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Or How to Get the Most Bang from Your Inbound Marketing Buck

While marketing budgets are growing and more and more companies are leveraging inbound marketing, many CEOs want to know: what returns are we getting out of our investment to prove that inbound marketing is the way to go?

One, inbound has supplemented outbound in terms of clearly measurable ROI; two, the ROI areas prove the effectiveness of inbound marketing; and three, 10 metrics to consider when measuring inbound ROI.

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Persona, Inbound marketing, Customer communications

Marketers increasingly recognize that if they want higher ROI, more qualified sales leads, lower cost per acquisition, and increased brand authority, inbound marketing is essential.

Inbound marketing is unlike traditional outbound marketing approaches that have marketers vying for customers’ attention via ads, trade shows, and cold calling. Instead, inbound focuses on having potential leads come to you via company-created content that drives visitors to your website, engages them, and helps your sales team convert them into customers and loyal brand followers.

Topics: Blog, Content, Marketing, Social media, Inbound marketing, Customer communications, Audience, Personas

How to hire an A-team that delivers quantifiable results

Topics: Public relations, Journalist, Content marketing, Content, Marketing, Metrics, Social media, Persona, Inbound marketing, Audience, Personas, PR, Corporate communications, SEO

You can have it all, just not at the same time, or so it seems.

Your SEO/AIO expert is amazing but your writing team doesn’t have the time to create all the needed content nor create all the content and landing pages, even with AI help.

Your social media team has created comprehensive promotional campaigns but is falling behind on curating the objective content necessary to please your target audiences.

Topics: Public relations, Content marketing, DIY, Social media, Persona, Inbound marketing, Customer communications, Personas, PR, SEO

Committing to inbound marketing means attracting and growing your leads and customer base via valuable and highly customized content and experiences. To successfully drive inbound marketing and sales, three things must happen:

Topics: Content marketing, Inbound marketing, Customer communications, Marketing qualified leads (MQL), Sales qualified leads (SQL), Hubspot

Generating leads is only half the battle. The other half is closing those deals.

With so many different vendors and solutions, your sales process must stand out. Providing clear, consistent, and concise sales-enablement content can help you close more deals.

Topics: Content marketing, Personas, Sales, Sales enablement content

With the ever-increasing volume of generic marketing content thanks to AI tools, it’s critical that companies make greater efforts to stand out. That’s why sales enablement content is more important than ever.

By aligning content with the buyers’ journeys and providing the information they seek at every touchpoint, marketers elevate their brand's credibility, instill trust, and drive conversions.

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Sales, Sales qualified leads (SQL), Sales enablement content

Salesperson Brandon started a new job at a cybersecurity start-up called Bait, protecting organizations from ransomware. Two months into the job and he is struggling to close deals.

“I don’t know what to do when they voice concerns,” Brandon explains. “It’s like I have nothing to say.”

Brandon’s boss is confused. “Just answer their questions.”

That isn’t enough..

Topics: Content, Sales, Sales enablement content

Practically all B2B marketers agree that content marketing works, but not everyone is clear on how exactly to calculate the ROI and business value of a company’s content marketing investment. Assessing the quality of content - Is the content original and audience-appropriate? Does it tell a story or add value to the site? Is the tone, spelling, and grammar pitch-perfect? - is one thing. But determining the bottom- line impact or business benefit of each blog post, article, email, e-book, case study, podcast, infographic, or social campaign is quite another - and one of the trickier challenges facing marketers today.

You can use a number of metrics to measure content performance, depending on your business goals and what you intended for your content marketing program to achieve. Was your content written to acquire customers or increase revenue and profit? Position your brand or tell your product story? Enhance customer engagement? Acquire better-quality leads? Among the most obvious measurements of content marketing success would be ROI (the revenue gained from content marketing compared to the amount spent on creating and distributing content), number of qualified leads, and percentage of lead conversions to closed sales generated by the content. Other important indicators of content effectiveness include:

Topics: Content marketing, Content, Metrics, Bounce rate, Exit rate