Successful content marketing is about creating a connection between your audience and your brand. This doesn’t mean just throwing content at your audience. It means truly valued creating content — content that serves needs and addresses the biggest pain points. And this type of content is much easier to createContinue Reading
Charles Bukowski wasn’t a copywriter, but he was a prolific writer of poetry and short stories. In the first half of his life, he mailed thousands of drafts to potential publishers.Continue Reading
If I told you that content creation is a vital part of every company’s marketing strategy, your response would probably be a sarcastic “Well, duh. Thanks for that cutting-edge insight, John.” That’s because most of us know how important content is to our inbound marketing and our brands — bothContinue Reading
List of Blogging Websites HubSpot.com WordPress.com Squarespace.com Medium.com Wix.com Typepad.com Tumblr.com Ah, the job search. Some refer to it as a full-time job in itself. Others compare it to dating. And several cats over at BuzzFeed think it just plain sucks. But it doesn’t have to be that way. When you’reContinue Reading
Like the magnificent architectural wonders that hold up The Pantheon in Rome, pillars will help you hold up your blog’s architecture, too. You have to build them yourself — but we promise it takes less time and effort than building them from marble or concrete. In this blog post, we’llContinue Reading
Here on the HubSpot blog, we’ve been writing content for a long time — more than 10 years. And for much of that time, our strategy for determining our editorial calendar has stayed the same: We’ve identified keywords we want to rank for in search, written a blog post aboutContinue Reading
Whether you’re just starting out with content marketing or you’ve been using the same approach for a while, it never hurts to revisit your content strategy plan — to make sure it’s up-to-date, innovative, and strong. After all, you’ve got more competition than ever. According to the Content Marketing Institute, 70%Continue Reading
Mad Men fans everywhere remember the pivotal first scene where we learn just how talented Don Draper is at his job. Faced with an almost-impossible copywriting task, he rose to the occasion to solve a huge problem for his client, Lucky Strike. In spite of research warning customers of theContinue Reading
Long gone are the days of the old publish-and-pray method of content distribution. And even if it ever did work — it was far from effective. Today, planning the actual distribution of the content you’ve spent so many hours and resources expertly creating is just as critical to your marketingContinue Reading
Just over a year ago, my business partner and I bet the future and success of our company on content marketing. We dismissed our sales team and put all our efforts into SEO and content. As an engineer, I get the technical aspects of this process. I can use SEOContinue Reading
Welcome back. If you’re just tuning in, allow me to catch you up: This post is the second in a two-part series on our experiment to move gated offer content onto a site page, and test different conversion methods. If you missed Part I, check it out here. Back inContinue Reading
One of the most controversial phrases in the marketing today is, “pivot to video.” It strikes fear into the hearts and minds of writers, as we worry that our skills will be replaced by the looming popularity of videos. Luckily, our research has shown that audiences still want to readContinue Reading
Movie producers and inbound marketers aren’t that different when it comes to creating and editing video content. We’re both telling a story, and whether that story is about a protagonist or a product, we’re both trying to captive our audiences and make them believe in the story we tell. WhatContinue Reading
Video content can be a valuable asset in your inbound marketing content mix. In fact, by the end of this year, video content is expected to represent nearly three-quarters of all internet traffic. But getting people to sit through your videos can be challenging, considering that the longer your video is, viewersContinue Reading