Can an AI-assisted marketer working alone create a better campaign than two experienced marketers drawing on their human expertise? We put it to the test. Find out who won — and what the experiment revealed about AI strengths and limits.
Trust is worth more than attention. Helping people get to where they seek to go is more effective than hustling people to persuade them to go where you’re going. Choose your customers, choose your future. Tell ten people. If they don’t tell the others, make a better product. Creating the conditions for the word to…
Discover the key strategies to thrive as an SEO freelancer. Apply these tips to achieve consistent $10K months and long-term success in SEO freelancing.
Born in the digital age, “Inbound Marketing” is nearing its 20th birthday. HubSpot Co-founder Brian Halligan coined the term in 2005 because the internet has forever changed buyers’ journeys. As recently as 2008, influential marketers were using inbound marketing to describe drawing in customers instead of outbound mass marketing. In his article “Dawn of the…
In the fiercely competitive landscape of online lifestyle and e-commerce brands, where promoting numerous products puts you in direct competition with retail giants like Amazon and Walmart, small businesses often face a daunting challenge. Enter SEO for Pinterest, an underrated yet effective strategy that empowers consumer brands to connect with customers and boost revenue through…
Confession: Back when Facebook first rolled out Graph Search in 2013, I was a little disappointed. The conversion path for someone to actually go from Facebook Graph Search to my business page to my website was so long it was improbable many would complete it. Turns out I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed….
Did you know thousands of publishers benefit every day from a recurring cash inflow by partnering up with other companies via affiliate programs? I sure didn’t until I started writing this article. Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize your blog, especially when you don’t sell products or services. Joining an affiliate…
The hospitality industry faces a number of obstacles and opportunities in regard to marketing, with one of the greatest puzzles being email marketing. Email marketing for hotels is a unique challenge: there can be varying customer acquisition periods, low retention rates, and the difficulty of convincing someone to purchase a once-in-a-lifetime experience more than once….
Content makes the world go ’round (at least for marketers), but it can’t create itself. This week we’re exploring the top creator economy predictions for 2024 that marketers need to know. Chances are, your brand has worked with creators in the past and likely will again. Currently valued at $250B, the creator economy is expected…
Several years ago, we published a public beta of the HubSpot Culture Code slide deck. This deck started out as an internal document, and as a company who values transparency, we decided to share it with the world. Like HubSpot, the Culture Code is a perpetual “work in progress,” so we’ll update it periodically. To…