Posts Tagged ‘Layoffs’

HubSpot’s 10 Best Conversations of the Year

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

On this last day of the year, I thought I’d take a look at BlogGrader to find the posts that have generated the most discussion on the HubSpot Blog this year.

The list, posted below, surprised me.

I thought it would be all posts about social media and Twitter. It’s not. It’s actually a good balance of conversations about SEO, blogging and social media.

Still, there is one thread that runs through all of these articles: They’re all about getting found by customers, not finding and interrupting customers.

That’s a big deal. People aren’t talking about finding customers with cold calling and direct mail. They’re talking about creating content, optimizing it and sharing it so that customers find them.

They’re talking about inbound marketing.

Keep that in mind for 2009.

 

Article  Number of Comments 
Social Media Marketing Webinar Highlights 92
Did You Graduate From Link Building High School Yet? 73
You Oughta Know Inbound Marketing 65 
Why Leaving Blog Comments Is Not A Link Building Strategy 61
So You Call Yourself an SEO Guru? Figure This One Out. 54
Top 10 Ways NOT to Spend $12 Million on Marketing 52
State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report 49
Alexa Rankings Change Dramatically: Initial Analysis From 10,000+ Websites 48
Inbound Marketing & the Next Phase of Marketing on the Web 41
Plan Your Internet Marketing Strategy Before Launching Your Website 41 

 

What’s your blog’s best conversation of 2008? Share it in the comments below, and we’ll update this with our favorites later in the day.

UPDATE:

Eric Guerin shared this: How Twitter Can Save the World 

And Jeri Cartwright shared this: Layoffs Can Lead To “Scorched Ego.” Ten Steps To Heal And Thrive While Unemployed 

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GeekCast 43: Valley of the Shadow of Death

Friday, November 7th, 2008

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GeekCast 43 includes the full squad of Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson. The show starts with a discussion of Shawn’s new BlackBerry Bold (on AT&T).

However, the cast moves into a discussion of Valley economics vs affiliate marketer economics, spurred on by a remembrance of Jason Calacanis’ keynote at Affiliate Summit West last year. Companies and personalities such as FatWallet, Scott Jangro, Zac Johnson are compared to Mahalo, Twitter and Revision3. It’s a great segment, and probably one of the best in GeekCast history.

Sam then whines on about Twitter for too long.

There’s also a lengthy but good discussion on branding mostly between Jim and Lisa hammering out if branding even matters any more. At the end, it is agreed that Lisa will now start wearing bacon pins everywhere.

Shawn recaps the happy mood at this week’s Ad:Tech in NYC and then the team scatters off into a million little discussions about all varieties of geekiness before settling on netbooks (with some promises of coming affiliate sites designed around them).

The show runs a golden-tie filled 71 minutes.

Show Notes:

Listen to the show at http://geekcast.fm/archives/geekcast-43-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/.