Inbound marketing is a tremendously effective, modern way of generating leads and customers for many companies across the world.

Unlike outbound marketing, with inbound marketing, you don’t need to fight for your potential customers’ attention. By creating content designed to address the problems and needs of your ideal customers, you attract qualified prospects and build trust and credibility for your business.

One of the most fundamentally important elements of an inbound marketing campaign is the content offer. A content offer is a foundational piece of an inbound program that works to attract interest, convert interested users into leads, and nurture leads into sales opportunities.

Many companies understand the enormous potential of an inbound approach for their company, but they're not sure what elements are necessary to create successful, lead-generating inbound marketing content.

Here are all of the key pieces you need to include in an inbound marketing content offer, why they're important, and how to create them in order to generate successful lead generation results.

The time has come. 2019 will be the year of data-driven digital marketing. I can feel it. For years, marketers have had access to an increasing set of digital metrics, and 2019 is going to be the year when digital marketers finally start using their data to make smart, informed analytics decisions that impact revenue growth. 

To get there, you need to begin by understanding which are the most important metrics to track as part of your digital marketing efforts. There is just so much data available to marketers, it can challenging to know where to focus your time and efforts. 

Tell me if this sounds familiar. Your team has recently implemented a marketing automation solution, but six months in or even a year later, you're still not experiencing substantial gains in efficiency, lead generation, and revenue growth. You're probably feeling a little shortchanged, and with good reason.

If you're in this situation, don't panic. You don't have to settle for mediocre results. Game-changing technology like marketing automation should deliver game-changing results. 

Start by identifying the root cause of your lackluster results. Once you know what you're dealing with, there are steps you can take to quickly turn things around and start capitalizing on your marketing automation investment. 

The world’s most popular marketing automation platform, HubSpot, is primarily known for its ability to help marketing teams, but there are so many powerful facets of the software that are designed to supercharge sales for your company.

Many sales leaders are cautiously optimistic about marketing automation software like HubSpot, but they're just not sure how the technology applies to them. 

HubSpot includes a full set of sales productivity tools that help streamline and speed up your sales process. These technology tools allow sales teams to spend more time selling, shortening average sales cycles and increasing sales team happiness. Let’s take a look at some of the top tools helping sales teams fuel performance.

What's the Best SEO Strategy for 2019?

SEO is an essential component of driving qualified traffic and leads to your website. But so many companies don't have a good handle on what SEO even means today. It's not completely their fault. There is so much misinformation about SEO out there, and it's tough to sort through what's current and what's accurate.

What makes SEO such a tough discipline is that it is ever-evolving, with search engines releasing updates all the time and often without warning. The best way to stay ahead of search engine algorithm updates is simply to adhere to best practices from the beginning. 

So, let's take a look at what SEO best practices look like as marketers gear up to head into 2019. Combine these powerful forces to put together the best SEO strategy your company has ever seen.

There is a method to the madness when it comes to getting your website visitors to take a certain action or behave a certain way. It turns out there is a very predictable way that people react to triggers, cues, signals, and direction. Leveraging the right visual and messaging components allows you to more effectively engage with prospects and directly influence their behavior.

And it doesn't require a total overall of your website. There are a series of impactful tweaks you can make that will allow you to strategically influence the behaviors you want from your website visitors.

Webinars engage users, showcase your brand's expertise, and are great go-to offers to nurture leads further along in their journey. You can use webinars for any stage of the funnel, so long as your topic is educational and valuable to your audience.

Webinars can be used strategically at all stages in the buyer's journey to improve your lead generation performance. The lead generation potential of a well-planned, well-executed webinar is huge.

Marketing automation exists primarily to help companies generate revenue. Because, really, what's the point of marketing if it's not generating revenue? The way we see it, marketing shouldn't even be happening at your company if it's not strategically generating revenue in a predictable and scalable way.

Technology in the marketing and sales space is evolving rapidly, with more capabilities and innovations emerging every day.

The disruption potential of these major technologies is tremendous. In a space that has already been massively revolutionized in the era of digital, marketing and sales leaders must prepare to adapt their technologies, business models, and personnel in order to keep up with the future.

Here are four of our favorite emerging technologies on a path sure to intersect with marketing and sales very soon.

NBC's The Office is one of the most memorable TV shows of all time. Michael Scott's misadventures as regional manager of Dunder Mifflin Scranton are chronicled over several years, creating countless hilarious predicaments and situations that actually present great learning opportunities for marketers.

Here are fifteen marketing lessons from The Office that you might have missed.