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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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Social Media

5 Ways to Use Social Proof to Build Brand Trust, with Real Examples!

In his iconic 1984 book, Influence, psychologist Robert Cialdini focuses on the art of persuasion and the psychology behind why we are ...

Remington Begg · Oct 5, 2020
FIG. 02 HubSpot Custom Objects The DNA of Your Company Operating System
Marketing Operations

HubSpot Custom Objects The DNA of Your Company Operating System

If you’re reading this right now you likely are in the same boat as many companies: You’ve built or use many different applications and ...

Remington Begg · Sep 22, 2020
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Content Marketing

How to Connect Content to Cash

Content marketing is one of the most popular and fastest-growing strategies in the inbound methodology. And yet, a lot of content writers, ...

Remington Begg · Aug 31, 2020
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HubSpot

How to Set Up HubSpot: 8 Tutorials to Get You Started

Setting up HubSpot can be daunting. While you may find other tools that are much more complicated and confusing, there’s still a lot to ...

Remington Begg · Aug 25, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

How to Plan Your Marketing Budget for the Quickest ROI

No matter if you have control over your allocated marketing funds or not, you can efficiently utilize your marketing budget by coming up ...

Remington Begg · Aug 12, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

How Much Should I Expect to Spend on Digital Marketing

As digital marketing continues to grow and take over market share from traditional marketing, many marketing managers and small business ...

Remington Begg · Aug 10, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

How Brick and Mortar Brands are Pivoting to E-Commerce to Survive

From major, national consumer brands shuttering stores to the news of Amazon profits during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, brick and mortar ...

Remington Begg · Aug 4, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

10 Categories of Tools to Help Your Digital Marketing Strategy

The landscape of marketing technology (MarTech) and all of the tools included is nearly infinite. Imagine trying to see the far reaches of ...

Remington Begg · Jul 23, 2020
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Content Marketing

How to Create Content That Will Grab Your Audience’s Attention

With over 2 billion websites on the internet, it’s safe to say the competition is REAL. And while not all of those websites are your direct ...

Remington Begg · Jul 23, 2020
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SEO

What are Buyer Personas and Can Creating them Accelerate My Marketing?

“You gotta know your buyer!” That’s a statement we hear over and over again, to a point where it starts to lose its meaning. Well, ...

Remington Begg · Jul 20, 2020
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SEO

What a Child’s Nursery Rhyme Can Teach You About the Customer Buyer’s Journey Stages

What’s more frustrating than being pressured to “Buy, Buy, Buy!!”? If the very first thing a visitor gets on your website is a sales pitch, ...

Remington Begg · Jul 16, 2020
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Inbound Marketing

A Marketing Manager’s Guide to Getting Buy-In for Digital Initiatives

Are you a frustrated marketing manager at a company where your management team holds back on digital marketing?

Remington Begg · Jul 10, 2020
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Branding

Brand Building Strategies to Attract Customers

Originally published in 2018, we've updated this post with new information and links for 2020. So you want to build your brand and attract ...

Remington Begg · Jul 8, 2020
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Marketing Operations

How to Find the Time to “Do It All” in Marketing Today

We all get the same number of hours in a day. 24. Most of us have similar schedules for work time, too. 8-10. And yet somehow there are ...

Remington Begg · Jul 6, 2020
FIG. 15 Ideal-Buyer-Profiles-Buyer-Personas
Sales Strategy

Ideal Client Profiles VS Buyer Personas

Originally published in 2018. Updated with links and info in 2020. The sad truth is that most companies and sales teams have NO idea who ...

Remington Begg · Jul 2, 2020
FIG. 16 Rethink Your Website: Customer Experience Platform with a RevOps Perspective
HubSpot CMS

Rethink Your Website: Customer Experience Platform with a RevOps Lens

We've taken a deep dive into the Customer Experience Platform as we see it, through the eyes of the website and each section of the ...

Remington Begg · Jul 1, 2020
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HubSpot CMS

Rethink Your Website: The Service Side of a Customer Experience Platform

This is part 4 of our Customer Experience Platform series. You can see previous installments here: Part 1: An Introduction to a Customer ...

Remington Begg · Jun 29, 2020
FIG. 18 Rethink Your Website: The Sales Side of a Customer Experience Platform
HubSpot CMS

Rethink Your Website: The Sales Side of a Customer Experience Platform

This is part 3 of our Customer Experience Platform series. You can see part 1 here and part 2 here. In this installment we explore the ...

Remington Begg · Jun 26, 2020
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HubSpot CMS

Rethink Your Website: The Marketing Side of a Customer Experience Platform

Welcome to part two of exploring using your website / CMS as a customer experience platform. You can go back to part 1, the introduction, ...

Remington Begg · Jun 24, 2020
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HubSpot CMS

Rethink Your Website: An Intro to a Customer Experience Platform

It’s time to change your way of thinking. Your website and its content management system (CMS) is more than content. It can affect the ...

Remington Begg · Jun 22, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

The Real Metrics to Measure in Online Marketing

Your online marketing needs focus. Without it, you’re just “throwing it all out there” and hoping for the best.

Remington Begg · Jun 11, 2020
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Sales Strategy

5 Killer Sales and Marketing Video Strategies

Do you have a hard time leveraging video for your sales and marketing efforts? If you ask most sales and marketing professionals out there, ...

Remington Begg · May 29, 2020
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Website Design

What is Growth-Driven Design (The Best Website Redesign Method)

TL;DR: A growth-driven design approach to your website cuts down on time, cost, and risk by focusing on tangible strategy, quick wins, and ...

Remington Begg · May 20, 2020
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Inbound Marketing

How Digital Marketing Continues to Change

Marketing is the beginning of a conversation with ideal prospects; it can come from many different avenues. If marketing is the business ...

Remington Begg · May 14, 2020
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Mobile Design

8 Ways to Use Mobile UX Design to Improve the User Experience

Web designers typically design for desktop viewers when creating website layouts. But, while there’s no doubt that a sleek landscape layout ...

Remington Begg · May 12, 2020
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Marketing Strategy

In-House Marketing Versus Marketing Agency

As a marketing manager, you’ve got your hands full. You’re ready to scale up your marketing efforts, maybe even add to your team. But ...

Remington Begg · May 8, 2020