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3 Types of Competitors to Watch (+ How to Find Them)
According to a 2020 survey, most businesses have an average of 29 competitors. Do you know who yours are? All businesses have competition — and knowing yours is key for innovating your products, services, and marketing strategies. But identifying the competition isn’t always obvious. Some are direct, while others may take more time to uncover. Here, we’ll cover the three types of competitors to watch, and five ways to identify them. 3 Types of Competitors in Business 1. Direct competitors. A direct competitor probably comes to mind when you think of your competition. These are businesses offering similar (or identical) […]
What Is An Email CTR? How to Calculate and Improve It
An effective email marketing campaign has the ability to strengthen your brand, engage existing and potential customers, and move them to action. At the very least, emails will keep you front and center in your audience’s mind. Since email is one of the more personal touchpoints you can use to build rapport with your customers, you have a greater opportunity to make your emails meaningful and successful. Email marketing has sustained its popularity due to its ease, low expense, and effectiveness. According to Litmus, four out of five marketers would rather give up social media than email marketing. But how […]
The Ultimate Guide to Performance Management: 5-Step Process and Best Practices
Peter Drucker once described customers as the “most important stakeholders.” While this may be true, your customers are dependent on one thing. No, it’s not your product (though that’s definitely important). It’s actually your employees. Without your employees, products won’t get made, customers won’t learn about those products, and there will be no one there to sell or deliver those products, or provide customer service to them after they’ve purchased. While your customers may be your most important stakeholders, in a business or organization, your employees are your biggest asset. Their performance, mindset, attitude, and loyalty can make or break […]
How to Write a Blog Post: A Step-by-Step Guide [+ Free Blog Post Templates]
If you’ve ever read a blog post, you’ve consumed content from a thought leader that is an expert in their industry. Chances are if the blog post was written effectively, you came away with helpful knowledge and a positive opinion about the writer or brand that produced the content. Anyone can connect with their audience through blogging and enjoy the myriad benefits that blogging provides: organic traffic from search engines, promotional content for social media, and recognition from a new audience you haven’t tapped into yet. If you’ve heard about blogging but are a beginner and don’t know where to […]
The Quick & Easy Guide To Freezing Rows in Excel
Without freezing rows or columns in your Excel spreadsheet, everything moves when you scroll through the page, as shown in the gif below. This can be frustrating if you can’t always see key data markers that explain what data is what, like column headers or row titles. As with many things on Excel, there are tricks that help you make your spreadsheets easier to read, like the freeze function. In this post, learn how to freeze rows and columns in Excel to ensure that, when you scroll around, you’ll always be able to view the key data points that matter most. […]
20 Social Media Marketing Myths to Leave Behind in 2022
Like any major marketing strategy of the past decade, social media has had plenty of time to accumulate some big myths. And despite the fact that data has disproven a number of marketing myths today, some marketers will still hold onto a few, simply because it’s hard to keep up-to-date on what’s really going on with social media. To help you separate fact from fiction, I put my MythBusters hat on and drudged up some of the most common social media myths out there. Let’s dive into some social media myths we’ve all probably heard from colleagues or friends and […]
12 Best Pricing Page Examples To Inspire Your Own Design
Your pricing page is a prime opportunity to take control of the price conversation and make it even easier for people to buy. Searching for a product’s price is a natural part of a customer’s buying decision. The majority of people who have made it down the funnel far enough to consider buying from you will likely look at your pricing page. What does a great pricing page look like? To inspire you, we break down the must-haves of a good pricing page and share the best examples of pricing page design. Check them out below. What makes a great […]
3 Tests Our Content Team Ran in 2021 & How They Impacted 2022 Planning
2021 was a big year for the HubSpot content team. Our team grew, we faced challenges, and we had some fun with experiments. Experiments can teach you a lot about your audience and help you unlock growth opportunities. Here are some experiments we ran in 2021 and what we learned from them. Conversion Rate Optimization In January 2021, the web strategy team decided to run a form optimization experiment to understand how altering our forms would affect our users, ahead of a blog redesign. When evaluating the current form, the team found that it was breaking several best practices relating […]
How the Pandemic Changed Social Media: 6 Quarantine Trends Here to Stay [Data + Expert Insights]
At the beginning of the lockdown, many of us were unable to see family or friends. All social plans were cancelled — practically overnight. And, in the midst of so much stress and chaos, many felt more alone than ever. Which is why people turned to social media in an effort to find a sense of connection and community. Social media became a refuge — a place to post authentic, relatable content and form relationships virtually when in-person wasn’t an option. And as Lala Fevrier, Wayfair’s Senior Associate for Influencer Marketing, puts it, “When restaurants, schools, and businesses shut down, […]
Bring Outdoors Inside
Introduction Science finally catches up with what we knew by instinct. Having spent more time outdoors than in, I can testify to the benefits of being outside. My therapist recently pointed out that most of my photo albums that showed me smiling as I was growing up were taken outdoors. My inside face was usually solemn and subdued. In nature or outside, you feel better, have more energy, burn more calories (ever wonder why you’re hungrier when you’re outdoors?), get sunshine (your body converts to Vitamin D), smile more and generally stay more focused. Within the past year scientific tests […]