Way back in the day, I participated in a kid’s gardening competition and won! Through my years in marketing, I’ve realized that gardening and marketing have a lot in common — especially when it comes to content seeding. Every summer,...
Embark on Your SEO Treasure Hunt With Keyword Mapping
Who’s up for a treasure hunt? No, we’re not after gold doubloons, but something equally valuable: top rankings on search engine results pages (SERPs). Keyword mapping will show us where X marks the spot. Your site’s content is the key...
How Content Audits Help The HubSpot Blog Age Backwards — A Peek Into Our Process
In 2023, my team and I began working on perhaps one of the most ambitious content audits ever conducted on the HubSpot Blog. We’ve run content audits in the past — but not like this. We ran the audit in...
How Soundless Videos Are Winning Social Media [+ 2025 Data]
You've just created the perfect video. The music hits at all the right moments, your voiceover is crisp, and that trending sound bite? Chef's kiss. But here's the plot twist – most of your audience will never hear any of...
How to Write a Content Brief [Template + Examples]
I've worked in a lot of different industries — as a freelancer, as a manager of freelancers, as a marketer, as a writer — and you know what never changes? The need for content creators to be crystal clear on...
The 10 Best for Marketers [Free Templates]
Ever been on a time crunch to create social media content? Most of us have, especially when you're trying to hop on a trend before it passes. It’s a stressful position — but a social media calendar template can make...
Gen Z is turning this CEO’s business model upside down
"This whole entire generation is about to turn all of our business models on its head." I'm a consumer who falls somewhere between baby millennial and geriatric Gen Zer, and after hearing Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky talk about my generation...
My Recommended Free Business Budget Templates to Use in 2025
Software subscriptions. Office rent. Employee benefits. Is your business money vanishing into thin air? A business budget template puts you back in control by tracking every dollar you spend. Whether you‘re launching a startup or scaling an enterprise, you’ll spot...
Why Paying for Ads Isn’t the Only Answer
When we hear the word “organic,” we usually think natural, pure, and unaltered. A delicious juice, perhaps. Well, the same goes for organic marketing — minus the juice part. Organic marketing is all about naturally attracting your audience to your...
How I Use Landing Page Split Testing to Find Untapped Marketing Potential [+ 12 Places to Start]
I’m a tinkerer at heart. As a content marketer, I can’t help it — there’s that perfect word hiding somewhere. That’s the mentality I bring to landing pages I create for companies, too. You might love your page’s first iteration...


