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3 Must-Have B2B Market Research Tools That You Need Today
Check out the 3 tools our expert tech marketing team uses every day here at Directive: SEMrush (gather keyword data & look at the competition), SpyFu (understand spend & keywords the competition is targeting), and BuzzSumo (understand your competitors' & your own content strategy).
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Do You Have A Terrible Lead Generation Landing Page? [VIDEO]
Do you have a terrible lead generation landing page? Let’s find out. Don’t miss a video! Subscribe on YouTube! [ Note: Learn or retain more by reading? We got you. Here is the video above in blog format. You’re welcome. ] Does your landing page have external links? You don’t need them. External links are things that you […]
10 Rules for Thriving at an Agency
I worked briefly at an agency a couple of years back and the experience was just alright. I thought I figured agency life out, but oh was I wrong. When you work for the right agency or company, you won’t feel like a chicken running with your head chopped off or looking at the clock […]
The Hard Truth About CTR
Click-through rate (CTR) is one of the first metrics on the monthly report. Everyone obsesses over it, wondering why Campaign A is outperforming Campaign B. But here’s the thing. It’s actually not that important. Not in the grand scheme of things, anyway. It does serve a purpose. It can be a helpful leading indicator to […]
5 B2B Marketing Strategies to Show Up on the First Page of Google without Ranking Organically
There are absolutely no guarantees with SEO. You could spend thousands of hours (and dollars) trying to organically rank for big keywords and still find your website stuck in the SERP swamps. Not every company has the kind of time and resources to sink into SEO, anyway. The reality is that unless you’re already one […]
3 Marketing Activities to Increase Your Google SERP CTR
Keyword rankings used to be more important than they are today. The vast majority of clicks went to the first few positions. So getting into the first three positions meant everything. Even the third position would receive exponentially more clicks than positions six through ten. However, that’s all starting to change. SERPs are personalized to […]
Complete Guide for Guest Blogging on Your Industry’s Top Blogs
Let's dive into my process for publishing on Moz, Wordstream, Marin, Raven, Acquisio, Wordtracker, Convince & Convert, Kissmetrics, and more.
15 B2B Landing Pages That Convert
For the average B2B company, building landing pages that convert is an important job. Your products and services are the lifeblood of your company, so you want to do what you can to convert site visitors to customers immediately. There are many important factors to think about when creating a landing page. A pleasing aesthetic, […]
Grading the Site Speed of 100+ Computer Hardware Sites
Search engine users are not generally known for the lengthy attention spans. The truth is that you only have a matter of seconds to grab your user’s attention and hold onto it. And, even when everything goes well, you only have a brief moment to convert your user into a lead. Timing is everything. Speaking […]
The Complete B2B Marketing Guide
B2B marketing is no easy task. There’s a constant battle between: do I target my exact buyer with account-based marketing or do I go after the larger audience in the hope that my end buyer finds me? The reality is that generating demand for your B2B service or product has become a juggling act of […]
