"Marketing AR, Outdated Personas, and Welcome Stephanie" The IMPACT Show Ep. 38 [Show Notes]

Wait, where is Nick Sal? 

Ithis week’s episode of The IMPACT ShowBob and I discussed the key question marketers face when it comes to AR, how your approach to buyer personas is outdated, where in the world Nick Sal might be and more.

Just in case you missed us live (or if you want to relive the magic), you’ll find the episode’s show notes below as well as the recording.

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Negative SEO: 6 Little Things Hurting Your Rank You Probably Never Noticed

As a savvy online marketer, you know the importance of not only optimizing your pages for search engines but also staying on top of the latest search engine optimization (SEO) tactics and algorithms.

After all, increasing your traffic and brand awareness is impossible without understanding the in’s and out’s of SEO.

 

When the top 3 search results get over 50% of traffic and Google read more

Hubcast 164: Pillar Templates, GDD, and Dead Keywords

Your website success is just a hop, skip, and a jump away!

This week we chat it up with Luke Summerfield an inbound professor at HubSpot Academy.

During our talk, we talked about Growth Driven Design, Jobs-To-Be-Done, CRO, and Luke even gives us some actionable takeaways.

Carina Duffy and I also cover a couple of really cool HubSpot updates along the way. Check it out!

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7 Reasons To Love Interview-Based Blogging (And How To Do It Right)

Even if people are completely bought into the importance of blogging for business, it can be difficult to get them to follow through with it.

Perhaps they “don’t have the time” or aren’t strong writers; whatever the reason, getting some to create a piece of critical SEO content, can be like pulling teeth.

That’s part of the reason why at IMPACT, we offer an interview-based blogging service to clients.

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Have a Seat At the Table & MarketHer Book Club News! [MarketHer Ep. 22]

It’s been one of those weeks.

First, my family and I ended up sick and then poor Angela’s family got it. 

This week’s episode, Brie and I discuss how to have a seat at the table — and o, we don’t mean for dinner. 

As we prepare each week for MarketHer, the three of us discuss what’s happening around us, hunting for a show-worthy topic.

This week, Brie read a fantastic article on 4 tips to getting a seat at the table

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6 Chatbots for Small Businesses in 2018

Convenience and automation have increasingly become daily necessities for businesses looking to streamline their marketing and customer service.

But these luxuries aren’t and shouldn’t be limited to enterprise companies. Both large and small organizations ultimately share the same goals; increasing profits, maximizing productivity, increasing brand awareness, etc.

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"What Does a Designer Career Path Look Like?" (Creator's Block, Ep. 60)

While I was out last week on vacation, Marcella and Jessie-Lee brought in a special, in-house guest — IMPACT designer Joe Rinaldi — to talk about a designer-specific challenge.

But first, a little background.

A few episodes ago, we chatted about the pressure to be creative and what that means to each of us at an individual level.

We sifted through a lot of terrible read more

Lost & Found: How Guided Site Search Transforms the Way People Find Your Content

Site search has traditionally been ignored by marketers and relegated to IT departments.

While modern CMS solutions have made it easy for non-technical marketers to build and maintain them, the search feature still lives in the realm of IT or web development and is often ignored by everyone except one important group: your website visitors.

However, recent advances in behavioral analytics and artificial intelligence have been revolutionary for on-site search software, read more

"Startup Marketing Ft. Rebecca Corliss of Owl Labs" (Inbound Success Ep. 24)

Is it possible to use inbound marketing to quickly generate a large number of qualified leads for a startup just out of stealth mode?

If you are Owl Labs VP of Marketing Rebecca Corliss, the answer is “yes.”

In this week’s episode of The Inbound Success PodcastRebecca shares the strategy behind Owl Labs’ first major lead gen campaign, and what went into producing hundreds of qualified leads just a few months after the company’s launch.

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5 Branding Mistakes You’re Making on Your YouTube Channel

When you’re visiting a YouTube channel, what influences your first impression? Would you be willing to stick around and watch a few videos to determine if it’s valuable?

Probably not. I wouldn’t blame you either.

In fact, as a viewer, you probably give videos and channels mere seconds to compete for your attention.

If the value does not immediately present itself, whether entertaining or educational, you’ll move on, possibly never to return.

Brutal, I know — read more

How to Optimize Your Email Production Process [Infographic]

The dangers of reckless email marketing are real, people.

From unsubscriptions to being marked as spam, having a slapdash approach to email production and strategy is likely to catch up your to brand quickly if it hasn’t already.

Over 54% of companies have six or more emails in production at one time, with 31% having less than half of a week of work going into each one. With so many balls in the air at once, it’s important to have a tried and true process for getting read more

Secrets to Creating Top-Class Blog Graphics for Non-Designers [Infographic]

how-to-create-better-blog-graphics-infographic-featuredI admit it. I have major designer envy.

I know some Photoshop. I have a decent eye, but I’ve always wished I could have even half the effortless visual artistry that designers on our team have.

In inbound marketing, design and content are a dynamic duo. Without one, the other falls short, and unfortunately, this creates quite a dilemma for non-designing Marketers (and non-writing designers) everywhere.

For years we’ve been told to incorporate visuals into our read more