Does Marketing Really Matter? (8 Benefits That Show It’s Critical)

Many small businesses don’t think they “do marketing,” or need to “do marketing.” In fact, around 37% of small businesses in a survey of 500 small businesses don’t have a website to market their products and services.

16 Leadership Goals Every Business Leader Should Have

Outstanding leadership is key to any organization’s success. Without it, a business is prone to low morale and frequent turnover. One way to help yourself grow as a leader is to set actionable, trackable leadership goals. These goals should be focused on addressing your weaknesses and building upon your strengths.

Visual Identity Systems: What They Are & Why They Matter

When we build a brand, we build an experience that reflects a purpose. Visual identity is a huge part of this brand experience. Colors, graphics, and fonts turn brand concepts into visual identities that can be recognized.

8 Easy Social Media Marketing Tips for Introverts [+Best Apps]

Social media marketing isn’t easy, and it’s even more challenging for introverts.

10 Signs It’s Time to Pull the Plug on Your Marketing Campaign

Have you ever gone to see a movie that got worse as you watched it, but you couldn’t leave because of the money you paid to see it? Or have you ever worked on a project that was clearly not going to solve your problem, but you just continued working on it?

Social Media PR: 6 Tactics to Improve Your Social Public Relations

Compared with public relations, social media is the new, cool kid on the block, and since the early 2000s has become a significant means of communication between brands and their audience.

Targeted Advertising: A Simple Guide to Reaching Your Customers

Let’s face it: There’s quite a bit of negative sentiment around targeted advertising. It’s not unwarranted — consumers often complain that collecting information from their individual browsing behaviors, such as page visits and searches, to optimally select which advertisements they see, is invasive and, some might even say, “creepy.”

11 Apps for Marketers & Why You Should Download Them

Marketers need the advantage of real-time customer data to effectively do their jobs.

The right iPad and iPhone apps can help — in this piece, we’re diving into 11 Apple device applications that can help take your marketing to the next level.

A Privacy First-World Won’t Hurt Your Customer Relationships, It Will Transform Them: Insights from HubSpot’s CMO

As marketers, we thrive on data.

13 Common Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

You made it (almost)! After networking and sending countless resumes, you’ve finally landed a job interview. Of course, you want to be prepared, so you did what most candidates are recommended to do — you looked up “most common interview questions.”