4 Reasons to Get Early Bird Tickets to IMPACT Live '18 Now

It’s 7:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning — at least it is here on the East Coast. 

Normally, I would be bending over backward to ease you into the day with a few inspirational quotes or maybe even a quick how-to. But at this moment, you and I have bigger fish to fry. 

Here’s the deal, folks. Early bird pricing for IMPACT Live ’18 ends on January 17 — and if you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, I’m going to need you to sit down.

You and I are going read more

Working Overtime Is NOT A Badge of Honor. Avoid The Burnout

You ever feel like you’re Superwoman(man) because you worked 70 hours in a week? How ’bout working weekends? 

Do you get hi-fives in the office because you’re still there at 9pm? 

What is working long hours really doing for you? Does it really make you that much more productive? 

Are you wearing the “I work long hours Badge of Honor”? 

We are here to tell you that you must rip off that badge of honor and disregard it immediately! read more

9 Facebook Live for Business Examples You've Got to See

With video marketing on the rise, coming up with a catchy and attractive video can be a huge challenge for those who lack the time (and money).

That’s where the beauty of Facebook Live comes in. Making its debut in 2016, the service has enabled users to make videos that stream live using only a minimum of your smartphone’s camera to capture it.

But as intimidating as streaming live read more

"The Flawed Logic Behind Common Creativity Hacks" (Creator's Block, Ep. 56)

Here’s the thing about being a marketing creative — whether you’re a designer, developer, or content creator.

There is this constant pressure to perform. To be creative. To stay creative. To be able to spontaneously produce compelling, engaging, inspiring products for clients out of thin air and on-demand. 

It’s great that our work has given us a reputation of being creative wizards, but sometimes the idea of having to live up to read more

How We Use Real-Time Data to Turn Even Dismal Marketing Metrics Around

Ah, the monthly marketing report…

You either take data that’s already in HubSpot and manually type it into a complicated spreadsheet, or if you’re extra fancy, you take the data already in HubSpot and manually type it into a Powerpoint, and within a couple hours, you have a nifty report showing old data.

Unfortunately, you know as a marketer, this isn’t super helpful, but it at least helps communicate to your stakeholders how the previous month went.

I fully read more

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10 Crucial Habits to Boost Your Creativity & Steal Like An Artist

austin-kleon.jpg“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

This famous quote by Picasso is the premise for Austin Kleon’s renowned book, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative.

Based on his 2012 Tedx Talk, Kleon shows us how to “steal” ideas from everything around us, combine them with each other (along with our own ideas) to create something entirely new.

It is a quick, but informative, read that is focused on being actionable, wastes no read more

Content Creation: Ann Handley’s Step-by-Step Writing GPS [Infographic]

Ann Handley's writing gpsWant to the know the greatest content marketing book I’ve read to date?

You may have already heard of this clever novel written by Ann Handley, Everybody Writes.

If you’ve read this guide already, then you understand my sentiment towards it, but if you haven’t, stop what you’re doing and get a copy right now! (You won’t regret it, I promise.)

Coming fresh out of college, I was unprepared for the business world (especially writing for an inbound agency). So, I couldn’t be more thankful read more

10 Key Elements of a High-Quality Website [Infographic]

10-key-elements-of-a-high-quality-website-infographic-featuredEvery company runs into the awkward in-between phase of “Our site needs a redesign” and “Where do we begin?”

With Google’s ever-changing algorithm, the daily addition of new design trends, and constant waves of new technology, it can be tough to figure out what your new site needs and what it doesn’t.

Thankfully Neil Patel and the folks over at QuickSprout put together this handy infographic of “The 10 Key Elements of a High-Quality Website.” 

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This infographic read more

"Big Announcement and Objectives & Metrics:" The IMPACT Show Ep. 33 [Show Notes]

Happy 2018 everyone!

If you missed this week’s episode of The IMPACT Show, you may be the only one… Just kidding.

This week we saw our biggest live audience to date and with good reason — Bob and Nick had a huge announcement

In addition to our big news, the two caught up on the latest industry news includingAmazon looking into ads on Alexa, personalization and time machine learning, and what happens if your company evolves but your employees don’t.

As a reminder, read more

How Mike Volpe is Making Old School ABM New Again

We all know account-based marketing is nothing new. It’s been practiced for years.

At the early stages of inbound marketing, traditional marketing tactics including account-based marketing (ABM) were looked down upon, but, now that inbound marketing isn’t the shiny new object, many sophisticated marketers are talking about how old-ish school tactics are helping them get in front of prospects that inbound just can’t reach.

Enter, Mike Volpe read more