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Podcasting + Inbound Marketing = A New Kind of Impact

Podcasting + Inbound Marketing = A New Kind of Impact

Inbound marketing is not about the sell; it’s about the solve. There’s a lot of power in knowing that efforts made to connect individuals looking for their own solutions can happen for clients who use inbound marketing as part of their strategy. In t…

Beyond Simple eNewsletters: Email Marketing ROI

Beyond Simple eNewsletters: Email Marketing ROI

I recently heard email marketing and eNewsletters used interchangeably. Don’t get me wrong, I can understand how it happens, but I'm here to set the record straight. eNewsletters used to be the only form of email marketing; however, in the ever-evolv…

What is SEM?

What is SEM?

I’m sure you’ve heard this acronym before. It’s commonly used in conjunction with SEO. And the dreaded word strategy. As in, “What’s your SEO/SEM strategy?”

Mapping the Creative Process: Marketing Campaign Strategy 101

Mapping the Creative Process: Marketing Campaign Strategy 101

Mapping the creative process isn’t easy; it took me a solid nine months to finally feel competent in my position. Of course, I bounced around a little before finding my forte in Project Coordination - I wrote blogs and website copy, scheduled social …

Online Recruiting the Right Way

Online Recruiting the Right Way

There’s usually a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. And when it comes to online recruitment, this definitely applies. We’ve had quite a bit of success helping our clients with their online recruitment efforts, and with more and mor…

3 Rules of Blogging & Why You Can, And Should, Break Them

3 Rules of Blogging & Why You Can, And Should, Break Them

Here at Leighton Interactive, we live by the mantra that rules were meant to be broken. Why? Because we are creatives and we don’t like to be put in a box and told what we can and can’t create. Where’s the fun in that anyway? Yes, we are all law-abid…

4 Tips for Successful Demand Gen

4 Tips for Successful Demand Gen

The demand generation tactics I’ll be covering are all about ensuring your efforts don’t produce results that fall short of your expectations, because let’s be real, nobody wants that.

5 Myths on Content Marketing

5 Myths on Content Marketing

At some point in your marketing career, you have probably been given a bad piece of advice, but you didn’t realize that until long after the fact. That bad piece of advice is kind of like these content marketing myths; they have been passed on from p…

Customer Data Collection is Crucial... Here's Why

Customer Data Collection is Crucial... Here's Why

Collecting customer data is the single most important key to your marketing strategy. Without data, you’re marketing blindly, hoping to reach your target audience or persona. Many businesses that collect data don’t know what to do with it and end up …

6 Undeniable Benefits of Google Ads

6 Undeniable Benefits of Google Ads

First, a brief introduction to Google Ads and how they work. Google Ads are those text ads you see on Google Search results. Typically, there are four above the search results and several more at the bottom. You may remember there also being seven Go…

Lead Capturing is All About Building Trust: a Video from Wistia

Lead Capturing is All About Building Trust: a Video from Wistia

The world of video has come a long way since cat videos took over every single social media feed you own. Our friends at Wistia, a professional video hosting company, put together this quick video explaining how companies in any industry can benefit …