds like a piece of cake, it can be the exact opposite when handled poorly and inefficiently. But fear not, we have compiled 5 effective tricks that can really help you up your inbound marketing ante, stand out from the crowd and generate leads, leads, leads.
Content marketing radically improves your marketing AND sales conversion ratios. Companies are slowly realising this and are beginning to turn away from traditional outbound marketing and are moving towards inbound marketing. So being able to create engaging, educational content has become an important skill, amongst others, that any B2B inbound marketer needs in order to create an effective lead generation machine. We've found that a lot of companies are a little stuck between the old and new methods of content marketing. If you type “rules for good content marketing” into Google you are going to find a myriad of articles telling you what to do. Now, while some of these make for great tips and give amazing advice, it is the same as with everything: some rules were simply made to be broken. Continue reading if you want to find out what to avoid.
It's all about lead generation in the marketing and sales world. We have endlessly discussed how you can attract potential buyers, make them come to your website, increase your traffic and engage with them. We have spoken about the key element of inbound marketing: making the buyer come to you. But what do you do once you’ve captured the interest of an individual? Where do you go from here? Here are 5 lead conversion tactics that can strengthen and help your business.
Digital marketing is nothing new; we’ve been doing it for years. However, the methods, tools and skills needed to implement a successful digital B2B marketing campaign, or any campaign for that matter, are forever changing and evolving. So what are the key must-haves you need to know about in order to create a strong strategy?