INBOUND MARKETING BLOG

Does Your B2B Website Suck?

• By Donny Kemick

Let me guess: when you wonder if your B2B website sucks, the first thing you think about is the design. We hear it all the time. Everyone hates their website design after the first six months. While design is important, there are four even more important factors that determine the suckiness of your website.

One Easy Way Manufacturers Can Increase Website Traffic & Improve SEO

• By protocol 80

I won't keep you hanging. Manufacturers can increase website traffic and improve SEO simply by: Optimizing their Google My Business listing.

Digital Marketing Trends You Can't Ignore When Planning for 2017

• By protocol 80

It's that time of year again! Time to sit back and analyze the dumpster fire year of 2016, and how we can optimize our marketing strategies going forward. When we talk about emerging digital marketing trends, we need to identify two things.

How a B2B Inbound Marketing Strategy Will Increase RFQs

• By Donny Kemick

Growing a B2B company is all about getting in front of great prospects and increasing RFQs. If you want your RFQ stream to look like the graph above, your B2B inbound marketing strategy needs to follow these rules.

Can You Trust Paid Social Media Advertising Metrics?

• By protocol 80

At the end of 2016, unsavory things are coming to light about social media advertising - Facebook in particular. Over the last few months, Facebook has come out saying some of its metrics were miscalculated. This leads publishers and advertisers to ask a few questions:

20 Fun Thanksgiving Facts That Will Make You the Dinner Table Hero

• By protocol 80

Thanksgiving isn't all fun and games - especially when your entire family sits down at one table. Some families are lucky enough to get along. Others, not so much. Although you love each other, there are bound to be disagreements, awkward moments, and Weird Uncle Bob saying Weird Things Again.

4 Simple Ways To Increase B2B RFQs

• By Donny Kemick

3 Reasons Small Manufacturers Need an Inbound Marketing Agency

• By protocol 80

Manufacturing and online marketing. Not oil and water. Not cats and dogs. More like gravy on biscuits. Cheese on a pizza. Sauce on wings. (Anyone else getting hungry?)

The 3 Biggest Small Business SEO Challenges & How to Overcome Them

• By Donny Kemick

Oh, that coveted "page one, position one" ranking in Google... What small businesses would do to get there...

5 Spook-tacular Halloween Marketing Ideas From Our Favorite Brands

• By protocol 80

Did You Know: Every October, searches for the word "pumpkin" increase by 2000%? That's a 20x increase in keyword activity. Fall is the season of pumpkin. Pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cakes, pumpkin pies, PSLs (that's pumpkin spice lattes for you commoners), not to mention the seeds and carving. Many brands hop on the pumpkin bandwagon to increase brand awareness. Others? Well, others get a little more creative.