Kim Garmon Hummel

To thrive in today’s competitive market, leveraging your HubSpot CRM to its fullest potential is crucial. HubSpot offers a wide array of features that, when utilized effectively, can streamline your operations and increase your team’s productivity. Here, we outline ten strategic ways to use HubSpot more efficiently, complete with actionable

In today's digital landscape, your website is a lynchpin in your overall business success. And while it's tempting to choose the platform with the lowest barrier to entry in terms of cost, the features you'll need to understand your audience and make the right decisions about what to do next

Quick! Think of a time you encountered a logo design for a company that offers something you needed and thought: “Huh? What a weird choice… what does that even mean?” It was a seemingly random concoction of shapes and colors that didn’t say anything about the brand (or if it

Want a knockout customer experience? You can't neglect your employees' experience. Seems counterintuitive, right? But happy employees mean happy customers. When your teams feel valued in their workplace, they are more likely to: Give top-notch service, going that extra mile to make customers feel special Come up with knockout ideas

A podcast is like garlic: flavorful, savory, and adds depth to anything you create. I put garlic in everything, and, as you've probably already noticed– podcasts are in everything too. No matter the industry, pushing the record button and sharing your expertise is a surefire way to increase your traffic,

When I first learned how to make spaghetti I was a college student and my kitchen skills were limited. A dorm-mate told me, “throw it at the wall. If it sticks, it’s done.” While that may be true, it takes a lot of trial and error, and noodles, to get

Welcome to the wonderful world of ai, where technology meets creativity, and the result is pure magic! If you're a business owner or marketer, you've likely heard of the StoryBrand framework—a powerful method for creating compelling narratives that resonate with your audience. And if you’re a growth-minded professional, you know

How often do you make impactful changes to your website? If you’re like most businesses, your website gets updated once every couple of years—maybe. That used to be the norm - build it, set it, and forget it. The purpose of a website was to be a repository of information,

As much as I wish it wasn’t true, especially for the sake of the people who call me on behalf of their business, there are far too many marketing strategies that leave business development teams and decision makers feeling like their brand is screaming into an infinite void. This is

What makes McDonald’s french fries so good? (Note—we didn’t say “good for you”—just, so good!) It’s the combination of that uniform shape, heat, salt, fat…and the predictability that they’re always going to taste the same. When Ray Kroc joined McDonald’s in 1954 and rolled out the idea of franchising the