Weekly Flashback: Social Media Productivity Tools & Why Content Marketing Isn’t Dead

If you’re like me, your inbox is flooded with post notifications and enewsletters filled with good articles that you’ve highlighted to read later. Most weeks, I try to at least scan the articles that are of greatest interest to me and I pass the best ones along to our team. These articles include everything from inbound strategies, digital marketing, social advertising, content production and promotion, web design, public relations, events and much more. I thought some of my favorites would be of interest to our clients and followers, so I’ve created The Weekly Roundup – a recap of the best posts I’ve come across. I’ll try to be consistent with posting, so be sure to check back every Friday to view my faves from the week.

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Author: Steve James

Grow Internal Content Producers: 10 Steps for Marketing Success

blog internal contentWe meet with marketing professionals frequently and many are solely responsible for creating content for email, social media, blog and inbound marketing strategies. When we ask who and what departments these individuals work with to help generate ideas and stories for their channels, we oftentimes hear that the task never moves outside the marketing department or if it’s a one-person role, the marketing manager’s personal day-to-day responsibilities.  Our question is always the same: If you don’t step outside your silo, how can you avoid quality and consistency issues, burnout or most importantly, tell the full story?

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Author: Jeff Coon

Inbound Marketing Case Study: Adventure Travel Industry

How to Use Your Blog to Attract Customers [Customer Story]

RIDE Adventures is in the motorcycle touring business, a type of adventure travel that many avid motorcycle enthusiasts don’t even know exists. When we recognized that few potential customers would be searching for “guided motorcycle tours in South America,” it became obvious that we’d have to find another way to draw people to our website. If motorcycle riders weren’t searching for “motorcycle tours,” what were they searching for? Hubspot’s Keywords and Blog Analytics tools made this easy to discover, and we’ve been blogging accordingly ever since.

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Author: Steve James

Inbound Marketing Weekly Recap - Sept. 12 - 16

Many businesses utilize blogs to create leads and build a brand image. For these reasons, it is important to have an effective blog that is getting seen and bringing in potential clients. Here are some articles to help you have an effective blog and expand your reach.

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Author: Monica Madsen

Inbound Marketing Weekly Recap - Aug. 15-19

Working on a new website and want to make sure your business gets found? Want to improve your social media rankings? Not sure where to look for help? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is key to being found online. Here are some helpful articles explaining what SEO is all about. These articles take you through the basics and through advanced steps to improve your SEO.

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Author: Monica Madsen

Top 10 Resources for Social Media and Inbound Marketing

School may be done for the summer but my education continues. I'll be spending my summer in Milwaukee, interning at Stream Creative. And I'm kicking things off with my first blog post!

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Author: Monica Madsen

The Basics of Inbound Marketing

Have you heard of inbound marketing? If not, we wanted to take this opportunity to give you a basic overview of how inbound marketing can be used to drive more traffic to your website, increase sales leads and convert more of your leads to customers using social media tools and networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Blogs, etc.

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Author: Jeff Coon