Newsflash: Google is changing things once again. In an unexpected twist last week, Google’s John Mueller announced that Google will no longer show author profile images and Google+ circle numbers in desktop and mobile search results, shocking marketers everywhere.
It’s also bad news for marketers and business owners. Let me tell you why.
Last week, I attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2014 Conference in Boston and let me say - there was a LOT to take away from it. Whether it was the vision of David Meerman Scott, the ground-breaking announcements from Brian Halligan or the downright folksy slang from Marcus Sheridan, just about every session had some key takeaways.
But this conference was more than just sessions. It was the entire Inbound Marketing experience. The people, the sessions, the food, the ideas, the stories - all of it made Inbound 2014 an incredible conference to be at.
In this post, I’ll go through 3-5 takeaways from some of the sessions I attended. I’ll finish up with some overall takeaways and some discussion on the entire experience. Here we go.
For all you HubSpot users out there, you may have noticed a considerable change in the blog tool. Blogging is an extremely important part of Inbound Marketing so this change is worth discussing and explaining so that HubSpot users (or future HubSpot users) can leverage this to their own benefit.
The LocalTrifecta Inbound Marketing Blog is now officially open to guest blog posts on topics related to digital marketing. This includes posts on Pay Per Click Advertising, Search Engine Optimization, Blogging, Content Marketing, Local Search, Social Media, Video Marketing, Conversion Rate Optimization and more.
In this post, I’ll detail all that you need to know about getting your thoughts, ideas and experience onto our blog!
Contrary to what many digital marketers think, the emergence of the Internet did not give birth to content marketing. It just enhanced its accessibility. The truth is content marketing has been around for a long time - since the late 19th century to be exact.
One of the great things about the digital marketing industry is that it’s always changing. Flat out - it’s always changing. Google changes its algorithm. Social networks rise and fall. Search behaviour changes. Buying behaviour changes. All this change makes things enjoyable though. How we do things as an agency now is, in some ways, different from how we did things a year ago or two years ago.
One of those Inbound marketing channels, ‘Search Engine Optimization’ (SEO), is a perfect example. It’s the perfect example of an Inbound channel that has been bastardized over the last 5 years — mostly by black hat ‘marketers’. I say ‘Search Engine Optimization’ because that term has eroded a little bit and I’ll explain why in this blog post. In my view, the term ‘SEO’ (the term, not the concept) is rapidly changing.
We at LocalTrifecta are committed to providing you with the best information out there to generate leads for your business and ultimately, to increase your bottom line. Now, we’re stepping into the podcasting realm! (What is a podcast? Scroll down!)
For the longest time, we’ve blogged about the best ways to improve lead generation through Inbound marketing channels. We’ve provided free educational e-books on different Inbound channels to educate business owners and marketers like you. We’ve even done a few videos here and there. We want to serve you value within different mediums and different mediums present more opportunities to discuss different topics that can improve the performance of your business, top to bottom.
The main goal of the new MarketingIQ Podcast is to educate and inform you, the listener with actionable advice on how to grow your business through Inbound Marketing - from folks actually doing it.
When it comes to building meaningful relationships with existing and potential customers, it's vital that you have the systems in place to provide the right information at the right time. Having too many marketing tools to deal with leads to inefficiency and you ultimately damage the relationships you're trying to nurture. Luckily for many forward-thinking businesses, HubSpot came along to streamline inbound marketing processes and make it easier for businesses to attract genuine leads and convert prospects into customers. But things are about to get even better.
If you're the owner of a company operating in or around Vancouver, you'll know how much of a struggle it can be to attract the right customers to your business, especially with so much competition in every sector. The British Columbia economy is still on fairly fragile ground and Vancouver business owners know this all too well. In order to be found by prospective buyers looking for a business just like yours, you need a sales and marketing plan that is appropriate for the digital age, and you need the right tools to help your business grow. This is where HubSpot comes in.
The primary marketing goal of every dental practice is to bring in new patients and keep existing patients coming back in. It’s what will keep your practice running. But what will grow your dental practice is being able to attract patients through digital marketing channels. Search engine optimization (SEO) is starting to be more and more used as an Inbound marketing channel by dental practices across North America. Put in a geographic search for dentists into Google and you’ll see a local 6-pack result show up of all dental practices in that area. You’ll see well-optimized websites also show up in the first organic results. It’s clear that more and more dental practices are leveraging the power of the Internet to attract more patients - because it works.
While SEO is just one channel under the Inbound Marketing umbrella, it's an effective one and deserves a micro-examination of how it alone can grow your dental practice.
We've seen it ourselves that this works for dental practices so let's go into what every dentist ought to do with respect to SEO.
