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Agencies

Marketing Agencies Share 3 Biggest Recruiting & Hiring Challenges [NEW DATA]

Databox & Tettra polled dozens of agency professionals to learn how top marketing agencies recruit, hire, and onboard new employees.

Agencies Eddie Shleyner | Jul 17

Marketing

The 7 Pillars for Implementing A Successful Influencer Marketing Strategy

From finding the right influencers to defining a payment structure, here are the 7 key elements for implementing a successful influencer marketing strategy.

Marketing | Jul 16

Marketing

The 10 Facebook Metrics That Every Marketer is Tracking [Original Data]

We analyzed over 25,000 data points to uncover the 10 most-tracked Facebook metrics that marketers are tracking and how they’re visualizing the data.

Marketing | Jul 16

Marketing

Facebook Ads vs. Google Ads: Where is Your Audience Likely to Engage?

Databox polled dozens of marketers to learn which ad platform delivers a better return on ad spend, the best use cases for each, and more.

Marketing | Jul 11

Marketing

How to Grow Your Organic Traffic: Dozens of Marketers On What Works

Hear from dozens of marketers as they share the strategies that work for growing your organic traffic, how to execute them, and the results you can expect.

Marketing | Jul 10

Marketing

HTML vs. Plain Text Emails: Which Do Marketers Send Most? (And Why?)

62% of marketers say they send a hybrid of HTML and plain text emails to their subscribers. Here’s how they decide which to send, and why.

Marketing | Jul 4

Agencies

How Leadfreak Uses Databox’s Agency Free Plan to Improve Client Results

Leadfreak’s founder on how they handled client reporting prior to Databox, how they set (and hit) goals, and how Databox has allowed them to be more data-driven as an agency–all at no cost.

Agencies | Jun 29

Marketing

18 Expert Tips for Running Your First Influencer Marketing Campaign

From defining your personas to executing on outreach and promotion–here’s how you build a successful influencer marketing program.

Marketing | Jun 27

Marketing

How to Use Trello as a Free Growth Tool

Here’s how one SaaS company uses Trello across its sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering teams to improve every stage of their funnel.

Marketing | Jun 27

Marketing

How to Build Marketing Dashboards Using Your Key Business Metrics

Our SaaS company wasn’t able to take action based on data. So, we started using dashboards to connect metrics to our quarterly goal.

Marketing | Jun 26

Ground Up Podcast

How to Partner with Other Firms to Extend Your Capabilities & Serve Your Clients Better

The story of how two specialized agencies grew by leveraging each other’s strengths to serve their clients’ better.

Ground Up Podcast | Jun 26

Marketing

How to Generate Leads & Sales from Your Blog

35% of marketers say attributing leads and/or sales back to their blog is a challenge. Hear from 29 content marketing pros on the lead generating methods that work best on their blogs.

Marketing | Jun 25

Sales

4 Digital Sales Enablement Tools You Should Implement Right Now

Here’s how organizations are using sales enablement tools to make their sales team more productive.

Sales | Jun 22

Marketing

How to Do a Digital Marketing Audit Using SEMRush, Google Analytics and Facebook Insights

Use a marketing audit with data from a variety of online sources to figure out how to better reach your target market.

Marketing | Jun 22

Marketing

11 Marketing Reporting Templates Used By Thousands of Companies

After tracking more than 27,000 template downloads, here are the 11 most popular marketing reporting templates in Databox.

Marketing | Jun 21

Marketing

5 HubSpot Smart Lists for Tracking Your Most Important Inbound Marketing Metrics

Every client is different. As a result, the metrics you track for each one will be different too. Use these smart lists to customize your data for every client.

Marketing | Jun 21

Data Snacks

The Essential KPIs for Tracking The Performance of Your Marketing Videos

Video marketing expert Gabriel Marguglio shares how to set up an attribution dashboard, the specific video metrics you should track, and what they all mean for your overall content strategy.

Data Snacks | Jun 19

Data Snacks

How to Identify Your Most Profitable Digital Marketing Channels

On this episode of Data Snacks, Remington Begg shares how to break down your individual website traffic sources in order to identify which ones drive higher returns.

Data Snacks | Jun 18

Agencies

12 Project Management Tools That Give Agencies a Competitive Advantage

Here are the ways that 27 agency leaders leverage their project management tool to make their team more efficient.

Agencies | Jun 15

Marketing

8 Free SaaS Productivity Apps That Have Changed How I Work

These are eight of my favorite free apps that have helped me automate my job over the past 12 months and go home early.

Marketing | Jun 15

Marketing

How to Set Marketing Goals That Position Your Clients for Success

Instead of shooting for general improvements, use these methods to set SMART goals and hit your clients’ quarterly and annual goals.

Marketing | Jun 14

Marketing

How to Transform Your Blog Articles Into High-Ranking Marketing Videos

A quick guide for converting blog articles into videos to diversify your traffic, rankings, and income sources.

Marketing | Jun 14

Marketing

A Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Website Optimization

Use this guide to learn about all the different considerations and elements when it’s time to optimize your website for mobile devices.

Marketing | Jun 13

Using Databox

How to Track Your Keyword Rankings in Databox

Now that HubSpot has sunset its keywords tool, here’s how and where you can track your keyword rankings going forward.

Using Databox | Jun 12

Ground Up Podcast

Hiten Shah on the Pillars of a Successful Go-To-Market Strategy

On the latest episode of Ground Up, Hiten Shah details the successful research, development, and launch of his newest tool, FYI.

Ground Up Podcast | Jun 11

Marketing

18 Marketing Podcasts That Have Built A Cult Following

We polled our community of digital marketers to learn about their favorite podcasts which have not yet made it mainstream. Here is what they said.

Marketing | Jun 8

Marketing

How to Increase Blog Traffic When You’ve Tried Everything Else

These fundamental rules of social psychology will help you understand how you can improve your blog content and drive traffic growth.

Marketing | Jun 6

Data Snacks

How to Track & Optimize Your Watch Time on YouTube

George B. Thomas of Impulse Creative provides a detailed walk-through of the key metrics around watch time as well as strategies for improving them.

Data Snacks | Jun 5

Marketing

Build High Converting Landing Pages with These 36 Tactics

Convert more visitors to leads with these ideas for improving 8 separate parts of your landing page.

Marketing | Jun 5

Ground Up Podcast

Inside Help Scout’s Mission to Optimize The Customer Experience First

They’ve grown to 75 employees in 50+ cities, have been profitable since year 2, and have raised $12 million as a tool to further their mission–here’s the story of everything in between.

Ground Up Podcast | Jun 1

Management

The Goal Setting Process We Used to Get to $1M+ in Annual Revenue

Our cadence for analyzing our performance, setting goals, developing plans and monitoring our progress.

Management | May 31

Agencies

Meet the First 116 Certified and Premier-Level Databox Partners

Here are the digital marketing agencies that have made the biggest commitment toward becoming more goal-focused and data-driven.

Agencies | May 30

Sales

The Best Time To Send Email, According to Marketing and Sales Experts

Here’s how experienced marketers decide when to send their emails as well as their favorite times to send email over the course of the week.

Sales | May 30

Product and Design

Everything You Need to Know About The 5 Big Updates to Goals in Databox

Big updates to the Goals feature allow you to better identify trends, view company goal history, set progressive goals, and more.

Product and Design | May 29

Marketing

These Are The Most Sought-After Marketing Services

Marketing tactics come and go. If you’re selling marketing services, here’s how you can stay relevant.

Marketing | May 24

Marketing

3 Examples of Marketing Videos You Can Film Right From Your Desk

Your video marketing setup doesn’t need to be elaborate. Here are the tools we use, the videos we film, and how we track their success.

Marketing | May 24

Marketing

How Do You Prove Social Media ROI?

Databox and Sprout Social joined forces to learn how agencies report on social media ROI including the tools they use and KPIs they track.

Marketing | May 23

Marketing

15 Shopify Integrations That Will Supercharge Your Online Store

We polled our audience of e-commerce experts to learn about the software tools they use alongside Shopify. Here is what they said.

Marketing | May 22

Marketing

Facebook Remarketing: How To Build Custom Audiences & Win Back Visitors

A step-by-step tutorial for creating a custom audience within the Facebook Ads interface.

Marketing | May 21

Ground Up Podcast

Working Backwards: How to Set Client Goals & Expectations

Jessica Miller and Sandie Young, both long-tenured members of PR 20/20, share insights on setting goals, exceeding client expectations, and building a great marketing agency.

Ground Up Podcast | May 18

Agencies

How Your Agency Can Create Interactive Content Without A Developer

Here’s how digital agencies are using interactive content to distinguish their service offerings as inbound and content marketing have become saturated.

Agencies | May 18

Data Snacks

Drift Conversations: Where They Happen & Where They Come From

Chris Handy of ClosedWon shows you how to better track and optimize your conversations in Drift with a little help from Google Analytics and Databox.

Data Snacks | May 16

Marketing

Google’s Top Ranking Factors Explained By Applying for A New Job

This visual explanation will help you understand how Google decides which piece of content will rank first for a given keyword.

Marketing | May 16

Marketing

15 Free Mobile Apps That Instantly Make Marketers More Productive

Our community of digital marketers shared the mobile apps that help them make the most out of every single day.

Marketing | May 15

Partner Program

Drive More Traffic, Qualified Leads, and Business with Databox’s New Co-Marketing Program

Today we’re rolling out new ways to provide more value to you, our partners, through new and exciting co-marketing opportunities.

Partner Program | May 14

Data Snacks

How The Best Marketing Teams Track Marketing Qualified Leads

Parker Short estimates he’s educated 100+ companies on ways to improve their marketing and sales funnel. Watch as he shares proven ways to track your marketing qualified leads.

Data Snacks | May 10

Product and Design

The All-New Scorecard: Your Business’ KPIs Delivered Every Morning

Scorecard sends you updates on your most important KPIs through email, mobile push notification, and/or Slack every day, week, or month.

Product and Design | May 9

Marketing

The 20 Free Software Tools That Startup Founders Rely On Most

We asked 32 startup leaders to share the free software tools they relied on most in order to grow. Here are the ones they recommended most.

Marketing | May 9

Marketing

The Most Important Social Media Marketing Trends That You Must Know

Here’s how social media marketing is changing in 2018, and how you can adjust your tactics to fit the latest trends.

Marketing | May 8

Agencies

Building a Website on HubSpot’s Content Management System (CMS)?

Don’t Get Screwed When Hiring a Developer or Buying a HubSpot CMS Template

Agencies | May 3

Data Snacks

Here’s Your Best Opportunity to Increase Organic Traffic This Month

In this episode of Data Snacks, we talk about ways for driving more organic website traffic (in the short term) without publishing new content.

Data Snacks | May 2

Ground Up Podcast

Why Your Content Marketing Playbook Needs to Change

On this episode of Ground Up, Ginny Mineo, formerly of HubSpot, shares what worked at HubSpot, how that playbook has evolved, and how businesses everywhere should adapt their content strategies.

Ground Up Podcast | May 1

Integrations

New Integration: Track, Visualize, and Improve Your SEO Strategy with Ahrefs + Databox

With Databox’s new Ahrefs integration you can analyze your website’s backlink profile, spot trends with your website’s domain rating, and find ways to improve your SEO strategy.

Integrations | Apr 27

Marketing

28 SEO Techniques That Can Dramatically Increase Your Organic Traffic

We surveyed over two dozen SEO experts on the common mistakes marketers are making and the techniques they use to fix them.

Marketing | Apr 26

Marketing

Accurate HubSpot LifeCycle Stage Reporting – Now Available in Databox

Here’s how to use Databox and HubSpot’s New Lifecycle Stage API to report your full marketing funnel results.

Marketing | Apr 24

Ground Up Podcast

From ‘Failed Entrepreneur’ to $10M in ARR in 3+ Years

Russ Perry, founder of Design Pickle, shares how they made unlimited, subscription-based graphic design work.

Ground Up Podcast | Apr 23

Marketing

9 Popular LinkedIn Ads Features That Will Help You Reach The Perfect Audience

LinkedIn Ads released a series of new features in late 2017 that give it unique advantages over Facebook Ads and AdWords.

Marketing | Apr 19

Databox Designer

Databox Is Launching 185 New Datablocks Today–Here’s How

In what we’re calling ‘Datablock Building Day’, here’s why our marketing team is spending their day building and shipping product.

Databox Designer | Apr 18

Agencies

How To Become Your Digital Marketing Agency’s Favorite Client

Some of our top agencies shared the characteristics of client relationships that lead to their best work. Learn how to make your agency more effective.

Agencies | Apr 13

Marketing

Why You Need to Change Your SEO Strategy in 2018

Here are a few actionable tips on the ways that search engine optimization has changed in 2018

Marketing | Apr 13

Ground Up Podcast

The Story Behind Databox’s Mission

On this episode of Ground Up, Pete and I share some background on how (and why) Databox is making performance insights more accessible to everyone.

Ground Up Podcast | Apr 9

Blog about Business Analytics, KPIs and product updates

Databox & Tettra polled dozens of agency professionals to learn how top marketing agencies recruit, hire, and onboard new employees.

From finding the right influencers to defining a payment structure, here are the 7 key elements for implementing a successful influencer marketing strategy.

We analyzed over 25,000 data points to uncover the 10 most-tracked Facebook metrics that marketers are tracking and how they’re visualizing the data.

Databox polled dozens of marketers to learn which ad platform delivers a better return on ad spend, the best use cases for each, and more.

Hear from dozens of marketers as they share the strategies that work for growing your organic traffic, how to execute them, and the results you can expect.

62% of marketers say they send a hybrid of HTML and plain text emails to their subscribers. Here’s how they decide which to send, and why.

Leadfreak’s founder on how they handled client reporting prior to Databox, how they set (and hit) goals, and how Databox has allowed them to be more data-driven as an agency–all at no cost.

From defining your personas to executing on outreach and promotion–here’s how you build a successful influencer marketing program.

Here’s how one SaaS company uses Trello across its sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering teams to improve every stage of their funnel.

Our SaaS company wasn’t able to take action based on data. So, we started using dashboards to connect metrics to our quarterly goal.

The story of how two specialized agencies grew by leveraging each other’s strengths to serve their clients’ better.

35% of marketers say attributing leads and/or sales back to their blog is a challenge. Hear from 29 content marketing pros on the lead generating methods that work best on their blogs.

Here’s how organizations are using sales enablement tools to make their sales team more productive.

Use a marketing audit with data from a variety of online sources to figure out how to better reach your target market.

After tracking more than 27,000 template downloads, here are the 11 most popular marketing reporting templates in Databox.

Every client is different. As a result, the metrics you track for each one will be different too. Use these smart lists to customize your data for every client.

Video marketing expert Gabriel Marguglio shares how to set up an attribution dashboard, the specific video metrics you should track, and what they all mean for your overall content strategy.

On this episode of Data Snacks, Remington Begg shares how to break down your individual website traffic sources in order to identify which ones drive higher returns.

Here are the ways that 27 agency leaders leverage their project management tool to make their team more efficient.

These are eight of my favorite free apps that have helped me automate my job over the past 12 months and go home early.

Instead of shooting for general improvements, use these methods to set SMART goals and hit your clients’ quarterly and annual goals.

A quick guide for converting blog articles into videos to diversify your traffic, rankings, and income sources.

Use this guide to learn about all the different considerations and elements when it’s time to optimize your website for mobile devices.

Now that HubSpot has sunset its keywords tool, here’s how and where you can track your keyword rankings going forward.

On the latest episode of Ground Up, Hiten Shah details the successful research, development, and launch of his newest tool, FYI.

We polled our community of digital marketers to learn about their favorite podcasts which have not yet made it mainstream. Here is what they said.

These fundamental rules of social psychology will help you understand how you can improve your blog content and drive traffic growth.

George B. Thomas of Impulse Creative provides a detailed walk-through of the key metrics around watch time as well as strategies for improving them.

Convert more visitors to leads with these ideas for improving 8 separate parts of your landing page.

They’ve grown to 75 employees in 50+ cities, have been profitable since year 2, and have raised $12 million as a tool to further their mission–here’s the story of everything in between.

Our cadence for analyzing our performance, setting goals, developing plans and monitoring our progress.

Here are the digital marketing agencies that have made the biggest commitment toward becoming more goal-focused and data-driven.

Here’s how experienced marketers decide when to send their emails as well as their favorite times to send email over the course of the week.

Big updates to the Goals feature allow you to better identify trends, view company goal history, set progressive goals, and more.

Marketing tactics come and go. If you’re selling marketing services, here’s how you can stay relevant.

Your video marketing setup doesn’t need to be elaborate. Here are the tools we use, the videos we film, and how we track their success.

Databox and Sprout Social joined forces to learn how agencies report on social media ROI including the tools they use and KPIs they track.

We polled our audience of e-commerce experts to learn about the software tools they use alongside Shopify. Here is what they said.

A step-by-step tutorial for creating a custom audience within the Facebook Ads interface.

Jessica Miller and Sandie Young, both long-tenured members of PR 20/20, share insights on setting goals, exceeding client expectations, and building a great marketing agency.

Here’s how digital agencies are using interactive content to distinguish their service offerings as inbound and content marketing have become saturated.

Chris Handy of ClosedWon shows you how to better track and optimize your conversations in Drift with a little help from Google Analytics and Databox.

This visual explanation will help you understand how Google decides which piece of content will rank first for a given keyword.

Our community of digital marketers shared the mobile apps that help them make the most out of every single day.

Today we’re rolling out new ways to provide more value to you, our partners, through new and exciting co-marketing opportunities.

Parker Short estimates he’s educated 100+ companies on ways to improve their marketing and sales funnel. Watch as he shares proven ways to track your marketing qualified leads.

Scorecard sends you updates on your most important KPIs through email, mobile push notification, and/or Slack every day, week, or month.

We asked 32 startup leaders to share the free software tools they relied on most in order to grow. Here are the ones they recommended most.

Here’s how social media marketing is changing in 2018, and how you can adjust your tactics to fit the latest trends.

Don’t Get Screwed When Hiring a Developer or Buying a HubSpot CMS Template

In this episode of Data Snacks, we talk about ways for driving more organic website traffic (in the short term) without publishing new content.

On this episode of Ground Up, Ginny Mineo, formerly of HubSpot, shares what worked at HubSpot, how that playbook has evolved, and how businesses everywhere should adapt their content strategies.

With Databox’s new Ahrefs integration you can analyze your website’s backlink profile, spot trends with your website’s domain rating, and find ways to improve your SEO strategy.

We surveyed over two dozen SEO experts on the common mistakes marketers are making and the techniques they use to fix them.

Here’s how to use Databox and HubSpot’s New Lifecycle Stage API to report your full marketing funnel results.

Russ Perry, founder of Design Pickle, shares how they made unlimited, subscription-based graphic design work.

LinkedIn Ads released a series of new features in late 2017 that give it unique advantages over Facebook Ads and AdWords.

In what we’re calling ‘Datablock Building Day’, here’s why our marketing team is spending their day building and shipping product.

Some of our top agencies shared the characteristics of client relationships that lead to their best work. Learn how to make your agency more effective.

Here are a few actionable tips on the ways that search engine optimization has changed in 2018

On this episode of Ground Up, Pete and I share some background on how (and why) Databox is making performance insights more accessible to everyone.

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