055: HubSpot Email Reporting, Delivering the WOW, Conversion Tip

Welcome to Episode 55 of HubShots! Full show notes available here: http://hubshots.com/episode-55/ Welcome to HubShots, the podcast for marketing managers who use HubSpot hosted by Ian Jacob from Search and Be Found and Craig Bailey from XEN Systems. Recorded: Monday 17 October 2016 | Published: Friday 21 October 2016 Welcome Shot 1: Inbound Thought of the Week http://inboundcountdown.com – 22 days left! If you could meet one speaker and chat with them, who would it be? Shot 2: HubSpot Feature/Tip of the Week The new dashboard offers more robust performance graphs to track the success of emails over time, and provides actionable tips to help boost your email metrics. Easily manage your emails. More comprehensive email performance data at a glance. Tips to improve your emails. Easily make comparisons across multiple emails. Discover emails with the highest bounces, unsubscribes, and spam reports. More control over your reporting timeframe. http://www.hubspot.com/product-updates/new-email-dashboard Moving to the familiar Manage and Analyze format of having two tabs for viewing email details Now Officially Live > HubSpot Projects – listen to episodes 50, 51 and 52 for examples of using the Project tools Shot 3: Challenge of the Week Delivering the WOW. Shot 4: Stat of the Week Nathalie Nahai – Conversions@Google 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JQtCJI84U&app=desktop A rating of 3.9 and above leads to higher conversions, 3.8 or less can impact conversions https://www.nathalienahai.com/ Shot 5: Opinion of the Week The One Email Tactic That Publishers Shouldn’t Ignore https://contently.com/strategist/2016/10/14/better-newsletter/ Consider using newsletters to test exclusive content, as well as testing ideas before they make it into a formal offering. Shot 6: Pro Tip of the Week Also our Podcast of the Week: http://www.superfastbusiness.com/list-all/ 10 Classic Facebook Advertising Mistakes ( And How To Fix Them) http://www.superfastbusiness.com/business/501-10-classic-facebook-advertising-mistakes-and-how-to-fix-them/ Shot 7: State of Inbound Item of the Week http://www.stateofinbound.com/ Content Marketing teams today use a wide range of resources to write their blog content. From what we see the majority of the heavy lifting is done by staff, but executives, freelancers and even guest posters help fill the blog queue. The participation rates across the board are higher in 2016, pointing to continued investment in creating blog content. In terms of time taken to write a 500 word blog post in ANZ is looks on par with North America. Average blog post length is under a 1000 words with a high percentage being 500 words or less. Shot 8: Resource of the Week https://inbound.org/article/how-to-calculate-the-cac-of-content-marketing-spreadsheet-model-included https://www.growandconvert.com/content-marketing/customer-acquisition-cost/ Shot 9: Podcast of the Week Moby Siddique interviews George B Thomas on Inbound Buzz: https://www.redpandas.com.au/ep33/ https://twitter.com/georgebthomas Shot 10: Thought of the Week What a Decade of Working in Digital Marketing Has Taught Me https://moz.com/ugc/what-a-decade-of-working-in-digital-marketing-has-taught-me “Each channel has unique traits that make it right for different purposes. The point is to simply look at your goals and work backwards to see which channel(s) are better for achieving them.” ~ Gabriel Goldenberg Shot 11: Quote of the Week “I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.” ― Angela Duckworth, Grit