Inbound Marketing

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E-mail inboxes can be a source of great frustration for many. There is the ever growing number of unread e-mails that start to pile up followed by the time set aside to clean up the mess then the realization that a lot the e-mail was junk. Much of this could be cut by e-mail users utilizing filters better but most don’t take the time to set them up. Instead they wrestle with their inbox and grow increasingly aggravated.

It is likely to come as little surprise that marketers are still finding inbound marketing lead sources increasingly important in their business. It certainly makes sense. SO much so that you don’t really think about it and the implications. That is until you read something like HubSpot’s State of Inbound Marketing 2012. You can download the full report here. The report is literally chock full of data so I pulled just two pieces that show the real impact of inbound marketing on lead generation.

Twitter has been working up to its more broadly offered self serve ad platform for a while now. To this point, there are about 100 advertisers that have been allowed to use the system but Twitter is about to expand that capability significantly as it looks to make 2012 a big year. This strategy is part of a larger plan for the social media company to reach the election year groups and international advertisers as well. It’s starting to look like Twitter plans to make some money.

You probably realize by now I am a research skeptic in most instances. I am what many call a “high skeptic”. All that means is that I come at these things form the angle that researchers will have to prove to me that they are genuine rather than the opposite approach which would be to just accept research as real just because it is research. So when I saw the chart below from research conducted by ClearSaleing and reported by eMarketer I had a few thoughts.

There are still a lot of businesses that conduct business as usual. They produce products as they always have (with updates here and there). They market their products the same way. They adopt the attitude that many failing organizations do which is “Well, we have always done it this way.” Well, needless to say the emphasis on companies using that attitude would be on the wordfailing. Nothing is the same as it used to be. Sure there are things that marketers have always done and are still

This guest blog post comes via HubSpot. It is written by Donald Nosek, VP of Strategy for ymarketing, a data-driven, digital marketing agency specializing in inbound marketing, and a VAR for HubSpot. So what can the greatest outbound marketing event of the year teach inbound marketers? As we did last year, we’ve looked at key social media markers (http://www.ymarketing.com/2012-Super-Bowl-Social-Brand-Scoreboard-Rep ort) to determine what impact Super Bowl commercials have on the social media efforts of

The following post comes from our Inbound Marketing Channel sponsor HubSpot. The FBI recently posted a Request for Information (RFI) for a “social media application.” But, it was really a request for a social media monitoring application. Why? Because the FBI recognizes what many inbound marketers already know and many others are discovering: There’s gold in them thar social media data.

I think we are starting to head into a very good direction with regard to social media and its impact on business. We are moving away from the irrational exuberance (read: overselling) of its impact by those in the Valley toward a more realistic perspective of just what impact social media can have on brands. That is healthy since it is best to find where the balance lies in almost every situation in order to find a strong and likely more lasting solution. A study from AYTM (I don’t know who they are