9. Title: “Director/VP of Marketing” Company has 50-500 employees Expert at “outbound marketing”, 15+ years experience Worries about “brand presence” (colors, logo, fonts) Website built for $25K with firm, uses Salesforce.com Uses the web for: Photo sharing of kids with friends (Shutterfly, NOT Flickr) Email (Outlook for work, web based for home) Research / news (web, email subscriptions, NOT RSS) LinkedIn (~100 connections, a couple groups), Facebook (personal only) Personal: 42 years old, married, 2 kids (10 and 6) A little scared of “technology” Enjoys travel, drives an SUV, likes her iPod Nano (300 songs) Worried kids are meeting bad people on MySpace and in chat rooms Wears “appropriate business casual” from Banana Republic and Ann Taylor HubSpot: Wants to learn “inbound marketing”, needs easy to use tools, need integrated tools, needs reports to show CEO, wants life to be easier, doesn’t like to tinker Meet “Marketing Mary”
10. Have You Met Your Personas? Kadientphoto by: David Meerman Scott
11. Tips for Buyer Personas Use data, but don’t be a slave to it Get personal and specific The perfect is the enemy of the good Socialize it company wide
16. 79% more followers for companies that also have a blog Source: Data from over 2,000 businesses - http://bit.ly/a6SrWh
17. Tips for Publishing (Blogging) Title should be keyword rich Image in every article Use both email and RSS subscription CTA in every article
18. Tips for Publishing (Blogging) Want more comments? Ask a question Be controversial Leave part of the issue untouched Need article ideas? Check email sent items Customer service inquiries FAQs salespeople receive Ask your readers
19. Tips for Publishing (Blogging) Engage the whole company Contests and public praise Support from executives Build into employee goals Get everyone addicted
36. More: Details, Tips, Case Studies Inbound Marketing: Get Found using Google, Social Media and Blogs Top 20 Web Marketing Book on Amazon InboundBook.com
37. Thank You Mike Volpe VP Marketing at HubSpot Twitter.com / mvolpe mvolpe@hubspot.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Google AdWords and other paid advertising is a drug for marketers. It is expensive, makes you feel good, but then the feeling goes away and you need to pay again to feel good (get more leads).
This leads to LMS – Lazy Marketing Syndrome, where you don’t focus on building long term assets for your company and instead just keep raising the limit on your credit card.
Renting leads from other people (buying advertising) is not a long term strategy for lead generation. Renting is OK for experiments, and for transitions, and for testing. But it should not be the centerpiece of your long term strategy.
Instead, think about building a long term asset, just like the machinery in a factory. Build tools that will attract leads at a low cost while you sleep, and without additional cost per lead.
Examples of outbound marketing, or rented marketing are all different forms of advertising that do not help you build an asset that your company owns and controls. Inbound marketing helps you build assets that attract leads to your company at a low cost over time.