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The Following is a guest post by John McTigue, the co-owner of Kuno Creative, a Certified
HubSpot Partner agency based in Avon, OH.  You can read more from him on his blog or follow John on Twitter.
Unless you are consistently feeding your inbound marketing machine with good, creative content, chances are you’ve seen a slow-down [...]

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In January this year, Mark Gibson from Advanced Marketing Concepts and I ran a joint webinar entitled “How Marketing Agencies Can Help Clients Align their Sales & Marketing Messaging, Processes and Goals“. More than 200 attendees answered a series of questions about critical sales and marketing alignment issues. If you work as an inhouse marketer, [...]

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It seems like everyone hates PowerPoint these days. From the US army to the president’s own infographics guru Edward Tufte, the message seems clear: “Powerpoint sucks.” And we’ve all been stuck in a dark conference room, sometime after lunch, drilled into a coma by a monotone speaker dryly reading his own slides at us. It’s [...]

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Businesses are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to inbound marketing. According HubSpot’s The State of Inbound Marketing 2010 report, the majority of the 231 businesses surveyed said they planned to increase their 2010 inbound marketing budgets from 2009 levels. In fact, 88% of those surveyed are either maintaining or increasing [...]

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Twitter can drive leads and sales. However, because of the simplicity of the Twitter platform, some businesses overlook simple ways to improve their business’ branding on Twitter.  Taking the time to optimize your brand on Twitter is important to help capture the ultra-short attention span of users scrolling through their Twitter feeds.
One way to [...]

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Many of you have requested that I add a feature to Backlink Index Express that checks to see if your backlink profiles are actually in the Google index.  After looking at several approaches, we chose to implement an Ajax based script that uses the Google API.  Best of all – it’s all integrated with Backlink [...]

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According to statistics released by analytics firm, StatCounter, Facebook has retained its place as the largest source of traffic from social media to global websites in March 2010.
Facebook accounts for nearly half the traffic generated from social networks and other social media sites, contributing to 48% of the total. The next largest referrer is StumbleUpon, [...]

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Google has just announced some changes in the requirements to qualify as an approved advertising agency on the Google AdWords platform.
The current Google Advertising Professionals qualification, which was launched in 2004, will be discontinued. It will be replaced by the Google AdWords Certification programme.
Google Certification Programme
Google AdWords Qualified Companies will now be called Certified Partners. Individual qualifications will be offered to [...]

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According to statistics released by analytics firm, StatCounter, Facebook has retained its place as the largest source of traffic from social media to global websites in March 2010.
Facebook accounts for nearly half the traffic generated from social networks and other social media sites, contributing to 48% of the total. The next largest referrer is StumbleUpon, [...]

[Read more →]

Google has just announced some changes in the requirements to qualify as an approved advertising agency on the Google AdWords platform.
The current Google Advertising Professionals qualification, which was launched in 2004, will be discontinued. It will be replaced by the Google AdWords Certification programme.
Google Certification Programme
Google AdWords Qualified Companies will now be called Certified Partners. Individual qualifications will be offered to [...]

[Read more →]