As many of the nearly 20,000 attendees at HubSpot’s annual INBOUND event would probably attest, a major highlight of this year’s event was Michelle Obama’s powerful keynote address. A close second would have to be my breakout session. (Just kidding.)
When you look up the word “snippet” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition you’ll find is, “a small part, piece, or thing; especially: a brief quotable passage.”
So, what does that mean in the context of marketing?
It could carry any number of meanings, really. It could be an excerpt from a larger piece of content in the form of a blog post. It could be a fragment from an ebook used as marketing copy. Or, it could pertain to search engine results.
When you look up the word “snippet” in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition you’ll find is, “a small part, piece, or thing; especially: a brief quotable passage.”
So, what does that mean in the context of marketing?
It could carry any number of meanings, really. It could be an excerpt from a larger piece of content in the form of a blog post. It could be a fragment from an ebook used as marketing copy. Or, it could pertain to search engine results.
When we talk about conversion, we’re essentially talking about an exchange.
Let’s say, for example, you’re offering a piece of downloadable content to your site visitors. It’s “free,” in terms of the lack of money paid for it, but some other information is traded. So, for example, in exchange for this ebook, the visitor fills out a form with a certain amount of contact information. At the end of the day, it’s still a transaction.
But now — 11 years after HubSpot first came into existence — these transactions are starting to become diversified, and so are the reasons why we have them.