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In order to attract customers, inbound marketers have to provide them with something they will love. Inbound can help with this task. Specifically, Inbound Marketing is a complete, data-driven approach to marketing that attracts individuals to your brand and converts them into long-term customers. When you implement Inbound Marketing practices, customers come to you.
So how do you get started with Inbound Marketing? We have included an infographic by The Whole Brain Group below to explain inbound marketing in five easily achievable steps.

Inbound websites should be structured based on a few principles. You want your website to engage with users like the kind of engagement they would have if they set their foot into your store. You want to address their interests, their pain points, and provide them with ideas and solutions. Your website needs to take visitors through their own personal buyers journey.

So, you have implemented a social media strategy for your business and that is, admittedly, a huge step. Your company is about to be more visible for many more potential clients or customers and how doesn't need more of those, right? But what happens when the people don't come running over, like you or the executives thought they might? Does that mean it's time to halt the campaign and just give up? I have wonderful news for you, my social media brethren: You do not need to give up. In fact, social media does a lot for brands that make good use of the networks they are featured on.

Do you face constant pressure to publish new content? Are you in panic mode, crunched for time, and looking for anything to publish because you don’t have a content strategy in place? You realize this is leading to less creativity and lower quality content, but what can you do? How can you put a plan in place that will boost your team’s productivity, lead to better content, address existing gaps, and effectively address your target customers? Here are five tips that will improve your inbound marketing strategy successfully. 

If this is your first time learning about the concept of inbound marketing, it may be difficult for you to imagine how publishing an article on your website could help bring customers into your local business.

One of the many exciting aspects of inbound marketing is that it works so well for businesses in almost every industry. While Inbound methodology may take a bit of time before you can expect results, once results start coming in, they are far less expensive and are also highly motivating. Inbound marketing offers great reward for a lower investment than other strategies; however, it takes a lot of effort from the get go.

Landing pages are the nucleus of all your inbound lead generation efforts. Think of it this way: every campaign that you run, funnel offer that you create, and event that you host is tied back to an optimized landing page. To ensure that your efforts are not in vain, you should make sure your landing page design positively presents your brand and attracts & converts targeted traffic into qualified leads. We have designed hundreds of landing pages for our Inbound clients. Here is an infographic by INVESP, which depicts how to test your landing pages. After all, we all want success, right?

Traditionally, medical marketers have focused their efforts on reaching out to the masses, hoping that out of the hundreds or thousands of healthcare professionals who heard their message, a few of them might become customers. Recently, however, this approach has changed. Inbound marketing focuses heavily on creating engaging and valuable content that attracts people who need what you are selling. Medical device professionals can absolutely benefit from inbound marketing.

Everyone seems to think that their industry is a special case- that because they offer a product no one else does, or a product that everyone else does, or because they have no competitors or that they have just way too many, that their marketing strategies would have to be different from everyone else's.

For many, a few years go, SEO meant two things, keywords and inbound links. Keywords used and placed properly gave your search chances a boost in being found, and inbound links from other sites enhanced your site’s authority on the search topic. Recently, the destruction of search engine rank into those two main components made SEO more approachable to marketers of all company sizes. Google has made changes targeted at countering black-hat SEO, changing its algorithm that has taken on a different nature and seems to indicate a more significant shift in search as a whole. While keywords and inbound links will always be important, it seems that they won’t stand alone as primary factors in your website’s search rank. Below we describe a few early signs of how you can expect SEO to evolve in the coming years.