INBOUND 2024 Recap: Building Communities for Content Creators and Marketing Professionals
October 17, 2024
Hubspot’s annual marketing conference, INBOUND 24, just completed its 12th year! It featured a star-studded line-up of over 200 speakers, 88 sponsors, and more than 11,000 in-person attendees. We’ll give you an overview of the highlights from this year and a bit of news for marketers and content creators about next year, too! If I […]
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PPC Advertising Competition: Navigating the Bidding Wars Between Profit and Growth
October 15, 2024
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising ranks among the most popular methods available in digital marketing today. Companies like Google Ads earn billions of dollars annually from brands’ PPC advertising spending. But can advertisers still achieve a positive ROI amid all the competition? Advertisers see an average return of two dollars for every dollar spent on Google Ads, which would […]
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Content Marketing with Customers in Mind: How to Navigate the New Search Ecosystem
October 10, 2024
Content marketing expert Marcus Sheridan captivated a massive audience at INBOUND 24. He promised a way to navigate the world of search beyond Google’s Helpful Content Update and AI. Sheridan is the best-selling author of They Ask, You Answer and a business communications innovator. His presentation provided advice for content marketers in what he dubbed a ‘post-Google apocalypse’. […]
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Content Marketing in 2024 and Beyond: AI Marketing Strategies and Content’s Place in It
October 8, 2024
As content marketers, algorithms and search trends dominate our lives. So, with numerous recent shake-ups, Content Marketing Reinvented was at the top of my list. The Evolution of Content Marketing Gabe Wahhab and Matt Schnitt (both from Hubspot) led this session during INBOUND 24: Content Marketing Reinvented: How To Win in an AI Landscape | […]
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Connections, Cocktails, and Cornhole: Notes from INBOUND 24’s VIP Party
October 1, 2024
Even among marketers, the promise of being tossed into a sea of over 11,000 people and just told to ‘network’ strikes fear into the hearts of many. INBOUND 24 got around this with various meetup sessions and, more importantly, the VIP party that kicked everything off on Tuesday, 17 September. From 7-9 pm on the […]
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How the NaNoWriMo AI Debate is Shaping Professional Content Creation
September 26, 2024
The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) nonprofit has maintained a 25-year legacy of empowering novelists to reach their goals. Earlier this year, a statement condemned criticism of generative AI use in novel writing. As a result, this approach to content creation has alienated a large constituent of its audience. The controversy has opened Pandora’s box of […]
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The Trust Dilemma: Marketing AI-Driven Products to Win Consumer Confidence
September 3, 2024
Like it or not, AI is everywhere. But with widespread consumer skepticism, marketing AI-driven products must balance innovation and trust—a tightrope many are struggling to walk. Consumer Distrust in AI-Driven Products From toothbrushes to saltshakers, it seems like no product is too basic to escape the recent AI craze. With 63% of businesses planning to […]
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Boost Content Marketing Efforts: The Strategic Value of Industry Awards
August 27, 2024
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of winning an award. But these days, awards provide much more than an ego boost. The most valuable content marketing awards can also enhance your brand’s credibility and improve search engine rankings. They can even boost team morale! That said, not all awards carry the same weight. So today, […]
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From Ideas to Quality Leads: How to Use the Pyramid of Audience Influence to Create Content That Converts
July 2, 2024
Calling all content marketing managers! Does this issue sound familiar? Do you need help generating content ideas that result in quality leads? You’ve gone through the editorial process, have your blog posts SEO-ready, and published tons of quality content on your website. And while it’s flourishing with views, that website traffic doesn’t translate into demos […]
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Beyond SEO: A Comprehensive Guide to Expanding Your Marketing Reach
May 14, 2024
If you’ve recently found yourself playing a “spin the wheel” game to get a discount on shampoo, you understand the massive shifts in marketing tactics over the past two and a half decades. These days, content distribution channels evolve at a breakneck pace. For years, SEO was the only game in town – or at […]
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