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Traffic vs. Conversion: Laser-Focused Marketing Tactics for Growth
Ultimately, we all need to drive more business — sales teams are always asking for more opportunities, and marketing needs to deliver. So, as a...
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6 Signs that You Are the Used Car Salesmen of Digital Marketing
Consumer behavior has shifted. What troubles me, is that marketers have been aware of this shift for some time now, and some of us still fail to...
When Does It Make Sense to Outsource Content Marketing?
How long does it typically take you to write a 500-word blog post for your company? If your answer is less than an hour, congratulations! You're in...
Marketing ROI Reporting Templates and Tools That Really Rock
Proving the value of your marketing efforts is absolutely essential, but that doesn’t mean that you want to spend hours and hours creating customized...
Utilizing PPC Campaigns to Support Your Organic Content Strategy
When piecing together your digital marketing strategy, the list of tactics can be overwhelming and it may seem difficult to decide where to place...
Why Organic Search Beats Paid Search Over the Long Term
Quickly, answer this — do you click on “ads” when you’re searching for something on Google? If you’re like most people, you answer this with a...
What You Need to Know Before Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency
Erik Saltvold knows things about digital marketing agencies that agencies don't even know about themselves. In the past eight years, he's worked with...
Understanding the Building Blocks for an Inbound Marketing Pricing Retainer
Whether you are a B2B or B2C marketer, a small or mid-sized company, in just about any industry today, you share the same marketing challenges; you...
61 Inbound Marketing Tools to Boost Website Performance
The inbound marketing methodology, at its core, is actually pretty simple and easy to understand. It consists of 5 main components: Attract visitors...
How to Find the Right Content Marketing Agency for YOUR Company
According to a recent study of Digital Marketing Agencies, over 60% of brands who utilize an outside marketing agency are looking for an all-in-one...
9 Pieces of Essential Website Advice for Digital Marketers
Whether you realize it or not, your website is the cornerstone of all your marketing efforts, and the one member of your team that promotes your...
Measuring the Effectiveness of Traditional Marketing
Doubting Thomas comes to mind when I think of the struggle many old school marketers have when it comes to letting go of their past marketing...
Driving Measurable Results from Your PR Strategies
For years, public relations was considered the most effective way to “get your name out there” for a business. Unlike advertising, PR is earned media...
Harnessing the Power of Digital Marketing: It's All About Strategy
This blog was updated for relevance and accuracy on December 17, 2024.
"How Often Should I Blog for SEO?" and Other Good Marketing Questions
I was recently able to attend a presentation at the Twin Cities Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services. It was a great...
3 Higher Education Marketing Tips to Help You Engage Millennials
Many of today's marketers are trying to reach Millennials, but none more so than those marketers working in higher education. For them, their...
Create a Content Strategy that Converts
What's your content strategy for next year? Do you have your narrative dialed in? Ready to roll out the new content calendar? How about this? Start...
Blogging Best Practices to Brush Up on Before 2016
Here at StoryTeller, creating content is what we do. Each month we publish nearly 100 blog posts for clients in industries such as health care,...
How to Use Inbound Marketing to Generate Revenue in the New Year
Your business leads are the fuel of your company. Without leads your company won't generate revenue. Many companies spend hours, resources and money...
Hotel Marketing 2016: 5 Tips for Hospitality Marketers
As the weather begins to cool off, people are already hatching their next vacation destination ideas, which means it's time for those in the hotel...
7 Quick Tips for Your Next Sales Email
More and more, salespeople are utilizing email as a way to reach out to prospects, introduce themselves, and offer a solution to their prospects'...
Local Lead Generation: 6 Tips to Generate Local Leads for Your Company
When it comes to driving new business from your website, local lead generation is essential. Driving new traffic, leads and customers from your own...
How to Excel at Higher Ed Marketing (Without Breaking the Bank)
For digital marketers in the higher education space, the competition is stiff. More kids are going to college than ever before, and institutions are...
Attract, Convert, Close: Benefits of a CRM for Sales & Marketing
Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in 2015 and was updated in October 2023. Chances are your business has some sort of CRM, (Customer...
How to Create Effective Manufacturing Marketing Campaigns
We talk to a lot of manufacturers, and what we've learned is that they're not unlike most of the marketers we work with: they're always looking for...
HubSpot Help: What it Takes to Make the HubSpot Machine Run
Congratulations! You have made an awesome and game-changing decision by signing on the dotted HubSpot line. You have been hearing so much about...
5 Ways Marketing Automation Shortens the Sales Cycle
Love it or hate it, marketing automation is here to stay and your sales team should be leading the cheering section in this regard (cue the Wave,...
Website Hospitality: Hotel Marketing Ideas to Welcome Potential Leads
So you're planning your next vacation. What's the first thing you do? If you said "Start Googling" you're not alone. Yes, most of us know that the...
"What Does Marketing Do?": 4 Ways to Justify the Value of Your Team
For marketers, our job can be a thankless one. When budgets get tight, it seems we're always the first department to be vetted. Because of this,...
4 Ideas for Your 2016 Hospital Marketing Plan
More people than ever before are looking to the Internet for answers to their health-related questions. In fact, according to Pew Research Center,...