How much should we spend? This is one of the most common questions in marketing. As brands put together strategies for how they can reach more customers and grow their business, they often don’t know how to set an exact budget.

For marketing to be effective, it needs a variety of aligned elements that work together to produce a cohesive brand, vision, message, and strategy. To give your marketing what it needs to succeed, here are the eight essential marketing assets your brand should own, manage, and regularly review.

If your brand is trying to reach new customers, social media platforms are THE place to get in front of eager audiences. If you want to break through the millions of pieces of content posted every day, and at the same time satisfy the platform algorithm to even show your content, you may need to incorporate social media advertising in your strategy.

As we get ready to wrap up 2021, we’re also wrapping up our Inbound Takeaways Series. Here is the best advice from our favorite Inbound speakers and how you can use their lessons to drive more success for both you and your brand in 2022.

After an insightful marketing conference hosted by HubSpot in September, this is Part 2 of our 3 Part series of actionable takeaways. We started last month with Content Strategy Priorities, followed by this handy comparison of inbound and account-based marketing, and will conclude next month with some leadership inspiration.

The SpotOn team participated in the 2021 HubSpot Inbound virtual conference. The event was chock full of learnings, best practices, and ideas to take back to all of our stand-out clients. We’re breaking our top takeaways into a 3 part monthly series starting with Content Strategy Priorities, followed by Lead Gen Lessons in November, and then end the year with Inspiration for Business Success. Start here for your top 3 priorities in your content strategy.

Content marketing is a somewhat loaded topic. It can mean a lot of things and encompass many different tactics. So it’s not surprising that a lot of brands and businesses have questions when it comes to content marketing.

We’re here to provide some insights and answer five of the most common content marketing questions.

If you want to improve your marketing, don’t jump right into launching more tactics. Don’t simply create more content, send more emails, or spend more on ads. Instead, take a step back and focus on your strategy. Create an updated marketing strategy to guide your next steps.

Branding is something that organizations usually focus on at the inception of their business. Logo, icons, imagery, taglines, and messaging are all priorities at the launch of a business, and then they are often deprioritized as time goes on. But, branding should remain an ongoing task. Here are a few reasons why an organization might need to rethink their branding strategy and reposition their brand.

You’ve been working on a website development project for weeks. You finally set the site to live and sit back and bask in a job well done, a job completely complete. Well, not so fast. When your website goes live, you have ended one project, but started another. You’ve moved from the website development phase to the website maintenance phase.