Choosing a software program that's right for you is one of your first critical decisions in starting a website or a blog. Listen to what Hubspot Partners had to say about the pros and cons of Hubspot or Wordpress.
13 Misunderstanding about HubSpot COS Development Platform & HubSpot COS Temp...eSparkBiz
Choose the Perfect HubSpot COS Templates for your business can not only save you a lot of time and improve your ROI but also attract more customers.
COS models are ideal for those who have less experience with the developers. The HubSpot editor allows creation and customization. If you want to deepen, design certification course is excellent.
How to create engaging and shareable contentMohamed Mahdy
The document discusses how to create engaging and shareable content. It emphasizes the importance of understanding your target audience so you can provide content they want to read. It recommends measuring the performance of existing content to see what works and doesn't. Some metrics mentioned are shares, social engagement, comments, traffic, and bounce rate. The document also stresses the value of quality over quantity and provides tips for planning content through calendars and experimenting while continuing to measure results.
Numerous organizations are working more diligently than at any time in recent memory to remain associated with clients. Start with a free custom area for as long as 5 years, at that point construct a free site to get your business online quickly. There are such a significant number of approaches to arrive at your client's on the web.
A Visual History of Google Algorithm Updates [Infographic] Mohamed Mahdy
This document summarizes a blog post about the history of Google's search algorithm updates. It discusses how Google has continually improved its algorithm over the years to better rank websites that provide high-quality, relevant content to users rather than those just trying to game the system. An infographic is included that visually depicts the major algorithm updates Google has implemented from its early days to recent changes like the mobile-friendly update.
Do you want traffic to your website? Take this guide for your success, right ...FlexPoint Marketing
Every website owner dreams of having a huge stream of traffic to their website. Without missing my words, having a website without traffic is meaningless because the traffic is your audience. The unfortunate bit is that most people do not get enough traffic required to reach their goals. With traffic, the ideas that would go through your mind as a website owner are endless. The milliondollar question now is, "how to get traffic?"
Use this content marketing tutorial to learn the basics of how to create content that actually converts. http://www.quoteroller.com and http://www.servicecrowd.com.au take you through how to create content that builds your brand, authority and credibility to both your potential clients and Google. By Jennifer Riggins & Daniel Duckworth
13 Misunderstanding about HubSpot COS Development Platform & HubSpot COS Temp...eSparkBiz
Choose the Perfect HubSpot COS Templates for your business can not only save you a lot of time and improve your ROI but also attract more customers.
COS models are ideal for those who have less experience with the developers. The HubSpot editor allows creation and customization. If you want to deepen, design certification course is excellent.
How to create engaging and shareable contentMohamed Mahdy
The document discusses how to create engaging and shareable content. It emphasizes the importance of understanding your target audience so you can provide content they want to read. It recommends measuring the performance of existing content to see what works and doesn't. Some metrics mentioned are shares, social engagement, comments, traffic, and bounce rate. The document also stresses the value of quality over quantity and provides tips for planning content through calendars and experimenting while continuing to measure results.
Numerous organizations are working more diligently than at any time in recent memory to remain associated with clients. Start with a free custom area for as long as 5 years, at that point construct a free site to get your business online quickly. There are such a significant number of approaches to arrive at your client's on the web.
A Visual History of Google Algorithm Updates [Infographic] Mohamed Mahdy
This document summarizes a blog post about the history of Google's search algorithm updates. It discusses how Google has continually improved its algorithm over the years to better rank websites that provide high-quality, relevant content to users rather than those just trying to game the system. An infographic is included that visually depicts the major algorithm updates Google has implemented from its early days to recent changes like the mobile-friendly update.
Do you want traffic to your website? Take this guide for your success, right ...FlexPoint Marketing
Every website owner dreams of having a huge stream of traffic to their website. Without missing my words, having a website without traffic is meaningless because the traffic is your audience. The unfortunate bit is that most people do not get enough traffic required to reach their goals. With traffic, the ideas that would go through your mind as a website owner are endless. The milliondollar question now is, "how to get traffic?"
Use this content marketing tutorial to learn the basics of how to create content that actually converts. http://www.quoteroller.com and http://www.servicecrowd.com.au take you through how to create content that builds your brand, authority and credibility to both your potential clients and Google. By Jennifer Riggins & Daniel Duckworth
Schools blogs can be an effective marketing tool for organizations by allowing two-way information sharing with students, customers, and partners. They make it easy to regularly post and update content, helping to establish relationships and build trust with visitors. For small businesses especially, a blog provides an inexpensive way to create an online presence and get a company's name known.
SEO and User Experience (UX): A Vision of CollaborationJonathon Colman
It’s not enough just to rank highly and drive keyword traffic these days (if you can even do that after Google’s Panda algorithm update). You also need to win over the customer by providing breakthrough experiences that anticipate their needs while providing real, tangible value. The new generation of SEOs understands this, which is why they’re also focused on information architecture and user experience.
In this session, you’ll see world-class examples of how you can bring these disciplines together in your companies and organizations in order to delight your users, plug holes in your conversion rate, and drive more qualified traffic. No “best practices” or baseless theories here – just real-life tactics that solved problems and drove conversion. SEOs and IA/UX pros don’t need to butt heads (or headbutt!) when they can collaborate together to improve the cross-channel experience.
Are you having trouble meeting the needs of your users while growing your traffic? This is the panel for you.
Originally presented by Jonathon Colman, John Goad, Mike Pantoliano, Michael King, and Ben Lloyd at the first-ever Seattle Interactive Conference (SIC 2011) in Seattle, Washington.
You can learn more about Jonathon Colman at http://www.jonathoncolman.org/
7 Useful Tips for Writing Tweets That Instantly Lead to More Blog TrafficMohamed Mahdy
This document provides 7 tips for writing tweets that can drive blog traffic. The tips include feeling the pulse of your audience, introducing shock value, bringing curiosity with probing questions, using excellent content, being a resource and answering inquiries, geo-targeting tweets, and recognizing Twitter as a platform to share stories and garner retweets. Understanding and optimizing your activity on social media like Twitter and Facebook can significantly help grow your business.
Designityourselfthemarketerscrashcourseinvisualcontentcreation 130325135426-p...Portal do Sucesso
This document provides guidelines for marketers and non-designers to create effective visual content without the help of professional designers. It outlines 10 principles for do-it-yourself design: 1) Understand the purpose of the content, 2) Establish a content hierarchy, 3) Respect simplicity, 4) Keep it legible, 5) Use contrast effectively, 6) Employ visual repetition, 7) Consider visual weight, 8) Use whitespace intentionally, 9) Test, iterate and refine, and 10) Get feedback from others. Examples are provided to illustrate good and bad design based on these principles. The goal is to empower marketers to create visuals that are aesthetically pleasing and convey information in an easy to digest manner
Uncover the secrets to everything you've ever wondered about regarding making money online!
Find out how to easily get started with your own domain, hosting, blog, and more, even if you have no experience whatsoever!
Discover the easiest ways to find free and inexpensive tools, and how to use those tools effectively!
Learn about the best resources for internet marketers, including the best places to host your site, get a domain name and find legal images to use!
And much, much more!
Gerald
gerald-pilcher.com
This document provides a digital strategy for startups, outlining key steps in engagement/acquisition, activation, and retention. It recommends beginning with research, blogging, and building social media profiles to engage audiences. Paid acquisition tactics like search, display, and social ads are described. For activation, the document stresses optimizing the website and testing elements. Retention strategies include email marketing, segmenting customers, and re-engaging those who leave. A list of relevant tools is also provided.
The document discusses steps to improve a website's SEO (search engine optimization) over the long term through diligent work. It describes how the author improved their site's organic search traffic from 792 monthly visits to over 12,000 visits in a few months through a multi-faceted SEO strategy. The 4 main steps discussed are: 1) researching SEO fundamentals, 2) identifying target keywords, 3) optimizing webpages for those keywords, and 4) committing to a long-term content marketing and link-building strategy. The key is consistency in creating helpful content and building quality backlinks over many months.
In this comprehensive guide from HubSpot, you'll learn about responsive design, intuitive tools, SEO tips, and so much more! Start maximizing your website's potential today!
The document provides 10 tips or "hacks" for optimizing talent searches and sourcing as a recruiter. Some of the key hacks include using hyper-personalized emails tailored to candidates' interests to improve response rates, changing a company's WiFi name to advertise open jobs, using social media like Twitter to find top sales performers, and using browser extensions and tools to streamline research and tracking of candidates. The goal of the hacks is to help recruiters stand out from competitors and more efficiently find qualified candidates for open roles.
This would be the first step in starting your own hosting company. You need a domain name that reflects services offered by your company, to whom its offered and who is your end customer. You need to make sure that your company name or a domain name should not match with any other company as copyright issues might arise. You may select domain name depending upon the geographic area you are targeting. You can register country level TLD for example .co.uk domain if your target business area is in UK, .co.in if its India.
Visit us for more information http://www.drupalhostingguide.com/
This document provides tips for maximizing conversion rates on opt-in forms. It discusses using compelling headlines that include a clear call to action and benefit. The offer being provided in exchange for the opt-in should have high perceived value. Trust can be built by explaining how emails won't be shared. Video squeeze pages may work for some, but risk higher opt-out rates. Website opt-ins work by providing an incentive like a coupon in exchange for joining a newsletter. Unobtrusive slide-up footer ads have replaced annoying pop-ups for opt-ins.
Content is Key: Get Found and Generate Leads at Lower Cost - Online Marketing...HubSpot
The document summarizes a presentation given by Ellie Mirman at the Online Marketing Summit in Orlando, FL on August 3, 2010. The presentation discussed how content marketing can generate more website visitors and leads at a lower cost compared to outbound marketing. Specifically, it outlined a 5-step process for content marketing: 1) publish remarkable content across multiple channels, 2) optimize content for search engines, 3) engage with audiences on social media, 4) convert visitors to leads with landing pages and forms, and 5) nurture leads and convert them to customers by cultivating relationships with useful content over time. Metrics like website traffic, leads, and sales by channel and content were also presented.
Inbound Nurturing - Make them Fall In Love All Over AgainHubSpot
Learn how creating marketing that people LOVE and engaging with them over time via personalization can result in improved conversion and customer retention over time.
Transform Your Website Into An Inbound Marketing MachineBrent Bice
The old rules of marketing and pr no longer apply. Traditional advertising has become less effective and is cost prohibitive for many business. Furthermore, it's almost impossible to track ROI.
In this presentation you will learn why it's important to shift your traditional marketing efforts to an inbound marketing approach. You will also learn what it takes to attract, convert and win new business via the web.
This document discusses how small businesses can profit from e-business. It covers increasing visibility online to drive more sales leads through search engine optimization. It also discusses using a website to show dependability, inspire confidence in customers, and improve business efficiencies. The document provides tips for small businesses getting started with e-business, including choosing a domain name, hosting, writing good website content, and estimating costs. It promotes attending seminars to learn more about how e-business can increase sales and conversions.
How to Use Twitter to Generate Leads & SalesHubSpot
A presentation to the Albany, NY chapter of the American Marketing Association on using Twitter to generation leads and sales for you business. Presented in Albany on 1/14/10.
This document discusses how email marketing can be used to grow a business. It recommends collecting visitor information like name and email to stay in contact after they leave the site. Effective opt-in offers mentioned include free online courses delivered via email, free eBooks, and downloadable articles or other digital materials that provide value in exchange for contact information. The key is understanding the target audience and offering compelling, relevant content to encourage people to opt into the email list.
Word Press and Digital Marketing Company in Los Angeleswizbytes
This document discusses digital marketing and web development services offered by Wizbytes, including:
- Content marketing, social media marketing, SEO, SEM, branding, and graphic design services.
- Website development, mobile apps, e-commerce solutions, and video/animation creation.
- The company believes digital marketing can help any business or entrepreneur transform their brand, and they offer customized strategies and solutions.
Social Squared presents 21 ideas that changed marketing forever.
These ideas have shaped not only changed the brand marketers's approach, they have transformed our culture too.
Please feel free to share.
How Nonprofits Can Stretch Their Marketing BudgetTechSoup
Marketing is critical to growth, but good marketing doesn't have to be expensive. This webinar will walk through the basics of nonprofit marketing and focus in on how to get more done with less. Marketing during this time is so important, this webinar will help you to get focussed on what matters, eliminate what doesn't, and get more out of your marketing budget.
This document contains a sample annual lesson plan for teaching English to Year 1 students. It outlines 11 weekly themes, including "World of Knowledge" focusing on food and drinks, "World of Stories" on legends, and "World of Self" on family relationships. Each week lists learning outcomes, levels, specifications, and notes. Students will develop language skills like listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar. Activities include drills, matching words to pictures, role plays, dictation, and filling in blanks. The plan provides a structured guide to help students progress in acquiring English vocabulary, comprehension, and expression.
How frustrating is it to formulate a winning defense to a NYC parking ticket, but lose your case because you didn't present the proper proof properly.
This presentation will show you how simple it is to prove the location of a parking sign and beat your ticket.
Schools blogs can be an effective marketing tool for organizations by allowing two-way information sharing with students, customers, and partners. They make it easy to regularly post and update content, helping to establish relationships and build trust with visitors. For small businesses especially, a blog provides an inexpensive way to create an online presence and get a company's name known.
SEO and User Experience (UX): A Vision of CollaborationJonathon Colman
It’s not enough just to rank highly and drive keyword traffic these days (if you can even do that after Google’s Panda algorithm update). You also need to win over the customer by providing breakthrough experiences that anticipate their needs while providing real, tangible value. The new generation of SEOs understands this, which is why they’re also focused on information architecture and user experience.
In this session, you’ll see world-class examples of how you can bring these disciplines together in your companies and organizations in order to delight your users, plug holes in your conversion rate, and drive more qualified traffic. No “best practices” or baseless theories here – just real-life tactics that solved problems and drove conversion. SEOs and IA/UX pros don’t need to butt heads (or headbutt!) when they can collaborate together to improve the cross-channel experience.
Are you having trouble meeting the needs of your users while growing your traffic? This is the panel for you.
Originally presented by Jonathon Colman, John Goad, Mike Pantoliano, Michael King, and Ben Lloyd at the first-ever Seattle Interactive Conference (SIC 2011) in Seattle, Washington.
You can learn more about Jonathon Colman at http://www.jonathoncolman.org/
7 Useful Tips for Writing Tweets That Instantly Lead to More Blog TrafficMohamed Mahdy
This document provides 7 tips for writing tweets that can drive blog traffic. The tips include feeling the pulse of your audience, introducing shock value, bringing curiosity with probing questions, using excellent content, being a resource and answering inquiries, geo-targeting tweets, and recognizing Twitter as a platform to share stories and garner retweets. Understanding and optimizing your activity on social media like Twitter and Facebook can significantly help grow your business.
Designityourselfthemarketerscrashcourseinvisualcontentcreation 130325135426-p...Portal do Sucesso
This document provides guidelines for marketers and non-designers to create effective visual content without the help of professional designers. It outlines 10 principles for do-it-yourself design: 1) Understand the purpose of the content, 2) Establish a content hierarchy, 3) Respect simplicity, 4) Keep it legible, 5) Use contrast effectively, 6) Employ visual repetition, 7) Consider visual weight, 8) Use whitespace intentionally, 9) Test, iterate and refine, and 10) Get feedback from others. Examples are provided to illustrate good and bad design based on these principles. The goal is to empower marketers to create visuals that are aesthetically pleasing and convey information in an easy to digest manner
Uncover the secrets to everything you've ever wondered about regarding making money online!
Find out how to easily get started with your own domain, hosting, blog, and more, even if you have no experience whatsoever!
Discover the easiest ways to find free and inexpensive tools, and how to use those tools effectively!
Learn about the best resources for internet marketers, including the best places to host your site, get a domain name and find legal images to use!
And much, much more!
Gerald
gerald-pilcher.com
This document provides a digital strategy for startups, outlining key steps in engagement/acquisition, activation, and retention. It recommends beginning with research, blogging, and building social media profiles to engage audiences. Paid acquisition tactics like search, display, and social ads are described. For activation, the document stresses optimizing the website and testing elements. Retention strategies include email marketing, segmenting customers, and re-engaging those who leave. A list of relevant tools is also provided.
The document discusses steps to improve a website's SEO (search engine optimization) over the long term through diligent work. It describes how the author improved their site's organic search traffic from 792 monthly visits to over 12,000 visits in a few months through a multi-faceted SEO strategy. The 4 main steps discussed are: 1) researching SEO fundamentals, 2) identifying target keywords, 3) optimizing webpages for those keywords, and 4) committing to a long-term content marketing and link-building strategy. The key is consistency in creating helpful content and building quality backlinks over many months.
In this comprehensive guide from HubSpot, you'll learn about responsive design, intuitive tools, SEO tips, and so much more! Start maximizing your website's potential today!
The document provides 10 tips or "hacks" for optimizing talent searches and sourcing as a recruiter. Some of the key hacks include using hyper-personalized emails tailored to candidates' interests to improve response rates, changing a company's WiFi name to advertise open jobs, using social media like Twitter to find top sales performers, and using browser extensions and tools to streamline research and tracking of candidates. The goal of the hacks is to help recruiters stand out from competitors and more efficiently find qualified candidates for open roles.
This would be the first step in starting your own hosting company. You need a domain name that reflects services offered by your company, to whom its offered and who is your end customer. You need to make sure that your company name or a domain name should not match with any other company as copyright issues might arise. You may select domain name depending upon the geographic area you are targeting. You can register country level TLD for example .co.uk domain if your target business area is in UK, .co.in if its India.
Visit us for more information http://www.drupalhostingguide.com/
This document provides tips for maximizing conversion rates on opt-in forms. It discusses using compelling headlines that include a clear call to action and benefit. The offer being provided in exchange for the opt-in should have high perceived value. Trust can be built by explaining how emails won't be shared. Video squeeze pages may work for some, but risk higher opt-out rates. Website opt-ins work by providing an incentive like a coupon in exchange for joining a newsletter. Unobtrusive slide-up footer ads have replaced annoying pop-ups for opt-ins.
Content is Key: Get Found and Generate Leads at Lower Cost - Online Marketing...HubSpot
The document summarizes a presentation given by Ellie Mirman at the Online Marketing Summit in Orlando, FL on August 3, 2010. The presentation discussed how content marketing can generate more website visitors and leads at a lower cost compared to outbound marketing. Specifically, it outlined a 5-step process for content marketing: 1) publish remarkable content across multiple channels, 2) optimize content for search engines, 3) engage with audiences on social media, 4) convert visitors to leads with landing pages and forms, and 5) nurture leads and convert them to customers by cultivating relationships with useful content over time. Metrics like website traffic, leads, and sales by channel and content were also presented.
Inbound Nurturing - Make them Fall In Love All Over AgainHubSpot
Learn how creating marketing that people LOVE and engaging with them over time via personalization can result in improved conversion and customer retention over time.
Transform Your Website Into An Inbound Marketing MachineBrent Bice
The old rules of marketing and pr no longer apply. Traditional advertising has become less effective and is cost prohibitive for many business. Furthermore, it's almost impossible to track ROI.
In this presentation you will learn why it's important to shift your traditional marketing efforts to an inbound marketing approach. You will also learn what it takes to attract, convert and win new business via the web.
This document discusses how small businesses can profit from e-business. It covers increasing visibility online to drive more sales leads through search engine optimization. It also discusses using a website to show dependability, inspire confidence in customers, and improve business efficiencies. The document provides tips for small businesses getting started with e-business, including choosing a domain name, hosting, writing good website content, and estimating costs. It promotes attending seminars to learn more about how e-business can increase sales and conversions.
How to Use Twitter to Generate Leads & SalesHubSpot
A presentation to the Albany, NY chapter of the American Marketing Association on using Twitter to generation leads and sales for you business. Presented in Albany on 1/14/10.
This document discusses how email marketing can be used to grow a business. It recommends collecting visitor information like name and email to stay in contact after they leave the site. Effective opt-in offers mentioned include free online courses delivered via email, free eBooks, and downloadable articles or other digital materials that provide value in exchange for contact information. The key is understanding the target audience and offering compelling, relevant content to encourage people to opt into the email list.
Word Press and Digital Marketing Company in Los Angeleswizbytes
This document discusses digital marketing and web development services offered by Wizbytes, including:
- Content marketing, social media marketing, SEO, SEM, branding, and graphic design services.
- Website development, mobile apps, e-commerce solutions, and video/animation creation.
- The company believes digital marketing can help any business or entrepreneur transform their brand, and they offer customized strategies and solutions.
Social Squared presents 21 ideas that changed marketing forever.
These ideas have shaped not only changed the brand marketers's approach, they have transformed our culture too.
Please feel free to share.
How Nonprofits Can Stretch Their Marketing BudgetTechSoup
Marketing is critical to growth, but good marketing doesn't have to be expensive. This webinar will walk through the basics of nonprofit marketing and focus in on how to get more done with less. Marketing during this time is so important, this webinar will help you to get focussed on what matters, eliminate what doesn't, and get more out of your marketing budget.
This document contains a sample annual lesson plan for teaching English to Year 1 students. It outlines 11 weekly themes, including "World of Knowledge" focusing on food and drinks, "World of Stories" on legends, and "World of Self" on family relationships. Each week lists learning outcomes, levels, specifications, and notes. Students will develop language skills like listening, speaking, reading, writing, and grammar. Activities include drills, matching words to pictures, role plays, dictation, and filling in blanks. The plan provides a structured guide to help students progress in acquiring English vocabulary, comprehension, and expression.
How frustrating is it to formulate a winning defense to a NYC parking ticket, but lose your case because you didn't present the proper proof properly.
This presentation will show you how simple it is to prove the location of a parking sign and beat your ticket.
Larry's Parking Ticket Simulator- Answers to Driving TestLawrence Berezin
Larry's Parking Ticket Simulator tests knowledge of NYC parking rules and regulations through multiple choice questions about signs and time limits. The questions cover topics like a 2-hour parking sign that is not enforced on Sundays, rules for a commercial vehicle only zone, and being within time limits for a 3-hour metered parking space. Getting answers correct provides guidance on safely parking in various situations without receiving tickets.
The document provides information about the curriculum for Year 1 students in Spring 2015. It outlines expectations for maths, English, reading, writing and phonics. For maths, students are expected to learn number bonds, addition, subtraction and basic fractions. In English, students work on phonics, reading comprehension, writing sentences and stories. The curriculum moves at a swift pace to meet demands of the new national standards. Homework includes reading daily and practicing spellings and maths skills.
The document describes 4 word problems involving calculating the cost of different flower purchases at a maths shop. In each problem, students are asked to calculate the total cost using the prices listed and number of flowers purchased. The solutions confirm the correct calculations and provide feedback to encourage using multiples of 10 to simplify the multiplication, such as calculating 12 x 49 as 12 x 50 - 12.
This document provides a yearly scheme of work for English language lessons for Year 5 students according to the Malaysian curriculum. It outlines 5 units to be covered from weeks 1-18, including learning standards, topics, and specific content and skills to be taught for listening, speaking, reading, writing, language arts, and grammar. The units cover themes like family, saving money, superheroes, legends, self-protection, and stories. For each unit, 3-5 weeks are dedicated to working on pronunciation, comprehension, creative works, and mastery of grammar rules like parts of speech. The goal is for students to improve their English communication skills through exploring various texts and media.
This document provides examples of using different adverbs of frequency such as often, always, never, seldom, and sometimes to describe how regularly or irregularly different actions occur. It shows how these adverbs can be placed before or after verbs to indicate whether something happens frequently, never, occasionally, or rarely for a variety of subjects and activities like listening to the radio, reading books, going to school early, losing things, visiting family, and eating certain foods.
This document contains spelling lessons and homework assignments for a class. It provides spelling words and rules for different weeks, along with reading homework assignments that require students to read and post brief reviews online by certain dates. Students will be tested on the spelling words and rules provided on specified dates.
The document outlines Madeline Hunter's lesson plan model, which includes elements such as goals and objectives, standards, anticipatory sets, modeling, guided and independent practice, checking for understanding, and closure. It provides examples of how to structure a lesson on teaching students to use chopsticks, from setting objectives to assessing student learning through a pre-test and post-test. The lesson plan template is intended to help teachers design effective standards-based instruction.
This document contains a series of sentences with blanks to be filled in with either "through" or "across". Each sentence describes an object or person moving from one location to another, with the prepositions "through" and "across" being used to indicate movement. The correct preposition is then revealed for each sentence. The document is testing understanding of when to use "through" versus "across".
This document outlines the English language curriculum for Years 1, 2 and 3 of primary school in Malaysia. It covers 5 modules: Listening and Speaking, Reading, Writing, Language Arts, and Grammar (added in Years 3-6). The goals are to equip students with basic English communication skills and develop literacy. Some key points include:
- Developing listening comprehension, oral expression, phonics, reading fluency, writing mechanics, and appreciation of stories/songs.
- Subject content is organized into themes and follows a progression from sounds/words to phrases to sentences.
- Pedagogical approaches emphasize making learning fun, student-centered, integrated with technology, and include formative assessment.
- The
Captain Malaysia is a superhero who protects children in Malaysia. He has super strength, speed, and uses a titanium shield. Children love him because he is kind and helps them without reward. His mission is to keep children safe from danger.
The document appears to be an English proficiency test for Year 1 students. It consists of 40 multiple choice questions testing vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and spelling. The questions progress from identifying sounds animals make, matching words with pictures, sentence construction, and a short story comprehension about a boy named Haikal and his green toy plane named Goble. The test aims to assess students' foundational English language skills in key areas after the first semester of their Year 1 studies.
1. The document discusses different types of sentences including simple, compound, and complex sentences.
2. It explains the key elements of each sentence type, such as a simple sentence containing one independent clause, a compound sentence containing at least two independent clauses, and a complex sentence containing one independent clause and at least one subordinate clause.
3. Examples are provided for each sentence type to illustrate their structures.
This 10 page document contains 50 questions assessing English comprehension skills. It includes exercises matching words to pictures, filling in blanks, punctuating sentences, rearranging words to form sentences, and answering questions about a short passage. The questions cover a range of topics including animals, daily activities, and a story about a hen.
This document contains a year 4 English exam paper with multiple sections:
1. Section A tests simple present tense and wh-questions with fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions.
2. Section B involves rearranging words to form sentences and making sentences with given words.
3. Section C replaces underlined words with pronouns and tests punctuation and spelling.
The exam paper evaluates students' English language skills in various grammatical areas through different question formats for year 4 level.
This document contains an English exam for 4th grade students at Sekolah Kebangsaan Janglau. The exam has 3 sections with multiple questions testing students' English skills like rewriting sentences, filling in a table, and writing sentences based on a picture. Students are advised to spend 15-25 minutes on each question. The exam is out of 40 total marks and checks spelling, grammar, vocabulary and comprehension.
This document contains a test with multiple choice questions about grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and a story with comprehension questions. The test covers topics like parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and making inferences from a story. It is designed to assess a fourth grade student's English language skills.
A Beginner’s Guide to HubSpot CMS - Make a Website for Your Business With No ...Bootstrap Creative
Learning new software like HubSpot CMS can often feel overwhelming. I
wrote this guide to help you quickly understand the basics and provide tips
and resources to point you in the right direction for further information.
After working solely with WordPress, I got a job that used a myriad of CMS (content
management systems) platforms, one of them being HubSpot. Since I was in the marketing
department, I learned how marketers used HubSpot to build email campaigns, landing
pages, and event micro-sites. The power was in the speed and ease of use, and there wasn’t
time to work with IT or an outside developer to build something custom.
Being new to HubSpot development, it was hard to understand how to build themes and
templates. However, I noticed marketers found the templates I created very intuitive and
rarely asked for help. Compared to building web pages in WordPress, I often had questions
on how to use plugins or turn off unneeded functionality.
“I believe HubSpot® CMS Hub™ is a great platform for most businesses to build a
website or blog. It simplifies the complex and is intuitive to use for non-technical users.”
- Jake Lett
Learn more: https://bootstrapcreative.com/resources/a-beginners-guide-to-hubspot-cms/
The document summarizes a HubSpot CMS meetup event, including:
- An agenda from 3:30-5:00 PM including introductions, a HubSpot CMS presentation, Q&A, and networking.
- Details about HubSpot CMS pricing plans and features like pages, blogs, hosting, support, and tools for forms, content management, and more.
- Tips for using the CMS like templates, themes, organizing content, and creative uses of features.
- A proposed schedule for future 2023 HubSpot user group meetings.
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SEO Interview Questions and Answers -Adesh SaxenaDevetol
This document provides sample interview questions and answers for an SEO job interview. It discusses popular SEO interview questions regarding experience, algorithm updates, technical skills, tools used, myths, on-page vs off-page optimization, and more. Sample answers are provided to help applicants prepare for SEO-related job interviews.
This document discusses considerations for bringing SEO in-house. It recommends thoroughly understanding current SEO efforts and long-term plans before hiring. An in-house SEO may be part of marketing, IT, or their own department depending on company structure. The SEO's needs and authority level should be clear. Different website types require different SEO strategies. Finding the right candidate requires a realistic job description and compensation. Proper planning helps ensure long-term success of in-house SEO.
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Jon Nugent | Business Intelligence Solutions • We recently
moved off HubSpot's CMS to a Joomla website with a
WordPress blog. The variety of designs and capabilities of
the Joomla and WordPress templates is astounding when
compared to HubSpot's CMS.
The opportunity to take advantage of current HTML5 and
responsive technology with Joomla and WordPress is
unquestionably an advantage for us. We have the ability to
redesign landing and blog pages and WordPress email
templates that aren't relegated to 3 columns and can
incorporate mobile technology.
WordPress is so easy to use and learn.
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Thomas Zoebelein • I agree. I'm redesigning my website
right now and Hubspot's CMS just does'nt cut it, I'll probably
put it on wordpress as well. Haven't made a final decision
yet though.
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Rebekah Donaldson • I'm floored by this perspective being
voiced by HS partners. HS's value proposition is a heck of
alot stronger than is being acknowledged here.
I'm short on time so I'm pasting here something emailed to
a client recently:
>> Let's call a solution constructed around WordPress "B"
and the Hubspot all-in-one solution "A". The goal is to
compare A and B in meaningful ways to make an informed
decision about the platform. There are both soft and hard
costs associated with B. For example we'd be trying to
anticipate:
Additional tools (MailChimp for nurturing and contact
management? Custom config of goals in Google Analytics to
approximate conversions tracking and do A/B testing?
WordTracker for SEO progress? Hootesuite to manage SMM?
Others?)
Work process (would a developer be involved in common
tasks? for example if you're rolling out a new landing page
and need data to dump to mailchimp, who hooks them up
and is it a rapid process?)
Support (how to troubleshoot if tools/services aren't
working? I'm not referring to troubleshooting individual tools
but rather the entire integration)
Purchase cost (what is the base price to get the needed
functionality?)
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5. Recurring costs (would we pay per email distribution based
on # of contacts, for example?)
Look and feel (ability to customize template, forms, etc)
Compatability of new marketing system with existing
systems (CRM, online catalogs, etc)
TimothyUnfollow
Timothy Lorang • I completely understand the frustration of
web developers to get the look and feel that they want and
this is the most common complaint that I hear. Especially for
designers who have been working in WP or with HTML5.
Although I think that a talented web designer can make
some very nice websites on HS,
https://services.hubspot.com/website-
redesign/directory?portalId=20286
At least 90% of the businesses can make something that
would be just fine and work very will for them. But the big
advantage that I see in HS, that Rebekah points out, is how
everything works together. As far as the restrictions of web
design, if it is an issue, build the website off the HS platform
and connect to HS for all the other advantages.
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6. Lisa Ellington • When a potential client comes to me and
wants a truly responsive website, which is happening more
and more these days, I have to steer them away from
Hubspot's CMS. The CMS just doesn't support it.
I hear that a newer, better CMS is supposed to be released
and is in beta but haven't been given any details about it nor
a timeline for its release. If it doesn't have the ability to
create my own framework, I will be hard pressed to call it an
upgrade.
There are many good features about the HS CMS and you
can tweak the code to get quite a bit of good detail into a
site, but this lack of true responsive support is something
that really needs to be changed. Slapping a menu on top of
the site if the viewport is small is helpful, but as a designer,
it makes me want to cry :)
Simon Yohe • Comparing HubSpot and WordPress is like
comparing Apples to Oranges. These are not the same types
of systems, not positioned the same, and don't provide the
same services and solutions. HubSpot's Core Strength is not
a CMS platform for your website. WordPress core strength is
not Marketing Automation / Analytics.
WordPress is a blogging tool that has morphed into a CMS
that many uses to build their site. It has an extensive library
that allows you to add features and services to grow your
features and functionality on your website.
HubSpot is an all-in-one marketing software solution. It
provides tools and services to allow clients the ability to
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7. perform all sorts of inbound marketing initiatives, automated
marketing campaigns, and creates analytics and reports that
connects all of your marketing efforts into one place.
Remove the equation about what a client site needs to be
built in, and instead, understand and identify what they
want to achieve from a marketing and sales perspective, and
use that understanding to see if HubSpot is the right choice
for them to succeed to achieve their goals.
It also doesn't necessary matter what CMS you use, whether
it is WordPress, Joomla, Expression Engine, MODX, etc...
What is important is that no matter what choice you use, it
is configured and optimized for optimal organic growth.
FYI, we do not use HubSpot CMS for any of our clients at
this time, and our preferred CMS is MODX.
Alexandra Gibson • @Rebekah I don't think that it's a
question of not using Hubspot, but it is a question of the
capabilities and robustness of Hubspot as a CMS alone.
I agree with the other posters that Hubspot's CMS is really
lacking. It's proprietary software which is notorious for
having slower development times; it's just the nature of the
beast. Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla are superior because
of the ability to quickly add modules/plug-ins and the
opensource aspect.
Hubspot can still be used with Wordpress or Drupal (we use
it with all of our clients) but I think it's important to
acknowledge that while Hubspot is excellent in many ways,
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8. it is only "fair" as a site platform.
You can still use Hubspot for your landing pages, lead
management, automation, and the like (integrated with
Wordpress or Drupal) but I would not recommend putting
clients on Hubspot for everything.
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Robb Bailey • I second Simon's comment - why on Earth
wouldn't one use Wordpress AND Hubspot together? We are
using Hubspot for what it was built for together with
Wordpress, using it for what it was built for.
Simple, right?
John Reeve • We use both HubSpot and Wordpress. We
were using Wordpress long before we became a HubSpot
customer and we're not going to transfer 400+ blog posts
over to HubSpot. So we use the plugin instead.
Anyways, there is a HUGE difference between the two.
Wordpress is strictly a CMS. There are some plugins that will
give you visitor stats, and possibly some plugins that will do
conversion assisting. But that's it. Wordpress is for writing
and delivering content on your web site.
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9. HubSpot, on the other hand, is so much more. It's a CMS
with advanced tracking bolted onto it. We can use HubSpot
to analyze site visitors to see what they are doing before
they convert. We can A/B test Landing Pages and Calls-to-
Action. We can segment and send emails to our contacts to
follow up with them after they've signed up for our services.
But the advanced tracking is really the primary differentiator
for us. We had theories on how our customers interacted
with our site before they would sign up. HubSpot has
confirmed many of those theories and has helped us revise
areas of our site to help increase those conversions.
If you are going to use HubSpot for just a CMS, don't
bother. Use WordPress instead. But if you need advanced
analytics, tracking and conversion assisting / lead nurturing,
you will need something like HubSpot.
John Campbell • I'm a new partner and was asked this same
exact question by a WordPress developer. It took me about
2 minutes to explain the OBVIOUS difference between the
two on what I would consider limited product knowledge at
the time. As stated previously, one is a marketing
automation tool, the other is not. Is this seriously something
that partners are facing and having trouble explaining to
clients?
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10. Rhonda Hurwitz • @John, if you feel like being specific, I'd
love to know more about what you meant here:
"... the advanced tracking is really the primary differentiator
for us. We had theories on how our customers interacted
with our site before they would sign up. HubSpot has
confirmed many of those theories and has helped us revise
areas of our site to help increase those conversions".
Ellie Becker • This is a timely conversation. We are working
hard to understand what we gain and lose for clients in
various WordPress/HubSpot integrations in terms of the
analytics capabilities. And in terms of CMS...From my
experience, it's not always a piece of cake to build out pages
and landing pages in Wordpress without IT help in very
designed sites. There are other issues too. For example, the
Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress is very robust. But in my
opinion, it doesn't provide the value of the Keywords
capabilities in HubSpot with regard to integrating and
measuring SEO as it relates to all online marketing efforts.
For a number of Wordpress-based companies I speak with
they are pretty happy with their segmented inbound
marketing efforts and it's hard to get them to see the value
of integrating with HubSpot. Glad to see that this debate is
coming up for other Partners. And I'm looking forward to
learning how others are combining the two.
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11. Sara Helmy • I second John - big time. We are very new to
hubspot and it is wonderful and exciting, in our experience
so far, the Wordpress CMS allows us to do more when you
focus purely on CMS. As soon as you add in Hubspots
capabilities, you literally have it all! I actually really wish
that Hubspot would allow outside CMS integration in every
package they offer, rather than in strictly professional and
enterprise. Even though we are new, I strongly feel that if
they did we could sell double and make many more of our
partners extremely happy - happy with their web design and
happy with their data!
John Reeve • I would love to elaborate. We offer an online
time, task and project management app called Intervals. We
give a free 30 day free trial. We've been trying to attribute
paying customers back to the original ad they saw on
Google.
There are two reasons why this has proven a difficult task.
First, roughly 20% of our paying customers create more
than one trial account before they convert. This makes them
hard to track. Second, they do a ton of research before
signing up for a trial account. Again, making them hard to
track.
We were sure this was the case but couldn't prove it.
HubSpot helped prove this is what was going on and
articulated what they are doing before signing up. It showed
us that some contacts are creating multiple accounts. It also
showed us how much research they were doing before
signing up for a trial.
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12. HubSpot shows us which pages are viewed most right before
signing up for a trial. It also shows us what content they are
reading during their trial account. Now we can optimize
those pages and generate more content to address these
trends.
Rebekah Donaldson • Remember the posted
question/comment was about struggling to articulate the
differences between Wordpress and Hubspot. The CMS was
cited as a reason to switch. That's what I was objecting to.
-- We all agree that design and conversions are related.
Clearly every client website must meet a high standard for
usability and professionalism.
-- I also agree that in rare cases the lack of responsiveness
is a dealbreaker.
-- I can't, however, think of a case in which lack of CMS
flexibility should ever be a dealbreaker.
If my team were bumping up against Hubspot's CMS
limitations, I'd think we'd gotten off track. We shouldn't be -
- and please excuse my french -- wanking too much on
design.
Again, yes every client website must meet a high standard
for usability and professionalism. Hubspot's CMS has the
elements and flexibility sufficient to meet and exceed that
standard - except if responsiveness is a *requirement*.
So I'm curious Timothy... has the following changed in light
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13. of the above discussion?
>> I have been struggling with articulating the differences
between online marketing with a tool like HubSpot that has
a subscription fee and using free tools like WordPress
Rebekah Donaldson • @Robb -- akum's razor
TimothyUnfollow
Timothy Lorang • Rebekah, that’s a good question. This
whole discussion, which has been very interesting, reminds
me of the story of the seven blind men who were asked to
describe an elephant. Well it’s either like a tree trunk or a
slim vine depending whether you encounter the leg or the
tail. A big part of this depends on what your job is and what
you are trying to accomplish. For example this whole
discussion about the CMS, I’m not an advanced web
designer so I tend to stick to the simpler WordPress themes
and I think, from my perspective, that the CMS in HubSpot
is great. On those occasions when I can’t get something to
line up just right or something is acting funky I just call up
HubSpot tech support and they are always a great help.
That is not something you can do with WP. On the other
hand I’ve heard others complain that they are frustrated by
some of the pre-formatted styles in HS. It seems that is part
of the CSS and there are plenty of companies in the services
section now that fix those things if it really bugs them so
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14. much.
This discussion has been very helpful because it has shown
those areas where experienced minds have come to
agreement and where there is some honest disagreement.
Often times objections come via a second source such as a
prospect who was told by a “web designer” that HubSpot is
too expensive. So it has given me a clearer idea of the types
of objects and how others are feeling and reacting to it.
In the end we really need to concentrate on the client’s
needs. Do they want conversions and sales? Then they need
to follow this process. Do they want to do it with fewer
headaches and measurable results? Then they need
HubSpot.
Rebekah Donaldson • p.s. I want to post about this...
anyone not want to be quoted (if need be - not sure what I'll
pick out) and linked to? I'd position you as a thoughtful HS
partner making a useful point (even if we disagree, that's
always the case!).
John McTigue • We have a responsive design for our website
coming out on the HubSpot CMS this month. It can be done.
We are also doing client sites that way now too. Stay tuned
for examples.
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15. The other consideration is the new HS CMS coming out later
this year (I assume - somebody correct me if I'm wrong).
I'm also assuming that's going to be responsive (HTML5?).
To me this debate boils down to inertia. How much of an
effort would it be to move from an old CMS to a new CMS,
and what are the costs/benefits? Sometimes we recommend
moving the main site, sometimes not. In either case, the
most important thing is NOT the design, it's the content. You
are definitely wasting your time and money if you do a
redesign without giving a high priority to increasing the flow
of high quality content.
Jon Nugent | Business Intelligence Solutions • The cost of
moving from an old CMS to a new CMS is more than just
about money. As I posted earlier we moved from HS' CMS to
a Joomla CMS with a WordPress blog.
We put the project out to bid and the most expensive bid we
received was for $12,000 and included site redesign, SEO,
and a number of other things that were important.
We ultimately chose to migrate our site to Joomla, which
cost $500 and purchased a Joomla template for $59. We did
some minor redesign on our site to take advantage of the
new HTML5 and responsive technology that is so important
for smart phones and tablets.
What we gained by moving off of HS' CMS is versatility.
We're changing our blog layout again this weekend by
replacing the old template with a new template that cost
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What we lost in the migration were the landing pages we
created on HS and the SEO value of those landing pages.
But those landing pages are being replace by more stylish
HTML5 and responsive technology landing pages.
We still rank in the top 1 million sites and for a company
that has less than 25 people that is pretty good ranking.
When you migrate to a new design or a new CMS, HS has a
lot of white papers that offers advice on what to consider
during the migration. Also HS has developer notes on how to
migrate off their CMS.
We also saved $3,000 a year moving off HS' CMS that was
associated with HS hosting our site. We're hosting our site
on bluehost for less than a $100 a year. The whole migration
from the HS CMS to the new CMS took a month to complete.
Steven Moody • Hubspot was fundamentally a white-hat
SEO CMS. They've built out some great features over the
years to move into the marketing automation market, and
I've heard promises of the CMS overhaul, but perhaps its
time they abandon this completely? Marketo, for example,
doesn't offer a CMS feature and it doesn't arise in
conversations, partly because the target buyers are larger
and have separate people focused on conversion versus
general website UX.
Wordpress and Joomla are incredibly robust tools. Wouldn't
it be better if Hubspot stopped competing with them for the
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conversion accessories like the dynamic CTA?
Lisa Ellington • @John McTigue I'm curious as to how much
time/effort it took to build a responsive HS CMS.
and FYI all -- if you are curious about the "bones" of the
CMS, it seems that it is built of off DNN (Dot net nuke). A
free, open source CMS. At least some of the code
(references to the RAD menu, etc.) has clued me into that.
John McTigue • I would say it probably took our
designer/developer a couple of weeks to figure everything
out the first time. Going forward I would say it probably
adds 30-40% onto the normal web design cycle. Designers,
developers, usability experts and content managers need to
spend some time figuring out what should be shown on the
different devices and how to scale things appropriately.
Simple design is a real plus.
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18. Lisa Ellington • Thanks, John!
Is this built off of foxboro? 30-40% is pretty high.
John McTigue • Lisa, our site's on Brighton. I think 30-40%
is not high, since you are basically designing your site and
content for multiple platforms. There's a lot to consider, and
a lot to lose potentially if you don't. It's not about having an
attractive look, it's about which content is going to give you
the best chance to convert leads on a smartphone, tablet or
desktop. How do you deploy that content naturally? How do
you present forms that are easy to read and fill out? Takes a
lot of planning and (as George Bush would put it)
"strategery".
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19. Lisa Ellington • Thanks, John!
Is this built off of foxboro? 30-40% is pretty high.
John McTigue • Lisa, our site's on Brighton. I think 30-40%
is not high, since you are basically designing your site and
content for multiple platforms. There's a lot to consider, and
a lot to lose potentially if you don't. It's not about having an
attractive look, it's about which content is going to give you
the best chance to convert leads on a smartphone, tablet or
desktop. How do you deploy that content naturally? How do
you present forms that are easy to read and fill out? Takes a
lot of planning and (as George Bush would put it)
"strategery".
Robb Bailey • @Steven Moody, my thoughts exactly. I asked
Hubspot about why they provide an integrated CMS vs
suggesting WP or Joomla.
They replied that less sophisticated Hubspot subscribers ask
to have the CMS integrated into the dashboard, so the result
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20. is a true all-in-one point and click solution. This prevents
them from having to hire a developer, etc. - which is a big
deal for DIY'ers according to Hubspot. Apparently there's a
big enough market to justify keeping the Hubspot CMS, at
least for now.
I'm thinking that Hubspot users with a budget of around
$10,000 per year (or under) will likely use the Hubspot CMS
for the reasons described above. But for users that can
afford to build an open source based site with all the robust
features they come with, Hubspot's CMS quickly disappears
from the conversation (at least the conversations I'm
having). :)
As Steven pointed out, the open source CMS combined with
a CMS-less Hubspot account gives users an ideal setup with
tons of leverage.
Peter Caputa • What do you guys value about the open
source CMSs?
As many of you know, we are redeveloping the CMS
currently and plan to launch mid-year. The leadership and
product managers are reading this thread. If you guys could
be more specific about what features/benefits you get from
other CMSs, that would be helpful. Real stories about real
client situations would be helpful
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21. Lawrence Berezin • Dear Peter,
First, let me share my bias...I am a Hubspot "True Believer,"
and have been for many years. My main business uses
Hubspot. I have a WP lawyer's blog. What I like about WP is:
1. Choice of themes. For example, I love the kinda recent
Hubspot website re-design. I would have to hire a
professional website designer to recreate a similar looking
design on my Hubspot website. With WP, I can purchase a
premium theme, install it for $70 or less, and customize it
myself. I love the look of my lawyer's blog on WP.
Other than that feature, I can't image my business without
Hubspot :
- Jetpack for WP is a useful tool, but cannot come near the
feature rich marketing and SEO (old term) analytics offered
by Hubspot. I have both sites hooked up to Google, but
Hubspot's analytics are a joy to use.
-The Call-to-Action tool keeps getting better and better
-The ability to build a form, or landing page to offer a
download to a potential lead is totally wonderful (I don't like
the "download" plugins I've found for WP).
-Social sharing and monitoring- mahvelous!
-I love sneaking a peek behind the scenes of my
competitor's websites
-Incredible Hubspot "Academy"
-Super Tech support
-And much more...
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22. WP is a wonderful open CMS,that is available to all for a
minimal investment. If affordable to me and my client,
Hubspot is by far-and-away my absolute first choice.
I would love any thing Hubspot could do to make its design
more customizable would be terrific.
Peter Caputa • Thanks for the thorough response, Lawrence.
As many of you know, we are working on re-architecting our
CMS. We've been rolling this out. The new email tools and
new landing page tools are live for some customers. These
two things are built on the new CMS. (Blog tool is next.
Then, full CMS with page manager, etc.)
This new COS is architect-ed much like other CMSs where
designs can be implemented much more smoothly. With the
launch, we are launching a "template marketplace". You can
see the beginnings of it here:
https://marketplace.hubspot.com/65360/templates
What else are we missing to make you guys consider using
the HubSpot CMS over other alternatives?
Lawrence Berezin • My take on Hubspot vs. WP
http://youtu.be/_hnOCUkbix0
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Jon Nugent | Business Intelligence Solutions • What I value
about open source CMS' is the ability to use high quality and
visually appealing templates that take advantage of the fast
moving mobile landscape.
For example, sinced we moved off of HS CMS in December
we've changed our blog template twice to help our clients
use the content we provide in a more purposeful and mobile
way. For example, our new blog site,
www.busintellsol.com/blog takes advantage of the versitility
of WordPress templates and technology that wasn't available
to us before.
Another value I see in open source CMS' is the thousands of
open source developers whose sole purpose is to make their
templates more visually and technically appealing.
The other marketing automation vendors as stated before
have not built a CMS but have developed capabiliites to
better use and connect with open source software.
Since you mentioned that the leadership and product
managers have been reading this thread, I would imagine
that the cost of building and maintaining a proprietary CMS
along with a marketing automation applicaiton have crossed
their minds. To me this will result in added development,
hiring and operational cost which will be passed on to the
customer and add little value.
I understand that HS could recoup the cost of developiing a
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it's not long before customers realize that they are paying
an extreamly high cost for a proprietary CMS hosted by HS.
Lastly Joomla and WordPress are free. The templates are
anywhere between free and $100 and business people love
free.
Lisa Ellington • When I am building custom websites, I don't
use an open source CMS, I use Expression Engine. Here are
some of the top features in EE, which I'd put on my wish list
for the Hubspot CMS.
1. Multiple templates without having to jump through hoops.
2. The ability to have complete control of the framework. I
want to create a truly responsive website and control the
grid design completely.
3. I'd like to be able to version the site or at the very least
create a sandbox duplicate the site so that its easy for me to
make changes without affecting the live site.
If anyone has done a complete re-design to an existing HS
site that is over 50+ pages and it hasn't been horribly
painful, I would love to hear how they did it.
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users/sites custom built on the HS CMS...When the new HS
CMS launches, will existing sites be upgradeable?
Dharmesh Shah • Fascinating thread. I was riveted the
whole way through.
A couple of quick notes:
1. I'm generally a huge fan of open source and also a big fan
of WordPress. It's great for a lot of things. The challenge
with WP for much of the market that we sell to is that there
are *so* many options. Great options for templates. Great
plugins for SEO. Great plugins for forms. The reason we
decided to build something as part of HubSpot is that we can
then simplify so much of this.
2. The other BIG advantage of having a CMS that is part of
the platform is that we can then integrate functionality in
much smoother ways. Though some of that is possible via
the HubSpot WordPress plugin, since we don't control the UX
of WP, there are limits to what we can do.
3. Yes, the new Content Optimization System in HubSpot
has been designed from the get-go to be responsive,
designer-friendly and much, much cleaner.
There are trade-offs and pros and cons to both sides
(WordPress vs. HubSpot). If you're solving for raw flexibility
as the primary consideration, it's hard to argue against
WordPress. If you're taking a broader, business-oriented
view, HubSpot likely has the edge.
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Simon Yohe • I think the one point that was just hit was
"simplify"...
When the new CMS rolls out, those companies who simply
need to have a simple corporate, marketing site, the
HubSpot platform would make the most sense. The ability to
integrate HubSpot features is a huge advantage as it will
simplify their ability to update content on their site.
However...
For websites where there needs to be additional functionality
that a general CMS cannot provide outside of its core, it
makes it difficult not to go with a 3rd party platform and
instead look to integrate HubSpot features manually or
through other tools.
For many, you need to simply weight the pros and cons of
each, and decide what action you must take for your clients.
On a separate note... I think another thing that should be
brought up in this discussion it is simply not "WordPress vs
HubSpot". WordPress is just one of many CMS platforms
that can be used. It is important to understand that the core
part of this conversation is not simply whether to use
WordPress or HubSpot, it was more about understanding the
differences between using an outside CMS and integrating
with HubSpot then simply using the built in CMS with
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As previously mentioned in another comment earlier on, we
currently do not use the internal CMS for our clients sites,
and use MODX as our choice of CMS, but I am open and
interested in seeing the development of the new internal
HubSpot CMS. We have been very happy with what we have
seen rolled out with Optimized Landing Pages and believe
that HubSpot is on the right path.
Remington Begg • I think that you can achieve just about
anything with the existing Hubspot CMS that you can with
Open Source such as Joomla, Wordpress etc And if that's not
the case, then value of the Pro level of Hubspot Comes to
Mind... That Handy tracking code is exactly what some
people need.
ChooseImpulse.com is built in joomla, and integrates with
hubspot pro nicely in our opinion.
When I talk with clients about "why Hubspot" the Hubspot vs
Wordpress debate doesn't really happen because the
features (and benefits) of Hubspot are the "reason to be on
Hubspot"
If the client want's "both Wordpress and Hubspot
functionality" then they need to go Pro, if they can only
afford the basic plan, then they have to choose what's more
important to them at that time. Upgrading to Hubspot may
be in their best interest later down the road.
Hubspot is built for companies who see value having
everything in one place, who WILL USE THE TOOLS, and
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Wordpress in my opinion, is for those that don't have the
budget, or that want to "tinker" and make it work "almost as
good" as what Hubspot provides out of the box (unless they
use the hubspot code)
Personally we have not had any issue with Communicating
the difference between the options. It really is Apples and
Oranges (as mentioned above)
PS: For those that have questions about the "mobile version
of hubspot" we wrote a brief blog post on how to tweak the
layout to achieve your goals.
Here's the link: http://1mpul.se/UW0a9Z
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Rebekah Donaldson • Feedback to Dharmesh, Simon, Pete,
Lisa, Remington, and Jon here:
Dharmesh
* Yes "If you're taking a broader, business-oriented view,
HubSpot likely has the edge." Well put. The business-
oriented view takes account of *risk.* And what I outlined
as solution "B" (see above in thread) is higher risk for our
client than for us.
Lisa
* Re redo on HS with 50+ pages, yes. One just now rolling
out now is www.fasttrack365.com (might be able to view old
site at http://fasttrackaust.com but it's about to be
redirected).
* I second your wish list
Robb
* You make an interesting point about budget affecting
interest in an alternate CMS. I don't know the overall
breakdown but all our clients' budgets are quite a bit more
than $10k/year and if they have a HS subscription we use
the HS CMS. Maybe it boils down to: The total value of all-
in-one is higher than the total value of a hybrid solution
providing greater flexibility.
Jon, Simon and John
Thank you for your detailed responses... I'm learning alot
from them! Simon - your responses are dead on IMHO.
Pete
Thanks for your questions to us. This is cool.
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Rebekah
*In regards to the budget mindset, our experience with this
decision (from our client's perspective) to use WP CMS vs HS
CMS has been largely a budgetary one. The low end
(Hubspot Starter) offers the fully hosted, CMS integrated
version of HS. For clients who can afford the $200/month for
the software, and don't have an extra several thousand to
make a fully integrated Wordpress site, the decision seems
to be made by budget more than "can I get the most out of
this tool long-term once it starts working for me". We are
recommending that our clients start off with HS Professional
combined with a site and CMS developed in WP so they don't
have to re-tool after they figure out that they have reached
the HS CMS's limits - which is more expensive for them in
the long-run.
Dharmesh & Peter
*With regards to Peter's request: We have a recent client
who was set up on the Hubspot CMS (Pro account) for over
a year when they came to us, and they love it. They hired us
for some monthly SEO best practices (on-page, tuning,
internal linking, etc.)... But they effectively have 2 websites.
The "front end", which has about 11 pages on the root
domain, and a Hubspot subdomain that's integrated with HS
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to optimize their website, but we basically have to optimize
2 sites since the blog is hosted on a subdomain. Not ideal at
all. The root domain and subdomain are effectively separate
websites, doubling the amount of maintenance and tuning
needed to fully optimize the site(s). We cleaned up the 11
pages on the root domain with relative ease and we're
getting a clean crawl and index on it. The subdomain (HS
CMS) is an absolute mess when it comes to optimizing for a
clean crawl. Lots of jumbled CSS, duplicate title and
duplicate content issues throughout. Our SEO software is
constantly finding errors are unfixable because the HS CMS
is not flexible enough to tweak fully. I realize that this is an
advanced issue, but this type of thing matters a lot when the
client's per-transaction value is high and they want the most
visibility possible from their content publishing. Compare
this to WP CMS based sites with HS tracking code installed,
and the difference is night and day from an SEO's
perspective. On another note, I've noticed client sites with
HS CMS having trouble ranking locally since all their local-
targeted content lives on a HS blog subdomain. Google+
Local is not connecting the HS subdomains with the root
domains well at all right now. If you have any insight there,
I'm all ears. :)
Dharmesh
*To chime in on Dharmesh's comments: Budgetary concerns
aside, I guess the application of the tool depends on if the
user wants simpler, but limited. Or robust, but capable of
more. I agree that this shouldn't be looked at as Hubspot VS
Wordpress, but rather, which combination is right for you:
(Hubspot CMS + Hubspot software) vs. (Wordpress CMS +
Hubspot software)?
Notice both of those options include Hubspot tracking
software. :) I should write a blog post about that very topic.
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George Thomas • I feel like Hubspot is a great tool, but with
serious shortcomings in terms of how some of the features
were developed, integrated and are presented. More often
than not, my troubles arise when I'm doing work in the CMS.
It's quite obvious this platform was built around DotNetNuke
(another open source CMS similar to Wordpress), in
particular the blogging functionality seems very like a DNN
module called Articles (I think?).
Our lead dev has used both Wordpress and Hubspot's CMS
(in addition to others and even building out a licensable
ASP.NET MVC-based e-commerce CMS) so I'd say he has a
lot of experience in this domain. Here's are some bullet
points he gave me:
* DotNetNuke used to be fairly terrible to use compared to
other CMSes, but they were the only viable ASP.NET CMS.
Hubspot used DotNetNuke to jump start their platform.
* It's clear that Hubspot's weakness is their CMS. They seem
to realize it (I hope) and are actively trying new solutions
(probably integrating something DNN 6.x or 7.x-based into
their platform, which is closer in terms of ease-of-use in
skinning and the back-end to something like Wordpress).
I'm just guessing here though. *Dharmesh?*
* Hubspot's analytics are amazing. Almost magical to
someone who has never used something like it before.
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33. * Wordpress's built-in analytics suck.
* Wordpress is a fantastic CMS. But, if you're using the
standalone version, you now have to maintain a server.
Good luck when you have unexpected traffic spikes!
* Using a standalone Wordpress install, however, offers
considerable opportunity in terms of being able to muck
around in the system and change whatever you need to
change. With great power comes great responsibility. If you
can handle that power, you can do great things.
* You can get somewhat close to Hubspot using free tools
like Wordpress, Google Analytics, et al. You're gonna spend
a lot of time getting that to a workable solution, although if
you do it right, you should be able to re-use it for other
sites. It's complicated though; I'm not downplaying that.
* You're not going to match what Hubspot has without
development. It's possible, but be prepared to spend months
doing it.
* Every design, application, tool, etc. has compromises
somewhere. Nothing is perfect.
* Hubspot's compromise is the CMS. Their analytics are
great. But, they have an out-of-the-box CMS engine (with
considerable modification) rather than building another one
from scratch themselves. It's not a good technical CMS (it's
clear some things were bolted on to the blogging module, in
particular).
* Hubspot's strength: they have an easy-to-use and highly-
integrated package. Wordpress doesn't offer you title writing
tips for the keywords you're targeting, for example. They've
done the legwork for most of us and 80% will do great with
what they have to offer. Try to recreate their Prospects
feature!
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34. * Hubspot: training is great. It doesn't go super-deep
sometimes like I would like, but it'll get you to an
intermediate level of knowledge about inbound marketing
and how to use their platform.
* Wordpress's strength: they have an easy-to-use CMS that
is very modular. You can get down to the bare metal and
change it around as much as you want.
* Wordpress's compromise: their analytics suck and you
can't easily recreate Hubspot with outside tools for free.
Our Conclusion:
Life isn't black and white. It's not one or the other. If we
have a client that wants to pay for it, we recommend
Hubspot for them. However, we don't always use their CMS.
We use Wordpress with tracking codes installed or in some
cases, straight HTML/CSS.
A lot of clients DON'T want to pay for Hubspot though and it
is probably overkill for the web presence they want. In that
case, Wordpress and Google Analytics are usually enough to
get by.
Hubspot's platform is designed with a clear user in mind. It's
probably 80% of people out there.
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Will respond to a few of the points/questions in your post:
1. You are correct. The early version of HubSpot's platform
made quite a bit of use of DotNetNuke. But we chose a
different direction years ago. Our primary platform now is a
combination of Java and Python (not ASP.NET).
2. The CMS has been our weakness. It's the one piece of the
system that has not yet the major overhaul needed (like
we've done with other parts of our platform). But, it's the
most important project being worked on *right now* at
HubSpot. An entire team devoted to the effort. The blogging
app is first, which will be followed by the website
management system.
3. We are determined to change from having the CMS be a
weakness to it being a strength. We're serious about it
(investing millions). We have some ideas about how to take
the best practices from products like WordPress and
combine them with our knowledge of marketing and create
what we think will be a system marketers, designers and
developers will love. It's a tall order, but we're passionate
about it.
I just saw an updated demo of the HubSpot CMS yesterday.
It's starting to really come together. Nice, clean HTML that is
responsive, super-cool template editing, open access to CSS
for key parts. Global modules. It's really getting there.
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Mark Kilens • Fantastic breakdown, George! On the training
side. I agree with your assessment. The good news is we're
currently developing a lot more intermediate and advanced
training. You'll be able to find the training right inside your
account under the HubSpot Academy drop-down.
We're also going to be creating a new certification program
for our new CMS. It will include classes, workshops and a
certification process/exam. The certification will mean you
have demonstrated that you can create HubSpot CMS
templates for email, landing pages, blogs and pages.
Let me know if you'd like to talk about training or the new
CMS certification.
All the best,
Mark
Lisa Ellington • Mark, I'd like to know more about the CMS
Certification.
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Mark Kilens • Lisa, it's still being developed and will launch
when we launch our new CMS.
Feel free to send me an InMail and we can setup a time
chat. Would love to hear your ideas!
Thanks,
Mark
George Thomas • I love the idea of advanced training! I am
very excited to see what the next steps are for that as well
as the new COS HS will be launching. I and my team are all
about being the best we can be for our clients and their
needs. Simplicity for them and yet delivering an effective
strategy is always the best route. Thank you Dharmesh and
Mark for taking the time to post on this matter.
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Shut me down if this takes us too far sideways but any
glimmer of hope that an updated CMS might support any
kind of server-side scripting... at say Enterprise level?
Two of our clients need to integrate with a catalog with tens
of thousands of SKUs that's going live soon. We've
suggested handling this by hosting a few pages on a
separate system, like WP, using a separate subdomain (like
products.whatever.com) to point to those pages. Shopping
cart is TBD.
The client asked, "to simplify things and use the better CMS,
why not migrate us entirely to WP?" I went onsite to present
on what that means in terms of managing more
platforms/tools, not fewer; lack of comprehensive support,
etc.
Net net here's a company with significant resources needing
all-in-one marketing software that works with their catalog.
This week we are testing Volusion's Enterprise solution to
decide if that's the answer.
p.s. open to hiring a pro from this forum to consult on this
(platform choice, migration, new systems config...)
Peter Caputa • @Rebekah
I asked our Chief Product Officer when we might enable
server side scripting. His response was something like
"ooomph" in an exasperated tone. I wouldn't count on us
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Have you spoken to the team at Ektron?
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Rick Kranz • My firm doesn't come from the world of website
creation. So when a client is focused on how their website
looks and feels instead of how it performs that is a red flag
for us.
To me the HubSpot tool is about making your web
marketing perform and not about making your website look
great. The simplicity of the CMS helps to keep us focused on
performance.
I agree that the HS CMS which we use for ourselves and
most of our clients is not as slick as WP or Joomla but you
can create some very professional looking sites from it. And
we always have the choice to use HS Professional and be on
another platform.
Having said all that I am looking forward to seeing the
improvements in the CMS.
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Bill Cava • Agree with Dharmesh largely regarding HubSpot
vs Wordpress; would also add another option to consider.
Ektron (company I work for) is both a HubSpot partner and
an Enterprise Web Content Management vendor. As a
HubSpot customer, I'd like to think we get it. This HubSpot
case study does a pretty good job of backing that statement
up, captures some highlights over the past year:
http://www.hubspot.com/customer-case-
studies/bid/33879/Ektron-Shifts-to-Inbound-Marketing-and-
Lowers-Cost-Per-Opportunity-by-60. It also means we're in
a pretty unique situation where we can take our own
experiences with HubSpot and turn them into capabilities
that our joint customers can use directly.
A straight-forward example of one such integration point-- a
customized editing experience that enables content creators
to evaluate keywords for SEO as they're authoring:
http://developer.ektron.com/experts/derek-barka/HubSpot-
Keyword-Plugin-For-Aloha/.
Our redesigned corporate website (www.ektron.com) is also
a pretty good example too; we recently drank our own
champagne and used our Ektron HubSpot integration
throughout, particularly for delivering targeted content for
unauthenticated visitors.
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Peter Caputa • Ektron is a step ahead of the market on
content personalization.
We'll enable it for our SMB and MB business in the coming
year in HubSpot's new CMS. But, Ektron already has it (and
will enhance it as we launch more APIs) for Enterprise
customers.
There are a lot of other great features and capabilities that
Ektron has that make it a robust Mid-market and Enterprise
CMS. With HubSpot integrated, it's the best of both worlds
for more sophisticated customers.
I've also really enjoyed working with the team at Ektron.
They have new sales and marketing leadership, Chip Greer,
that is in tune with how to build a modern sales and
marketing system and he's very pro-partner.
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Chip Greer • Thanks Pete!
We've been working since the summer on building best in
class integration with Hubspot, delivering (as Bill states
above) our own website using the advanced features of both
Ektron and Hubspot and on supporting our joint partners in
the field on integrated projects. In any projects where there
are advanced requirements, we'd love to help.
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Tom Wentworth • I'm a big fan of HubSpot, and a long time
CMS guy. Going to be interesting to see this product
develop.
The definition of CMS has almost become too broad to be
useful - Wordpress solves a much different set of problems
than something like Drupal or Ektron. Blogging is pretty
easy, and a good first step for HubSpot because its a pretty
simple content type and the governance processes around
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For HubSpot to try and tackle the hard problems of CMS (at
scale) may be a stretch. I do think the "All-in-one"
marketing platform is a noble goal and HubSpot solves many
of the hard problems in marketing, but a CMS isn't purely a
tool for marketing. I wonder if CMS falls a bit outside of
HubSpot's core mission?
Will be watching closely :)
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Peter Caputa • Wowsa. This is quite a conversation. I don't
think there are too many places on the web where people
from so many companies in the same space have such a
constructive conversation. Thanks for joining in Tom.
I agree with you, Tom. There is a big difference between a
simple CMS and an enterprise CMS. Our mission is to be "all
the marketing software you need". We think we do that very
well with SMB and MBs. Our experience on the sales side is
that large companies aren't looking for "one piece of
software for all of their marketing". Integration and
interoperability is more important to them. The fact that we
have lots of tools that already integrate helps us drive usage
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unrealistic to think that all of our capabilities are perfect for
every large org.
As far as a CMS being outside of our core mission, we think
that enabling customers to create, optimize, distribute,
personalize delivery, mobilize, analyze, socialize, ize-iz-ize,
etc "content" is actually the key to our mission.
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Lisa Ellington • That makes a ton of sense, Peter. I wonder
why the basic package users should get penalized, though,
and be forced to use the CMS. Why not open up the code
hook for all levels of product?
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a couple years I've lived the WP (or other CMS) vs. Hubspot
enigma on more than a few occasions. One consistent theme
that pops up on the con side is less about the technology
and more of an emotional response. Inevitably, the idea that
a site living on the HS CMS completely is translated into "I
can never get my site back and will be locked into paying HS
forever." Be it naive or otherwise, this is a hurdle for any
business owner and for the VAR selling an integrated
solution. Selfishly, from an operational standpoint, it is
always, always better to have the whole site on the HS CMS
(I'm not going into the look and feel debate). Otherwise, it's
up to the VAR to manage across two CMS platforms, or far
worse, rely on the client's internal team to integrate code on
the root domain.
If there's a feature that can be added going forward it would
a tool (not unlike httaccess, but more straightforward) that
allows a HS hosted site to be very easily migrated to another
CMS. Now, if we're doing our jobs that should never happen,
but upfront the "peace of mind" value is considerable. Short
of a migration tool, clear, easily understood migration
instructions would be meaningful first step.
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