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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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Marketing Operations

5 Phrases to Remove from Your Smarketing Team's Vocabulary

Incorporating your Sales and Marketing Team into one Smarketing Team is one of the best ways to form a cohesive effort to improve overall ...

Remington Begg · Feb 4, 2016
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Marketing Strategy

3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Buyer Personas

Researching and creating different buyer personas for your business is a critical aspect of identifying your target customers and clients. ...

Rachel Begg · Jan 25, 2016
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SEO

9 Things You Need To Know About Landing Pages

Landing pages are a stepping stone between a message and an action. They are an essential element in any inbound marketing strategy, as the ...

Remington Begg · Jan 19, 2016
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SEO

7 Outdated Digital Marketing Strategies to Leave Behind in 2016

If your company has adopted a digital marketing strategy, congrats! By incorporating digital marketing strategies that adhere to the ...

Remington Begg · Jan 4, 2016
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Marketing Strategy

Why Contextual Marketing is Essential To Your Business Goals

Not all of your customers are the same. They don’t have the same needs, they don’t approach your site with the same intent, nor do they ...

Rachel Begg · Dec 12, 2015
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Marketing Operations

5 Steps to Ensure Your Buyer Personas Stay Fresh

Evan if you have a limited understanding of the inbound methodology, you probably know how important buyer personas are. They are the ...

Remington Begg · Dec 11, 2015
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Sales Strategy

Why Having Your Sales and Marketing Teams Collaborate Is A Great Thing

Rachel Begg · Dec 3, 2015
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Marketing Operations

Are You Doing All It Takes To Hit Your Sales Goals?

A sound sales strategy is key to success and growth for your small business. While your strategies may change over time based on what ...

Remington Begg · Oct 28, 2015
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Marketing Operations

8 Tips for a Solid Sales and Marketing Alignment

Keeping an open line of communication between your Marketing and Sales people is easy when your company is just starting out. It might even ...

Remington Begg · Oct 14, 2015
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SEO

Recently-Announced Google Apps Updates

Recently at their San Francisco office, Google announced some very exciting changes to their Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides. The new ...

Remington Begg · Sep 14, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

6 Signs You Have an Outdated View of Marketing

Marketing your small business correctly is crucial to your success in the local market, a concept most people agree with. However, that may ...

Remington Begg · Aug 29, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

Tips on How to Sell Florida Real Estate Online

Selling real estate in Florida is a highly competitive field, and agents need every advantage they can get. Effective online marketing ...

Remington Begg · Aug 28, 2015
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Inbound Marketing

3 Ways to Market Your Craft Brewery More Effectively

In case you haven't noticed, craft beer is here to stay. It's still growing rapidly in popularity and from Southwest Florida where HQ lives ...

Remington Begg · Aug 17, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

5 Inexpensive Marketing Tips for Fort Myers Small Businesses

For large brands with big advertising budgets, several hundred dollars is just a drop in the monthly marketing budget. But for ...

Remington Begg · Jul 25, 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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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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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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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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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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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

4 Magical Inbound Marketing Lessons from Harry Potter

Harry Potter has been a cultural phenomenon since 1997 when children were first introduced to Hogwarts and its magical world of witchcraft ...

Remington Begg · Jun 4, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

How to Set Up an Influencer Marketing Strategy

With the growing reach and influence of bloggers and online journalists, it's a smart marketing move to try and get your business mentioned ...

Remington Begg · Jun 2, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

4 Ways To Successfully Market to Millennials

It seems like everyone and their mom are talking about millennials. Who are these so-called millennials? If you don't know yet, you better ...

Remington Begg · May 21, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

5 Metrics Every Marketer Should Monitor Weekly

Tracking and analyzing is essential to your life as a marketer. With that being said, how do you know which metrics to follow? The ...

Remington Begg · Apr 20, 2015
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Marketing Strategy

4 Mistakes To Avoid When Creating Buyer Personas

Buyer personas are one of the most useful tools in inbound marketing. In fact, they should be used as the foundation for all of your ...

Remington Begg · Apr 14, 2015