When Facebook rolled out the ability to reply to comments on Facebook, my immediate reaction was .
If you had to market a final season premiere of a TV cult classic that wouldn't appear on television, how would you do it? With billboards, print ads, and primetime slots on TV? Probably not.
The promise of social media was once "one-to-one engagement" and "relationship building" ... but somehow "building a relationship" in social media has morphed into blasting messages at as many people as possible and hoping someone is attracted.
Lately, the whole marketing community is abuzz about content. And rightfully so. Content is a necessity for any successful inbound marketing strategy, and with more and more marketers creating it, it's becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the barrage of content out there -- a lot of which is, well .
Time and time again, we get asked for benchmark data, particularly about customer generation. Well, you may remember we recently launched our 2013 State of Inbound Marketing Research Report, and we used the mounds of research there to try to, you know, "give the people what they want.
Hold on to your hats, marketers, because we’ve got some exciting news that’s going to transform the way you use Twitter Ads.
“Two roads diverged in the social media wood, and I, I took the one less traveled,” said 21.7% of salespeople.
My fellow inbound marketer Sam Mallikarjunan is an internet and social media junkie -- always connected, always checking in, always tweeting, always emailing.
Shel Israel writes The Social Beat blog column at Forbes.com and has authored four books about digital media's impact on business.
The top of your fundraising pyramid is just that -- a small, concentrated piece of your whole universe, made up of older, rich donors who, though important, won't be able to add to the strong foundation of your future fundraising efforts.
If you're drinking the inbound marketing Kool-Aid and regularly publishing content online, there's a good chance you may have experienced content theft at one point or another.
As head of HubSpot’s creative and design team, I spend nearly every day acting as the translator between my designers and the rest of the company, particularly executives, marketers, and salespeople, (i.
My first reaction when I read about Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion was utterly cynical: Here’s Marissa Mayer overpaying for something yet again.
I love reading great writing, which is what we aim to deliver consistently on this blog. But sometimes you're just looking for a compelling piece of data to plug into a presentation or support a point you're making in your writing.
It feels like social media is easier to use than ever before. With new features that auto-hashtag content, allow users to buy products right from videos, and provide tailored content recommendations to users on mobile websites, things are definitely changing for the better.
Over a year ago, I wrote about P&G's plans to lay off over 1,600 of their workforce because they'd wasted so much money on advertisements, and needed to move to more efficient expenditures like Facebook and Google.
This post is full of gratuitous cuteness. Here's why.
I'm looking into some flights to Ireland (I'm a sufferer of the most debilitating form of wanderlust), and I'm using the flight comparison engine Hipmunk to find a flight.
Even though the two most popular social networks to emerge in the past few years (Instagram and Pinterest) revolve around visual content, there isn't much data about what content performs best on these platforms.
You may have caught wind of some of the announcements coming out of the Google I/O conference over the past couple of days.
The only certainty in the SEO world -- or, really, the digital marketing world -- is change. And over the past two years, we have seen a whole lot of it.