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Is Inbound Marketing Actually Profitable or Just a Slogan

Convince & Convert

Yesterday, HubSpot, the creator of the term “Inbound Marketing,” filed for an IPO. It was our first detailed look into the financial health of HubSpot, and after reading it pretty carefully, I am left with a provocative question. Hubspot has been around since 2006, and their S-1 details financial information from 2009.

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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

Webbiquity SMM

Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006. According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). Twitter emerged at the SXSW conference in March 2007. MarketingSherpa ). MediaPost ).

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10 Video Marketing Trends You Need To Follow in 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

Most plan to incorporate more video into their marketing in 2019, citing shortened production timelines and ease of in-house creation as reasons why they will be able to use more video in their 2019 marketing strategies ( HubSpot ). According to the State of Video Marketing by HubSpot , 39% of consumers want to see more ‘explainer videos’.

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There Is A Bigger Picture (And It's Worth Thinking About)

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I first met Steve in 2006 at the first-ever PodCamp Boston. We caught up over dinner this past week at HubSpot ''s incredible Inbound 2013 event in Boston. We schmoozed a little bit when I spoke at the Radian6 user summit a few years back in Boston. I was surprised to hear that he doesn''t do much video podcasting anymore. networking.

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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

This was 2006, just after Twitter had launched, but the world didn’t yet know Tumblr, Pinterest, or Instagram. But in terms of running the business, we really like Hubspot as both a CRM and as a marketing/tracking tool. About the only thing missing was a lightbulb over my head. We don’t have time to wait.

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10 Reasons Brands Fail to Convert Facebook Fans into Paying Customers

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to HubSpot, ninety three percent of adults on the Internet are on Facebook, yet only 1% of a brand’s Facebook fans will ever make their way to the company’s main website. As fans of the movie Talladega Nights would know, Use Facebook Data to Unlock Consumer Affinity When I started this blog back in 2006 Facebook was.

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15 Lessons That Took Me 15 Years to Learn by Jim Tobin

Ignite Social Media

Facebook opened to the public moving away from colleges in September of 2006. I saw a HubSpot survey recently where a big number of marketers, I think it was about 87%, said that they would do less content if it meant they could do better content. Ignite Social Media launched in 2007, just a few months before the first iPhone came out.