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How (& Why) to Build a Freelance Design Team for Your Agency

By Brea Weinreb / April 11, 2018 / 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: Brea Weinreb is Community Manager at 99designs, the world’s largest graphic design marketplace. 99designs Pro offers agencies exclusive access to designer recruiting, customized onboarding and training, and tools like white-label services to help agencies scale. Here at Verblio (formerly BlogMutt), we’re working together as a partner to 99designs to make it easier for…

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How Agencies Should Sell Content Marketing Strategy to Clients

By Paul Zalewski / March 22, 2018 / 0 Comments

Marketing agencies know the pain of submitting proposals, RFPs and vying for new clients. That process is time-consuming and, if it leads to only one-off projects, is often ineffective. Instead, companies should look at implementing a content marketing strategy. According to Agency Spotter, there are more than 120,000 marketing agencies in the U.S., and the industry…

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Verblio Freelance Writer Spotlight: Marc S.

By Molly Michieli / February 14, 2018 / 0 Comments

Happy Valentine’s Day from Verblio (formerly BlogMutt)! For February’s writer spotlight, we’re highlighting Marc S., engineer, musician, and rock climber extraordinaire!

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Verblio Customer Spotlight: Handshakin’ From Blog To Agency

By Zoe Treeson / February 7, 2018 / 0 Comments

For this month’s customer spotlight, we’re proud to introduce Matt Holmes of Handshakin. He’s been a longtime Verblio customer since 2014. Long enough, in fact, that he’s been able to witness our business grow and consistently adapt to the evolving content marketing trends. And as Verblio matured, Handshakin’ was growing up right alongside us, from…

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What Agencies Need to Know About the Topic Cluster Methodology

By Caroline Rideout / February 1, 2018 / 1 Comment

An Interview with HubSpot’s Angela DeFranco Pillar pages, topic clusters, subtopics: If you’re a HubSpot user or follower of inbound marketing trends, there’s a good chance that you’ve come across the Topic Cluster Methodology while you’ve read about content marketing online or explored the Strategy tool on HubSpot.com. If you’re a marketing agency that uses…

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Smartention & The Cautionary Tale Of Hunting Marlins

By Ben Waymire / December 14, 2017 / 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: Ben Waymire is an account director at Volume Nine, a leading digital marketing agency in Denver, Colorado. This post is adapted from a presentation Ben gave to a group of marketing agency executives on how to align sales, marketing, and client services. We worked together on this post. If you’d like to submit a…

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