B2B ecommerce is a thriving industry. Growing at a rate of over 10% each year, B2B ecommerce will generate over $3 billion in sales by 2027. However, no matter how familiar you are with B2C (business-to-consumer) ecommerce, selling to businesses is an entirely different beast. I wanted to find out how exactly B2B ecommerce strategies…
Facebook hashtags for 2024: 120+ fresh ideas + free generator
Organic reach on Facebook isn’t what it used to be. But the good news is there are still ways to increase your visibility and get your posts in front of your audience, including using Facebook hashtags. Hashtags are a powerful tool for discovery on social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn but marketers often…
AI Conversion Rate Optimization — What Are the Benefits & How to Use It in Your Business
Being a marketer is hard — I feel it’s always been this way, but now the pressure to deliver results is even higher. Companies are cutting their marketing budgets and watching every penny before deciding what to spend it on. Fortunately, we now have access to many tools, including AI, which can make our work…
Best time to post on social media: Q3 2024 data
Are you wondering about the best time to post on social media? We were too — so we decided to crunch some data and find out. The Hootsuite team partnered with data science agency Critical Truth for a comprehensive study. We analyzed over 1 million social posts — across industries and social networks — and we…
One Question That Will Reinvigorate Your Approach to Marketing
The 2023 We❤️NYC campaign was intended to encourage New Yorkers, still pessimistic in a post-pandemic world, to show love for their city. And boy, did it ever. Last year, Maryam Banikarim royally pissed off the Olsen twins and the Jonas Brothers with her We❤️NYC campaign. But that same campaign earned twice the impressions of a…
Social media and elections: How to navigate political turbulence
This year’s presidential election in America looks to be one of the most contentious contests in recent history. And the numbers back that up. Talkwalker data shows that on average, social media users mentioned the election almost one million times each day in September alone. The large majority of those mentions leaned negative. Unsurprisingly, this…
A Deep Dive Into Concept Maps: What They Are and How to Use Them
Before Anna and I started contentki, we went to a cafe, pulled out a notepad, and began brainstorming all the services we could offer given our skills and experience. We came up with content writing, SEO optimization, and content strategy. From there we dived even deeper into each category adding SEO blog writing, thought leadership,…
The Power of Silence in Negotiation
Welcome to Creator Columns, where we bring expert HubSpot Creator voices to the Blogs that inspire and help you grow better. A few months ago, on my podcast Nudge, Jonah Berger told me about the power of pausing. The act of pausing seems like a small thing. But recent studies show that pausing can make…