Emma Snider says, “In our recently released research report The State of Inbound 2014-2015: Sales Edition, we asked salespeople to weigh in on their top priorities for the coming year. The number one response wasn’t terribly surprising: Over 30% of those surveyed placed closing more deals on top of the to-do list, followed by improving the efficiency of the sales funnel, and reducing the length of the sales cycle. All good, practical goals. But the opposite side of the chart, showing the priorities that fell to the bottom of the heap,was even more interesting. Notably, that social... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “The 7 Elements of Modern Web Design”. Rachel Sprung says, “Every year, we see new website design elements emerge. Even though it may not be necessary to include all of them, the more you can incorporate into your next redesign, the better your new website will be. You may be asking yourself: But what are the latest features to include? And what elements are important to my website? Well, we’re here to help“. The 7 Elements of Modern Web Design HubSpot  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Sales Managers: Here’s How You Can Ease Your Team Into Social Selling”. Jeff Hoffman says, “For over 20 years, I have spent most of my career largely in a world filled with sales and marketing professionals, and I am often baffled that one group will often embrace a new technique or method, while the other will completely ignore it. No place is this more apparent than in the world of social media. Although salespeople have grown comfortable with the use of LinkedIn as a sales tool (more on WHY later), they seem to avoid blogging... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “User Age Profiles of the Top Social Networks”. Ayaz Nanji says, “The social platform with the youngest global user base is Tumblr, followed by Instagram and Pinterest, according to a recent report by GlobalWebIndex. The analysis was based on survey data from a panel of people with Web access living in four countries at different stages Internet development: India, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. To determine the age profiles of top platforms, GlobalWebIndex asked respondents of various ages to list which social networks... [...]