“Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. - Jay Baer 

Today HubSpot released it's fifth edition of the State of Inbound Marketing Report. This 2013 edition is 164 pages jammed with stats, key insights and takeaways on inbound tactics and strategy that any marketer or business should review. This report is the most comprehensive review of the inbound industry available, with data analysis from over 3,300 participants from 128 different countries, including CEOs, agencies, and marketers.

HubSpot is a leader in the inbound marketing world. They know the ins-and-outs of online marketing, and have created amazing all-in-one marketing software. The marketing software makes all these things possible:

Are you considering redesigning your website? Be sure to think about it from a marketing perspective more than from an IT perspective. In other words, focus on the messaging and content rather than the functionality. 

The whole purpose of lead nurturing campaigns is to get a sale at the end isn’t it? Lead nurturing is more than that though. It’s not just about the sale. It’s about catering to your leads wants and needs by providing the right information and materials at the right time, without overwhelming them and pushing them away with mass amounts of emails, and even phone calls.

Inbound Milwaukee, a HubSpot user group, had another successful meetup. All attendees had the opportunity to hear from two of HubSpot’s experts, Chris O’Donnell, Director and Product Management, and John Nagro, Director of Engineering.

HubSpot and Hootsuite teamed up once again in attempt to break the record for the world’s largest webinar. The goal of 11,000 live participants was set in order to break the record. Webinar attendees were strongly encouraged to tweet about the webinar using the hashtag #InboundSci and provide a link to the webinar.

Inbound marketing is a big process, made up of many different parts. Keeping all those different parts of the process organized so they can be understood can be a challenge on its own.

Showing quality results and success is the best way to report to your clients that your inbound marketing strategy is working.  When creating the marketing and analytic reports, it is important to include the right information.

Having sharable content is one important part when using Twitter. The other part is knowing when to tweet and share your content. Tweeting during the right times increases the reach of your content, and the chance of your links and content to be clicked and shared further.