It's easy to hate on tracking cookies. Wouldn’t life be great if browsers just shut cookies off altogether -- and kept them off? No more annoying ads! No more interruptions! No more feeling like you’re being stalked by those hiking boots you looked at last week, didn’t purchase, but now keep popping up in ads on every site you visit, begging to you to reconsider.

Selling is hard work. Even though the economy is showing signs of turning around and sales organizations are ramping up their efforts, there are still significant challenges to overcome. Sales representatives are taking on bigger territories, facing higher quotas, and making more customer contacts than ever -- but according to my company's latest study, fewer than 55% of sales representatives make quota.

This is an excerpt from our ebook, Traditional Turned Inbound: Reimagining 5 Iconic Ad Campaigns From the Past. Learn more about your favorite classic ad campaigns by downloading the ebook today!

In 1946, America had only 12 TV stations broadcasting to the public. With a single TV spot, advertisers could sit back and relax, knowing their ads would successfully pummel their marketing messages into the minds of almost all of America.

Not too long ago, my colleague Katie Burke wrote a great article, "The Right Way to Think About Your Marketing Software RFP," and it got me thinking about my own experiences as a buyer of marketing technology. Particularly I realized, more often than not, I was thinking about automation the wrong way.

Guy Kawasaki is a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. HubSpot invited Guy to reveal the secrets behind his incredibly active and popular social media profiles that enable him to reach millions each day.

Many people ask me how I manage my social media accounts (and others make stuff up rather than figure out what I do). Here are the gory, inside-story details of what I do.