Recorded: Wednesday 05 October 2016 | Published: Thursday 06 October 2016
Welcome
http://inboundcountdown.com - 34 days left!
A beautiful spring day in Sydney - just after a long weekend!
What speakers read:
http://www.inbound.com/blog/what-i-read-and-how-i-read-it-iliyana-stareva
http://www.inbound.com/blog/what-i-read-and-how-i-read-it-will-critchlow
http://www.inbound.com/blog/what-i-read-and-how-i-read-it-arvell-crag
Reasons to attend Inbound:
Our Inbound tip of the week: Get ready for Clam Chowder!
Blog Author stats
http://www.hubspot.com/product-updates/see-which-authors-are-driving-conversions
From the 'Analyze' tab of the Blog dashboard, scroll down to the Top Posts by Conversions report. After clicking-in to that report you will be able to switch the filter to Authors and see which authors are primarily driving conversions from blog posts, and even which posts specifically have driven the most new contacts.
We’ve been getting advanced AdWords training and seeing big benefits especially in Display.
The challenge to go from above average to exceptional.
Revenue at Amazon increases by 1% for every 100ms it cuts off page load times.
https://contently.com/strategist/2016/09/29/gain-lose-ungated-content/
By Andrew Littlefield
But lost in all this was whether the content itself was actually effective. After all, “lead generation” isn’t a measure of content quality.
“If someone gets this big promise on a landing page and converts into a subscriber, but the piece they then open is terrible, why would they want to hear from you again?” said marketing writer, speaker, and podcast host Jay Acunzo. “So many marketers lose sight of treating people like people instead of leads.”
Just because a visitor converts doesn’t mean your content delivered value (not yet, at least). Without value, is that reader likely to buy? Lead forms may drive an increase in email addresses, but they can cause a decrease in the overall quality of leads.
“You may grow your email database faster with gated content, but you’re probably getting a lot of leads that are going to churn right away,” said Luke Kintigh, global content and media strategist at Intel. “It comes down to quality versus quantity.”
Turn on the power point when you want to charge your phone… <- a gem
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/content-your-audience-actually-wants
Summary from the article:
Really smart how they include links in their final summary list! We’ve copied them straight into the show notes :-)
http://www.stateofinbound.com/
Last week we discussed the State of Inbound item about top marketing challenges:
http://hubshots.com/episode-52/
Good to hear George and Marcus had basically the same take on it as us:
https://www.thesaleslion.com/hubcast-111-inbound16-breakout-sessions-fat-elephants-author-analytics/
But then Marcus goes on to discuss one item he thought was missing from the list of challenges: Getting Management Buy-in for Inbound
Two examples we’ve seen many times:
Stratechery: excellent resource for people wanting to get insight into what is happening in tech companies: https://stratechery.com/
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/09/content-marketing-research-b2b/
Sixty-two percent of B2B marketers in North America say that compared to one year ago, their organization’s overall approach to content marketing has been much more or somewhat more successful.
http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-b2b-vendors-can-generate-trust-with-website
Website elements that annoy your users enough to make them leave right away include lack of contact information, intrusive live chat features, animated ads, popups, poor design or navigation, and video or audio that plays automatically. Almost half of respondents declared that they would ditch a vendor’s website simply because it fails to clearly communicate what the company does!
Skyscanner - https://www.skyscanner.com.au/mobile.html
Hopper - https://www.hopper.com/
Hotels.com - https://au.hotels.com/hotel-deals/app/
Marketing School with Neil Patel & Eric Siu
http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/eric-siu/marketing-school-with-neil-patel-eric-siu
Gary Vaynerchuk on Gratitude
He basically says: As long as my family and I are healthy, I’m happy and enormously grateful.
“Lack of money is a common excuse for not being creative.” - Aaron Ross, Predictable Revenue