About this Episode At IMPACT, we talk with business leaders every day who are frustrated. […]
Category: Digital Marketing
24 Best Content Marketing Tools and Apps for 2024
If you create content for a living to drive traffic, leads, and sales for your […]
Essential Practices for a Secure Workplace [Endless Customers Podcast S.1 E.14]
About this Episode AI technology comes with amazing capabilities — and some troubling downsides. But, […]
HubSpot Products That Will Transform Your Business [Endless Customers Podcast S.1 Ep.13]
About this Episode Every other month, we’re joined by Jess Palmeri, resident HubSpot expert, to […]
Lead With Accountability To Drive Sales [Endless Customers Podcast S.1 Ep.12]
About this Episode Sales managers are responsible for sales performance. This makes perfect sense — […]
Communication Failures Are Hurting Your Bottom Line [Endless Customers Podcast S.1 Ep. 11]
About This Episode: Your sales reps can have all the product knowledge in the world, […]
The 10 You Really Should Be Tracking and Monitoring
In 2024, social media is engrained in our lives. For many, the first thing they […]
Grow Your Audience Without Ads
When most businesses think about their approach to social media, they think about ads.
7 Best Social Media Management Tools
I’m not your typical social media junkie. I don’t have a Twitter/X, Tumblr, or TikTok […]
Is a Content Manager Salary Really Worth the Investment?
If you’ve read They Ask, You Answer, you know how critical the right content is […]
5 Examples of Companies with Great Multi-Brand Websites
If you’re like me, you’ve spent hours digging into what makes a website stand out. […]
A Content Marketer’s Guide to ChatGPT and AI-generated Content
The marketing world has been buzzing with the implications of ChatGPT and other AI-generated content […]
How is IMPACT Different From Other Agencies?
We speak with organizations every day who tell us the same story: “We believe in […]
13 Tips for Creating More Professional Video Content
We’ve all been there at some point. Searching Google or YouTube, desperately looking for a […]
Building a Healthy ‘Culture of Video’ At Your Company
Back in 2021, the folks at EW Motion Therapy made a choice. After a few […]
How to Create a ‘Video Brand Style Guide’ for Your Business
Whatever you sell, your customers want to see it in videos. It doesn’t matter if […]
9 SEO Best Practices for Improved Organic Traffic in 2024
If you’ve been paying attention to the world of search engine optimization (SEO) recently, you […]
6 Smart Ways to Speed Up Your Content Creation with AI
Your content is the soul of your brand, and that’s not something to take lightly. […]
Sales and Marketing Videos Guaranteed to Get Results [+ Examples]
These days you can’t make your way through marketing blogs without coming across a post […]
‘Business is Booming — So Why Should I Invest in Marketing?’ (+ Video)
For far too long, marketing has been seen as a business expense.
4 Questions for Defining a Winning Value Proposition in 2024
Think back to when you last fell in love with a business. Maybe you were […]
Why ‘They Ask, You Answer’ Success is All About Culture
They Ask, You Answer keeps growing. From its initial roots as a last-ditch effort to […]
The Story of 'They Ask, You Answer'
I could feel the anxiety and sense of hopelessness start to overcome me. Like every […]
4 Smart Ways to Fix Your Sales Presentations
I think we can all agree there’s little worse than a hard sale pitch.
How One Videographer Shot 65 Videos in 2 Days
Kevin O’Leary, known for his role on Shark Tank and the number of businesses he […]
The Sales Problem Everyone Ignores: An Untrained Sales Force
The entire sales industry is too proud to admit it, but there’s a bit […]
20 Value Proposition Examples that Every Marketer Can Learn From in 2024
Your future buyers need to understand how you can help them.
What Your 2024 Business Video Strategy Must Include
January gets all of the attention when it comes to New Year’s resolutions — mostly […]
How to Talk About Price on Your Website (+ examples)
Let’s say you’re buying something you’ve never purchased before — and this is a […]
Social Media Strategy: How to Know Where Your Customers Are
Where does your audience spend its time online?
Best Business Blog Topics to Drive Traffic, Leads, and Sales (+ examples)
Whether you call it content marketing, inbound marketing, digital marketing, or business blogging, a common […]
Which is Better for Your Business Website?
When it comes to marketing content management systems (CMS), there are two names that you […]
How Building a Custom GPT Saved Me 20 Hours a Week
For me, it was sometime last year when AI went from plaything to serious work […]
HubSpot Updates: New Tools and Features to Kick Off 2024
Welcome to the new year! As the lead HubSpot trainer at IMPACT, I keep my […]
Sales Training: How Much Does It Cost?
Every year, it gets more and more expensive to run your business. To keep up, […]
Content Marketing Will Fail Without Help From The Sales Team
“Content is a marketing thing.” I hear this all the time from companies, and I […]
How to Reduce Your Turnaround Time for Graphic Design Projects
Reduce Your Turnaround Time for Graphic Design Whether you are a graphic designer or a […]
What is ‘Assignment Selling’? Using Content to Close Deals Faster
One of the most frequent complaints we hear about content marketing is how long it […]
5 Real-Life Sales Scenarios Where You Need Assignment Selling (w/ Templates)
For many, assignment selling is a game-changing solution to one of the biggest sales peeves: […]
Building the Perfect Sales and Marketing Team in 2024
Marketing teams come in all shapes and sizes. At IMPACT, we have an 8-person marketing […]
Website Conversions in 2024 — STOP, START, KEEP
It’s 2024. Content marketing is table stakes. Everyone knows it. Everyone does it. And in […]
How to Humanize Your Content While Using AI
We hear this all the time: Keep your content human, even if you’re using AI. […]
HubSpot Update September 2023: What’s New from INBOUND
Each week, I find myself knee-deep in a dozen different client portals. But this last […]
What Is a ‘Learning Center’ and Why Does My Website Need One?
There’s a good chance that your business blog is terrible.
Can I Use AI Tools To Build My New Website?
All the buzz around AI-powered web buildings and coding tools has a lot of business […]
Content Marketing and AI-Powered Generative Search
AI’s impact on traditional search and SEO is twofold. First off, ChatGPT makes it easier […]
What Should a 2024 Content Marketing Strategy Include?
Content strategies can be a lot like New Year’s Resolutions. You ponder how the year […]
10 Marketing Objective Examples To Guide and Focus Your Strategy
As marketers, there will never be a shortage of things to work on — strategy, […]
Why Short-Form Video Is a Vital Tool for Reaching Your Audience
This year, 90% of global advertisers increased their investment in short-form video content. And that’s […]
Authentic Video Marketing in The Age of Deepfake Technology
You know your company should be doing more video. You’ve known it for years. But […]
How to Make High-Quality Sales Videos, Even On A Budget
Today, every professional needs to be comfortable on camera. From Zoom interviews to in-house marketing […]
7 Video Production Equipment Essentials Your Business Needs in 2024
When it comes to video production, I’ve seen just about every setup for gear you […]
The Secret To More Sales: Asking Better Questions
In any sales call, the quality of the outcome is only as good as the […]
How a Remodeling Company Tamed Its AR Problem with HubSpot
Builders are always in a financial balancing act, leveraging the profit from the last job […]
Using AI to Develop Your Approach
To many sales professionals, role-playing makes them think of awkward therapy sessions or that famous […]
The 6 Most Common Sales Problems — And How To Solve Them
In a now-famous article published in The Wall Street Journal in 2021, author Patrick Thomas […]
Should You Still Gate Your Content in 2024?
You’ve spent weeks (or maybe even months) agonizing over a piece of premium content – […]
Sales vs Marketing in 2024: What’s The Difference?
The internet has fundamentally changed the way people buy, and this upheaval has helped make […]
How Should My Marketing Budget Change With AI?
Age-old wisdom says that you should spend about 10% of your budget on marketing. And […]
Is Content Marketing Dead in 2024?
I heard this question recently and, honestly, it made me chuckle: Is content marketing dead […]
Use This Step-by-Step Guide to Create the Content Your Team Needs
To all you new content managers reading this, let me start by saying, welcome aboard! […]
How Much Does a Website Redesign Cost in 2024?
Your website is the most important sales and marketing tool you have. It’s the hub […]
How To Align Your Sales And Marketing Teams In 2024
According to research from LinkedIn, 87% of sales and marketing leaders believe that alignment between […]
AI for Businesses: 6 Steps All CEOs Should Take
It’s been more than a year since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, and business as […]
Business Leaders: Do You ‘Own’ Your Own Website?
Some business leaders agonize over every detail of their homepage. Others just see their website […]
AI Fluency is a Mindset Shift (Not a Tool Tutorial)
When the pandemic shut everything down a few years ago, some businesses flourished and some […]
Why Determining ‘Culture Fit’ Is So Important in the Hiring Process
Hiring a new employee means so much more than adding headcount to your next company […]
How To Convince Your Boss It’s Time For a New Marketing Direction
In marketing, it seems there’s always someone or something to blame when things don’t go […]
4 Ways To Recession-proof Your Website In 2024
Too often, times of prosperity make people get comfortable and lazy. Before any major economic […]
Mastering the Algorithm on the Front Lines
To most of the audience out there, I’m Marcus Sheridan, speaker and author. You’ve heard […]
Create Better Website Videos by Avoiding These 3 Mistakes
According to HubSpot, More than nine out of 10 people report wanting to see more […]
How To Manage a Videographer — If You Don’t Have Video Experience
So your company has decided to invest in video to take your marketing and sales […]
The Year Ahead: What Businesses Can Do to Flourish in 2024
2023 was anything but conventional. While we had layoffs in some sectors and high interest […]
Your Website in 2024: The Future of Trends, Tech, and Traffic
2023 was a year that swept through with rapid AI advancements, a partly sunny/partly stormy […]
8 of the Best Business Website Designs to Inspire You in 2024
You don’t have to be a marketer to know a website is a must have […]
Miscommunication is Limiting Your Businesses — Here Are 4 Ways You Can Fix It
Good communication is no accident. In fact, people so often default to miscommunication that it’s […]
7 Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2024
Depending on the context, the word “trend” isn’t always a good thing. Trends can be […]
Are You Losing the Sale in the First Few Minutes?
The sales pitch is a relic. A dinosaur. A reminder of a time when salespeople […]
Sales Managers: Here’s How to use AI to Help Your Team Win
As I’ve written before, the key to smart AI adoption is not prompt practicing or […]
HubSpot Update November 2023; New Tools Bring Cautious Excitement
Every couple of months, I drop by IMPACT’s blog to talk all things HubSpot — […]
20 Best Video Editing Software and Apps for Any Budget in 2024
We all know how important video is for your brand. You hear a lot of […]
Why the Most Successful Teams Think of Sales as a ‘Team Sport’
Let me ask you an honest question: If you were starting from scratch and setting […]
Reaching Early-Stage Customers with Your Video Content
About a year ago I got married. In the hectic lead-up to the ceremony, between […]
Think of Your Business as ‘E-Commerce’ — No Matter What You Sell
A number of statistics from a number of studies all say the same thing — […]
The Best Sales Enablement Tools for Your Team in 2024
Most marketing and sales leaders are familiar with the term sales enablement, but they’re not […]
2023 Retrospective: 10 Industry Insiders Look Back
2023 certainly left a lot of heads spinning. With an economy that couldn’t make up […]
Is It Time for an AI-powered Chatbot on Your Website?
Back in the olden days — and by that I mean, like 2019, chatbots were […]
10 Examples of Company Profile Pages to Inspire Yours
What is a Company Profile? Simply put, your company profile is a professional introduction and aims to inform […]
10 Pricing Page Examples for Business Websites (Updated for 2024)
Making a big purchase — think a car or business software — can send even […]
The Website Experience Your Customers Are Yearning For
Say you’re in the market for a new car. You head to Ford’s website and […]
The Hidden Costs of a Cheap Website
As a business owner, you’re always looking for ways to save money, but there are […]
