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Dharmesh Shah

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Marketing / November 10, 2016 The Free Growth Tools I Recommend For Modern Businesses to Grow & Scale
The Free Growth Tools I Recommend For Modern Businesses to Grow & Scale

By Dharmesh Shah

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If you're growing a company, chances are you're challenged with choosing the right tools to help you grow.

Both at HubSpot and at other businesses I've helped advise, I've seen marketing and sales teams experiment with all sorts of different tools they've hoped would drive growth. Some of these tools did help the team grow. Others slowed growth down or blocked it altogether. At HubSpot, we've seen opportunities to build new growth tools for marketing and sales teams and we've worked hard to fill those gaps.

One of the most important lessons I've taken away from growing businesses is that most growth problems come not ... Read More

Marketing / November 24, 2015 How to Search on Google: 31 Advanced Google Search Tips
How to Search on Google: 31 Advanced Google Search Tips

By Dharmesh Shah

If you’re like me, you probably use Google many times a day. But chances are, unless you're a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form. If your current use of Google is limited to typing in a few words and changing your query until you find what you’re looking for, then I’m here to tell you that there’s a better way -- and it’s not hard to learn.

On the other hand, even if you are a technology geek and can use Google like the best of them already, I still suggest you bookmark this article of advanced Google search tips. 

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Marketing / September 9, 2015 Inbound for Everyone: 5 Launches (And 1 Surprise) We Think Will Change Your Marketing This Year
Inbound for Everyone: 5 Launches (And 1 Surprise) We Think Will Change Your Marketing This Year

By Dharmesh Shah

When we first started HubSpot over nine years ago, I didn't know much about marketing; I only knew I didn't like being marketed to. I didn't see what good it did to interrupt people just to push a product on them. It's not the sort of thing you'd wish on yourself, so why put it on others? 

It was that observation -- that flaw in the way that marketing traditionally worked -- that laid the foundation for inbound marketing.

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Marketing / December 1, 2014 The Top 50 Marketing Blogs on the Internet Right Now (+ Advice From #1)
The Top 50 Marketing Blogs on the Internet Right Now (+ Advice From #1)

By Dharmesh Shah

If you're anything like me (and my apologies if you are), you like lists. And, if you also happen to work in marketing, you've probably heard of the old AdAge Power150 list -- it was a list of the top marketing blogs in the world. I use the past tense, because a few months ago AdAge said they were "powering down" the list. As the folks from Monty Python would say ... the Power150 has ceased to be. (Video link here -- you're welcome.)

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Marketing / September 2, 2014 Announcing the Launch of the New Inbound Marketing Book [Free Preview]
Announcing the Launch of the New Inbound Marketing Book [Free Preview]

By Dharmesh Shah

A lot of things can change in five years.

You could get a new haircut. You could move into a new house. You could start a new job. You could get a whole new set of friends (who then become old friends). You could watch your child, sibling, friend, or relative graduate high school, graduate college, and start their career.

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Marketing / March 19, 2014 How Marketers Can Get More Respect and Love
How Marketers Can Get More Respect and Love

By Dharmesh Shah

Though I've never had the word "marketing" in my job title and it hasn't been part of my official role at HubSpot, I think of myself as part marketer and part developer. My current passion project (as part of HubSpot Labs) is inbound.org, which helps marketers connect to great resources and each other. In short, I deeply care about marketing -- and marketers.

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Marketing / August 21, 2013 Announcing the Next Generation of HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Platform [INBOUND 2013 Keynote Video]
Announcing the Next Generation of HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Platform [INBOUND 2013 Keynote Video]

By Dharmesh Shah

About a year ago, we asked marketers for the primary motivation behind their most recent website redesign. The top response was ... well, it was boredom. A third of marketers said they redesigned because it was time for a change. Another third were undergoing a corporate rebranding. Some had seen a change in

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Marketing / August 16, 2010 5 Lead Generation Tools: Just in Time for 2011 Planning
5 Lead Generation Tools: Just in Time for 2011 Planning

By Dharmesh Shah

This post contains older information, but has been left up for historical reasons. For more up-to-date information, please see our Lead Generation Hub .

Tracking, measuring, analyzing, and creating process diagrams – all really important things to do, but SO time consuming. Plus, the reports always seem to be due right when a marketing campaign is being launched - one that’s sure to bring you more valuable leads.

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Marketing / August 9, 2010 He Tweeted, She Tweeted: Men vs. Women On Twitter [Infographic]
He Tweeted, She Tweeted: Men vs. Women On Twitter [Infographic]

By Dharmesh Shah

One evening last week, I conjured up a reasonably clever way to make a pretty good guess as to the gender of a Twitter user.  At first, I thought, “This will only take a couple of hours to hack together”.  Famous last words.  As is often the case with these sorts of things, one thing led to another, and I found myself up at 4am to get the code done.  But, I got it done.

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Marketing / September 1, 2009 The Shocking Secret Behind Google Caffeine [cartoon]
The Shocking Secret Behind Google Caffeine [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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Marketing / August 20, 2009 State Of FriendFeed: 14 Things You Probably Don't Know
State Of FriendFeed: 14 Things You Probably Don't Know

By Dharmesh Shah

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I’ve been working on analyzing some FriendFeed data (as part of my larger project of building free social media measurement tools).  The following are the some quick highlights of what I’ve found.  This is based on a somewhat random set of 80,000+ users and 420,000+ posted items aggregated into FriendFeed.  I think the dataset is reasonably large, but I didn’t apply much statistical rigor here so the stuff below is for curiousity/amusement value only.

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Marketing / July 6, 2009 Seth Godin: What Does Your Company Want For Its Birthday?
Seth Godin: What Does Your Company Want For Its Birthday?

By Dharmesh Shah

I just got back from a long drive, after a long weekend with my parents (who are visiting from India).  Geek that I am, as soon as I got home, I started checking email and getting caught up on my reading.  That’s when I came across a thought-provoking recent article from Seth Godin:  What Should I Do On Your Birthday ?  (Yes, I’m a big Seth Godin fan.  His stuff makes me think ). 

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Marketing / June 8, 2009 Dwight From "The Office" Reveals Meaning Of Microsoft Bing [cartoon]
Dwight From "The Office" Reveals Meaning Of Microsoft Bing [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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Marketing / March 4, 2009 Twitterhea: The Unstoppable Urge To Tweet [cartoon]
Twitterhea: The Unstoppable Urge To Tweet [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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Marketing / February 18, 2009 New Facebook Terms Allows Confiscating Furniture [cartoon]
New Facebook Terms Allows Confiscating Furniture [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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Marketing / February 11, 2009 How Marketers Can Overcome Tradeshow Depression [cartoon]
How Marketers Can Overcome Tradeshow Depression [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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Webinar: Marketing in a Recession



Want to learn effective ways for generating leads and marketing in a economic downturn?

Download the free webinar for tips and tricks to drive more visitors and leads to your website!

Creative Commons License "Overcoming Tradeshow Depression" by HubSpot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .

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Marketing / January 27, 2009 Facebook in Real Life: Throwing Sheep [cartoon]
Facebook in Real Life: Throwing Sheep [cartoon]

By Dharmesh Shah

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"Making Friends in Social Media" by HubSpot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .

 

Webinar: Advanced Business Blogging


Learn how to build your business blog into an inbound marketing machine.

Download the free webinar to learn how to create a thriving blog.


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Marketing / January 12, 2009 All Hail The (New) Twitter Elite List
All Hail The (New) Twitter Elite List

By Dharmesh Shah

Twitter is all the rage as illustrated in this report on the State of the Twittersphere report.  The information in this report is based on data from Twitter Grader.

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Marketing / November 3, 2008 8 Great Tips From An Email Marketing Maven
8 Great Tips From An Email Marketing Maven

By Dharmesh Shah

Scott Kirsner from The Boston Globe posted a video interview on his blog today with Gail Goodman, CEO of Constant Contact .  We’re really big fans of Gail here at HubSpot.  She is, as we say in Boston, “wicked smart” and an exceptional entrepreneur (ConstantContact went public last year).  HubSpot is fortunate enough to have Gail on our board of directors. 

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Marketing / October 6, 2008 Aaron Wall, SEO Ninja, Reveals All
Aaron Wall, SEO Ninja, Reveals All

By Dharmesh Shah

Ok, so maybe Aaron doesn’t quite reveal all in this Proust Questionnaire, but it’s rare that I get to make a title rhyme so easily so I couldn’t resist.  And, he does have some surprising revelations.

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Marketing / July 30, 2008 alexis ohanian Co-Founder of reddit Completes Proust Questionnaire
alexis ohanian Co-Founder of reddit Completes Proust Questionnaire

By Dharmesh Shah

alexis ohanian, the co-founder of reddit is a great guy, a creative visionary and a starter of things.  But most importantly alexis (or kn0thing as he is known online) is single-handedly responsible for what modest success I have as an entrepreneur -- and any future success I might have.  He's second only to my mother in making me possible.  This bold admission was arrived upon after some negotiation with alexis.  His modesty would not allow him to take full credit for my success.  (His modesty is widely acclaimed and demonstrated through his use of all lower-case characters for many proper nouns associated with him -- hence the weird capitalization in the title of this article.)

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Marketing / July 22, 2008 Fastest Growing Small Businesses Increasing Social Media Use
Fastest Growing Small Businesses Increasing Social Media Use

By Dharmesh Shah

I came across an interesting recent study of social media adoption for small business.  The study was conducted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.  The study is based on a survey of companies included on the Inc. 500 list.  The Inc. 500 consists of the fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S.  My thinking is that if you're working on growing a small business, this is a pretty good list of companies to learn from (after all, they must be doing something right).  [Disclaimer:  My former company was on the Inc. 500 list three times, so I may have a bit of a positive bias.]

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