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- 21 May
How to Launch a Successful Online Community: A Step-by-Step Guide
It’s no secret that the way people buy has fundamentally changed over the years. These days, people are conducting their own research, reading product reviews, and seeking out recommendations before making a decision. And online communities are beginning to play an increasingly important role in this process.This is Not Just A B2C Game Anymore
As of 2018, according to the B2B Buyers Survey Report, B2B buyers are increasing their use of buyers’ forums. In fact, the survey found that 45% of business buyers spent more time and resources researching purchases than they did the previous year. There are some great examples of B2B communities like G2Crowd or GetApp that can be used to educate prospective customers and help them make better buying decisions.
But how can you start? What platform is best? To walk you through the process of setting up an online community in more detail, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 18 May
The Ultimate Guide to Community Management
In today’s digital, hyper-connected society, it’s been found that people are increasingly feeling disconnected from others. With so many people who communicate online, behind screens, this connected world is actually a rather lonely place at times. And this goes for personal relationships as well as business relationships.“One is the Loneliest Number . . . “
So, what is it that has people feeling a disconnect to others and the companies they do business with? It all comes down to a lack of a sense of community. The “human connection” that we all instinctively need is missing. And that’s why so many brands today are beginning to invest in the creation of communities. They are doing this for their customers, employees, and fans, all as part of a process called community management.
What is the purpose of community management?
Community management has become increasingly popular and recognized by all types of businesses — however, it’s still largely undefined. So, what makes it so special? Why should your business adopt it? To answer those questions, read the full article at HubSpot.com to learn the main reasons why community management is critical to your success as a brand today.
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- 09 May
The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Messenger Ads
by Clifford Chi
Just in cases you were wondering, Facebook Messenger has a huge audience. But, what can that mean to you and your business? Well, it can mean a big opportunity.Don’t Believe Me?
At last count, there were two billion messages on Facebook Messenger sent each month. And those were only between people and businesses. And, of those, 53% of people inidcated willingness to buy from a company they can directly message Facebook Messenger. So if you needed evidence, there it is.
But, if you need a rundown of what Facebook Messenger ads exactly are, the different types of Facebook Messenger ads you can leverage, and some of the best Facebook Messenger ads that can inspire your own, read the full article at HubSpot.com to learn all about them and to get The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Messenger Ads.
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- 26 Apr
Global Buying Behavior in 2019 You Need to Know
by Mimi An
The average person spends 135 minutes on social media every day. It’s where we get our news, our entertainment. And at this point, sadly, it’s a sizable chunk of our human interaction. But where exactly are those 135 minutes spent? On Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? And who is spending their time there?To find out, in early 2019, HubSpot Research partnered with SurveyMonkey to conduct new research on social media preferences and buying preferences. They used SurveyMonkey Audience to ask over 2,700 around the globe questions on how they buy.
Turns Out, Not All Buyers Are The Same
The resulting report highlights the fascinating differences discovered in buying preferences worldwide. And if you’re a marketer or creator deciding where to focus your content efforts, the first step to success is finding the platforms with the most receptive audiences. So, keep reading to learn some of the buying trends we observed through our research at HubSpot.com
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- 20 Apr
6 Fundamental Video Marketing Tips for Every Type of Skill Level
by Clifford Chi
Nowadays, most marketers obsess over how they can amplify their content’s reach as much as possible. More views means more leads and customers, right? While this convention can be true, it’ll only pan out if you optimize your videos for humans before you optimize them for algorithms.If a Video Drops in a Forest . . .
Resonance is the most important determinant of whether your audience will take action. And your video’s creative is the most important determinant of whether your video will resonate with your audience. So even if your video reaches a million people, if it doesn’t resonate with them, it won’t persuade anyone. It won’t help them to take your preferred action, let alone remember your brand.
With this insight in mind, let’s go over six fundamental video marketing tips that’ll help you craft videos that resonate with as many people as it reaches at HubSpot.com
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- 08 Apr
What Is Twitter and How Does It Work?
Now you may be thinking that it is a bit late in the game to be asking “what is Twitter and how does it work?” After all, Twitter, as a social networking site was launched way back in 2006. Today, it is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media platforms available. It boast 100 million daily active users and 500 million tweets sent daily.But,Really, What is Twitter?
Twitter is a lot of things to a lot of people. It can be used to receive news, follow high-profile celebrities, or stay in-touch with old high school friends. And, it can be used for personal, business, religious and especially for political purposes. In fact, it can be used for a lot of good and even bad things.
But its popularity can be intimidating. And if you don’t know how to use Twitter by now, should you even bother trying to join the masses who’ve acquired years of experience on the site? Fortunately, Twitter is incredibly easy to use. And in this article at HubSpot.com, explores what Twitter is, who uses it, and how you can get started on the site, today.
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- 27 Mar
The Ultimate List of Email Marketing Stats for 2019
Nowadays, marketers put a lot of emphasis on chatbots, Instagram influencers, and other new opportunities to reach their customers.
But your contemporary communication methods shouldn’t distract you from one of the oldest and yet most effective messaging channels — email.
You might be wondering if email is still a worthwhile marketing strategy. In fact, email generates $38 for every $1 spent, which is an astounding 3,800% ROI, making it one of the most effective options available.
If you’re still hesitant, keep reading — we’ve cultivated a list of email marketing statistics for 2019 to demonstrate just how powerful email can be.
Email marketing stats
- 93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content.
- Active email accounts are expected to hit 5.6 billion by 2019.
- 83 percent of B2B companies use e-newsletters as part of their content marketing program.
- 40 percent of B2B marketers say email newsletters are most critical to their content marketing success.
- It’s estimated that the U.S. will spend over 350 million dollars on email advertising in 2019.
- Mobile opens accounted for 46 percent of all email opens.
- 35% of business professionals check email on a mobile device.
- Apple iPhone is the most popular mobile client for reading emails with 29 percent of all opens occurring on this platform. Gmail is a close runner-up at 27 percent.
- 73 percent of millennials prefer communications from businesses to come via email.
- More than 50 percent of U.S. respondents check their personal email account more than 10 times a day, and it is by far their preferred way to receive updates from brands.
- 99% of consumers check their email every day.
- 80% of business professionals believe that email marketing increases customer retention.
- 59% of respondents say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions.
- The most opened emails relate to hobbies, with an open rate of 27.35 percent.
- >59% of marketers say email is their biggest source of ROI.
- 56% of brands using an emoji in their email subject line had a higher open rate than those that did not.
- Marketers who use segmented campaigns note as much as a 760% increase in revenue.
B2B Email Marketing Statistics
1. 93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content. (Content Marketing Institute, 2017)
2. Active email accounts are expected to hit 5.6 billion by 2019. (Statista, 2018)
3. 83 percent of B2B companies use enewsletters as part of their content marketing program. (Imaginepub.com, 2017)
4. 40 percent of B2B marketers say email newsletters are most critical to their content marketing success. (Content Marketing Institute, 2017)
5. It’s estimated that the U.S. will spend over 350 million dollars on email advertising in 2019. (Statista, 2019)
Mobile Email Marketing Statistics
6. Mobile opens accounted for 46 percent of all email opens. (Litmus.com, 2018)
7. 35% of business professionals check email on a mobile device. (Convince & Convert, 2018)
8. Apple iPhone is the most popular mobile client for reading emails with 29 percent of all opens occurring on this platform. Gmail is a close runner-up at 27 percent (Campaign Monitor, 2018)
Demographic Email Marketing Statistics
9. 73 percent of millennials prefer communications from businesses to come via email. (Adestra, 2016)
10. More than 50 percent of U.S. respondents check their personal email account more than 10 times a day, and it is by far their preferred way to receive updates from brands (Campaign Monitor, 2017).
11. 99% of consumers check their email every day. (DMA Insights, 2017)
B2C Email Marketing Statistics
12. 80% of business professionals believe that email marketing increases customer retention. (Emarsys, 2018)
13. 59% of respondents say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions. (SaleCycle, 2018)
14. The most opened emails relate to hobbies, with an open rate of 27.35 percent. (MailChimp, 2018)
15. 59% of marketers say email is their biggest source of ROI. (Emma, 2018)
Email Marketing Best Practices Statistics
16. 56% of brands using an emoji in their email subject line had a higher open rate than those that did not. (Forbes, 2017)
17. Marketers who use segmented campaigns note as much as a 760% increase in revenue. (Campaign Monitor, 2019)
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- 26 Mar
How to Convert With Psychology: 4 Design Levers To Pull
by Tyson Quick
Users, visitors, prospects, leads, and customers. What do all these words have in common? Well, simply put, they’re how marketers classify the people who engage with their brand. And yet, as they tend to lump them together in analytics dashboards, it’s easy to forget that they’re just like you and me.Human Needs and Desires Create Demand for Your Business
After all, it is those human needs and desires that your product or service aims to fulfill. But, in order to fulfill these needs and desires, your business needs more than just a good product. In todays digital world you also need a solid grasp of design. And fortunately, when you optimize your website design for conversion, you can leverage psychology everywhere. You can do it with colors and numbers, shapes and taglines, and even the serifs of letters.
And knowing how psychology and design intersect is key to guiding prospects toward conversion. So to learn the four foundational principles that will help you marry psychology with design, as well as some little-known phenomena that can give you an edge in your design and conversion rate optimization efforts, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 06 Mar
An Introduction to Persuasive Advertising vs. Informative Advertising
by Clifford Chi
As marketers, we know that if we want to persuade an audience, we need to evoke an emotional response from them. But how do you actually do that? Well, for one, we can use persuasive techniques that emphasise value. Or we can inform and educate them.But What is a Persuasive Ad? And How Do They Differ From Informative Ads?
Well, recently Clifford Chi, over at HubSpot, took a look at this dicotomy of advertising approaches. He examined six persuasive advertising techniques that you can use right now. Plus, he then looked at three informative advertisement examples. And each of those is surprisingly as compelling as the persuasive advertising examples.
So to learn all about Persuasive Advertising vs. Informative Advertsing, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 18 Feb
The Ultimate Guide to Relationship Marketing
There is power in relationship marketing. By now, that should be a given. But, it all starts by offering customers unparalleled levels of service. And, rewarding long-term customers.Its all about demonstrating a true desire to cultivate a deeper relationship with your audience. And done right, it can mean spending less acquiring new customers. Then, its existing customers that are doing the heavy-lifting for you.
But What is Relationship Marketing?
Relationship marketing is a different type of marketing. It’s one that focuses on cultivating a relationship with customers that is deeper and more meaningful. It is designed to ensure long-term satisfaction and brand loyalty. And, it’s focus is on delighting your customers for the long-haul.
So, let’s take a look at some relationship marketing examples. And then explore how you can implement a strong relationship marketing strategy in the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 08 Feb
How Neuromarketing Could Revolutionize Marketing
by Clifford Chi
With the rise of digital media, the entire marketing landscape has shifted. One advantage over ‘traditional marketing’ is the ability to measure a campaign’s performance. But even with all of these metrics, we still can’t measure what is arguably the most crucial indicator of a campaign’s performance. And that is emotional resonance. But what if we could actually measure emotional resonance?This is Where Neuromarketing Comes In
Neuromarketing is a blend of neuroscience and marketing designed to help brands gauge the emotional resonance of their current and future marketing campaigns. And even though we live in an age of data overload, where you can measure almost anything, we still are still not able to accurately gauge the most important element of your marketing campaign — its ability to make your audience feel something.
Fortunately, the neuromarketing space is rapidly evolving, and its technology is becoming more affordable and practical for marketers. And, hopefully leading to its mainstream use tomorrow. To learn how this can impact your marketing, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 18 Jan
Are Lead Gen Forms Dead: The State of Email Lead Capture in 2019
by Alex Birkett
Email lead capture is the process marketers use to collect information from their website visitors. And, inspite of the process being fairly straightforward, strategies often vary in how we capture leads.And The Results Vary Quite a Bit as Well
Unfortunately, the diversity of lead capture strategies, tools, and results can make it difficult to know precisely which process you should follow. So, HubSp0t decided to conduct a survey. And they were able to uncover a number of email marketing trends.
In particular, they wanted to find out more about the tools marketers are currently using for lead capture. And, what strategies they are using to optimize their efforts, and what kind of results and conversion rates people are seeing. So, to learn what they discovered, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 16 Jan
Give Your Marketing Videos Maximum Reach With This Distribution Checklist
So you made an incredible video. Then you sent it out to your internal teams and encouraged sharing. Then you uploaded it to YouTube and waited for the marketing fame to roll in. But, unfortunately, each time you obsessively checked throughout the day, your view count wasn’t as impressive as you’d hoped.Get Your Video The Attention It Deserves
First off, don’t stress, we’ve all done it. But after you’ve spent time, energy, and money to make really amazing video marketing, it’s all about actively making sure your videos get in front of your target audience.
Now, it’s time to make sure everyone sees your masterpiece. And to help you do that, here’s a checklist of key places to share your video marketing content every time you have something new. So read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 27 Dec
Rethinking Social Media Marketing: How to Use a Behavior Based Approach For Content on Social Media
by Mimi An
Companies today are grappling with how to best market to consumers on various social networks. How can they better identify the types of content that will perform the best on each network?Understanding Behavior and Content Options
We first needed to understand the primary behaviors people take on each social network. After all, people use Twitter very differently from a network like Instagram or YouTube. Only then can we analyze existing branded content to produce a definitive framework. Then we can begin to identify the types of content that performs best on a given social network.
To probe deeper into that question, HubSpot Research and the University of Virginia teamed up to survey consumers and analyze existing branded content to produce that framework. This post is an overview of a longer report published by HubSpot Research. Click here to read more.
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- 13 Dec
What Is an SRT File, & Why Is It So Important for Video?
Nowadays, subtitles are becoming increasingly common. That’s particularly true as businesses expand their marketing efforts. And when they aim to reach a broader, global market. Additionally, subtitles are often necessary to ensure your video and audio files are as inclusive as possible.Fortunately, there’s an easy solution to adding subtitles to video — an SRT file. And to ensure your videos are inclusive and easily digestible for any audience, it’s critical you include an option to watch with subtitles.
So how can you do that? Here, we’ll explain what an SRT file is, and how to create and edit one for your marketing videos moving forward at HubSpot.com
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- 31 Oct
The AIDA Model: A Proven Framework for Converting Strangers Into Customers
by Clifford Chi
In 1898, Elias St. Elmo Lewis anonymously wrote a column about three advertising principles he found useful throughout his career. Through the years this model matured to become a standard that typically expressed as the acronym, AIDA. And is widely used in the advertising industry. In the digital age, brands have even based their entire marketing strategy on the AIDA model.But, What is The AIDA Model?
The AIDA model describes the four stages a consumer needs to go through to become a customer. The stages are Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action (AIDA). And during these four stages, your content will ideally attract attention to your brand, generate interest in your product or service. And, even go so far as to stimulate a desire for it, and spur action to try or buy it.
As Proven Formula, it Can Guide Your Content Creation
The AIDA model is a sturdy framework for guiding your audience through the buyer’s journey and spurring them to act. And if you apply it to your content marketing, you’ll be leveraging a proven formula that can consistently engage, persuade, and convert an audience into customers. So to learn how, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 23 Oct
Why LinkedIn’s New Feed Could Be a Game Changer for Marketers
LinkedIn recently announced that it plans to overhaul its feed ranking system. This move is designed to help more creators get better engagement on the content they share. And, if you are a creator, this will be a welcomed change. That’s because over the past year you have probably noticed your organic reach and engagement dropping by noticeable margins.Ch . . ch . . ch . . Changes
The changes were spurred when the professional networking site discovered that the top 1% of content creators — also known as “power users,” or perhaps influencers — were receiving the vast majority of engagement with their posts. And, meanwhile, the remaining 98%, the site says, was “receiving less [engagement] than ever.”
So, to learn how that skew in engagement happened, and how LinkedIn has changed its algorithm to address the problem read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 18 Oct
Why You Should Create Multi-Step Forms and How They Can Increase Conversions
We all know that a multi-step form that requires dozens of field entries can easily become complicated, frustrating and time-consuming for your leads. And, as a result, many will simply not finish the form. And a lead or new customer is needlessly lost.“A Little Bit of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down . . .”
But there is a way to make registration with a multi-step form a positive experience for your website visitors. A well-crafted multi-step form means that more visitors will complete your form with fewer hiccups.
Now, you may be asking yourself how creating more work for your leads by spreading information out across a multi-step form could possibly be a good thing when it comes to user experience — fair question. To see the answer and to learn exactly how you can do this, read the full article at HubSpot.com
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- 10 Oct
10 Great Examples of Welcome Emails to Inspire Your Own Strategy
by Erik Devaney
We’ve all heard it before. How important it is for you to make a good first impression. And, as it turns out, the “make a good first impression” principle holds true not only in face-to-face encounters. But it holds in email interactions as well.Your Second Chance for a Good First Impression
A welcome email is the first impression a company makes with a new customer, blog subscriber, or newsletter subscriber via email. Welcome emails can deliver videos, special offers, a sign-up form, or just a friendly hello to establish a relationship with a new contact.
When you send a welcome email to a new blog or newsletter subscriber, or to a new customer, you’re making a first impression on behalf of your brand. So, to help ensure you’re making the best first impression possible, the people at HubSpot rounded up some examples of standout welcome emails from brands big and small at HubSpot.com
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- 28 Sep
The Ultimate Glossary of Social Media Definitions You Should Know
by Carly Stec
For many people, posting a tweet, hash-tagging an Instagram caption is second nature. And sending out an invite for a Facebook event has become common practice. Plus, if you’re experienced, you probably do all three at once.Things Change Soooo Fast These Days
But with new social media networks and innovative software cropping up almost daily, its hard to keep up. Even seasoned social media users are bound to run into a term or acronym that leaves them thinking, “WTF?” So, for those head-scratching moments, HubSpot has created the ultimate glossary of social media marketing terms.
Whether you’re still hung up on the difference between a mention and a reply on Twitter or you just want to brush up on your social knowledge, check out the following roundup of social media terms to keep yourself in the know at HubSpot.com
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