Inbound Marketing blogs are becoming a go-to resource for marketers and business owners looking online for cost effective ways to grow their business. A good Inbound marketing blog will show you how to harness the power of non-paid channels such as content, social media, and SEO.
Searching “Inbound Marketing Blogs,” on Google will show you the 17 best inbound marketing blogs, 25 Great Inbound Marketing Blogs, or even 39 Fantastic Inbound Marketing Blogs.
But who has the time to review that many blogs?
In this post, I’ll simplify things, providing details on the 5 inbound marketing blogs that will teach you everything you need to know about the latest in inbound marketing.
The Creators Of Inbound Marketing
When it comes to pioneering inbound marketing, HubSpot is leading the charge. The company helps more than 10,000 companies in 56 countries attract leads and convert them into customers. The practice of inbound marketing has been around for quite some time, but the “Inbound Marketing” term was first coined by Brian Halligan, HubSpot co-founder, in 2005.
The creators of “Inbound Marketing” know what they’re talking about.
The HubSpot Blog is a leading source for all things Inbound and it’s broken down into 4 different sub sections: Marketing, Sales, Insiders, and Opinion. Each section offers something unique to take away, and has writers contributing from both inside and outside the company. Our own content strategist, Ramesh Ranjan, had two posts featured on the site’s Insiders section.
To use the HubSpot blog to the fullest, use the search tool to find blog posts on exactly the problem/solution you’re looking for.
What's trending on HubSpot:
How Marketers Can Get More Respect and Love
The Community of Inbound Bloggers
2. Inbound.org
Inbound.org was started by Rand Fishkin, SEOMoz CEO + Co-founder, and Dharmesh Shah, HubSpot CTO + Co-founder, as a “for-fun project” that enables great content from the world of inbound marketing to get noticed.
Inbound.org is not necessarily a blog, it’s a community of bloggers, marketers, and enthusiasts passionate about Inbound Marketing.
On the site you can…
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Learn from the Inbound.org community
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Share and discuss trending marketing topics
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Create and Build Your Professional Marketing Profile
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Hire Great Marketers from the Inbound Community
The sleek design, and simplicity of the site, will bring you back every time.
What’s trending on Inbound.org:
Why You Should Focus On Branding First
The World’s Largest Social Media Magazine
The most authoritative voice on Social Media, Social Media examiner helps business people use and understand social networks. The team of 90 staff writers, and numerous guest contributors, create social media blogs, podcasts, and videos for a subscriber list of over 230,000 subscribers.
Every year, Social Media Examiner releases a Social Media Industry Report. The report surveys thousands of marketing professionals and gives insight on how marketers are currently using social media and their future plans. Better yet, it’s 100% free and has been cited in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine.
What’s trending on Social Media Examiner:
New Social Media Research That Could Change Your Strategy
Learn EVERYTHING You Need To Know About Search Engines
Created by Danny Sullivan, a leading figure in the SEO community, Search Engine Land is a blog filled with quality content on search engine optimization, search engine marketing, and search engines in general (Google, Bing, etc.).
The site has how to guides, buyer guides, and whatever else you want to learn about search. Search Engine Land is also partnered with the site Marketing Land, which covers other inbound related news such as social, content, and analytics.
What’s trending on Search Engine Land:
Google’s Matt Cutts: We’ve Taken Action On A Large Guest Blog NetworkPeek Inside The Mind Of A Marketing Genius
You may already know Seth Godin as a bestselling author and highly sought public speaker. Before Inbound Marketing became a term, Seth Godin wrote Permission marketing: turning strangers into friends, and friends into customers. In many ways “Permission Marketing” is interchangeable with the term “Inbound Marketing.” The goal of both strategies is to have customers seeking your products rather than marketers seeking them.
Seth is a master storyteller and his short anecdotes provide brilliant marketing advice. To see what I mean you owe it to yourself to give the site a visit.
What’s trending on Seth’s Blog:
Are You Ready To Inbound?
These 5 blogs can act as a resource to learn everything you need to know about Inbound Marketing. As a quick recap, here’s the breakdown.
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The HubSpot blog can be seen as the centre of inbound marketing, providing commentary on all inbound channels.
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Inbound.org lets you join the conversation on trending blogs and interact with other people passionate about Inbound marketing.
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Social Media Examiner will keep you in the loop on all things social and how to use it to grow your business.
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Search Engine Land is a leading authority on all things search with every type of guide imaginable all one site.
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Seth’s Blog uses bite size stories to communicate the lessons he’s learned while becoming an expert on permission marketing.
And of course... there’s the LocalTrifecta blog too.
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