This document summarizes key reflections from the INBOUND 2014 marketing conference. It discusses the importance of creating bold, visual content that tells stories and reflects your beliefs. It also emphasizes continually testing content, optimizing for mobile, building conversion paths for buyer personas, and creating remarkable content that helps customers succeed. The document stresses analyzing data to develop strategy and learning quickly through experimentation and measurement.
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Be bold.
Not boring. Your content
should reflect what you
believe in.
Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Perfect Post
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Collecting data
isn’t enough.
You need to leverage
data to create analysis,
insight and strategy.
Data
Educated
Guess
Experiment
Measure
Next Steps
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Be quick.
The speed of learning &
optimization helps you grow
your business.
5. Build a content map.
Create conversion paths
for each of your buyer
personas to optimize
conversions.
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Be visual.
Every piece of your content
should tell a story through
visuals.
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6 million
searches are conducted each
day – by the end of 2014 half
of these will be on mobile.
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Build a better
campaign.
A well built inbound
marketing campaign will
continue to work for you.
10. Becoming a better
writer means
becoming a better
marketer.
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11. Pass the
reshare test.
Every piece of content
should be so good that your
followers will risk their
reputation to share it with
their audience.
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12. Sweat the small stuff.
every page – even your thank you pages,
subscription pages, 404 pages, etc. – is
important.
Each can all be seen by a potential customer.
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13. Mobile
Site speed
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SEO in
2014…
Accessibility
Rankings
Design & UX
Keywords
Links
Crawls
Social
Content
Localization
Email
Press & PR
Web spam
Internationalization