Inbound Marketing 101 June 2009 Workshop

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http://www.hubspot.com - Inbound Marketing 101 workshop for CIC in Cambridge MA covering SEO, blogging, and social media.

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Threat and Opportunity

1950 - 2000 2000 - 2050

Outbound Marketing

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The Bad News…

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The Good News…

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Inbound Gives Leverage

Budget vs. Brains

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Inbound Marketing

Convert

Get Found

Get Found• Publish• Promote• Optimize

Convert• Test• Target• Nurture

Process Tools

Get Found• Content Mgmt• Blogging• Social Media• SEO• Analytics

Convert• Offers / CTAs• Landing Pages• Email• Lead Intelligence• Lead Mgmt• Analytics

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Agenda

Publish

Promote

Optimize

Publish

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What to Publish?

• Blog• Podcast• Videos• Photos• Presentations• eBooks• News Releases

Target Content to Your Personas

Kadient photo by: David Meerman Scott

A Word of Caution

• Writing for your personas DOES NOT mean writing about the products and services you sell them

• Write about the things they want to learn about

3 Keys to Blog Success

Biggest Blogging Mistake

A “free” URL from Blogspot or Typepad• HubSpot.blogspot.com – NO!• HubSpot.typepad.com – NO!

• Blog.HubSpot.com – Yes• HubSpot.com/Blog – Yes• SmallBusinessHub.com – Yes

Blog Frequency

• Steady readership?• At least weekly, more is better.

• SEO focused?• Frequency is less important.

Blog Topic Ideas

List of 5 ideas, trends or thoughts

Publish a list of links

Take a recent experience and share it

Answer questions you received recently

Comment on other blog articles

Turn a press release into a blog article

Check your email outbox

Promote Your Content

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It’s Not Your Daughter’s Social Media

Social Media = Networking

• Become a real member of the community

• Add value to the community• Ask and answer questions

• More effective than live cocktail parties• No boundaries of time or space• Other people can listen in easily

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Volunteer?Hands On

http://Twitter.Grader.com

Build Network - Keyword Search

Hands On

http://Search.Twitter.com

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Hands On

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Volunteer?Hands On

http://Facebook.Grader.com

Network w/ Famous People

10,000 followers

2,000 followers

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LinkedIn Answers

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LinkedIn Groups

Optimize

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Pick Your Keyword Battles

vs.

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SEO

On-Page Off-Page

On-Page SEO

• Page Title

• Clean URL

• Headers & Content

• Description

SEO = Off-Page SEO

• Recommendations from friends1. “I know HubSpot”2. “HubSpot is a marketing expert”3. You trust the person saying this

• Links are online recommendations

1. A link: www.HubSpot.com2. Anchor text: Internet Marketing3. Link is from a trusted website

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Volunteer?Hands On

http://Website.Grader.com

Inbound Marketing Measurement

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Subscribers & Visitors

Blog Article Performance

SEO Rankings

Traffic, Leads and Customers

Visitors Leads Customers

SEO 5,289 754 12

Blogging 834 72 3

Social Media 511 28 1

Visitors from Twitter