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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

Create a Contagious Brand

Something that's contagious spreads rapidly, catching on from person-to-person almost instantly. In a marketing context, the advent of the ...

Rachel Begg · Jan 16, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

Top 5 Inbound Marketing Trends To Watch in 2015

As we begin to close out another year, it's easy to see the worlds of digital and inbound marketing have grown tremendously yet again. Not ...

Remington Begg · Dec 29, 2014
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Social Media

Facebook Releases Call-To-Action Buttons For Business Pages

Facebook pages have become a huge destination for people surfing the internet to obtain information and review businesses. A business ...

Remington Begg · Dec 17, 2014
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Social Media

The Pinterest Smart Feed And What It Means For Your Business

You've probably noticed over the last few months that there have been some noticeable changes to Pinterest, especially in the feed of pins ...

Remington Begg · Dec 11, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

6 Inspiring Marketing Lessons We Can Learn From Santa Claus

Santa Claus isn't just the jolly gift giving man who lives in the North Pole and graces us with his presence once a year. He is also a ...

Remington Begg · Dec 9, 2014
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Content Marketing

The 7 Best Gifts To Buy A Content Marketer

'Tis the season for joy and giving! Now that Thanksgiving has passed, you can start thinking about the best part of the year. Whether you ...

Remington Begg · Dec 4, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

4 Marketing Lessons Every Business Can Learn from Tough Mudder

Most people have heard of Tough Mudder . It's a 10-12 mile obstacle course designed to test participants' strength, stamina, teamwork, and ...

Remington Begg · Dec 1, 2014
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Blogging

How To Use "Editorial Use Only" Images For Blog Posts

Author's Note: This blog was last updated in 2014. Want more up-to-date content tips? Read the following:

Remington Begg · Nov 25, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

6 Reasons To Be Thankful For Inbound Marketing

It's that refreshing time of year when everyone starts to talk about what they're thankful for. I'm sure you've seen Facebook statuses of ...

Remington Begg · Nov 20, 2014
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Social Media

How To Gain Subscribers On YouTube

YouTube is a key place for your business to have a strong following if you want to maximize the ROI of your web presence. Every month, over ...

Rachel Begg · Nov 13, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

5 Fantastic Marketing Lessons You Can Learn From #AlexFromTarget

Early this week the Internet was taken by storm, or rather, by a cute teenage Target employee from Texas. You know him as "Alex from ...

Remington Begg · Nov 7, 2014
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Social Media

Facebook’s New Hyper-Local Ads Allow You To Reach People Within A Mile

Facebook’s ad options just got a lot more targeted. Yesterday Facebook announced that businesses can now target ads for people that are ...

Remington Begg · Oct 8, 2014
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SEO

Lessons from Rand Fishkin: SEO Tactics to Love and Leave

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a client ask you, “Why am I not ranking on Google?” It’s a question that we’ve all been asked at least ...

Remington Begg · Oct 6, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

7 Common Misconceptions About Inbound Marketing

It’s no secret that inbound marketing is the way of the future, and that outbound marketing has begun to take its place in the past. Buyers ...

Remington Begg · Oct 1, 2014
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Why Your Entire Organization Should Attend #inbound15 + What I Learned from Inbound 2014

Are you trying to decide which members of your team should be going to HubSpot's annual INBOUND conference? Let me make this very easy for ...

Remington Begg · Sep 26, 2014
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INBOUND Events

Be Remarkable: 3 Lessons from INBOUND 2014

A week ago, I was sitting in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center listening to speakers such as Simon Sinek, Malcolm Gladwell, ...

Remington Begg · Sep 24, 2014
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Social Media

6 Best Practices for Publishing Long-Form Posts on LinkedIn

If you weren’t one of the original top influencers on LinkedIn asked to publish original content, don’t worry, LinkedIn has now opened up ...

Remington Begg · Sep 23, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

I Am The One I’ve Been Waiting For + Other Lessons Learned at Inbound14

If you weren’t at HubSpot’s inbound marketing conference in Boston last week, do yourself a favor and buy your tickets for next year right ...

Remington Begg · Sep 23, 2014
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Content Writers Unite: Announcing HubSpot’s Newest Marketing Tool

The announcement of HubSpot’S CRM and Sidekick kind of stole the show here at INBOUND in Boston. I’ll admit it – these tools are really ...

Remington Begg · Sep 16, 2014
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HubSpot

HubSpot Releases Anonymous Personalization With Its CRM

HubSpot just used their Inbound Conference 2014 as a platform to announce some remarkable news and as inbound marketers we couldn’t be more ...

Remington Begg · Sep 16, 2014
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Website Design

Realtors Using Matrix: Understand Unsubscribes and What it Means to You

As you can see, if someone unsubscribes from your "listing updates" there are 3 different routes. This is important to understand because ...

Remington Begg · Sep 8, 2014
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Content Marketing

How to Write E-mail Content to Avoid the Dreaded Spam Filter

What is the purpose of writing content? There are three main purposes: entertainment, information and promotion. The written word is the ...

Rachel Begg · Sep 5, 2014
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Inbound Marketing

5 Reasons Why Outbound Marketing is Old School

“Times, they are a changing” and if you haven’t heard already, inbound marketing is IN and outbound marketing is OUT. As times have changed ...

Remington Begg · Aug 5, 2014
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SEO

Google Business View: The What, Why, Who, & When

Remington Begg · Jun 26, 2014
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Understanding Your Leads

4 Tips for Developing an Effective Landing Page for Your Business

Even if you have dynamic, engaging blog content and a loyal group of followers on social media, your efforts will go to waste if they’re ...

Rachel Begg · Jun 17, 2014
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Reputation Management

5 Most Epic PR Nightmares to Avoid

What is a public relations professional’s job? Public relations is all about perception. If you are a PR professional, you can't control ...

Rachel Begg · May 20, 2014