Welcome to HubShots, the podcast for marketing managers who use HubSpot hosted by Ian Jacob from Search and Be Found and Craig Bailey from XEN Systems.
Recorded: Tuesday 25 October 2016 | Published: Saturday 29 October 2016
Welcome
http://inboundcountdown.com - 14 days left!
Brian and Dharmesh not announcing new stuff - leaving that to Christopher O’Donnell
“If you've been to INBOUND in past years, you know that the latest and greatest HubSpot product announcements are an exciting part of the week, normally hosted by Brian and Dharmesh in their keynote session.
But, this year, we've given product launches their own special session happening after Brian & Dharmesh's keynote, it is called "The HubSpot Product Launch".
Our founders will focus on giving you an insightful look at how the landscape of marketing, sales, and connecting with customers has changed. Then, 30 minutes later in a separate session, our VP of Product Christopher O'Donnell will take you on a special tour of everything that is new and improved across all of HubSpot's products. “
Less than 50% of attendees at Inbound are HubSpot customers. So it makes sense that the keynote is more about industry trends than it is about product.
As Karl say: Inbound Platform versus Inbound movement
Merge companies in HubSpot CRM:
https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/companies/what-happens-when-i-merge-two-companies
Another sign that HubSpot is pushing into the more sophisticated space when it comes to CRM.
Note: You will not have the option to merge company records if your account is integrated with Salesforce.
Looking for the next window of opportunity...
Example: Facebook has been so good for B2B in the last 12 months, but it is becoming much more competitive now as companies wake up and jump on. Which in turn means that the results are dropping.
So how do find the next window of opportunity?
By channel: eg Instagram, Medium
By format: eg cinemagraphs, podcasts, video
By intent: eg removing gates, pushing higher value assets earlier, lead forms
Key point: if there’s something amazing you could do now, do it now - especially if your competitors aren’t yet doing it
Marketing managers are starting to have difficult discussions with their bosses about results - the costs of gaining leads are increasing - as a marketing manager how do you handle this?
700,000 domains have published AMP pages, more than 600M AMP pages published:
https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/amp-a-year-in-review/amp/
People discussing Google’s AMP pages:
https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-traffic/#comment-55336
We first discussed AMP pages back in December in Episode 11:
http://hubshots.com/episode-11/
https://www.zoho.com/projects/blog/basecamps-work-can-wait-pledge-why-were-not-recommending-it.html
In Google Analytics we often see a big interest in the About pages of sites - so it’s worth putting some time, thought and effort into optimising them - here’s 12 tips from Lauren Holliday:
https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/five-new-ways-reach-your-goals-faster-g-suite/
Ian check this out
http://www.stateofinbound.com/
What do people look for in a job:
Opportunities for growth is the biggest factor across both sales and marketing respondents.
Takeaway: as a marketing manager, make sure you provide growth for your marketing team
Yet another list of free stock image sites:
https://medium.com/wd-tips-tricks/free-stock-photo-websites-ce1c614bf767#.x42zncqsg
TripIt - All your travel plans, in one place - https://www.tripit.com/
from Ryan Bonnici
Captions Made Simple for Facebook videos.
“Don’t try to take market away from your competition. If the market is big enough there should be enough non-consumers you can be selling to.”
Dharmesh Shah, Author and Co-founder of Hubspot