Google’s live webcasting tool, Hangouts on Air, can be a great resource for businesses looking to grow their social marketing strategy. It puts faces to your company name, and lets customers get to know your brand in a more personal way. Especially for technical companies, Hangouts on Air can provide an interactive platform for explaining difficult theoretical topics or application questions, while helping to establish your knowledge and credibility.
Since becoming a HubSpot certified partner 18 months ago, a lot has changed. We’ve
migrated our site to the HubSpot Content Management System (CMS), started a blog, and gotten a lot more serious about social media. We’ve created several content offers and downloads, implemented Calls to Action (CTA) throughout our site, built landing pages for each offer or CTA, integrated our email marketing with HubSpot, and set up lead nurturing emails (HubSpot calls them workflows because you can automate other things beyond triggering an email). We’ve also gotten used to looking at analytics more frequently and using the results to guide content development, SEO, and in many ways overall company strategy.
Have you noticed that you have less organic search data available? In early February, we highlighted the impact of secure search on our organic search data in 2012. Approximately 31% of our organic search results were "(not provided)". This result means that people are accessing your site via secure search, which prevents you from seeing the search terms they used to find you.
If you’ve been paying attention to the headlines over the past year or so, businesses, marketing agencies, SEO practitioners, and other online marketing enthusiasts predict that keyword research as we know it (or knew it), is rapidly diminishing in effectiveness. Keyword research has been the SEO go-to source for website optimization.
There has been considerable buzz lately about the importance of creating quality content as a way to attract and qualify online sales leads. The idea is that through online engagement, in which you share best practices and tips for your particular expertise, for example, you attract higher quality leads. But what kinds of content are considered “quality”, and is more necessarily better?
Katie Steelman joins PLS as our new marketing writer and social media specialist. As customers recognize that great content attracts prospects through the web, PLS is providing full content development services including public relations, articles, white papers, video scripts, blog and social media content, ebooks, etc.
