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Attract, Convert, Close, Delight. If you are an inbound marketer this is your mantra. Tell me truthfully, do you spend an equal amount of time nurturing customers in each stage? Most of the marketers I talk to tell me that they spend less and less time as they move through the stages of the inbound methodology.
If you’re looking for a way to reach more customers, there’s no doubt about it. Social media is the way to go. Digital marketing giant eMarketer estimates that social media platforms boast over 1.73 billion users worldwide. A number that’s expected to climb to 2.55 billion by the year 2017.
Most of us have learned over the past decade or so that you really can’t trust everything you read on the internet, especially given the fact that just about anyone can share information – many times about topics they’re not nearly qualified to talk about. The subject of content marketing is no exception.
Being a marketer in the age of digital media requires savvy management and communication skills. Whether you need assistance with emails, sales leads, or help consuming the world’s massive amount of content, the following Chrome Extensions have got you covered.
“People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction”
Any marketer worth their salt knows you must have a powerful and highly effective inbound marketing strategy to be successful. In fact, as of the beginning of this year, 60% of businesses had adopted some type of inbound marketing as part of their overall strategy. Hubspot found that inbound marketing generates 54% more leads than traditional outbound efforts.
We’ve been fans and members of the GrowthHackers.com community since the very early days. One of the principle objectives of growth hackers is to increase the virality of their products through word of mouth marketing and referral programs. We’re focused on providing tools that growth hackers need to achieve this objective. It was in this spirit that we wanted to provide this analysis to the community.
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Every new business strategy starts with a good idea. Before the preliminary budget talks, Gantt charts, and timeline-to-launch meetings, you have to convince your boss and other team members to rally around the right decision. Whether you’re the Referral Marketing Manager or an ambitious member of the marketing team, it’s probably likely that you (or your team) have a goal tied to revenue/sales.
All businesses, small or large, use certain tools that give their marketing, sales, engineering and operations teams a boost. From Hubspot to Slack to Salesforce to Pivotal Tracker, these tools can improve the day-to-day efficiency of your teams. Here are four business tools that you should be using right now: