LinkedIn is an incredibly powerful platform for growing both recognition and revenue as a B2B business, especially considering that audiences exposed to brand messages on LinkedIn are 6X more likely to convertContinue Reading
Offering a free lead magnet in return for your website visitor’s email address used to work like a charm. Businesses were happy because they were generating leads and the leads were happy because they were receiving a valuable resource to consume. With content overload becoming a real problem, generating inbound leads has become tougherContinue Reading
Whether you’re setting up a landing page for the first time or the billionth time, it’s easy to forget something. It’s just one type of page on your website, but there are lots of moving parts you need to juggle. Some of those moving parts are more important than othersContinue Reading
Optimizing your website to generate leads is a no-brainer. But it’s not as simple as throwing a “click here” button on your home page and watching the leads pour in (unfortunately). Instead, marketers and designers need to take a more strategic approach. In this post, we’ll go over some quickContinue Reading
Your audience no longer wants their attention bought — they want it earned. This means lead generation strategies need to be revamped across the industry to better meet the needs of target markets. The first step in this evolution is to create compelling content, and the second is to useContinue Reading
We’ve talked about the best practice of matching your offer and blog post topic as tightly as possible many times on the HubSpot Marketing Blog. But just in case you haven’t heard of this best practice before, I’ll give an example. Let’s say you have a post explaining different typesContinue Reading
Landing pages are an essential component of any well-crafted, effective inbound marketing strategy. Whether your goal is to generate leads, sell products, or collect data, your landing pages are where the action happens. With the growing challenge of attracting and holding people’s attention online, it’s more important than ever toContinue Reading
I’m a sucker for a good infographic. Sometimes, it seems like it’s hard to come across a truly remarkable one — one that’s achieved the perfect trifecta of good design, readability, and reliable data. But when they’re well-executed, infographics work wonders, transforming complex topics and dry statistics into visually enticingContinue Reading
In the world of marketing, it seems like there are always new tools, tips, tricks, and trends to discover and incorporate into your marketing strategy. How is it possible to keep up with them all? As a marketer myself, I often wish I had a better sense of all of theContinue Reading
When we say “virtual conference,” we don’t just mean webinars. We mean interactive, live panels and microsites dedicated to the single purpose of promoting one event with various sessions a person can “attend.” Virtual conferences have become a more popular medium to develop and reach large audiences. From marketing toContinue Reading
New copy isn’t better just because it’s new. You can’t just give your copy a “refresh” or aimlessly fiddle with headlines to get a huge boost in conversions. These kinds of false hopes (and complete lack of a process) are why so many conversion copywriting projects fail, and so manyContinue Reading
Your website is the most important tool you have for turning prospects into customers.
There are plenty of ways to increase the number of people visiting your site, but unless you convert these visitors into leads, you won’t be able to ultimately get new customers. As a result, your business won’t be able to grow at a healthy rate.
What does being in a “content rut” mean to you?
Perhaps the words remind you of writer’s block, when you couldn’t think of fresh topic ideas. (We’ve all been there.) Or maybe it makes you think of those days, weeks, or even — horror of horrors — months when your content seems to be falling kind of flat.
When it comes to website design, creating a page that is visually appealing, aligned with your brand, and optimized for lead generation is no easy task. After all, there are a lot of mistakes you can make in the process.
That’s why — for almost two years now — my team here at IMPACT Branding & Design has been hosting a monthly live website critique called Website Throwdown.
