INBOUND ACCELERATOR

Keeping up with what is happening in the marketing world (and technology world, and media world, and all the other interconnected industries we need to understand and work within) can be challenging. We’ve all heard about how the most successful businesspeople dedicate time each day to learning.

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Topics: Marketing Lessons, podcasts, B2B Marketing

When it’s time to find extra resources—staffing, expertise, technology—for your company’s marketing strategy, there are many options and a number of considerations that will influence your decision.

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Topics: Collaboration, Public Relations, Strategy, Writing, Management, Marketing Lessons, Integrated Marketing & PR, Agency Partners, Design

Earlier this year, I wrapped up a series of 15 lessons I’ve learned in 15 years as the owner of an independent public relations and marketing agency. Not surprisingly, I’ve learned more than 15 lessons along the way.

You can find the 15 BIG lessons here:

Lessons From 15 Years Of Marketing Agency Ownership series.

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Topics: Marketing Lessons

Marketing channels change. Marketing tactics change. Marketing content changes.

But some things about marketing are no different now than they were when I founded JONES more than 15 years ago. Or when I got my first job in marketing and PR a few years before that.

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Topics: Infographics, Marketing Lessons

Because life shouldn’t be all business all the time, and I’ve taken a serious approach over the last year to sharing 15 marketing lessons I’ve learned since founding JONES more than 15 years, today I want to lighten the mood.

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Topics: Marketing Lessons

Ask young marketing or PR professionals about their long-term dreams for their careers, and they will likely describe how they want to own their own agencies. Work for themselves. Have complete creative freedom.

Many of them may one day do just that. Starting your own agency is easy—hang out a shingle (aka create a website), take a current connection with you, and bingo! You’re in business.

Starting is easy. Sustaining an independent marketing and PR agency is hard.

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Topics: Marketing Lessons

When you are trying to cut through the clutter of an exponentially expanding amount of online content, it has to be great (as I talked about in my last lesson). One way of making your content great is to base it on original research.

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Topics: Healthcare Marketing, Surveys, Marketing Lessons, Content Strategy, Education marketing, Client Success Stories

 

Any good integrated marketing and PR program is built on a foundation of planning, strategy and interdepartmental collaboration. But the bricks, steel, windows and doors that make up the structure the world sees are composed of content.

Content is essential, whether you are talking about basic website text on the homepage and in FAQs, downloadable whitepapers, reports, and other resources, or blog posts, bylined articles contributed to industry media, social media updates, or even videos and infographics and other images. Content matters.

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Topics: SEO, Healthcare Marketing, Content Creation, Marketing Lessons, Life Sciences, Integrated Marketing & PR, Education marketing, Client Success Stories

Allow me to date myself a bit. Obviously, if I’m offering insights into 15 years of owning my own marketing firm (plus my years with other agencies and in-house before that), I’ve been around a little while, though 20 years, or even a bit more, truly doesn’t feel like all that long.

Until, that is, I think about the changes in how we do, well, almost everything, as it relates to telecommunications.

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Topics: Content, Audits, Marketing Lessons, Client Success Stories, Telecom Marketing

Congratulations! Another year full of successes celebrated and lessons learned has passed, and the next round of opportunities lies ahead. It’s been busy, hasn’t it?

If you are like me, you missed a few things along the way — I get it. With more than 100 new posts on the Inbound Accelerator, I doubt you had time to read every one. But there are a few I think you really need to see, so I’ve rounded them up together. These are the posts our visitors and followers read the most, and for good reason. This top 10 list touches on social media, contributed articles, how to create great content, and how to use that content in a complete integrated public relations and inbound marketing program.

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Topics: Social Media, Content, Marketing Lessons