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Reputation Management: How to Protect Your Brand Online in 2023
Reputation management happens on online review sites, social media, and in the news. Managing the chatter online can feel like a daunting task, mostly because so much of it is out of your control. After all, 77% of consumers read reviews when they’re browsing local businesses. 79% of consumers expect brands to respond within 24 hours after reaching out on social media. There are so many channels where people can talk about your brand, it can be tough to listen and respond to it all. Luckily, there are plenty of tools and strategies you can use to protect your brand […]
2022 Marketing Benchmarks: Web Traffic and Conversion Trends for 150,000 Businesses
In 2022, the marketing world continued to evolve. Not only did we get the ability to shop directly on our favorite social media apps, but we also began to hear lots of the futuristic buzz around AR/VR, the metaverse, and Web3 development. As we move into another unique year, marketers might wonder if and how other companies in their industry are keeping up with everything going on. To help marketers like you keep a pulse on how other brands are doing, HubSpot analyzed data from 150,000+ companies. In this post, we’ll note the three key marketing themes we discovered and […]
10 Tips on How to Fight Burnout, According to Experts and Data
The beginning of a new year can be filled with excitement and positive change, but a busy lifestyle can still weigh on you, even if you love your job or company. When this happens, you can run into one of the dreaded mental conditions: burnout. The World Health Organization classifies burnout as a legitimate health condition, saying it’s a “phenomenon” characterized by “feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job; and reduced professional efficacy.” This condition significantly impacts millennials. As of February 2021, 42% of millennials […]
Sports and Fashion Team Up for Unique Branding Opportunities
Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News! Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot’s media team. The fashion industry and major sports leagues are two different industries that have countless collaboration opportunities. In 2022, major sports and fashion saw a number of intersection points beyond team merch, including: Serena Williams walking a Vogue runway shortly after announcing her retirement from tennis. Ronnie Fieg, the founder of Kith, becoming the first creative director for the New York Knicks. Nike opening World of Flight, its first Jordan concept store, in the fashion capital of Milan. These headline-grabbing […]
How to Use Estimated Brand Reach as a Meaningful Marketing Metric
Estimated brand reach is the most important high-level metric that everyone seems to either interpret incorrectly, or ignore altogether. Why? Because it’s a tough nut to crack. By definition, brand reach is a headcount of unique “individuals” who encounter your brand, and you cannot de-anonymize all the people on every one of your web channels. Simply put, two “sessions” or “users” in your analytics could really be from one person, and there’s just no way you could know. Nevertheless, you can and most definitely should estimate your brand reach. And you should, and most definitely can, use that data in […]
70+ Social Media Demographics for Marketers in 2023
I get it, fellow marketers —sometimes, you just need the numbers. The juggernaut known as social media only gets bigger with every new year, and because of that, demographics shift with it. And, ultimately, keeping on top of important numbers before your social media campaigns can help you with ROI in the long run. Here, we’ve compiled the state of social media demographics, optimized with the most important data you need to know about your audience and shaping your personas for 2023. General Social Media Demographics Roughly 82% of Americans between 18 and 49 years old use at least one […]
The Best Ways to Get Visibility from Your CMO and Other Marketing Execs Who Can Move You Forward [Data]
Marketers in large organizations often deliver great work that falls through the cracks. Between juggling market research, campaign ideation, and collaborative projects, it can be challenging to take a step back and reflect on just how much work you’ve done — much less on communicating those accomplishments to marketing executives. But that doesn’t mean that you should let your efforts fall silent. You can communicate your impact to the marketing team in more ways than one. In this post, we’ll discuss the different ways to gain visibility from your CMO in various marketing roles and provide you with key practices […]
Instagram Shadowban Is Real: How to Test for & Prevent It
When you’re trying to grow a following on Instagram, you depend on Explore and hashtag pages to expand your audience and reach. So it can feel more than a little disheartening when it suddenly seems like your content isn’t showing up anywhere. If you feel like your posts are receiving fewer likes and comments suddenly, or aren’t appearing for certain hashtags or on the Explore page, you might be shadowbanned. From Instagram’s perspective, the objective of hiding “inappropriate” content makes sense (although its enforcement has been criticized.) Why does Instagram shadowban? Shadowbanning allows Instagram to filter out accounts that don’t […]
5 Key Considerations for Winning SEO Buy-In – Whiteboard Friday
Petra has plenty of experience talking to C-level decision-makers about their business problems, and translating them into SEO solutions. So in today’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, she takes you through the main considerations you need to pay attention to when explaining the value of your work: commitment, concerns and objections, status versus purpose, and prioritization. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Hi, I’m Petra Kis-Herczegh, and welcome to my Whiteboard Friday on five key considerations for SEO buy-in. I’m an SEO and solution engineer, which means I get […]
The Types of Content on Social Media [New Data]
According to our 2023 Marketing Strategy Trends Report, 42% of marketers leverage social media, and it has the highest ROI of any channel. With this in mind, sharing content on social media is a no-brainer. Whether you’re looking for a strategy refresh or leveraging the channel for the first time, this post is your guide to the different types of social media content and the benefits it’ll bring to your business. Different Types of Social Media Content 1. Video (short form, specifically) Short-form video is the top trend marketers will be leveraging in 2023, and HubSpot’s 2023 Social Media Trends […]