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eventbuilder strategic leap to hubspot

HubSpot Unleashed: EventBuilder's Strategic Leap with Orange Marketing

The Challenge In August 2023, EventBuilder, a leader in delivering comprehensive webinar and virtual event solutions, embarked on a journey to optimize their use of HubSpot. Motivated by a commitment to process improvement, they teamed up with...

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Top HubSpot Updates April 22 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr. 22, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending April 22, 2024: User Object available in Workflows, AI Assistant to build workflow actions, Improvements...

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Unpacking the Switch to Simplified Marketing Automation

Eloqua to HubSpot: Unpacking the Switch to Simplified Marketing Automation

Eloqua and HubSpot are two familiar names when it comes to marketing automation. Think of Eloqua, part of the Oracle family, as the go-to for big...

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Top HubSpot Updates April 15 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr. 15, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending April 15, 2024: New Predictive Deal Score Feature, Clone your Social Posts and Marketing Emails on...

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A Rapid, High-Stakes Migration from Eloqua to HubSpot

Case Study: A Rapid, High-Stakes Migration from Eloqua to HubSpot

The Challenge A leading provider in the digital staffing sector, skilled at supplying big industries with AI-powered workers, recently faced a...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr. 8, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending April 8, 2024: All-New Help Desk Workspace for Support Teams Sync Property Type Multi-Object Preview &...

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What is a HubSpot Portal Audit?

What is a HubSpot Portal Audit?

The word "audit" has negative connotations for many people, often making them think of the IRS. However, there's nothing negative about HubSpot...

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How To Score Wins With HubSpot! Get the Ebook. Get Answers.

👊How To Score Wins With HubSpot! Get the Ebook. Get Answers.

Wonder if HubSpot is a good fit for your B2B business? Since 2018, we've been harnessing HubSpot to fuel our marketing goals and migrating scores of...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr. 1, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Apr. 1, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending April 1, 2024: Import Now Shows Potentially Impacted Workflows and Lists, All-New Help Desk Workspace...

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Tips On Hosting And Migrating Your Website With HubSpot CMS

Tips on Hosting and Migrating Your Website with HubSpot CMS

Helpful Tips from HubSpot's New Website CMS Implementation Certification HubSpot just released an entirely new CMS Hub, specifically designed to...

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Top Five Things We Learned From WBENC's 2024 National Conference

Top Five Things We Learned From WBENC's 2024 National Conference

Orange Marketing attended WBENC's National Conference in Denver, March 19-21, and it was off the hook wild. This may have been the best conference we...

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Top HubSpot Updates March 25 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 25, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending March 25, 2024: Delete form submissions, Auto-mapping now available in the HubSpot App for Zoom...

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Seven Essential HubSpot Email Design Tips

📧 New PDF Guide: Seven Essential HubSpot Email Design Tips

Understanding the nuances of email design is critical for breaking through the clutter of today's inboxes. The immediacy of email demands a strategic...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 18, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 18, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending March 18, 2024: Setting to turn off a workflow automatically, Deal Stage Calculated Properties, Consider...

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Orange Marketing Attending the WBENC 2024 Conference

💫 Orange Marketing Attending the WBENC 2024 Conference

Orange Marketing is proud to be a women-owned business and certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the largest...

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HubSpot Global Bounces

📧Painful Email Lessons HubSpot Global Bounces

A cornerstone of our business is enabling our customers by working side-by-side while they learn to take the wheels of their HubSpot implementation....

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Top HubSpot Updates for March 11, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 11, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending March 11, 2024: ChatSpot Copilot in HubSpot, Social Monitoring AI-Powered Quick Replies, Blog Post...

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Case Study: RISA’s Strategic Shift to HubSpot-Led Customer Nurture and Acquisition

Case Study: RISA’s Strategic Shift to HubSpot-Led Customer Nurture and Acquisition

The Challenge In the fall of 2022, RISA, a developer of cutting-edge structural design and optimization software for structural and civil engineering...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 4, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Mar. 4, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates for the past week ending March 4, 2024: Export Duplicates To CSV And Excel, User Working Hours For Inbox And Help Desk,...

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Merging Duplicate Companies Beware Hubspot's Data Handling Rules

Merging Duplicate Companies? Beware HubSpot's Data Handling Rules

Data hygiene is a critical for any successful company. A key component of maintaining that hygiene in HubSpot (or any CRM) is the management of...

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Why HubSpot CMS is a WordPress Killer

And, why Orange Marketing recommends Hubspot 100% over any other website CMS. HubSpot’s powerful, user-centric CMS is a WordPress killer. We know...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Weekly Recap - Feb. 26, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Feb. 26, 2024

Hello fellow HubSpot-ers! We are back this week to keep you in the loop with the latest HubSpot updates. There are some big changes on the horizon,...

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Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Feb. 19, 2024

Top HubSpot Updates - Monday Recap - Feb. 19, 2024

It's Monday, and you know what that means - it's time to get caught up with the most recent HubSpot updates! There are some super useful new features...

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How to Create and Warmup a Marketing Email Sending Domain

How to Create and Warmup a Marketing Email Sending Domain

Do you feel your marketing email is being hammered with unsubscribes and bounces? You are not imagining it. The great email armageddon promised by...

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The Power Duo: Marketing Automation and Sales Engagement

The Power Duo: HubSpot's Integrated Marketing Automation and Sales Engagement Platform

With the rise of digital channels, relying on manual efforts to manage your marketing is like trying to win a marathon in flip-flops! Old-school...

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🔊Speak2 Boosts Their Alexa App with HubSpot Sales & Marketing

🔊Speak2 Boosts Their Alexa App with HubSpot Sales & Marketing

Speak2's mission to transform the lives of older adults using voice technology gained powerful momentum with the support of Orange Marketing. Speak2...

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HubSpot Customers: How to Fix Your DNS Records to Comply with Google Yahoo 2024 Email Policy Changes

HubSpot Customers: How to Fix Your DNS Records to Comply with Google Yahoo 2024 Email Policy Changes

PSA (public service announcement) for HubSpot Customers. Just a few days ago HubSpot began auditing DNS records for compliance with the new Yahoo /...

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HubSpot's Email Blitz: Crush Your B2B Sales Goals!

💌 HubSpot's Email Blitz: Crush Your B2B Sales Goals!

Email stands as a cornerstone in marketing and sales, serving as a direct line of communication that transcends the transient nature of social media....

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raud Alert Orange Marketing and New Grads Targeted in a Hiring Scam

⚠️Fraud Alert Orange Marketing and Job Seekers Targeted in a Hiring Scam

Uh oh. A weird and detailed scam targeting job seekers (many new college graduates) seems to be making the rounds. It’s so strange and unfortunate,...

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2024 HubSpot Predictions: 6 Trends and Highlights

2024 HubSpot Predictions: 6 Trends and Highlights

HubSpot distinguishes itself from the competition through continuous innovation in dynamic automation tools and its extensive integration with...

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Orange Marketing Receives HubSpot Data Migration Accreditation

Orange Marketing Receives HubSpot Data Migration Accreditation

Newport Beach, CA—01/11/2024— Orange Marketing, specializing in HubSpot sales, marketing, and services implementations for B2B software and...

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9 SaaS-y LinkedIn Sales Navigator Tips for B2B Prospecting

🎯9 SaaS-y LinkedIn Sales Navigator Tips for B2B Prospecting

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is more than just a tool; it's a gateway to unparalleled B2B SaaS prospecting opportunities. It's a goldmine for sales...

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oranges 2023 encore top marketing strategies tips and tricks

Orange Marketing 2023 Recap: Our Top Strategies, Tips, & Tricks

Reflecting on a bustling 2023, we're grateful for new clients, our team's unwavering commitment, and HubSpot's enhanced and increasingly robust...

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Preparing for 2024: Essential Google & Yahoo Email Tips for HubSpot Marketers

📧 Preparing for 2024: Essential Google & Yahoo Email Tips for HubSpot Marketers

The upcoming email requirements from Google and Yahoo are confusing. Not only will they lead to the deactivation of hundreds of thousands of inactive...

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GURU 2023 Recap 👀 Jay Schwedelson's Online Email Marketing Conference

GURU 2023 Recap 👀 Jay Schwedelson's Online Email Marketing Conference

I freakin' love email guru Jay Schwedelson. I've been following him for a few years after catching his LinkedIn posts with email tips. I even...

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Mastering MarTech⚡High-Voltage Highlights from MOps-Apalooza!

Mastering MarTech⚡High-Voltage Highlights from MOps-Apalooza!

MOps-Apalooza 2023, the much-anticipated November event in Anaheim, was a standout gathering for those immersed in the world of marketing, and our...

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6 Steps to Unleash Canva’s Power Within HubSpot: Design Smarter, Not Harder!

🎨6 Steps to Unleash Canva’s Power Within HubSpot: Design Smarter, Not Harder!

Unleash the dynamic duo of design and marketing: Canva and HubSpot now integrate to let you turbocharge your campaigns! Quickly craft graphics that...

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HubSpot Buys Clearbit to Add  Sales Intelligence—Moves Closer to Being One-Stop Shop

HubSpot Buys Clearbit to Add Sales Intelligence, Moves Closer to Being One-Stop Shop

On Wednesday, November 1st, HubSpot announced that it was acquiring Clearbit, a sales intelligence platform that competes with the likes of Zoominfo...

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ChatGPT: Your Next-Gen Marketing & Sales Sidekick For B2B SaaS

🤖 ChatGPT: Your Next-Gen Marketing & Sales Sidekick for B2B SaaS

Ever wished you had an all-knowing assistant who could help you brainstorm content ideas, craft the perfect email pitch, or quickly guide...

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maximize impact ultimate image guide for saas marketers

🖼️Maximize Impact: The Ultimate Image Guide for SaaS Marketers

Time is money and every pixel counts! That's why we've crafted the ultimate guide to help you optimize your images for websites, social media, and...

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Webinars That Rock: How to Use HubSpot's User-Friendly Tools To Host On Zoom

Webinars That Rock: How to Use HubSpot's User-Friendly Tools To Host On Zoom 💻

Webinars provide a budget-friendly means of engaging prospects and customers while reaching a broader audience and potentially higher levels of...

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Training Smarter: Use HubSpot Learning Playlists!

Train Smarter: Use HubSpot Learning Playlists!

We're often asked what HubSpot training courses we recommend. The OM team spends about a month renewing our HubSpot certificates every year, so,...

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🤖 Embracing Change: HubSpot's Leap into AI-Driven Marketing

🤖 Embracing Change: HubSpot's Leap into AI-Driven Marketing

The buying and selling landscape is rapidly changing due to a shifting economy and an apparent AI revolution. Riding this wave, HubSpot launched a...

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You NEED This Ebook When Starting Out on HubSpot!

You NEED This Ebook When Starting Out on HubSpot!

📢 Calling all SaaS Startups and Tech Companies! So you've taken the leap and invested in HubSpot. Brilliant move! But if you're tempted to get...

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From Reveal to Real: HubSpot's Game-Changing Announcements Decoded!

From Reveal to Real: HubSpot's #INBOUND23 Game-Changing Announcements Decoded!

The recently concluded #INBOUND2023 was abuzz with innovations, breakthroughs, and forward-thinking strategies. At the heart of it all was HubSpot's...

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Six Things We Learned at #Inbound2023 - Lightning Round

⚡Six Things We Learned at #INBOUND2023 Lightning Round

One reason we have gone to every single HubSpot INBOUND since we began Orange Marketing way back in 2018, is that INBOUND is an efficient way to pick...

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#INBOUND2023 - 4 Top Product Announcements

#INBOUND2023 - Top Four Product Announcements

Hey there, rockstars of the HubSpot tech world! Rebecca and I have represented the Orange Marketing team in Boston at #INBOUND23. As promised, here’s...

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🎤 WIIFM WEBINAR: Unveiling  HubSpot's INBOUND 2023 Software Updates and Announcements

🎤 WIIFM Webinar Unveiling HubSpot's #INBOUND2023 Software Updates and Announcements

Thinking about HubSpot's unveiled updates at #INBOUND2023 conference last week (Sep. 5-8) and what they mean to your B2B SaaS company? We got you!...

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Google Analytics 4 Interface Frustrates Marketers: Exploring The Cons and Alternatives

📊 Google Analytics 4 Frustrates Marketers: Exploring Cons and Alternatives

Since its launch, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has won few fans. Although Google gave everyone over a year to transition from the outgoing Universal...

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Amberdata And Isos Technology, OM Clients, Take Bronze Stevie International Business Awards

Amberdata and Isos Technology, OM Clients, Take Bronze Stevie International Business Awards

We are thrilled to congratulate our clients, Amberata and Isos Technology, who received Bronze-level award recognition in the Stevie® 2023...

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Should Your B2B Use Meta Threads?

Should Your B2B Use Meta Threads?

If you’ve been scrolling through Instagram or Twitter this past month or so, you may have heard about Meta’s new app, Threads. At first glance,...

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Why You Should Upgrade Your CRM Platform When Business Lags

Why You Should Upgrade Your CRM Platform When Business Lags

Your customer relationship management (CRM) system is one of the most important tools you have for managing your business. It helps you track your...

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Small Businesses, Big Dreams: How HubSpot Can Help You Grow

Small Business, Big Dreams: How HubSpot Helps You Grow 🚀

Small businesses and startups encounter many obstacles in achieving growth. From overseeing customer relationships and nailing effective marketing...

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Optimizing Revenue Operations: 5 HubSpot Documentation Tips You Need To Know

Optimizing Revenue Operations: 5 HubSpot Documentation Tips You Need To Know

Documentation. Few like doing it, and few do it well, especially in the tech world, where speed is always of the essence. And HubSpot instances tend...

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6 Tips To Source Niche Writers For Powerful Content

🦄Where The Unicorns At? 11 Tips To Source Niche Writers For Powerful Content

In addition to social media, video, podcasts, and webinars, for several reasons, in B2B SaaS, we still recommend written content on website pages,...

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Amplifying B2B Marketing With Influencer Collaboration, Content Curation, and Repurposing Content

Amplifying B2B Marketing With Influencer Collaboration, Content Curation, and Repurposed Content

Creating content is a constant battle, especially for smaller B2B companies with few resources. How do you develop and maximize your marketing...

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Protecting Executive Emails: A Guide to Privacy in HubSpot

Protecting Executive Emails: A Guide to Privacy in HubSpot

Startup executives setting up their HubSpot CRM have a common concern: how can they stop personal or sensitive emails from being logged in HubSpot?...

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Don't Ignore Press Releases in Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Don't Ignore Press Releases in Your B2B Marketing Strategy

Press releases present a valuable opportunity for businesses of all sizes, including small companies, to generate buzz about their firm. Yet...

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New Checklist - Boost Your Trade Show Impact: Step-by-Step Guide

✅[New Checklist] Boost Your Trade Show Impact: Step-by-Step Guide

Need help navigating the intricacies of trade show planning and execution? We've got you covered in our new trade show checklist designed for SaaS...

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SaaS Companies: How to Nail Product Validation and Avoid an Epic Faceplant!

SaaS Companies: How to Nail Product Validation and Avoid an Epic Faceplant!

So, you've got a kick-ass company, a mind-blowing product, and even a few customers on board. But wait, why isn't your business taking off like a...

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👏 42 out of 42 Possible HubSpot Certifications Earned for World Certification Week

👏 42 out of 42 Possible HubSpot Certifications Earned for World Certification Week

In honor of HubSpot's World Certification Week, we chose this week to complete 42 out of the possible 42 HubSpot Certifications that a HubSpot...

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How To Use Image Personalization And Dynamic Images To Increase Engagement

How To Use Image Personalization And Dynamic Images To Increase Engagement

With so many of us vying for attention in inboxes, we're experimenting with everything from emojis and catchy subject lines to optimal send times to...

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Email Master Serves Up Quick Tips In New HubSpot Webinar

📧 Email Mentor Serves Up 🔥 Quick Tips In New HubSpot Webinar

Increase open rates by catching these quick tips from a new HubSpot webinar as presented by email guru, Jay Schwedelson! Jay's depth of experience...

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💰 How to Create Marketing Revenue Attribution Reports Using HubSpot

Finally, the holy grail. Our perspective on exactly how to create 💰revenue attribution reports using HubSpot. Yes, you can NOW answer the annoyingly...

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How to Create Marketing Campaign Attribution Reports Using Hubspot

🤪 How to Create Marketing Campaign Attribution Reports Using HubSpot

We tell you EXACTLY how we report on Marketing Campaign Attribution for our typical B2B client and our process for pulling the data together using...

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HubSpot Marketing Campaigns: The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous

👺 HubSpot Marketing Campaigns: The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous

HubSpot has recently made big changes to Marketing Campaigns to make them more useful to marketers, and we are very bullish. We can tell that...

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Why B2B Startups Don't Need a Technical SEO Agency on Retainer

Why B2B Startups Don't Need a Technical SEO Agency on Retainer

It's no secret that search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the time-tested strategies for attracting traffic to your website and growing your...

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structuring Your B2B website for Your Visitors AND Search Engines

Let’s do a Makeover! Structuring Your B2B Website for Visitors AND Search Engines

Your website is the face of your company. And if visitors need help figuring out what you do, you're in trouble. That's why it's crucial to align all...

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Five Useful HubSpot Certificates for B2B SaaS Startups

Five Useful HubSpot Certificates for B2B SaaS Startups

To get the most out of your HubSpot investment, there are some core tools you must know how to use. Fortunately, HubSpot has excellent training for...

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[Webinar Recording] 50 Powerful HubSpot Features

[Webinar Recording] 50 Powerful HubSpot Features

If you work in HubSpot, you know how hard it is to stay on top of feature releases, betas, release notes, and which users can access what. Our recent...

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Label Traxx Consolidates 3 Legacy CRMs and Support Systems onto HubSpot

Label Traxx Consolidates 3 Legacy CRMs and Support Systems onto HubSpot

Case Study Label Traxx, the leading MIS/ERP solution for narrow web flexo and digital label printing, was restructuring to bring three companies...

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Orange Marketing Earns Prestigious HubSpot Onboarding Accreditation

Orange Marketing Earns Prestigious HubSpot Onboarding Accreditation

Newport Beach, CA—03/02/2023— Orange Marketing, specializing in HubSpot sales, marketing, and services implementation for B2B software and technology...

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How to Use 5 HubSpot Emails for Demand Generation

How to Use 5 HubSpot Emails for Demand Generation

We have noticed our own email click-through rates in a downward spiral, and our marketers are plagued with emails not reaching the intended target...

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The Power Of HubSpot For Early Stage Startups: Why HubSpot Is Our Preferred Platform

The Power Of HubSpot For Early Stage Startups: Why HubSpot Is Our Preferred Platform

When we decided to launch our marketing agency, we had a clear goal: to help early-stage startups grow and succeed. Having worked in startups, we...

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A Quick Look at HubSpot’s Custom Report Tool

A Quick Look at HubSpot’s Custom Report Tool

One of the many fast-evolving components of HubSpot is its reporting capabilities. These have improved substantially in recent years, eliminating the...

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Go Local, or Go Home! How to Optimize Your Local Pages for Search

Go Local, or Go Home! How to Optimize Your Local Pages for Search

When it comes to showing up high on search results, you may think that large chains with big budgets would have the edge over local businesses. You'd...

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5 Reasons Startups Should Choose HubSpot Over Salesforce

5 Reasons Startups Should Choose HubSpot Over Salesforce

Salesforce.com is a powerful platform. One of the first truly configurable SaaS CRMs (remember the no software logo). The world of Benioff has become...

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Common HubSpot Pop-up Mistakes and 6 Things to do Instead

🍾Common HubSpot Pop-up Mistakes and 6 Things to do Instead

Pop-ups aren't popular. 73% of internet users don't like them, making them the least favorable advertising technique in existence. Why don't people...

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Oops, We Did It Again! The Best HubSpot And Marketing Secrets

Oops, We Did It Again! Our 2022 Best HubSpot And Marketing Secrets

We were gratefully slammed for most of 2022 - how about you?! While our clients kept us super busy, we still found time to release terrific marketing...

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Amberdata Unifies Sales, Marketing & Website Tech Stack on HubSpot Driving Explosive Growth

Case Study Learn how Amberdata, a blockchain and crypto asset data company, consolidated its startup sales and marketing stack into one integrated...

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We are in marketing. We don't close deals. Sorry, not sorry.

We are in marketing. We don't close deals. Sorry, not sorry.

We could go on about reasons we’ve heard why leads don't turn into deals. And reasons why deals don't close-won. "I consistently email the leads, but...

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📧 7 Email Tricks - How To Get Your Prospects To Take Action!

As marketers, we can all acknowledge that email has increasingly become less effective, which is oh-so frustrating! Recently, notorious email expert...

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content writing tips

✍️ What if insightful, reliable writers were easy to find?

Getting purposeful content out consistently that performs is the plight of anyone in the marketing game. So much can go wrong in finding the right...

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Take the Stress out of Social Media with HubSpot

Take the Stress out of Social Media with HubSpot

As the CEO of a SaaS startup, life can feel like it’s going 1000 mph at all times. On top of everything, ensuring you're getting your company name...

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3 Ways To Optimize Images For Your Content Marketing 

🖼️ Size Matters: 3 Ways To Optimize Images For Better Content Marketing

What is the right size for an image on a website, a blog post, in email or on social media? And how should images be optimized? Our team begged for...

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Leveraging Capterra? Why Your B2B Needs Reviews and How to Get Them

Leveraging Capterra? Why Your B2B Needs Reviews and How to Get Them

If you're a B2B SaaS company, there's a good chance you're leveraging Capterra as a way to promote your business and acquire leads. You may even be...

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🚀 Best performing OM Email ever. The Back Story.

🚀 Orange Marketing's Best Performing Email of All Time

🤓 Geek Alert This blog post is for marketers who get into the nuts and bolts of email in an almost FRIGHTENING 👾 way. Orange Marketing sent its...

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🙄 Snarketing Alert: Stupid Automated Sales Emails

🙄 Snarketing Alert: Stupid Automated Sales Emails

If you have a job in any tech company, you get dozens of stupid automated sales emails every day. Tools like HubSpot, Outreach.io and Reply.io have...

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5 Third Party HubSpot Integration App Categories That Can Help You Break Through the Clutter

5 Third Party HubSpot Integration App Categories That Can Help You Break Through the Clutter

Reaching prospects is hard these days. We put together a list of 5 HubSpot integrated tools to help you break through the clutter and personalize...

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Transitioning to Google Analytics 4 for HubSpot Users

Transitioning to Google Analytics 4 for HubSpot Users

Though initial adoption of the new GA4 (Google Analytics 4) was slow, Google announced in March 2022 that it would be sunsetting GA3 by July 1, 2023....

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Orange Marketing Certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

Orange Marketing Certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

Update Aug-18-2023 - Orange Marketing's WBENC-certified status has been renewed through 2024. Click here to see the certificate Newport Beach,...

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Inbound 2022 - Standing Out And Connecting With Fatigued Audiences

Inbound 2022 - Standing Out And Connecting With Fatigued Audiences

HubSpot's annual Inbound conference was in full swing as a hybrid event earlier this month in Boston. The attendance was split, with about 10,000 in...

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How to Conduct a QA Process for Smoother HubSpot Migrations

How to Conduct Website QA for a Smooth HubSpot CMS Migration

Whether you are migrating a website or blog over to HubSpot CMS or creating an entirely new site, having a solid quality assurance process can make...

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What B2B SaaS Companies Need to Know About Google’s

What B2B SaaS Companies Need to Know About Google’s "Helpful Content Update"

On August 18, Google announced that it would be rolling out an update to its search algorithm to improve the quality of the content that appears in...

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Why you need a fractional hubspot admin

Why do you need a Fractional HubSpot Administrator?

Welp. HubSpot is all grown up now. 😱 It's a professional-grade CRM with big (sometimes ugly) CRM problems. In no time, your brand new pretty little...

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Getting the Most Out of Hubspot's Filters and Lists

Getting the Most Out of Hubspot's Filters and Lists

HubSpot has many powerful features that make life easier for sales and marketing teams at organizations of all sizes. Filters and lists are the...

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How B2B Companies Can Get The Most out of LinkedIn

How B2B Companies Can Get The Most out of LinkedIn

With so much to focus on in the SMB B2B space, social media may be the least of a founder or startup CMO's worries. However, with more than 830...

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Spoiler Alert Attribution Reporting is a Scam

Spoiler Alert: Attribution Reporting is a Scam

Marketers are about metrics. We’ve been drilled that if you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter. And, FOREVER, marketing has had to constantly prove...

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5 Ways HubSpot Helps SaaS Companies Scale

5 Ways HubSpot Helps SaaS Companies Scale

SaaS startups typically use a marketing and sales tech stack that looks like: MailChimp for email, Pipedrive for sales, Unbounce for landing pages,...

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The Importance Of Clean CRM Data And How To Get There

Seven Steps to Clean Your CRM Data

During the recent onboarding of a new sales rep for a client, the rep asked, "How clean is this CRM?" They went on to explain the horror show they...

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9 Reasons Why You Need to Migrate Your Blog to HubSpot

9 Reasons Why You Need to Migrate Your Blog to HubSpot

Unless you built your website on HubSpot from the beginning, your company domain is probably hosted elsewhere, such as WordPress, Webflow, or another...

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Why Local Trade Shows are a Fantastic Investment in 2022

Why Local Trade Shows are a Fantastic Investment

We've got seven (7) great reasons why B2B SaaS companies need to double down on local events after we attended our first trade show in two and a half...

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Pillar Pages 101—and Why Your SaaS Website Needs Them

Pillar Page 101—and Why Your SaaS Website Needs Them

Web pages, blogs, landing pages, and pillar pages. There are so many different types of content for SaaS websites. It can be confusing to understand...

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Using HubSpot Meeting Links to Create Calendar Magic

Leveraging HubSpot Meeting Links to Streamline Your Sales Process

Which HubSpot sales automation tool receives the most resistance from sales reps? Interestingly enough, it's the HubSpot Meetings scheduling tool,...

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How B2B Companies Can Get The Most Out Of Twitter

How B2B Companies Can Get The Most Out Of Twitter

Twitter is a hot topic with Elon Musk's recent plans to purchase or not purchase Twitter and the plans/issues he has for/with the platform. But just...

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Orange Wins Bronze For Best Ebook In American Business Awards

Orange Wins Bronze For Best Ebook In American Business Awards

Orange Marketing has taken out a Bronze Stevie Award for Best Ebook from the American Business Awards® (ABA). ABA is the premier accolade for...

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Subdomains Vs Subdirectories What Is Important For SEO in 2022

Subdomains Vs Subdirectories: What Is Important For SEO in 2022?

One of the longest-running debates in SEO is the use of “subdomains or subdirectories" for website content such as blogs, landing pages, and resource...

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Why We Don’t Recommend Facebook as a Marketing Channel for B2B Startups

Why We Don’t Recommend Facebook as a Marketing Channel for B2B Startups

While established companies and well-funded startups with large marketing teams and budgets can go after all available marketing channels, smaller...

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39 out of 39 Possible HubSpot Certifications for World Certification Week

39 out of 39 Possible HubSpot Certifications for World Certification Week

In honor of HubSpot's World Certification Week, we chose this week to complete 39 out of the possible 39 HubSpot Certifications that a HubSpot...

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Top 3 HubSpot Updates to Check Out

We are excited to share some of HubSpot’s recent updates: Upgrade to inbound calling functions and forms Forms associations to campaigns New ACH...

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How Marketers Can Leverage the Sequences Tool in HubSpot Sales Professional

How Marketers Can Leverage the Sequences Tool in HubSpot Sales Professional

Do you want to squeeze more shameless cold emails out of your overworked SDRs? Try this trick! One of the most valuable sales automation tools...

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Don’t Publish and Forget: How You Can Repurpose Four Types of Content

Don’t Publish and Forget: How You Can Repurpose Four Types of Content

One mistake companies often make is treating their content as a single-use piece without considering the time and money spent creating it. This post...

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How to Opt Unsubscribed Contacts Back Into Email

How to Opt Unsubscribed Contacts Back Into Email

"A customer has opted out of my email! But they need to get these emails! What should I do?" As with all things Orange Marketing, a particularly...

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List-Based Ad Retargeting Using AdRoll An Affordable Tactic to Grow B2B Brand Awareness

List-Based Ad Retargeting Using AdRoll: An Affordable Tactic to Grow B2B Brand Awareness

When you market a service or product, particularly as a startup, you have much to communicate including building your brand. One strategy we’ve found...

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The Ultimate Landing Page Checklist - Get It Now!

The Ultimate HubSpot Landing Page Checklist - Get It Now!

Landing pages are one of the most important components of a successful marketing website. While your home page serves as a one-stop-shop for all...

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11 Steps to Ensure Google Indexes Your New Website

11 Steps to Ensure Google Indexes Your New Website

Clients ALWAYS ask us, "What is the trick to rank #1 on Google for our website?" Welp, it's not the 2000's kids. There are no tricks anymore....

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Keyword Strategies No Longer Work for SEO. Here’s What You Should Do Instead.

Keyword Strategies No Longer Work for SEO. Here’s What You Should Do Instead.

Our clients often ask us what SEO keyword strategy is for them. Our answer is basically “we don’t have one” as search engines have become more...

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Three’s a Crowd: Why Adding Outreach or Salesloft to your HubSpot/Salesforce Integration is a Bad Idea

Three’s a Crowd: Why Adding Outreach or Salesloft to your HubSpot/Salesforce Integration is a Bad Idea

One challenge marketers encounter when switching their organization to HubSpot is the need to integrate their Salesforce CRM, to their separate sales...

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5 Ways to Reach High-Value Prospects for B2B SaaS Companies

5 Ways to Reach High-Value Prospects for B2B SaaS Companies

These days, marketers have access to a wider range of strategies and tactics than ever before. It can be hard to choose from this long menu,...

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How to Win a HubSpot Impact Award

How to Win a HubSpot Impact Award 🏆 and Why It Matters

Do you ever want something so badly that you could almost taste it? Frankly, this has been our obsession with the HubSpot Impact Awards. Please enjoy...

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Making The Most Of Your B2B Email Analytics

How To Use Your B2B Email Analytics

If you’re running email marketing campaigns for your B2B company, it’s important to not only pay close attention to campaign analytics, but to know...

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4 Of Our Favorite New HubSpot Product Updates

4 Of Our Favorite New HubSpot Product Updates for January 2022

As a HubSpot Diamond Solutions Partner, we take weekly stock of what goodies HubSpot rolls out. Late last year, HubSpot released four features we...

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6 Powerful Ways  B2B Companies Are  Using QR Codes

6 Powerful Ways B2B Companies Are Using QR Codes

Once written off for dead, QR codes have experienced a worldwide resurgence in the last couple of years. With just about everyone having scanned a QR...

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[Case Study] Tech Stack Consolidation Drives Growth Into 2022

In late 2019, Isos Technology, a top Atlassian Solution Partner, realized they had a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t grow...

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An Unstoppable Team - Orange Marketing Looks Back on an Amazing 2021

An Unstoppable Team - Orange Marketing Looks Back on an Amazing 2021

We closed the year out with a bang! We welcomed new team members, pulled our remote team from across the country together for the first time with a...

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Why Moving from HubSpot to Salesforce Won't Solve Your Sales Problem

Don't make the mistake of thinking that pivoting to Salesforce will fix your sales problems—that's not your problem. Not hitting your targets? Don't...

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How Salespeople Lose Big By Not Using Meeting Links

Meeting links automate sales processes and ensure hot leads can nail down time with you. Despite this, we find that teams constantly refuse to use...

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Orange Marketing Wins Platinum and Gold In 2021 MarCom Awards

🏆 Orange Marketing Wins Platinum and Gold In 2021 MarCom Awards

Orange Marketing garners big wins at the coveted 2021 MarCom Awards, and was recognized for exceptional content and website design!

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Marketing and Sales Tool Consolidation Ignites IsosTech Revenue Growth

Case Study Learn how Isos Technology, an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, consolidated its complex sales and marketing stack to one integrated...

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📧 How To Improve Your B2B Email Marketing ROI

Getting a marketing-savvy B2B prospect with an overflowing inbox to read your email is impossible. If you really want solid results, check out these...

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Announcing Orange Marketing's Wins at the Davey Awards 🏆

Results-driven B2B marketing agency Orange Marketing proudly announces they have won Silver 🏆 in two categories in the 17th anniversary of the Davey...

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INBOUND Experts Agree Personalization is Critical Right Now 🔥

Another year "at" HubSpot's annual INBOUND conference, and another year in front of the computer (stupid COVID). We cannot wait until HubSpot hosts...

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Why You need HubSpot Website CMS Now to Launch Your Business

Launching your business? Why you should build your website with HubSpot's new CMS vs. WordPress, Squarespace, WIX, etc.

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Learning How to Develop Your HubSpot Website

The HubSpot Academy receives wide acclaim for providing exceptionally laid out content and amazing resources. We agree! And their ever-expanding CMS...

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[Ebook] The Truth About B2B Email Deliverability

New Ebook: Whether you are an experienced B2B marketer becoming increasingly frustrated with email results or a B2B entrepreneur who desperately...

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Focus Content to Hook Leads - You Only Have Seconds

Our biggest job as a B2B SaaS and technology-focused marketing company is to generate leads for hungry sales teams. Inbound Lead Generation 101 is...

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Why Lead Scoring is Bad for Startups

Your approach to sales is critical to the success of your business, particularly as you are getting started. In this article, we look at why many...

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How to Send Automated Recurring Emails Using HubSpot Workflows

First Place Winner, 2021 HubSpot Blog Contest and Originally Published July 28, 2021, on HubSpot.com.

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Stop Wasting Money on Leads Your B2B Sales Reps Won't Call

Do you know where you are wasting money on good leads? Some crucial basics are holding B2B sales teams back. We have the answers!

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B2B Sales Teams That Your Investors Will Love

Your investors want to see a scalable, repeatable, and predictable sales process to help them determine when (or if) they will get their money back....

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[Ebook] The Truth About B2B Sales

We've watched dozens of B2B SaaS and technology startups and experienced companies fumble setup of sales teams. We have finally written down our best...

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What Do Coming Apple Mail App Changes Mean for Marketing Email Metrics

A look at Apple's planned Apple Mail App updates and how this will impact your email marketing metrics.

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What's In A Name? Writing Compelling Anonymous Case Studies.

Never let the fact that a happy customer doesn't want to be mentioned by brand name in a case study hinder you from producing them! When you tell...

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What You Need To Know Before Hiring Your Next Sales Rep

As the business world catches up with the last 14 months, many companies find themselves hiring sales reps. In a recent article, HubSpot offers...

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Orange Marketing Becomes a Diamond Hubspot Solutions Partner

Orange Marketing Becomes a Diamond HubSpot Solutions Partner

Orange Marketing, a leading Orange County, California, SaaS-focused growth consulting agency, has reached the diamond tier of HubSpot’s Solution...

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Why is Link-Building Essential For B2B and SaaS Companies?

Having a digital marketing strategy is a must in our tech-driven era. But that doesn’t mean every industry or type of business should utilize the...

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Stalk Your Prospects Using AdRoll Retargeting and HubSpot

Have you ever had the situation where you were shopping online, and the item you were eyeballing started following you all over the internet?

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Don't Just Write For Google... Your Prospects Crave Value!

This morning when I woke up, I got an email that I have seen (and ignored) many times before. The sender promised to get our website on the first...

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"What's Up Ops?"

By now, you may have seen the press about HubSpot's new Operations Hub. But if you don't bleed orange 🍊 when you get a papercut, you may not know...

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SOLVED: How do I add customized images to HubSpot emails?

Solved: How do I add personalized custom images to HubSpot emails?

Problem: Our client wanted to use a custom image for each company to which they were sending a specific email. It seems so simple. 😭 After research,...

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Don't be fooled. Building B2B Websites is not Rocket Science.

Don't let some agency fool you. 😲 A new B2B website does not need to take 6-12 months and cost your entire annual marketing budget. Building...

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To stand out in your field, you need to first get the lay of the land. Our tips can help you establish yourself as an authority in your arena.

Research Competition and Be an Authority in Your Arena - 3 Tips!

You have a brilliant SaaS product, and you’re ready to make a splash in the market. You’re preparing for launch, and you know people will be excited...

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The Truth About B2B Marketing

[Ebook] Truth About B2B Marketing

Welp. We should have titled this "The Orange Marketing Manifesto." We finally wrote down all the information we think every B2B company executive...

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B2B Tips to Make 2021 Your Year! Check it out!

5 B2B Growth Tips to Make 2021 Your Year

2021 means new opportunities for growth and success for your B2B company. We’ve done the research and assembled a list of our top recommendations to...

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SEO: Still the Best Long Game in Town

If you’re looking to market a business online, you have a lot of different options. You might consider running some ads or starting a blog. What...

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Top Components of a Lead Generating B2B Website

Your web presence is more important than ever, especially with the dramatic shift to a total virtual world at the start of 2020. It’s a big question...

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2020 Roundup - Top Tips, Templates, and Guides for SaaS and Technology Companies

Welcome to 2021! As we rejoice in seeing the backside of 2020, we share high hopes that business and spirits will flourish. And with a renewed sense...

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Office Holiday Party and Team Gifts - Circa 2020

Who doesn't like holiday parties and gifts? As usual, 2020 has thrown its wrench into the end-of-year office holiday party. We had to get creative...

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How B2B Companies Can Use Social Media to Build Credibility

Here at Orange Marketing, we insist that our B2B clients (and their founders) create and maintain a social media presence, and we have some very...

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Client Holiday Gifts During COVID? An Entertaining B2B Process Using HubSpot

We enjoy using the holidays as a good excuse to say THANK YOU to our clients and supporters who hang in there with us through thick and thin. And...

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Wrapping Up: How to Repurpose Your 2020 Content and End the Year Right

As the end of year draws near, we like to reflect on what we accomplished over the last twelve months (and, in 2020, we should definitely celebrate...

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The Website Messaging Template That Will Improve Your Lead Conversions

We work with a lot of SaaS startup companies, many of whom bring fresh and unique ideas to market. It can take quite a bit of research to establish...

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New Features and Best Practices Fresh out of HubSpot's Inbound 2020

This year's Inbound may have been missing the Boston atmosphere, a flashy marketing showroom floor, and in-person networking events, but HubSpot did...

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SaaS Companies Take Notice - Powerful New HubSpot Features Announced

Inbound time is always exciting for HubSpot agencies like Orange Marketing. Just like other SaaS companies, HubSpot releases many of its features...

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SaaS Medical Startup's Website Makeover Doubles Traffic and Leads

Overview An education technology startup that sells advanced extended reality apps to medical and nursing schools reached out for marketing support...

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SaaS Startups: Eight Reasons to Build Your Website on HubSpot CMS

Our goal is to convince our SaaS startups to stop wasting time building WIX, Squarespace or WordPress websites and encourage them to get on the right...

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Do Your Salespeople Refuse to Follow up on Leads?

One of the #1 cries marketing teams are familiar with hearing from sales teams is, "Need more leads!" And Marketing responds by launching an...

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Migrating a Blog From WordPress to HubSpot

Migrating a blog from WordPress to HubSpot is not as daunting as you may think. In our post Website Migration: Moving From WordPress to HubSpot, we...

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HubSpot Webinar Series Looks At Marketing Strategy Shifts Due To COVID-19

HubSpot has a new weekly webinar series covering the shifts in marketing and selling strategies they see in response to COVID-19. The Adapt2020...

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FreightPOP Case Study: From HubSpot to Hot Spot

How Orange Marketing helped a seed funded SaaS company grow its sales and marketing programs - and beat their bookings goals by almost 30%.

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Coronavirus Canceled Your Trade Show, Don't Let it Destroy the Year

Real Marketing Solutions to the Single-Handed Decimation of the B2B Spring 2020 Trade Show Season. Before we get started solving your authentic...

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How to Make A Case Study Quickly for Your Business or Client

If you are marketing for your own business or startup, or are marketing for a client, getting good content together for prospective customers is...

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Startup Grind Global 2020 Recap

What I learned at "the most important event for startups, tech leaders, and big brands..." Last week I attended Startup Grind Global 2020 in Redwood...

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Breaking the Mold in Sales and Marketing - White Paper

Orange Marketing’s co-founder Kelsey Galarza recently presented on what the tried and true sales and marketing tactics are and shared trending and...

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New HubSpot Feature: Personalization Token "Placeholder"

Editors Note: This feature is in public beta. Ask your HubSpot rep if you don't already have it! Nope. That wasn't a mistake of personalization...

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Tips for Creating HubSpot Chatbots

If you would like to qualify some of your website traffic for your sales team through an automation tool, building a chatbot is a terrific option....

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Migrating From WordPress to HubSpot: Step-by-Step Instruction

Whether you are migrating your own WordPress website to HubSpot or you are with an agency looking to do this for a client, you have made a fantastic...

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Building a Sales Pipeline

Hello, and welcome back to another post in our “Building a Sales Pipeline” series! Today we are going to be talking about some examples of the...

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2019 in Review

Top Marketing Tips, Guides, and Checklists of 2019

2019 was an amazing year of growth for us that included a website refresh, new teammates, and a marketing video series roll out. As we reflect on the...

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Is Local SEO Important For National or Virtual Companies?

If you're creating marketing strategies for national or virtual companies where the only location is a headquarters office (if that), you may believe...

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5 Minute Video: How To Create a Sales Pipeline ... Quickly

We get this question all the time from our SaaS Founders: "How do we create our sales pipeline? Really quickly?" As much as we'd like to give you...

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HubSpot Sales Enablement Tools - Creating Sequences Step-by-Step

HubSpot’s sales enablement tools allow sales teams to automate follow up messaging and tasks to help stay on top of leads in a predetermined cadence....

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Top Snippet Placement Tips from SEMrush

SEMrush is a platform that helps marketers gain insight into what is performing well, and what isn't, on both their website and their competitors'...

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Identifying and Isolating Target Keywords and Topics using SEMrush

SEMrush is a SaaS tool that helps you target your marketing efforts by analyzing data on any website -- your own and your competition’s. Learn how to...

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Orange Marketings New Look and Feel 2019

Our New Look, Tenacity, and Growing Team

Orange Marketing has had a number of events in 2019. We gave ourselves a website refresh, hit HubSpot’s premier annual event, #inbound2019, and added...

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11 Actionable Marketing Tactics We Learned from Inbound 2019

More than 26,000 marketing and sales professionals attended HubSpot’s Inbound 2019 conference in Boston. Our Orange Marketing team has attended...

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BioMedGPS SmartTRAK Plays the Long Game With Content Marketing

How we helped a medical device research company increase traffic and grow leads Overview SaaS startup BioMedGPS SmartTRAK, a leading B2B provider of...

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5 Minute Video: Telling Tales After School – Marketing Don'ts

In real life, we incent our children and pets with rewards and treats for good grades, a nice "sit/stay," and other accomplishments. When that...

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5 Minute Video: Social Media Best Practices for B2B Technology Companies

We get it. You have a million things to do. Social media is not a marketing priority because it is your belief that your target is not looking for...

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5 Minute Video: How to Use Email Correctly for B2B Lead Generation

Email is absolutely the work horse of any B2B Digital Marketing strategy and startups are no exception. The exception becomes how startup Founders...

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5 Minute Video: Creating Content Quickly

In our first Video, we talked about "Why Create Content." We hope you are bought into the "why" of creating content for your company. Now we talk...

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Inside the Actor's Studio: The Making of the Orange Marketing Videos

Kelsey and I are nothing, if not transparent with our clients. We are completely honest about what we think we do well, what we think we can take a...

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5 Minute Video: Why Content is So Important for Your Startup

At Orange Marketing, we constantly harp on content, content, content. In this quick 5-minute video, we tell you yet again why. Please, please create...

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Why Startups Need To Start Their Content Strategy Before Launch

Many startups share the misconception that they need to have all the ordering, product, or service elements ready before they start communicating...

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Orange Marketing Client SmartTRAK Achieves OCBJ Largest Women-Owned Business List 2019

We are so proud of Sharon O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, and her outstanding team at SmartTRAK for achieving the growth that has allowed their B2B SaaS...

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Marketing 101: Video Case Studies

What do most people do before buying a product? They look at product reviews! Likewise, in addition to having testimonials from happy customers on...

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Tips for Trade Show Marketing: Download Our Guide!

Are you attending your first SaaS trade show? Have you prepared your marketing strategy, booth, giveaways, and sales reps for the big event? If not,...

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Highlights from Recurring Revenue Conference 2019

If you haven't heard of this conference, some are calling it "SaaStr Lite." I got to attend thanks to friend Carey Ransom inviting me to join him in...

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Orange Marketing Becomes a HubSpot Platinum Partner

Orange Marketing celebrates its one year anniversary and emerges as a leading growth agency for B2B SaaS companies in Southern California. NEWPORT...

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HubSpot Sequences vs. Workflows: What's the Difference?

Everyone wants to be able to send multiple messages to prospects in a given order. Or maybe based on actions taken or not taken by the prospect....

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