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Hinge Blog
3M ago
Having great content is imperative to having a successful marketing plan. Content drives leads and can expand a firm’s reach into untapped markets. But how should you go about choosing what you write about?
This process starts with developing Issues and Topics. And even before you can do that, you should start with research. What challenges are your clients facing that keep them up at night? Is there a trend in the marketplace that you’re an expert in?
Identifying your issues
Think about issues as an area of expertise for which you want to become known. If a reporter is interested ..read more
Hinge Blog
6M ago
In August of 2019, my husband spent three weeks in the ICU for an onslaught of sepsis. One roller coaster of emotions and many gory details later, my husband made a miraculous recovery and would spend one more week in rehabilitation to regain his strength. All in all, he was hospitalized for a month, which...
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9M ago
Should guest blogging be part of your online marketing strategy?
The answer is a resounding yes.
Why does guest blogging matter?
Because guest blogging is a high-impact offsite SEO strategy that can help you get ahead of competitors trying to reach the same audiences. Too often, digital marketers focus on tactics to optimize a website. What they fail to give enough attention to are the offsite tactics that help boost your search engine rankings.
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11M ago
How do today’s accounting firms build and utilize their marketing budgets? And what can we specifically learn from those firms growing the fastest?
For over a decade, the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM) has partnered
with Hinge to research, analyze and provide the valuable insights accounting marketers and executive leadership teams need to develop high-performing marketing programs. The 2023-24 Marketing Budget Benchmarking Study is the latest edition of this research partnership that is dedicated to uncovering the details of high-performance accounting marketing teams.
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Hinge Blog
11M ago
If you’re trying to figure out how to allocate your marketing budget, where to focus your efforts to attract customers, or even how to prioritize your marketing initiatives, the best approach is to base your decisions on past and projected marketing return on investment (ROI). It may sound simple, but to accurately calculate marketing ROI, you need to have the right data, tracking methods, systems, and tools in place to support your efforts.
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Hinge Blog
1y ago
New areas of government spending are creating more opportunities for government contractors at the federal, state, and local levels. But recent data from the Hinge Research Institute suggests that some business-to-government (B2G) firms are built to benefit more than others.
While average B2G firms grew a rate of about 12% last year, an elite group is growing 3X faster—year after year. How do they do it?
Hinge has spent the past fifteen years researching the marketing strategies and techniques of over 2,500 government contractors and their government buyers across the United States, yielding u ..read more
Hinge Blog
1y ago
Is your firm ready to start generating significantly more new business leads online? If so, you’ll need to develop a lead generation website — the engine that will drive your online lead generation program.
A professional services lead generation website presents some unique challenges. It must build trust and credibility while describing complex and technical services offerings.
If you aren’t careful, a lead generating websites can come across as pushy, eroding your credibility. So you have to take care to build the brand at the same time as you are generating new leads.
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Hinge Blog
1y ago
You have a range of marketing tools and tactics at your disposal. There are online and offline tools, and it seems like new ones are popping up daily. Which ones are worth your time? One of them? All of them? Here is an overview of the most common paid social media platforms for advertising your professional services firms today.
Pay Per Click (PPC)
Pay Per Click (or PPC) is a form of advertising where a firm can pay to drive visitors to their website from search engines. Google Ads is the most popular PPC service although Bing does represent over 8% of January 2023’s search engine traffic acc ..read more
Hinge Blog
1y ago
Many professional services firms – even those that have embraced many facets of online marketing – are still wary of social media. These firms might have limited or nonexistent presences on major social media platforms, or they haven’t taken steps to integrate social media into their larger marketing strategies.
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