The document is a presentation about inbound marketing given by Mark Roberge of HubSpot. It discusses how inbound marketing uses SEO, blogging, and social media to attract potential customers, rather than outbound tactics like cold calling. It provides tips for SEO, content creation, social media engagement, converting visitors into leads, and measuring success. The presentation promotes HubSpot's software tools that help with inbound activities like getting found online, converting leads, and analyzing marketing performance.
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Rethinking Marketing: Inbound Marketing to Grow Your Business
1. Rethinking Marketing: Inbound Marketing to
Grow Your Business
MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston (#mitsacb)
September 14th, 2010
Mark Roberge
HubSpot
@markroberge
2. 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
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8. Reading List Suggestion
Inbound Marketing:
Get Found using Google,
Social Media and Blogs
Top 5 Web Marketing
Book on Amazon
InboundBook.com
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9. 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
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15. 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
16. The Long Tail
The New Marketplace
Popularity
Head
Long Tail
Keywords
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17. SEO Tips from Website Grader
Lessons from 2,084,563 websites
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18. Where is Search Going?
PERSONALIZATION REAL-TIME
BEYOND SEARCH ENGINES
19. 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
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20. Create Great Content by Blogging
Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI
21. Blogging Attracts More Links
Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI
22. Blogging Attracts More Visitors
Source: Data from over 1,500 small businesses - http://hub.tm/BlogROI
23. 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
24. Who Has Time for Blogging?
Domain
Knowledge
Blog
Success
Writing Skills Time
25. Get Into the Content Mindset
• Make emails into blog posts
• Turn 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
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29. 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
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32. 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
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33. Blogging Drives Social Success
Source: Data from over 2,000 businesses - http://bit.ly/a6SrWh
34. 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
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35. Blogs and Social Media are for Leads and Sales
Source: survey of hundreds of businesses: HubSpot.com/ROI
40. Offer – WIIFM?
• Whitepapers / eBooks
• Research / Studies
• Free Tools
• Trials & Samples
• NOT “Contact Us”
• Value must be greater than the cost…
45. 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
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46. 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
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50. 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
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51. What is HubSpot?
• Founded in 2006 from research at MIT
• Over 3,100 customers
• 180+ employees
52. 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
55. Tools to Get Found: SEO
• Keyword Grader
• Link Grader
• Page Grader
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56. Tools to Get Found: Blog & Social Media
• Business Blog
Software
• Blog Analytics
• Social Media
Monitoring
• Social Media
Publishing
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57. Tools to Convert: Leads
• Landing Pages
• Lead Intelligence
• Lead Alerts
• Visitor Profiling
• Lead Nurturing
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59. Tools to Analyze: Marketing Campaigns
• Assess the effectiveness of your marketing on a
campaign-by-campaign level
• Optimize resource allocation to maximize sales
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