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Besides having a website and having the budget, what is the single most important
thing a customer needs to have in order to be successful with HubSpot?
THE CONCEPT OF A LEAD!!! If a customer is not using the lead management
software, their churn skyrockets.
DNS
Domain Name System/Server
Tell the internet where to go
Most common CNAME ever is www.
Sub Domain Vs. Sub Directory
- S.Domain: Anything that comes before the domain name is always a subdomain or
CNAME, furthermore a subdomain is hosted on its own server and has its own DNS
settings.
- S.Directory:Anything that comes after .com, it is on the same server and DNS.
When you're practicing inbound marketing, there are 3 key things you need to
consistently do to be successful. What are they?
1. Create remarkable content
2. Share your content
3. Optimize that content to get found (SEO).
(Make things, share those things, then bring people to you (and into your funnel
Inbound marketing methodology
1. GET FOUND ONLINE... Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Blogging,
Making yourself avail!
2. CONVERT VISITORS TO LEADS
3. ANALYZE & IMPROVE
BANT
•Budget: The prospect has confirmed that the value of HubSpot is significantly greater
than the cost. The prospect has the budget to pay for the HubSpot product
•Authority: The HubSpot IMS has gained approval from the individual at the prospect's
organization that will sign the HubSpot purchase authorization form
•Need: The prospect has a critical business goal that our software addresses (more
traffic and more leads isn't enough)
•Timing: The prospect must address the critical business goal within the next month
and, therefore, must setup the HubSpot software immediately. If the critical business
goal is not addressed in the next month, there are serious implications
3 C's
-Concept of a lead...is this a business that needs leads?
-Capacity to create content... Is there the capacity to create this content over time?
-Commitment to DO IT... we could sell a lot of people this stuff, but if they're not going to
use the software over time, that is not good!
, Marketing Mary
11-200 employees
Title: "Director/ VP of Marketing"
Expert at "Outbound marketing, worries about branding, skilled at PR, website built for
25K, uses salesforce.com
Wants to learn more about "inbound marketing", needs easy tools, needs to justify job
with reports
Owner Ollie
Owner of small service or similar business
Knows HIS company/business well, does not know marketing started business on his
own capital, owns or helps do lead gen, sales, finance an HR
Static website with low budget, NO CRM
Wants to get more leads, earn more $$$ wants to work on his business needs simple
tool to make life easy Business owner (founder, president, partner)
Enterprise Erin
Director of Marketing Operations (VP of Marketing)
Large Company (200+)
Marketing Team of 15+
Needs approval for many things...
In one sentence what does Marketing Grader Measure?
Based on a scale of 1-100. A tool that evaluates the ability of your site to be optimized
and convert traffic based on page and off page that's while simultaneously giving
suggestions for improvement
How does a search engine determine placement of results?
Relevance & Authority
Relevance
A measure of how close a match a given web page is to the term being searched
Authority
How authoritative a page is in the eyes of google...heart of the google
algorithm...CALCULATED based on the # of inbound links from other web pages AND
the authority of THOSE pages.
On Page vs Off Page SEO (What Search Engines look at)
- On Page - The first thing that a search engine looks at is the content of your website
IE your keywords. THis accounts for about 25% of your search engine ranking.
- Off Page - Looking for how authoritative your website is...looking at the amount of
inbound links...accounts fora bout 75% of the search engine ranking. On page SEO
gets you on the list...off page gets you to the top of the list.
Top Factors that go into SEO
- On page content
- Links to the page
- Social Media
- Website Usage
3 Types of Keywords