How to Assemble and Grow Your Inbound Team [Free Kit]

So you’ve finally gotten buy-in from your boss to start implementing inbound at your company. Next up? You have to start assembling or reconstructing your team for inbound — and with that comes a lot of things to think about.

You already know that inbound roles and responsibilities often differ from those of traditional marketing positions, but because of this, remodeling your team for inbound starts to become a little more complicated.

How to Create Facebook Ads: A Step-by-Step Guide to Advertising on Facebook

When setting up a paid Facebook ad, there are a lot of boxes to be checked. 

Are you targeting the right people? Are your image dimensions to scale? Are you running the right type of ad? If we’re being honest, it can get a little confusing. 

With more than 1.4 billion people using Facebook and over 900 million visits every day, Facebook offers up a unique opportunity for marketers to augment their organic efforts. 

15 Useful Tips for Attending an Event Alone (And Actually Enjoying It)

When you first learn you’re going to a conference alone, it’s exciting. You were chosen out of all of your colleagues to attend. You get to travel to a new place and stay in a nice hotel. You get the chance to meet lots of other interesting people in your field. 

… But, you’ve got to do it alone.

28 Graphic Design Terms Every Marketer Should Know [Infographic]

“Could you take a look at the wireframe and let me know if I need to adjust the leading and the kerning so there’s enough white space? Thanks!”

… Come again?

Sometimes, designer-speak can seem like gibberish.

Facebook Introduces “Donate Now” Button For Nonprofits: 3 Tips to Make the Most of It

While a strong social following on Facebook is already an immense advantage for nonprofits, those fans are about to become even more valuable. Thanks to the introduction of Facebook’s “Donate Now” button, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to turn online engagement into meaningful monetary contributions. 

12 Great Landing Page Examples You’ll Want to Copy

Landing pages exist to serve one purpose: getting website visitors to convert to the next stage in the buying journey. Although their purpose is simple enough in theory, actually designing a successful landing page requires some detailed planning and creative testing.

Regardless of what your business is selling or the conversion action you hope to instigate, it’s helpful to get inspired by seeing what other great landing pages look like.

Agility in Digital Media: 6 Steps to Follow

Publishing is a traditional industry, and much of what happens on a day-to-day basis is grounded in routine. At the same time, the economics of the media landscape are changing. Price points on direct-sold ad revenues are declining, and costs per acquisition (CPAs) for new eyeballs are rising.

Change needs to happen, but it doesn’t need to happen overnight. Here are 6 tips to keep in mind when bringing change to your publishing organization.

The Most Popular Social Logins Globally [Infographic]

Social logins give marketers the opportunity to increase conversion rates on their forms, on both landing pages and checkout pages, by decreasing the number of fields a consumer must fill out while still gathering valuable information. And social logins do more than just reduce friction on forms. They also reduce the need for comment verification, open the door for comments and reviews to appear in social feeds, and demonstrate social proof.

10 Signs Your CEO Has an Outdated View of Marketing

We’ve all been there — stifling a laugh or trying not to look horrified when the CEO puts forth an opinion any modern marketer would find abominable. However, it isn’t necessarily the CEO’s fault. After all, many chief executives simply don’t come from a marketing background, and even if they do, their knowledge is unlikely to be current.

Just as a non-technical CEO might put forth ideas that just aren’t technically sound, a CEO without experience in the latest digital marketing techniques will often do the same.

The 100 Most Expensive Keywords on Google [Infographic]

Google has many different sources of revenue, but one of their most noticeable is the ads that appear next to search results for specific keywords. How much that keyword costs depends, in part, on how often people search for it — the more people search for a certain keyword, the more expensive it is.

If you’ve ever wondered what the most expensive keywords on Google are, then look no further than the infographic below from WebpageFX.