After in-person events and conferences were put on hold for over two years, Experience Inbound is coming back in full force and will be better than ever!

Do you know about today’s most effective marketing and sales strategies and tactics?
Do you want to learn the best data-driven strategies that can help grow your business?
Maybe you want to better understand how social media platforms like LinkedIn can generate sales….

This year’s Experience Inbound event will answer all these questions and more!

Guest Blog by Todd Hockenberry, of Top Line Results and co-author of Inbound Organization

HubSpot just released their all new HubSpot Video product that allows customers to host videos throughout the HubSpot platform. This is available in HubSpot Pro and Enterprise versions of the Sales, Marketing, and Service Hubs. Host and manage video files inside the HubSpot platform, and embed those videos into website pages, blog posts, and social media channels with just one click.

Bringing together our marketing community to master the latest tips, tricks and tactics from our industry's thought leaders is what Experience Inbound marketing conference is all about.

This year, we flew in 12 of the best marketing speakers on the national circuit. The day started with Jay Acunzo, giving an amazing, high-energy keynote that set the tone for the day.  Then, our speakers were turned loose to share their secrets on all things inbound marketing - covering all areas from email to SEO to content to analytics to video, and much more.

What were the top takeaways? Who better to ask than the pro marketers who attended the conference and invested their day in getting up to date on the latest in inbound marketing. We asked them one question:

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP MARKETING TAKEAWAYS FROM EXPERIENCE INBOUND '18?
Their contributions are, in a word, awesome! Whether you attended the event or not, go ahead and grab some new marketing tactics - compliments of our participants:

What do you get when you mix 400 marketers with twelve of the best marketing speakers in the country?

Bringing together a room full of marketers no doubt creates incredible energy and opportunities, but add in some of the best marketing thought leaders and you can be assured that you'll walk away with a valuable list of actionable takeaways. 

Experience Inbound did just that. And we didn’t want the momentum to stop there so we reached out to 20 marketing and business pros that attended the event and asked them one simple question:

WHAT ARE YOUR TOP MARKETING TAKEAWAYS FROM EXPERIENCE INBOUND '17?

Their contributions are astounding! Whether you attended the event or not, go ahead and grab some new marketing tactics - compliments of our participants:

This post was originally shared by Weidert Group on April 19, 2017.

Among the speakers at Experience Inbound 2017 is Jen Spencer, VP of Sales & Marketing for Phoenix-based Allbound. She joined the startup in 2015 and helped bring the company to its first $1 million in revenue in less than a year using her innovative inbound marketing program. She will share how she did it during her presentation at the event. 

If you are a marketer that has incorporated social advertising into your marketing plan, it’s likely that you’ve heard about Facebook’s new conversion pixel that was rolled out in the summer of 2015. If you are new to social advertising, it is important to understand how conversion measurement allows you to track actions people take after viewing your Facebook ads across various devices. By creating a Facebook pixel and adding it to the pages of your website where conversions happen (like a check-out or thank you page), you’ll get a clear picture of who converts as a result of your Facebook advertising.

Just when marketing professionals thought they had a handle on using social media to build brand recognition and sales, social advertising gets thrown into the mix and adds both optimism and confusion. While social media has been an effective way for individuals to learn about new products, brands and services, more and more marketers are accepting the shift in advertising strategy it presents. With the opportunity for hyper-focused segmentation and visual interaction that social ads offer, the percentage of overall marketing budgets spent on social will jump from 10.7 percent in 2015 to 14 percent in 2016. Consider the following stats when making decisions on the best social ad platforms for your product or service.

Over the past 8 years, inbound marketing has become a movement adopted by a large majority of professionals in various industries from B2C to B2B. It wasn’t until recent years that this wildly successful way of attracting and nurturing prospects and customers has extended beyond the marketing department. Organization leaders in all department areas including HR, business development, training, IT and more, continue to lean on inbound philosophies to achieve goals. While these areas of business have been influential, one department that has likely made the strongest impact by using inbound marketing strategy is sales.

Building buyer personas is one of the critical first steps to developing and implementing a lead generating marketing campaign for your business or client. Identifying your ideal customer and interviewing key individuals or groups of individuals who align with the characteristics of that ideal customer, is the spot-on way to gather information needed to create the most detailed persona outline. Individuals or groups may include current customers, prospective customers, and third party networks. Information collected that will provide valuable insight for your persona development may include both demographic and psychographic information, needs, interests, goals, challenges,pain points, social networks used, areas where the prospect interacts with others or does research online, and more.