HubSpot TV Episode #28 - February 20, 2009
(Show Legnth: 32 minutes 41 seconds)
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Intro
- How to interact on Twitter - @karenrubin @mvolpe
- Remember to subscribe in iTunes - http://itunes.hubspot.tv - Leave a 5 star review!!!!
- HubSpot 1K Customers Party last night
http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/4581/Good-Times-for-all-at-HubSpot-1K-Customers-Party - Paul Gillin coming next week!
Facebook Privacy Scandal / PR Disaster
- Facebook changes terms of use, can keep data even if you
cancel your account. (this related to the FTC and their stance on
behavioral ad tracking from last week) - Consumerist breaks the news and says the new privacy policy is bad - http://consumerist.com/5150175/facebooks-new-terms-of-service-we-can-do-anything-we-want-with-your-content-forever
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) responds - http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54746167130
- PC Magazine reports that there will be a formal complaint filed with the FTC - http://www.pcworld.com/article/159703/
- Overview coverage of the whole event and PR nightmare - http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-terms-of-service-change-rapidly-turns-into-a-pr-nightmare/
Display Ad Rates Falling - Permanent or Cyclical?
- CPM rates fell 54% in the 4th quarter
- Partially due to recession and partially due to an explosion in content and therefore inventory of ads
- "Indeed, the Web is likely heading for a shakeout on a scale unseen since the dot.com bust."
- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123483323444195983.html
- Marketing Takeaway: Creating your own content and leveraging inbound marketing is more effective than buying ads next to someone else's content.
Hulu's Not For 20-Somethings
- "At YouTube's launch in late 2005, more than 50% of its site visitors were 18- to 24-year-olds.
- When Hulu
launched its public site last March, the largest age group visiting the
site were those Internet visitors over 55 years old, accounting for 47%of all site visits, while traditionally younger early adopters
accounted for only 17% of traffic." - More than 20% of Hulu's traffic came from newspaper Web sites.
- http://daveibsen.typepad.com/5_blogs_before_lunch/2009/02/hulu-marketing-aimed-at-the-greatest-generation.html
- Marketing Takeaway: More traditional demographics are online consuming media.
Marketing Tip of the Week
Forum Fodder
- Anne from www.novosolutions.com asks: "What is a good bounce rate?" "What is an average B2B lead conversion rate?"
- Bounce
rate and conversion rate depend a lot not only on the content of the
page or website but also on the type of traffic going to the website. - What is bounce rate? What is conversion rate for a landing page?
- B2B
website overall, a 2-4% site conversion rate is about average. Using
HubSpot software and methodology, you should strive for more than
this. For landing pages, it varies greatly by the source of traffic.
MC Hammer Makes a Surprise Appearance! (19 minutes 17 seconds)
- MC Hammer shows up during HubSpot TV due to the power of Twitter!
- http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/4583/MC-Hammer-Drops-by-for-Camera-Time-on-HubSpot-tv
- "Forget the numbers! Just stay interesting."
Closing
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