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Why companies employing an Inbound strategy should look to compliment that with an outbound program or in some cases an Account Based Marketing (ABM) Strategy.

For those companies deploying an inbound marketing strategy, there’s a time horizon, often 3-6 months before seeing meaningful results – so it’s important to find ways to reduce the impact of lower lead flows during on boarding and the roll out of inbound marketing (the so called ‘valley of death’).

Companies need to plan out a program of lead generation activities that will keep the sales pipeline filled, which may not be as cost effective as inbound but is necessary in the short term.

Are you using HubSpot as your inbound marketing and sales software but finding it is not meeting your expectations in all areas?

HubSpot is a great tool for attracting visitors, converting leads, analytics and more. Businesses that use HubSpot's software see their traffic increase by more than 2.5 times (HubSpot). But like any piece of software if you are not using it correctly you may not be getting the full benefit.

One issue experienced by a lot of HubSpot users that we’ve spoken to is that they are getting a large quantity of leads coming through but finding many of these to be of a poor quality, not in their target market or from other countries or industries not relevant to their business.

Sales Enablement is a hot topic and to help sales leaders cut through the noise, we have compiled a list of key points to help you understand if sales enablement is applicable to your business and some pointers as to how to implement it, what tools are out there, and where to start.

Inbound marketing is the process of attracting strangers to your website, converting them into leads, nurturing them until they are ready to buy and closing them as customers.

One of the most important features of any successful inbound marketing strategy is content.

Content draws prospects towards your site and initiates their relationship with your business.  A content strategy turns a static website into the marketing asset that it should be - working hard to deliver a return on investment.

For the Financial Services sector, the inbound methodology provides a really interesting way of thinking about marketing. It’s about educating and informing. It’s about retention. It is not about overt selling. All of which fits entirely with the ethics, rules and regulations governing the financial services industry.

How does marketing automation help financial services marketing ?

The industry is made up of quite different organisations – for example membership-based networks, client facing advisers and intermediaries. Each have their own marketing needs and ways of going to market.

Whether you are a client-facing financial adviser marketing yourself in a defined geography, targeting particular types of consumer or business, or a network looking to recruit and retain members across the country, your marketing needs can be similar: