Just a few years ago, marketers spent much of their of time, money, and manpower on traditional (outbound) marketing. Outbound marketing includes advertising, direct mail, renting lists, and other tactics to interrupt people.
The problem with using outbound marketing as a primary strategy today is that it is becoming less and less effective while remaining ever so expensive.
Luckily for us, inbound marketing was born and has become the next best thing since sliced bread (If you're a marketer or sales professional, I hope you'd agree!).
Now we have content marketing, blogging, SEO, social media, and other ways to attract visitors and leads to our business instead of pushing out unwanted messages to our audience.
But there's a lot to inbound marketing that needs to be understood. After all, it's constantly changing, and there's a lot to learn!
In addition to the great content we provide here on the HubSpot blog, we thought we would share with you some of our other favorite blogs on everything inbound marketing. So here is a list of 21 awesome inbound marketing blogs you should start reading today. And if you have any favorites that aren't already on this list, please add them in the comments section. Happy reading!
1. AdhereCreative Inbound Marketing & Brand Development Blog
Adhere Creative's marketing blog offers many great tips on how to get the marketing results you're looking for by using content, blogging, branding, SEO, and more.
2. At the Goal Line by In2Communications
At the Goal Line offers thoughts and opinions on sales, marketing, social media, digital content, technology, and social business.
3. B2B Inbound Blog
B2B Inbound offers a ton of great content on blogging , B2B marketing tactics, and everything inbound marketing.
4. Bluleadz Inbound Marketing Blog
BlueLeadz focuses on everything marketing and more, including SEO, networking, lead generation, and web design.
5. Brand & Capture by KunoCreative
This blog includes topics on content marketing, social media, lead analysis, marketing analytics, branding, mobile marketing, website design -- you name it!
6. inBlurbs Inbound Marketing Blog
This inbound marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing including SEO, blogging, social media, landing pages, lead generation, and analytics.
7. Internet Marketing and SEO Tips by Pagetender
The name of this blog speaks for itself. Go here to learn about the world of internet marketing.
8. Keenpath Inbound Marketing Blog
This inbound marketing blog focuses on SEO, blogging, and social media marketing to increase leads and sales for business.
9. LyntonWeb Blog: Perspectives on the Social Web
Lynton's blog offers some juicy content on blogging, CRM, design, email, Facebook, geolocation -- and the list goes on and on!
10. Market8 Inbound Marketing & Branding Blog
If you're a small business marketer, this blog is for you. It provides tons of thought leadership on marketing strategy, SEO, web design, social media, interactive media, inbound marketing, and creative design.
11. MarketingSherpa Blog
If you're not already familiar with MarketingSherpa, you should be (like right now). They are among the best at testing, research, and knowing what works in marketing.
12. Momentum Search Marketing Blog
Coming to you from the UK is a great inbound marketing resource. It includes a very long laundry list of topics -- practically everything you can think of!
13. Optimize This by Find & Convert
Author, speaker, podcaster, and CEO of Find and Convert, Bernie Borges blogs about the intersection of search and social media, providing sound advice for success.
14. Pollock Inbound Marketing Blog
Pollock offers this great blog for all your online lead generation and inbound marketing needs. Don't miss a single post!
15. PR20/20 Blog
PR 20/20's agency blog features inbound marketing and public relations trends, news, and resources.
16. Pull Marketing Blog by Pull Not Push
If you're a small business owner looking to get found online, look to the Pull Marketing blog.
17. Spark Inbound Marketing Blog
This blog has a lot of great content on -- you guessed it -- inbound marketing!
18. The Best B2B Marketing Blog by Precision Marketing Group
The authors at Precision Marketing Group really know their stuff. This blog contains frequently updated content to hone your marketing skills and knowledge.
19. The Inbound Marketing Company
You can't call yourself The Inbound Marketing Company without having an awesome blog. Luckily, this company does. This blog, too, covers way too many inbound marketing topics to list.
20. The Inbound Marketing Spot by Trust eMedia
This is a great source for social media, sales, search marketing, and more.
21. WebMarCom Blog
WebMarCom gives us news and updates about inbound marketing, lead generation, and the effective use of internet marketing.
Which of these blogs are your favorites? What other blogs would you add to the list?
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