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The Psychology of Short-Form Content: Why We Love Bite-Sized Videos
Let me tell you the most challenging part of my job. Often, I will delete TikTok and Instagram from my phone because I can’t help but waste time endlessly scrolling through these apps, watching dozens of short-form videos in one sitting. Then, like clockwork, I redownload these apps because I must write about them for work. Thus, the cycle of endless scrolling continues. Sure, I could blame the nature of the job, but my endless scrolling stems from the fact that I love short-form videos. And I’m not the only one. 73% of consumers prefer to watch short-form videos to […]
Feeling Stuck: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Feeling stuck at work is never easy, especially when tasked with unfamiliar challenges. Learn practical strategies to navigate uncertainty, manage anxiety, and take confident action in this blog post.
Learn from My Mistakes: 7 Digital Course Pitfalls to Skip
Welcome to Creator Columns, where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. Mistakes are part of the journey for every digital course creator, and trust me, I’ve made my fair share of them as I’ve built my business. But for every one of these missteps, there’s been a valuable lesson. My name is Amy, and I help entrepreneurs grow their businesses with digital courses. So I’d love to walk you through some of the lesser-known mistakes I’ve made, so you can avoid them entirely. Sound good? The 7 Biggest Mistakes I’ve […]
9 Advertising Trends to Watch in 2024 [New Data + Expert Insights]
Advertising is an ever-changing beast — with those on ad and marketing teams working hard to stay ahead of trends. In 2023, we saw the emergence of AI in all forms of content, the rise of personalization, augmented realities (including the metaverse), and the explosion of short-form video. As a seasoned content marketer working in tech, I’ve noticed that advertising trends in 2024 seem to respond to the trends we saw in 2023. For example, if my ad team was firmly against using artificial intelligence last year, I’d need to catch up with everyone who initially embraced it. You might […]
How to Acknowledge and Cope with Fear of Local Business Reviews
Review neglect can erode your local business’ reputation, but fear of reviews is valid. Miriam Ellis walks you through acknowledging, reframing, and diminishing fears you or your clients may have.
60 Remote Work Stats to Know in 2024
My first marketing job was as a contract writer for an agency on the opposite side of the world. This also happened to be my first “real” job and, consequently, my first experience of remote work. Since then, I’ve worked with several other companies across multiple time zones and, as a result, experienced everything remote work has to offer — from the challenges of setting up a home office to the joys of location independence. But more importantly, I’ve also gotten to consciously observe the growth and impact of remote work over time. In this post, I’ll be sharing 60 […]
Google Ads Intelligence: How to Use Google Ads AI for Your Next Campaign
Google Ads is the world’s largest PPC advertising platform. If used effectively, you can generate significant profit for companies. But wrapping your head around it can be hard. Google Ads requires a lot of testing and experimentation. Or, at least, it did until now. Google Ads has recently launched a conversational experience for advertisers, which lets users create their ads by using text prompts. However, Google Ads Intelligence, as it’s broadly known, offers way more than just being an interactive campaign builder. In this post, I explain what Google Ads Intelligence is, the key features it includes, and Google Ads […]
Why You Need a Responsive Web Design and How to Do It [+ Examples]
The insights from this article came from the HubSpot Academy’s Free Website Optimization Course. Take the full course to learn more about responsive design and how to optimize your website’s performance. Across the world, over 50% of total internet activity is done on mobile devices. Desktops follow behind with a little over 45% of total internet activity, and tablets make up the rest. Today, with so many people surfing the web from their phones, it’s essential to offer a great mobile website experience. Without it, you can’t cater to the majority of internet users, and are likely missing out on […]
How Responsive Web Design Works
It’s no secret that more and more people are accessing the internet using their mobile devices in addition to or in place of desktop computers. In fact, there are almost 7 billion mobile users worldwide. (For reference, the world population is currently 7.8 billion. That’s a lot of mobile activity.) But what they’re doing on those mobile devices is even more compelling for marketers like us. 40% of consumers use their mobile device to conduct research prior to making an in-person purchase. More than half routinely make purchases using their smartphones, and 55% of shoppers make mobile purchases after finding […]
13 Quick Tips to Improve Your Web Design Skills
Designing your company website can be a challenging proposition. You’ve got to juggle the expectations of many stakeholders, and you can often hit obstacles that prevent new ideas from emerging. I was the design manager for a large company website for nearly six years, and during that time, I found myself losing perspective of what our target audiences really needed. Call it “tunnel vision.” When you work on the same website, it often helps to take a step back and think through new approaches. That’s the purpose of this blog post. What follows are some tips, tricks, shortcuts and general […]