Did you know that YouTube reports that mobile video consumption rises a whopping 100% every year (HubSpot)? Additionally, 64% of users are more likely to buy a product online after watching a video. These numbers reveal the level of engagement videos are generating amongst consumers and how it’s critical to begin leveraging YouTube marketing to bolster your strategy and achieve desired goals from your efforts.

There comes a time in every marketer’s life, where you draw a blank. I have been in this position hundreds of times as a marketer in Perth. You’re trying to implement your Inbound Marketing strategy, but you can’t think of what to write, however, your readers are expecting another blog article. The pressure is on. You sit down by yourself and rack your brain for hours, only coming up with junk.

If you’ve ever felt paralysed like this, what you need to do is go back to basics – a content marketing checklist – which helps you plan effectively and lays the foundation to generate quality content.

What is the difference between high-growth and low-growth or no-growth businesses? In many cases, it comes down to differences in tactics, particularly marketing tactics. Here are 10 highly effective marketing tactics used by high-growth businesses.

Storytelling has always been a central part of marketing, and advertisers have been creating storyboards and pitching their ideas through storytelling ever since the beginning of formal advertising. Because it's such an effective tactic, it is still used very successfully today.

Calls-to-action (CTAs) are one of the most critical elements of an inbound marketing campaign. Whether in the form of text links, images, buttons or promotional tiles on your website, CTAs are there to motivate and direct your visitors to take a desired action, usually on a landing page. It is the conduit between the offer they are seeking and the information you require from them to start the lead nurturing process.

In this digital age, there's no denying that your website is your company's most valuable marketing asset.

Proving the positive ROI impact of video marketing as compared with outbound strategies or other inbound strategies is tricky.  You can turn to stats pulled from marketing surveys — but that proof doesn’t always reveal the meaningful insights you need.

A strategic marketing action plan is vital to business success. From content creation to social media engagement, SEO to SEM, inbound marketing and online presence to traditional outbound campaigns – your marketing action plan should bring it all together.

There’s a reason 96% of B2B marketers use video in their marketing campaigns, and that 3 in 4 report positive ROI for their video marketing: it works. Consider these findings from HubSpot: