Articles by Matthew Stibbe

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How to do marketing
Sales

Selling technology: The secret is not to talk about technology

Today, I ordered a gold laptop. This is what I learned about marketing from the experience.

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Strategy
Sustainability

How to choose a B2B marketing agency as a purpose-driven business

We all get out of bed each day wanting to ‘do the right thing’ (unless you’re Skeletor or one of those cursed seagulls on Brighton beach.)...

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Branding
Strategy

How to calculate the return on investment (ROI) for brand strategy

You can’t sum up the value of brand strategy in a dashboard. But you can learn the right way to value it, how much you should invest in it,...

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HubSpot

How to calculate the return on investment (ROI) from HubSpot

HubSpot and digital marketing go together like Batman and Robin, Federer and Nadal, Ant and Dec… but proving its value in a way that...

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How to do marketing
Copywriting

Speaking human: 12 best examples of copywriting in tech

It's hard to speak human when you're in tech. But it’s not impossible. Here are some copywriting examples from technology companies to show...

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How to do marketing

Should you hire a marketing agency or a marketing person?

'No bucks, no Buck Rogers' as the astronauts say in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.

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Websites
HubSpot

How to migrate your site from WordPress to HubSpot (a quick overview)

First of all, congratulations on deciding to make the move from WordPress to HubSpot (and if you haven't made that decision yet, here's 11...

Copywriting

Want to write well? Open with a punch, close with a kick

There are two words that every writer needs to know if they're going to learn how to write well: lede and kicker. Most writers will be...

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Websites

How to calculate the return on investment (ROI) for a new website

Every website project starts with a leap of faith.

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Websites

How to build a world-class investor relations area for your website with HubSpot Content Hub

“Investors, both individual and professional, want more than just the data that independent services can provide. They want the company’s...