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HubShots Episode 73: Infuriating Signup Offers, Free Stock Images, Audience Targeting

Written by Craig Bailey | 5 March 2017 1:00:19 AM

Welcome to Episode 73 of HubShots!

Welcome to HubShots, the podcast for marketing managers who use HubSpot hosted by Ian Jacob from Search & Be Found and Craig Bailey from XEN Systems.

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Recorded: Monday 20 February February 2017 | Published: Friday 24 February 2017

Shot 1: Inbound Thought of the Week

HubSpot Sales Software Certification

https://certification.hubspot.com/hubspot-sales-software-certification-course

Great way to get everyone on the team on the same page and understand the basics of HubSpot CRM and HubSpot Sales software.  Contains:

  • 5 Classes
  • 2 Hours to do it

Shot 2: HubSpot Marketing Feature of the Week

Shutterstock integration into File Manager:

Shutterstock Integration: 60,000 Royalty Free Images within HubSpot Now Available

If you're a content creator, you know finding the right image can be time consuming and full of legal complexities. Today, we're happy to announce an integration with Shutterstock which will make 60,000 images from their gallery available free within HubSpot.

Try out the Shutterstock integration today!

How it Works:

  • Head to File Manager and click the new 'Stock Images' tab.
  • Within Stock Images, search for an image you would like to add to social messages, or content. Such as, "coffee" or, "exam".
  • Once you find an image, simply click on it and save it to your File Manager.
  • After it's saved, go to your content, or social message and insert it directly from there.

Note: Watermarks will appear on Shutterstock images within search. Once you save these images to your File Manager, watermarks are removed and will not appear in your live content.

Note: we discovered that this is only a subset of the images available on Shutterstock - many of the ‘good’ ones aren’t available.

Shot 3: HubSpot Sales Feature of the Week

Send Emails from Company and Deal Records in HubSpot CRM

You can now send emails from company and deal records in addition to contact records. This change makes it quicker and easier to get your emails into your prospects’ inboxes. Fewer clicks between CRM

records means time saved.

Shot 4: Cafe Consulting

Upcoming Cafe Consulting

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Shot 5: Opinion of the Week

Making sure you thought about the whole signup process and what a free trial means to potential users and customers.

Shot 6: Creative Top 10 of the Week

Ian’s challenge to Craig:

How to differently promote an Australian building materials distributor & supplier to residential, commercial, industrial, building and construction industries.

Good marketing = clever targeting + specific content

  1. Create ideal buyer profiles and personas for each market
  2. Prepare a matrix of personas versus channels where they ‘hang out’
  3. Plan content for each channel and persona => there is always room for a high quality guide eg How To Choose A Supplier for Your Home Renovation -> do this for each buyer profile
  4. Consider utility versus entertainment: think of ways to make the brand memorable, think of your ‘will it blend’ equivalent eg it could be a particular material is incorporated into a campaign showing its particular strengths => video

Residential

  1. Target people on Facebook who are interested in renovation, interior design and promote via FB, Instagram and Messenger => SEM
  2. Target people on Facebook who are builders and promote a key differentiator (choose one of delivery, price, quality) => SEM
  3. Use a service like Task Rabbit to get someone to drive around a suburb and make a note of all the building projects underway (eg sign in front yard), then direct mail each of those builders with details of materials they’ll need in the next stage of the building => direct mail, SMS

Commercial

  1. Target specific commercial industry segments eg hospitals, nursing homes and highlight case studies of happy customers => case study guide
  2. Target specific partner channels eg architects, plumbers, electricians, interior designers and provide guides for each specific type => ebook

Industrial

  1. Target particular construction sites you know have had supply issues and directly contact the site foreman (foreperson) => phone calls
  2. Consider common pain points: eg late delivery and provide differentiated service that will overcome that stress => highlight in partner tenders

Shot 7: Podcast of the Week

PNR - Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose on considering business models for content companies:

http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/medium-wrong-business-model/

They also discuss unethical marketing practices eg fake outrage campaigns that raise awareness of your brand.

Shot 8: Resource of the Week

Jon Loomer has done it again:

http://www.jonloomer.com/2017/02/17/facebook-advertising-success/

Audiences and Targeting

Shot 9: Quote of the Week

‘Think of your content like a gas tank and the promotion of it as the fuel.”

~ Justin Champion

@JustinRChampion

Shot 10: Random Thought of the Week

How to make a sign

Really makes you think about how you communicate with people.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/01/how-to-make-a-sign.html

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Shot 11: Tip of the Week

Claim your Google Business Listing - don’t be like Microsoft who haven’t yet claimed their Australian listing:

Shot 12: Bonus Links of the Week

Other stuff we’ve been reading and recommend, but had to cut from the show:

Stunning read:

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/1/12/tower-of-babel

https://moz.com/blog/keyword-year-content-rankings-hack-whiteboard-friday

http://tomtunguz.com/is-machine-learning-overhyped/

http://chiefmartec.com/2017/02/hackies-hack-crm-abm/

Attribution models:

http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/02/primer-attribution-models/

Some of Craig’s reading:

https://getpocket.com/@craigbailey

Craig’ book recommendations

Disrupted by Dan Lyons - book review coming in the next few weeks

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