2010 10-19 masters of business online - pdf

Inbound Marketing Today and Beyond: How Your Business Can Modernize its Marketing Efforts Masters of Business Online - #mbo10 October 19th, 2010 Mark Roberge HubSpot @markroberge

Agenda I. Intro to Inbound Marketing II. SEO in 2010 III. Blogging for Lead Generation IV. Social Media for Lead Generation V. Converting Visitors to Leads VI. Measuring Inbound Marketing Success 2

Outbound Marketing 3 @markroberge

Outbound Marketing is Harder 800-555-1234 Annoying Salesperson 4 @markroberge

Inbound Marketing Blog SEO Social Media 5 @markroberge

Inbound Leads Cost 60% Less Than Outbound Leads Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI

Reading List Suggestion Inbound Marketing: Get Found using Google, Social Media and Blogs Top 5 Web Marketing Book on Amazon InboundBook.com 7 @markroberge

How Do You Get to the Top? History of SEO

Inbound Marketing – One Strategy not Three Blog SEO Social Media 10 @markroberge

SEO = Context and Authority Ranking Algorithm: f(n): Context + Authority 11 @markroberge

Two Sides of Optimization On-Page Off-Page (Context) (Authority) 12

On-Page SEO (Context) • Page Title • Clean URL • Headers • Description 13 @markroberge

Off-Page SEO (Authority) • Recommendations from friends 1. “I know Mark Roberge” 2. “Mark Roberge is a marketing expert” 3. Seth Godin: Mark Roberge is a marketing expert • Links are online recommendations 1. A link: www.HubSpot.com 2. Anchor text: Internet Marketing 3. Link is from the Wall Street Journal

The Long Tail The New Marketplace Popularity Head Long Tail Keywords 15 @markroberge

SEO Tips from Website Grader Lessons from 2,084,563 websites 16 @markroberge

Where is Search Going? PERSONALIZATION REAL-TIME BEYOND SEARCH ENGINES

Create Great Content by Blogging Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI

Blogging Attracts More Links Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI

Blogging Attracts More Visitors Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI

Blogging Versus Blogging with a Purpose • Use keyword tool to drive blog topic selection • Configure blog with On-Page SEO in mind • Include target long tail keywords in blog article titles • Think of blog articles as link bait • Think of blog articles as an army of sales people working for you forever

Who Has Time for Blogging? Domain Knowledge Blog Success Writing Skills Time

Get Into the Content Mindset • Turn emails into blog posts • Transform forum posts into blog posts • Shoot videos at events • Interview customers for your blog • Repurpose company data for public reports • Share lessons you learn Flick Photo: Cindiann 24 @markroberge

Most Business Blogs Post Weekly Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI

More Blogging Increases Results Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI

Focus Participation on Digital Influencers 28 @markroberge

Distribute Your Content 29

How to Participate WHAT NOT TO DO WHAT TO DO • Give your company • Educate / answer their elevator pitch question • Talk about your • Promote other good product features content • Bash your • Get your subject matter competition experts involved 3030 @markroberge

Blogging Drives Social Media Success Source: Data from over 2,000 businesses - http://bit.ly/a6SrWh

Blogs and Social Media are for Leads and Sales Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI

Never let website visitors guess what to do next. 34 @markroberge

How Does HubSpot Convert Visitors? 35

“Contact Us” is Not Going to Work

Offer – WIIFM?

Offer – WIIFM? • Whitepapers / eBooks • Research / Studies • Free Tools • Trials & Samples • NOT “Contact Us” • Value must be greater than the cost…

Landing Pages

Limited Navigation 40 @markroberge

Keep It Short 32% 53% Conversion Conversion

Don’t Put Form Below the Fold

Track the Whole Funnel for Each Channel Social Media SEO Visitors Blog Visitors PPC Visitors Visitors Leads SEO Customers Blog Customers PPC Customers Social Media Customers 44

Measure Total Reach, Not Size of Email Database 45

Additional Resources Grade your website at www.WebsiteGrader.com Read the Inbound Marketing Book www.InboundBook.com Take the free Inbound Marketing training www.InboundMarketing.com Start your free trial of HubSpot software www.HubSpot.com/free-trial

Thank You! Mark Roberge HubSpot @markroberge

Start the Transformation “When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. - Ben Franklin 48 @markroberge

Appendix: The HubSpot Product

What is HubSpot? Lead Landing Social SEO CMS Blog Leads Analytics Expertise Nurture Pages Media On- Web Word Lead Mktg Eloqua Radian6 Drupal Google Dialog CEO Press Lander Profs Manti- Web Buzz Core Mktg Marketo Ektron Blogger VTrenz core Position Metrics Metrics Sherpa HubSpot 50 @markroberge

What is HubSpot? • Founded in 2006 from research at MIT • Over 3,400 customers • 200+ employees

Tools to Get Found: SEO • Keyword Grader • Link Grader • Page Grader 52 @markroberge

Tools to Get Found: Blog & Social Media • Business Blog Software • Blog Analytics • Social Media Monitoring • Social Media Publishing 53 @markroberge

Tools to Convert: Leads • Landing Pages • Lead Intelligence • Lead Alerts • Visitor Profiling • Lead Nurturing 54 @markroberge

Tools to Analyze: Competitor Tracking 55 @markroberge

Tools to Analyze: Marketing Campaigns • Assess the effectiveness of your marketing on a campaign-by-campaign level • Optimize resource allocation to maximize sales 56 @markroberge

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