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Leveraging Synergies Between SEO and Other Channels: An Integrated Marketing Approach
Because of its broad field, SEO has many touch points with a variety of different marketing channels. As other channels’ operations influence SEO, both directly and indirectly, it’s essential to deploy an integrated marketing approach in which each channel supports the other, in order to optimize marketing efforts and enhance your brand’s user experience. This article provides you with a number of different actionable tips for combining SEO with the marketing channels listed below, that will not only save you time, resources, and money, but will lead to even better results for your team and company: SEA Affiliate PR Social Media Email […]
5 Instagram Highlight Covers to Inspire You [+ Steps To Make Your Own]
Today, your Instagram profile is like a mini-version of your website. Think of your profile page as your homepage and each tab as a different section of your website. Instagram Story Highlights serve as your navigation bar, each one points to a collection of Stories relating to a specific theme. You’ll find everything from “Meet the Team” and event recaps to FAQs and customer reviews on Highlight covers. While brands often set up their Highlights early on, many forget one important step: Designing Highlight covers. In this article, we’ll cover the steps to make your own Highlight covers, some tips […]
The Ultimate Guide to Google Sheets
Google Sheets is one of the best tools you can use to store data, track performance metrics, and create dashboards and reports. But while it’s a wondrous tool with countless features and functionalities, it can be hard to grasp for beginners — especially if you need to create a marketing report or dashboard, fast. Not to worry. If you’re looking to get started with Google Sheets, you’re in the right place. In this guide, we’ll be looking at the benefits of Google Sheets and walking you through some of the basics so you can get up to speed quickly and […]
How to Run a Focus Group for Your Business
When you’re developing or launching a new product, service, or business, you’ll want to have a general sense of how receptive your target market will be to it. Typically, this is done through extensive market research — and one key component of the research process is running a focus group. In this article, we’ll define what a focus group is, give you an agenda to follow when conducting on, explain how to run a focus group step-by-step, and help you plan your questions with a focus group questionnaire. What is a focus group? A focus group is a small group […]
Best Goal Setting Worksheet to Help You Plan & Achieve
Accomplishing your goals is an incredibly gratifying feeling. However, it can sometimes be challenging to get that feeling, since achieving goals takes time, effort, and a structured process. This is why it’s important to create plans of action for meeting the goals that will help you stay motivated and ensure you’re on the right path. In this post, we’ll go over three goal-setting worksheets created by HubSpot to help you outline your goals with the SMART framework and create a plan for achieving them. The template is broken down into relevant sections to help you through the process, and if […]
How to Use Instagram: A Beginner’s Guide
Over the past few years, Instagram has seen exponential growth — from one million users at its inception to over one billion in 2022. If you’re interested in getting an Instagram account, or just created one but aren’t sure how to use it, you’re in luck. Here, we’re going to cover all the basics, so you can learn why Instagram is the top social media platform for engagement today. It’s hard to remember a time before Instagram. At one time, “Do it for the ‘gram” was a common saying, which meant, essentially, “Do something so we can take a picture […]
Everything You Need To Know About Performance Appraisals
As a manager, your ability to inform your teams about the successful high-impact behaviors they exhibit or skills that need further development is a critical practice in determining your business’ overall ability to reach its goals and find success. In this post, learn how a performance appraisal will help you give employees direction, the different types of performance appraisals, and example comments to include when you schedule those 1:1 sessions. Businesses use performance appraisals to understand employee progress, give raises or promotions, create paths for further development, or, sometimes, discuss terminations. These appraisals typically happen multiple times per year at […]
Which Social Networks Should You Advertise on in 2022?
Whether you use it to supplement your existing inbound marketing efforts or to reinvigorate your entire strategy, social media is an effective tool to meet your marketing objectives. There are various social media platforms to choose from, and each comes with an audience that brings different advertising potential. Even though there are so many platforms, HubSpot’s Senior Manager of Social Media, Kelly Hendrickson, doesn’t think that you should be using all of them. Hendrickson says, “When it comes to choosing which social platforms to invest in, there’s often not a one-size-fits-all answer.” This is because, based on your business’s buyer […]
20 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid in 2022, According to HubSpot Bloggers
Sometimes, when I tell people that I blog for a living, they roll their eyes. “That’s so easy,” they say. “You get a paycheck for sitting on the internet all day and writing. A monkey could do your job!” That’s when I roll my eyes. See, people are quick to deem blogging as a no-brainer job. But when they actually sit down to write their first couple of posts, it hits them: This is way harder than I thought. Like any person starting a new job, they mess things up. That’s okay — it happens to pretty much every new […]
How to Create a Location on Instagram (+ Reasons Why You Should)
Adding your location on Instagram is often an underrated feature for brands. For brands, there are two main reasons to use it: Share your business location with your followers for increased discoverability or show some personality with fun location names. Whatever your goal is, learn how to create your own custom location on Instagram in a few simple steps. 1. Check in on your Facebook app and create a post. 2. Select “Check In.” 3. Allow Facebook to use your location or select one on the map. 4. On the search bar, type in the name of your new custom […]