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Field notes from the agency.

Essays, playbooks, and field notes on building intelligence layers for B2B companies — by the team that ships them.

UpdatedWeekly · Mondays
Authored byImpulse team · 6 contributors
FormatLong-form · 5–13 min reads

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Inbound Marketing

The Dos and Don’ts of Using Stock Photos in Your Inbound Marketing

Stock photography gets a lot of hate, and to some extent, it’s justified. Stock photos can be expensive, awkward, and downright cheesy. And ...

Remington Begg · Jul 24, 2015
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Email Marketing

Tips for Creating Your Company's First Email Newsletter

We’ve all done it - deleting a company’s email newsletter from your inbox before even reading it. Why? Because it’s not relevant to you, ...

Remington Begg · Jul 23, 2015
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Content Marketing

Fatal Content Marketing Mistakes That Are Holding Back Your Business

Content marketing is an important element in inbound marketing, and it’s something that your business can’t afford to ignore. Unlike ...

Remington Begg · Jul 22, 2015
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SEO

4 Outdated SEO Practices You Might be Doing (But Shouldn’t Be!)

As online marketers, we get the pleasure of working in an ever-changing and ever-growing industry. Just think of the new algorithms, ...

Remington Begg · Jul 21, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make With Your CTAs

A call-to-action button, or CTA, is an instruction to your audience to provoke an immediate response, usually beginning with an imperative ...

Remington Begg · Jul 20, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

4 Benefits of Blogging Your Business Can’t Do Without

Business blogging isn’t a passing fad; it’s a crucial and effective way to bring interested viewers to your website. More and more ...

Remington Begg · Jul 19, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

6 Pieces of Bad Inbound Marketing Advice You Shouldn't Be Listening To

Whether you’re looking for weight loss tips or the best vacation spots, there’s a lot of bad advice out there. Unfortunately, inbound ...

Remington Begg · Jul 18, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

4 Lessons Shark Week Can Teach You About Marketing

Shark Week is back attacking television sets for its 28th year, capturing the imagination of viewers around the world. The shark frenzy ...

Remington Begg · Jul 17, 2015
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Blogging

5 Tips to Create the Perfect Blog Headline

According to David Ogilvy, whom many consider to be the “Father of Advertising”, five times as many people read the headline as the body of ...

Remington Begg · Jul 10, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

Your Guide to Understanding the Lead Conversion Process

Your inbound marketing strategy is only as effective as the number of potential customer’s contact information you are acquiring. Without a ...

Remington Begg · Jul 8, 2015
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Social Media

Viewing Time: Another New Facebook News Feed Change

Facebook has been busy lately updating its News Feed so that it’s even more interesting and relevant for users. The most recent News Feed ...

Remington Begg · Jul 6, 2015
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Social Media

Are Facebook Videos The Solution To Low Organic Reach?

Have you seen your Facebook reach plummet in the last year or so? If so, you’re not alone. It’s been a downhill trend and frustration has ...

Remington Begg · Jul 3, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

Your Marketing Doesn’t Have to Stink: Poo-Pourri Marketing Lessons

There’s a long list of products that aren’t necessarily fun to market, and products that tackle bathroom odors are close to the top of the ...

Remington Begg · Jul 2, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

5 Thank You Page Best Practices You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Hooray! A visitor discovered your landing page via Google, found your content relevant and helpful, and decided to fill out the form to ...

Remington Begg · Jul 1, 2015
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SEO

A Guide to Proper Keyword Implementation

Context, quality, and keywords are all equally important in your inbound marketing efforts. Without the proper keywords, your content won’t ...

Remington Begg · Jun 30, 2015
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SEO

Google Algorithm Cheat Sheet: A Guide to the Biggest Algorithm Updates

Pandas, penguins, and pigeons – oh my! We're not talking about the wild animals here. In fact, we're referring to three of the four major ...

Remington Begg · Jun 29, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

How to Make Historical Optimization Work For You

Simply put, “Historical Optimization” means optimizing your older blog content so it's fresh, up-to-date and has the ability to generate ...

Remington Begg · Jun 28, 2015
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Email Marketing

5 Common Misconceptions about Email Marketing

Inbound marketing is the way of the future, and traditional, seller-focused marketing has begun to be viewed less favorably. Customers in ...

Remington Begg · Jun 27, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

What Type of Dinosaur is Your Marketing Strategy?

From Jurassic World’s huge summer blockbuster release to Chinese farmers finding a 50-foot skeleton, dinosaurs are huge this summer! And ...

Remington Begg · Jun 26, 2015
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Email Marketing

No Popups! 5 ways to grow your email list without them

You just landed on the perfect website. The site fills your needs, is attractive, and easy to navigate. You start reading the content and ...

Remington Begg · Jun 25, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

6 Marketing Lessons to Take from Game of Thrones*

Now that HBO’s hit television show Game of Thrones is off the air, we can look back with nostalgia and learn lessons from one of the ...

Remington Begg · Jun 24, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

Get More Customers Without Spending a Dollar

It has been said that you have to spend money to make money. Marketing, advertising, new staff—these all take money and as a business owner ...

Remington Begg · Jun 24, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

How Developing Buyer Personas Will Benefit Your Brand

Ready to dive right into inbound marketing? Great! But you can’t just start writing that remarkable content without knowing who you are ...

Remington Begg · Jun 23, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

The Psychology Behind a Great CTA

A Great CTA will drive your click Content is the gasoline that drives the inbound marketing car, but all the content in the world won’t ...

Remington Begg · Jun 17, 2015
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Capture, Convert & Engage Your Leads

Are your Landing Pages Effective?

Landing pages are an essential element in any inbound marketing strategy. To put it simply, a landing page is a stepping stone between a ...

Remington Begg · Jun 11, 2015
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Email Marketing

How to Use Email Campaigns to Delight Your Customers

We know you- you want your emails to be opened, read, and clicked. A fantastic email marketing campaign can do two things: turn a casual ...

Remington Begg · Jun 10, 2015