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Throughout my career, I had the privilege to interact with many leaders in the Industrial/Manufacturing sector. Our discussions on business conditions netted one common theme: We need more growth. The underlying question was: "How do we break away?"
As marketers, we work tirelessly to move the needle on what often seems like a laundry list of metrics. We look at website visits, conversion rates, generated leads per channel, engagement on social media platforms, blog post shares, email click-through rates… and the list goes on and on. When the time comes to present the impact of your marketing efforts to your boss, you can’t present him or her with everything you measure.
The relationship between marketing and sales departments is often wrought with competition, disputes over credit and finger pointing. Who isn't pulling their weight? Who gets to claim what sale and when? Who is taking priority in decisions and, most importantly, budget?
Here we are, already in the second month of 2020 and it feels like January was a blur. Anyone else feel the same? Some of you are only now thinking through your goals for the year now that you've settled in after a nice holiday break and annual meetings galore that filled your calendars. Goal setting can mean a variety of different things, whether it's a personal goal or professional goal. In this article, I'll be covering the strategy for your professional goals, but the same theory can apply to you personally as well.
The days are flying by, and time seems to be slipping through your fingers when you’re trying to market your company as a one-member marketing team. While keeping up with the competition is your bread and butter, the idea of introducing more software, technology, and systems to keep up just seems like too much to handle, right? Wrong.
Marketing automation is a business process that uses online software platforms and related technologies to assist marketers with automating processes throughout the sales cycle, or buyer’s journey as it’s increasingly called these days. Marketing automation software can reduce time and effort by eliminating repetitive tasks.
Over the past few months, our team has been watching videos to earn HubSpot certifications in Inbound Marketing, Sales, and Marketing Automation Software. For me, it was both scary and exciting as I have not studied in the true sense of the word since my college days, and let's say that they were a while ago.
When my husband, Francois, and I meet new people at business functions or parties, they ask us what we do. Usually, we tell them we own a marketing firm in Downtown Pittsburgh, and they don’t ask additional questions.
In these times of having so much information at our fingertips (too much in many people’s opinions), it’s easy to create content. It’s more challenging, however, to develop content that people want to read, and which helps you achieve increases in traffic to your website, including clicks, opt-ins, conversions, sales, likes and mentions. It also helps prospects and customers alike get to know you better as an individual and become more likely to become a customer or client.
