Your Guide to Starting a Successful Inbound Marketing Career [Free Kit]

“Find a job,” they said. “It’ll be easy,” they said.

Ahh, if only. For most of us, though, finding a job is pretty darn difficult — especially one we’re passionate about.

It doesn’t help that competition is on a global scale. Jobvite found that 69% of all HR recruiters expect hiring to become more competitive in 2015, especially regarding social recruiting on LinkedIn and Facebook.

5 Simple Ways to Optimize Your Website for Lead Generation

Optimizing your website to generate leads is a no-brainer. But it’s not as simple as throwing a “click here” button on your home page and watching the leads pour in. (Unfortunately.)

Instead, marketers and designs need to take a more strategic approach. In this post, we’ll go over some quick ways you can optimize your website for lead generation that actually work.

16 Reasons Why People Leave Your Website

You’ve written some really compelling copy for your website. Your product images are polished. Your overall site design is professional. And thanks to marketing initiatives like these ones, you’re getting traffic to your site.

So why is it that so few of those visitors are converting into leads and customers?

The Biggest Pet Peeves of CRO Experts

Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) isn’t a widely known field, even among digital marketers. If you need a quick refresher, CRO is the process of creating an experience for your website visitors that’ll convert them into customers.

But this science of lead conversion is quickly gaining ground. After all, who doesn’t want more clicks, leads, and sales?

How to Build Effective Teams Based on Personality Type

This post originally appeared on HubSpot’s Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales.

“Round up the usual suspects,” the gendarme ordered in the famous line from the movie Casablanca. And frequently, that is how executives think when they create teams, committees, or task forces. The boss says or thinks something like, “Let’s appoint anyone who might know something about this issue.” Or, even more likely, “Grab anybody who’s got a stake in this thing.”

How to Build Effective Teams Based on Personality Type

This post originally appeared on HubSpot’s Sales Blog. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales.

“Round up the usual suspects,” the gendarme ordered in the famous line from the movie Casablanca. And frequently, that is how executives think when they create teams, committees, or task forces. The boss says or thinks something like, “Let’s appoint anyone who might know something about this issue.” Or, even more likely, “Grab anybody who’s got a stake in this thing.”

6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Retargeting Campaigns

This post originally appeared on HubSpot’s Agency Post. To read more content like this, subscribe to Agency Post.

You may wan’t to sit down for this statistic. Ready?

Only 2% of traffic converts on the first visit to a website. I repeat, 2%.

Meet 13 #INBOUND15 Speakers: Introductions From Their Fellow Speakers

The INBOUND team here at HubSpot is finishing off May with a big flourish. In celebration of this year’s impressive (and growing!) list of INBOUND speakers, we’ve invited friends, colleagues, mentors, and influencers to share thoughts and stories about our speakers, and then share their posts on social media using the #speakerfan hashtag.

9 Free Microsoft Excel Templates to Make Marketing Easier

Many of us can recall a time in high school when we were sitting in math class and thinking, “When am I ever going to use this stuff in the real world?”

And then we suddenly find ourselves in the real world, only to realize that numbers actually do play a pivotal role in what we do — especially in digital marketing.

Don’t Run A Railroad: Why Publishers Need to Think Like Marketers

There is a fundamental disconnect between what many publishers sell, and what their customers want. Publishers value and sell reach and demographics while their customers value and need campaigns that measurably increase sales pipelines. Today’s publishers need to be able to measure the full impact of client campaigns from initial awareness through to a final sales transaction.