If you're like most small businesses owners or busy marketers, there's a good chance you've waited until the last minute to create your 2013 marketing plan and are now scrambling to put it together and submit it for budgeting. For those of you who fit into this category, there are some very critical concepts to keep in mind when planning your 2013 marketing strategy to help ensure its success. Let's take a look at some of these key concepts and why you need to keep them in mind while developing your strategy.

The most important part of the website design process happens way before one line of code is written or one graphic created. We, of course, are talking about the planning phase of an agile Joomla web design project. The planning phase is the most important part of the process and lays down the foundation in which the entire project is built from. It's especially important in an agile process because it can change the scope and depth of a project based on what is found. In this blog we will be taking a closer look at what's involved in the planning phase of agile Joomla web design and how it can affect the project.

Every day it is becoming more and more apparent of how important the role of content plays in your marketing efforts. High quality content drives traffic, builds authority and educates customers in order to shorten the buying cycle. However, if you're simply writing about the first thing that comes to mind, there's a good chance your content is not as effective as it could be. Having a smart content strategy can greatly increase the effectiveness of your efforts towards reaching your goals. Let's take a look at some of the key things to keep in mind when developing your content strategy for your Inbound Marketing.

This past weekend one of the biggest and best Joomla events in history took place in San Jose California at the official headquarters of eBay, the Joomla World Conference. Gabe Wahhab, president of Savvy Panda, and me were lucky enough to be able to make our way to both attend and speak at this great event. Today I'm going to give you my quick reflections and thoughts on the Joomla World Conference 2012. 

Greetings from eBay headquarters in San Jose California. Gabe and I from the Savvy Panda team have been out here since Thrusday for the Joomla World Conference with over 300 of the world's top Joomla developers, designers and agencies. So far the conference has been awesome and it's been great connecting with old and new friends.  For all of you who made it into my "Supercharge Your Local SEO: The Complete Guide", thanks for taking the time to come to my session and I hope you got something valuable from it that you can use in your own business and with your clients. 

A very common question many Hubspot VARs hear is, "Do I have to use the Hubspot platform for my Inbound Marketing?" The simple answer is no, you don't have to, however, there is so much value in using Hubspot tool that makes it's expense pay for itself. For many businesses, the value the Hubspot tool provides can mean the difference between success and failure in your Inbound Marketing efforts. It's important to realize the value of Hubspot and how it will help streamline, automate and improve your Inbound Marketing efforts which in-turn increases leads and overall marketing power. In this blog we will be taking a look at the key benefits of using the Hubspot platform and how it can…

Inbound Marketing promises a boost in qualified leads and in-turn, a boost in business. In almost every case this is true, however, the timeline and processes required to get to this point is different for every business. Some can accomplish this immediately and some need to spend time and energy preparing their business to get to this point. Just like a house, when building a successful business it's critical to have a very solid marketing foundation to build your marketing efforts on. The problem is many businesses do not have a good marketing foundation and thus commonly to run into a walls when trying to push lead generating campaigns such as content downloads or conversion offers. In this blog we…

I follow around 20-25 Inbound Marketing, SEO, social media and copywriting blogs on my RSS feed. Each day I get about 50-60 different posts to sort through with some being "blahh" and others being hidden gems. I have taken the time to sift through over 1700 blogs this month to pull out the best of the best Inbound Marketing blogs for you to read. Check them out!

Inbound Marketing has been proven time and time again as successful in boosting leads and helping individuals grow their business. However, one downside to Inbound Marketing is that it can be very time consuming to implement. Between strategy, blogging, offer creation, social media, SEO, etc. and getting all of these processes to be correctly synced with the overall strategy it literally is a full time job. Many business owners simply do not have time or expertise to do on their own. In this case, they partner with an Inbound Marketing agency to help assist with their strategy and/or implementation. In this blog we will give you an idea of associated costs and the value in hiring an Inbound Marketing agency…

There are tons of different ways to promote and grow your business using Facebook, however, there's one feature that you probably are not utilizing, the Facebook messaging and chat system. The Facebook messaging system is probably one of the best ways to develop strong customer relationships and thus if you're not already using it, you need to start. In this blog we will explore how to use this feature to help grow your business.