This week at HubSpot, we dedicated a lot of our content to improving conversions -- a critical part of every stage of the inbound marketing methodology.

Whether you're bringing visitors in to the top of the funnel, converting that traffic into leads, nurturing those leads into opportunities, or closing and delighting customers, almost every role in your organization has some hand in conversion optimization.
If you'd like some help optimizing conversion paths, check out the articles below to learn more about the various conversion stages, as well as specific ways that you can optimize your tactics to improve your conversion rates. Enjoy!
Never Generated Leads From Your Website Before? Here's How to Start
There’s no end to the things you can do to optimize lead generation, but before you go crazy testing out all sorts of new things, it’s important that you make sure you’ve gotten all of the basics right. This blog post offers a few strategies to help you get started with lead generation for your website.
Dear HubSpot: My Blog Isn't Generating Leads. Please Help?
This week at HubSpot, we decided to launch a new, Dear Abby-style advice column for inbound marketers on our marketing blog. This blog post features the first Q&A in this new advice column series. Check it out to learn what you can do if you’re attracting traffic to your blog, but struggling to convert your visitors into contacts and leads.
The Inbound Approach to Turning More Leads Into Customers
The inbound approach isn’t all about marketing and visitor-to-lead conversions. The final stage in the inbound process is converting the leads your marketing team attracts into customers. In this blog post, discover a number of tactics that inbound marketers and salespeople alike can use to nurture and close more leads into customers.
5 Reasons Why Sales Leaders Will Love Inbound Marketing Software
Inbound marketing software is designed to benefit both your sales and marketing teams. While it helps your marketers attract a continuous flow of traffic and qualified leads, it also helps your salespeople improve their lead-to-customer close rates. In this blog post, learn the reasons why your sales leaders will love inbound marketing.
7 Ways to Optimize Your Conversion Forms to Get Better Leads
Sometimes the most obvious places for optimization are overlooked. Without forms, lead generation doesn’t happen. This blog post offers seven ways to optimize your conversion forms to improve your visitor-to-lead conversion rates.
What Is a Trust Seal, and Does Your Landing Page Need One? [FAQs]
So you’re preparing to create your first landing page, or reading up on how to optimize the landing pages you already have on your website, and it all seems pretty simple. Then you see “trust seals,” and you stop. This blog post will provide you with a detailed description about what a trust seal is and help you to determine if you should include one on your landing pages.
7 Rules of Conversion-Friendly Content Marketing Design [SlideShare]
Creating content that is relevant and useful to your buyer persona is only half the battle. If you want to see healthy conversion rates, you also need to focus on optimizing your design. The SlideShare in this blog post identifies the seven rules of content marketing design that’s optimized for conversions.
What was the most interesting thing you learned this week on Inbound Hub? What do you want to see more of? Leave your feedback in the comments!