CEOs! Is your company healthy enough to market?

by Mary Coombs on September 7,2015

At Coombs Marketing we describe our inbound methodology as a “crockpot” not a “microwave” solution.

Inbound Marketing is not a solution that will pull a company that needs “quick sales” out of a crisis.  But, it is an essential solution for solid companies that want to grow in a sustainable way.

This means being a healthy company, which includes three critical approaches for marketing and sales:

 

Why we are going to Inbound 2015. Why you should come with us!

by Mike Coombs on August 6,2015

Because every minute of this conference is valuable or fun. 

Inbound September 8-11, 2015 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

The ideas for life, the methodology for marketing and sales, and the HubSpot software technology are all worth learning if you communicate, market or sell.

Why More People Are Looking to Certifications for Education

by Katie Coombs on May 10,2015

Many of us have been told, at one point or another, that the key to career success is a college education. With that in mind, we dutifully (although not always gracefully) completed our four(+) years, earned our diplomas and prepared to enter the workforce, to take the world by storm.

I'm not easy to buy from

by Mary Coombs on April 28,2015


The business we do with our customers is, well, very intimate. But before we go there, let's look back for a minute.

Marketing has changed radically over the last decade. There are many different kinds of marketing and advertising agencies and lots of different crafts and disciplines. For many decades, the advertising or marketing communications model dominated. In those models “the agency” would collaborate with the customer to make some discreet project or set of projects. And generally, the agency would be responsible for doing a good job of creating and executing the project. They would be responsible for the project being good, but not for ...