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A Smarketing Fairy Tale

Feuds between sales and marketing are as old as fairy tales. Well, okay, maybe not that old. But it's well known that traditionally, sales and marketing haven't always been happy partners.

Each side thinks they're the princess - and the other guy...

Using LinkedIn for SMarketing

Are your Marketing and Sales Synchronized?  In many cases, they aren't, but when they DO learn to work together, you get amazing results!

Uprisings and Revolutions- A History Lesson for Marketing & Sales

I happened to catch an article from the NY Times from a connection on LinkedIn titled, "A Theory of Everything." The author basically sums all the recent riots, government overthrows, protesting and revolutions in one slogan from an Israeli...

The Social Economy and Corporate Giving as a Marketing Strategy

Almost a year later, my book review post on "Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead" is still our most popular blog article. From my reading, I listed 5 things I learned from it that I planned to put into practice. I really only want to talk about...

Small Business Email Marketing: The Eighth Commandment

Thou Shalt Not Ask People to "Click Here"

Many small businesses treat email marketing like a spray-and-pray tactic for blasting marketing messages out to potential customers. Hopefully, through this series you're beginning to learn that email...

Explaining Inbound Internet Marketing to a 5 year old

My oldest daughter, 5, is very curious. She is usually most curious when I am trying to work. Recently she overheard me describing how search engines find content to a client, and said, "Why do you work with spiders?"

What Hubspot + Performable Means for Conversion Optimization

In school, history was not my best or favorite subject. I think it had some to do with the teacher's belief that pre-hormonal junior high students could only stay alert and pay attention if the room was at a cool 63 degrees. Despite his best...

Lead Nurturing one Crumb at a Time

What can Hansel and Gretel teach us about lead nurturing?

Hansel knew that without a trail to follow home, he and his sister would easily get lost in the woods. The same thing can happen to your prospect. With a flood of emails coming into his...

Is Perfect Inbound Internet Marketing Possible?

Last week we published our monthly newsletter. I try to keep it fun, informative, and most importantly- timely.

Post Merger Integration of Inbound Marketing

One of the great things about being a happy Hubspot customer is getting to attend Hubspot User Group (HUG) meetups. Aside from meeting amazing people and generally having a total blast, HUG offers customers the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a...