10. Challenges & Opportunities
Budget Use Brain,
Cuts Not Budget
Longer Cheap Lead
Sales Cycles
S l C l Nurturing
N t i
Lower Lead Generate
Close Rates
Close Rates More Leads
More Leads
15. Outbound vs. Inbound Marketing
1. Find a “targeted” list 1. Do inbound marketing
2. Call, email
2 Call email, mail the list 2.
2 Attract people to your
3. Most of them (97%) business
have no interest 3.
3 Qualify out those that
4. Those that have are interested, but not
interest need to be a fit for you (50%)
qualified, and sold on 4. Engage with those that
your company are interested and a fit
Lots of time, effort Don’t waste time,
and money wasted effort, money on
on uninterested uninterested
prospects prospects
16. Outbound Marketing
1. Find a “targeted” list • 10,000 people on list
2. Call, email
2 Call email, mail the list • Mail email call at cost
Mail, email,
3. Most of them (97%) of ~$5+ each
have no interest • $50 000 investment
$50,000
4. Those that have • 300 respond to this
interest need to be outbound marketing
qualified, and sold on • 200 are qualified leads
your company
• Cost per lead = $250
17. Inbound Marketing
1. Do inbound marketing • Software + tools ~$4K
2.
2 Attract people to your • Invest 25% of your time
business for 3 months
3.
3 Qualify out those that • 400 people download
are interested, but not your ebook
a fit for you (50%) • 200 are qualified leads
4. Engage with those that
are interested and a fit • Cost per lead = $20
• Cost including time @
$75K per year = $45
per lead
18. Outbound vs. Inbound Marketing
Outbound Inbound
Marketing Marketing
Cash Cost $50,000 $4,000
Cash Cost per $250
$ $20
$
Lead
Time 25 Hours 10‐15 Hours /
Investment Week
Total Cost per $255 $45
Lead
33. Tips You Might Not Know
• Start before you ha e a prod ct
o have product
• Start before you have a website
• Start before you have anything
• All you need: a rough market and some ideas
• A blog can launch a company
34. Biggest Blogging Mistake
Don’t use a “free” URL from a blog service
• HubSpot.blogspot.com – NO!
• HubSpot typepad com – NO!
HubSpot.typepad.com
• HubSpot.wordpress.com – NO!
• Blog.HubSpot.com – Yes
• HubSpot.com/Blog – Yes
• SmallBusinessHub.com – Yes
35. Blog as Lead Nurturing
• No spam filters on RSS
• RSS follo s to ne jobs email doesn’t
follows new jobs,
• People can comment
• Build a relationship with your company
• Easily shared content
• Side benefits
• Social media performance
• S O performance
SEO f
37. Participate in Q&A
• Facebook
Discussions
• Yahoo!
Answers
• LinkedIn
Q&A and
Discussions
38. Q&A / Discussion Forums
• Short tho ghtf l ans ers
Short, thoughtful answers
• Links to (your) blog and tools
• First answers are better
• Long term, long tail strategy
40. 25% of SEO = On Page (Visible)
• Page Title
• URL
• H1,H2,H3 tags
• Page Text
• Bold
41. 25% of SEO = On Page (Invisible)
• Description
• Keywords
• Alt text on images
42. 75% of SEO = Off Page
• Recommendations from friends
1.
1 “I know Mike Volpe”
2. “Mike Volpe is a marketing expert”
3.
3 You trust the person saying this
• Links are online recommendations
1. A link: www.HubSpot.com
2.
2 Anchor text: Internet Marketing
3. Link is from a trusted website
44. Start Groups
14,000 M
14 000 Membersb 2,100 Members
#6 in search for “marketing”
45. Build a Group
• Generic Title (“Pro Marketers”)
• Invite employees, customers and friends
• Post on your blog, website, etc.
• Then it spreads virally (or repeat the steps)
(or,
50. Priorities
• Cut cost per lead
• Cut low
C t lo ROI programs
• Cut non-lead gen activities
• Improve lead quality
• Increase lead generation
• Focus on ROI measurement
• Use inbound marketing…
51. Recession Marketing Plan
• Buy HubSpot
B H bSpot
• Buy “New Rules of Marketing & PR”
• Buy video camera
• Dedicate time to inbound marketing
• Cost: $20/day for 2009
52. Thank You!
Learn more about HubSpot:
Learn more about HubSpot:
http://www.hubspot.com/demo
Become a Fan:
Become a Fan:
http://facebook.hubspot.com
Mike Volpe Ellie Mirman
VP Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Manager
Twitter: @mvolpe Twitter: @ellieeille
54. Inbound Marketing System
Content
SEO Management Blogs
Landing Social
Pages Media
Lead
Intelligence
CRM
55. Getting Found: On-Page SEO
Keyword Grader
• Determine what k
D i h keywords tod
optimize your pages around based
on relevance, search volume, and
how difficult it will be to rank on the
first page of Google
• Identify critical long tail words (high
conversion rates, low competition)
• Monitor your rank against
competitors for each
keyword/phrase
• Determine the specific page on
y
your site that is ranking for each
g
keyword(phrase) and how to make
further improvements
56. Getting Found: Off-Page SEO
Link Grader
• Identify opportunities to generate
more return from your existing
links
• Monitor your live inbound links
and which inbound links are
producing the most value for you
• Aggregate your competitors
inbound links to discover new link
building opportunities that you
have not taken advantage of
57. Getting Found: SEO for Your Whole Site
Page Grader
• Analyze each page of your site to
see which produce the most
value for you (traffic, leads,
ranked k
k d keywords, li k )
d links)
• Automatically recommend
improvements to optimize each
page of your site
f it
58. Getting Found: Blogosphere
Blogging
• Enable
E bl easy, natural process to
l
consistently update content on
your site, achieve more frequent
search engine crawls, and
improve authority
i th it
• Develop an audience of email
and RSS subscribers
• Attract more inbound links (“link
( link
bait”)
• Write keyword rich content to
attract more high conversion rate
traffic
60. Lead Intelligence
• Track the full path of all of your
leads through your web site
• Automatically develop more
intelligence around each lead
(number of visits, time on site,
pages visited, comments written
on blog, documents downloaded,
g
information submitted via web
forms created)
• Increase close rate through
improved l d quality
i d lead lit
61. Making Better Marketing Decisions
Analytics
• Integrated reports in HubSpot
software allow you to understand
the effects of all your marketing
activities so you can optimize
ti iti ti i
your efforts and allocate your time
and money towards the programs
that generate the most leads and
sales for your business
62. Actionable Marketing Insights
HubFeed
• HubFeed “watches” your Internet
marketing efforts and delivers
highlights and actionable insights
based on your d t
b d data
63. HubSpot Methodology and Consulting
• Our Internet Marketing Consultants
are experienced in all aspects of
online marketing and specifically
trained on HubSpot's products and
HubSpot s
methodologies
• Consulting sessions focus on these
topics based on the specific needs
of the client
65. Thank You!
Learn more about HubSpot:
Learn more about HubSpot:
http://www.hubspot.com/demo
Become a Fan:
Become a Fan:
http://facebook.hubspot.com
Mike Volpe Ellie Mirman
VP Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Manager
Twitter: @mvolpe Twitter: @ellieeille