Finding a New Normal
2018-03-08
When dreams get shattered, we can still find joy by looking for a new normal. This young man inspires me: [affilinet_performance_ad size=728×90]Continue Reading
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How to Know if You’ve Been Hit With a Google Penalty (And How to Fix It)
2018-03-07
Every marketer has a story about getting penalized by Google. Although many websites have evidently been punished (not just by big algorithmic updates, but also by one of the 400,000 tiny manual actions Google takes), the average marketer or webmaster hasn’t noticed when they have. According to Kissmetrics, only 5%Continue Reading
4 Signs You’ve Found an Informed Candidate
2018-03-07
In the search for top talent, every recruiter prefers an informed candidate. Why? Informed candidates make the hiring process easier by asking smarter questions, doing the necessary research on the company, and tailoring their expectations to the role they’re applying for. So how can these job-seeking unicorns be spotted? HereContinue Reading
Unriddled: The Tech News You Need, Explained
2018-03-07
By: Site Manager
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Wednesday. Allow us to introduce “Unriddled” — the HubSpot Marketing Blog’s mid-week digest of the tech news you need to know. This week, we’ve got stories from Google, Amazon, Instagram, and more. So when the volume of stories of these has you asking, “Hold up. WhatContinue Reading
5 Tips for Giving Constructive Feedback to a Writer
2018-03-07
“I’m not comfortable putting my name on this.” I received this comment once from a colleague at a previous employer, responding to an article I wrote for him under his byline. But when I dug in, I found that his issue with the piece were a few small errors thatContinue Reading
More Tender Mercies and Miracles
2018-03-07
ArticlesBusinessInspiring Short StoriesLaws of SuccessLife MasteryMarketingMotivational Short StoriesOvercoming AdversityPositive Thinking TipsRareFaithRaw and RealTender Mercies
By: Site Manager
You may remember my previous article about Vanessa, and Tender Mercies. Even when we don’t get exactly what we want, noticing the little blessings can help us qualify for more. As I said before, she has suffered a run of unfortunate events, but notice her attitude. She notices, documents, andContinue Reading
Vision Boards
2018-03-07
By: Site Manager
Over the years, I’ve gone from being excited about vision boards, to absolutely hating vision boards (as I explained in this podcast), and back to thinking vision boards are pretty great. As you can tell, my experience has been a love/hate relationship with vision boards. But regardless of how aContinue Reading
Why the ‘Pivot to Video’ Is Dangerous for Publishers
2018-03-07
When I read that the average American spends five-and-a-half hours per day watching video content, I scoffed. Between video explainers on Facebook, Game of Thrones, and Netflix, that average is closer to my daily minimum time spent watching videos. After all, 2017 is “the year of video” — why shouldn’tContinue Reading
9 Email Marketing Habits It Pays to Break
2018-03-06
Before you break any email marketing habits or best practices, it’s important to first understand why they work. Once you’ve mastered basic email content creation, you’ll be in a better position to experiment and test certain components of your strategy. In today’s ultra-competitive email landscape, you need to perform testsContinue Reading
A Disaster Waiting to Happen? Businesses Could Send You Ads on Messenger
2018-03-06
In November 2017, Facebook began internally testing Messenger Broadcast: a service for businesses that allows them to send marketing content to users, without building a bot. Last week, the social media platform announced that Messenger Broadcast would be available for testing to select Page administrators in the U.S., Mexico, andContinue Reading
Can Artificial Intelligence Write Better Email Subject Lines Than Humans?
2018-03-06
For certain types of email subject lines, the answer is … Probably. That might be surprising to marketers. For a long time, AI has been either an over-hyped set of technologies that didn’t deliver on their promises or it’s been a pie-in-the-sky idea that didn’t translate into real-world applications. My,Continue Reading
#42: A New Day (part 2)
2018-03-06
This is part 2 in a 3-part series, where I am a special guest on the “A New Day Show” with Dr. Daphne Clarke-Hudson of the greater New York area. This multi-part show offers thought provoking, empowering, and inspirational dialogue as I relate my message to a new audience. RelatedContinue Reading
The 5 Biggest Social Media Lessons HubSpot Learned in 2017
2018-03-05
2017 was a year of experimentation. We were committed to shifting our entire social media strategy to grow our viewership and audience, while continuing to engage with our audience where, when, and how they wanted. To successfully do this, we spent the year experimenting with how to best deliver contentContinue Reading
How to Bookmark a Tweet
2018-03-05
Have you ever seen an article, thread, Tweet, or GIF on Twitter and thought, “I really want to save this for later?” Until now, the only way to save a Tweet was to like it, copy the link somewhere, or screenshot it. Now, there’s an easier way. Twitter just announcedContinue Reading