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Sampling Marketing — The Complete Guide
Oh, samples, the small gifts that help justify any Costco membership. You can get everything from a warmed pizza bite to a smoothie to hand lotion, all in one pass-through. And don’t get me wrong, this strategy is an incredible tactic that can increase sales, in some cases, by as much as 2,000%. But there is much more to the sample marketing strategy than just enticing snacks and perks. Product sampling marketing offers benefits to brick-and-mortar companies, online B2C and B2B brands, and everything in between. You can expand your reach, grow customer loyalty, and ultimately increase conversion and decrease […]
Shelfies: Why and Where Local Businesses Should Publish Them
If you own or market a local brand, your camera has never been a greater business asset. Early smartphones may have inspired the selfie, and it’s a fantastic idea to photograph the owner and staff of a local business to prove both its authenticity and approachability, but in a commercial context, it’s the “shelfie” that’s I see coming to the fore as a signal to both customers and search engines of what to expect on your premises. For the past few years, I’ve strongly encouraged local businesses to photograph their most popular goods and services and add these pictures to […]
How to Create a Group in Gmail
Growing up, there was only one thing my mom knew how to do on the internet that I could never figure out — creating an email group. What’s even more surprising is that I sent email blasts to my friends all the time, but I never asked my mom how to make an email group. I would just manually enter my friends’ email addresses into the recipients’ box. Gosh, I was such a rebel. If you’ve gotten over your teen angst and don’t want to manually enter your family’s, friends, or coworkers’ email addresses every time you want to send […]
40+ Resume Objective Examples to Help You Craft Your Own
With only six seconds to grab a recruiter’s attention, conventional wisdom might tell you to cut right to the chase when you write your resume. A lot of people say a resume objective just wastes precious space. But if you craft it in a way that highlights your qualifications, skills, and fit for a role, an objective can actually enhance your resume by giving recruiters a sneak peek of your background that prompts them to keep reading. In this post we’ll teach you how to leverage a resume objective to your advantage as well as share some examples to help […]
Impression Share: What it is and How to Improve it
Online advertising is booming. But, when you’re launching digital campaigns, you want to be sure you’re maximizing your efforts — and your profits — by boosting your ad’s impression share. Your impression share tells you how well your ad is performing compared to its total potential audience, and boosting it can help increase engagement as well as profit. If you’re only engaging a small portion of your target audience, then analyzing your impression share is usually a good place to start. Increasing this value will help you propel ads to the top of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) — […]
The 5 Phases of Project Management
What problems and obstacles do you face as a project manager? For many, scope creep, poor communication, and task delays top the list. To state the obvious, project management can be tricky. Without careful planning and strategizing, it can feel like you’re f working blind. So, if you’re in a project management position, starting with the basics is your best bet. Here, we’ll break down projects into five phases to help you better understand what needs to be done and when. The Project Management Lifecycle The Five Stages of Project Management Stage 1: Project Conception and Initiation Stage 2: Project […]
20 Bad Habits That Are Making You Less Productive
There are a host of bad habits many of us do every day, and research shows these habits really hurt our productivity, especially at work. The more aware we are of how these things are affecting our productivity, the more proactive we can be at taking responsibility for our choices. In this list, I’ll break down some of the most common examples of bad habits that stifle productivity and some ways you can break them. Table of Contents Bad Habits Examples List How to Break a Bad Habit Bad Habits That Are Making You Less Productive 1. Rushing in the […]
What is AI? What Marketers Need to Know
Artificial intelligence is getting a lot of traction in the marketing world. According to Statista, 80% of industry experts integrate some form of AI into their online marketing activities. However, if you’re like me and are unfamiliar with AI beyond what you’ve seen in science fiction stories like I, Robot or Black Mirror — you’re probably wondering what AI is and how to use it in marketing. Is AI really what it looks like in the movies? This article will explore the definition of AI, the different types of AI, and how AI can improve marketing processes. What is artificial […]
The Rise of Paid Verification on Social Media
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. Having a verified account on social media was once seen as a point of notoriety or a status symbol. Now, it’s a commodity that can be purchased. Verifying social media accounts began on Twitter in 2009. Tony La Russa, then manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, filed a lawsuit against Twitter after a user created an impersonation account and shared insensitive tweets. Though the suit was eventually dropped, it led Twitter to launch its Account Verification process giving […]
9 Years of the Google Algorithm
If it feels like Google search is changing faster than ever, it’s not your imagination. Google reported an astonishing 4,367 “launches” in 2021, up dramatically from 350-400 in 2009. On average, that’s nearly a dozen changes per day. Many of these more than 25,000 changes were undoubtedly very small, but some were outright cataclysmic. What can we learn from nine years of Google rankings data, and how can it help us prepare for the future? Is the algorithm heating up? Thanks to our MozCast research project, we have daily algorithm flux data going back to 2014. The visualization below shows […]