Hubspot Marketing Grader

Hubspot MARKETING GRADER WINNERS & LOSERS The 2012 Republican Presidential Primaries Marketing Grader is a free tool by HubSpot which grades your marketing effectiveness. You can try it out at marketing.grader.com GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT WINNER! AVERAGE SHARES PER BLOG ARTICLE RICK PERRY WINS for having the most shared blog ar- ticles! Did you know that websites with a blog get 55% more web traffic than those without one? Blogging is not only a great way to reach your target audience; it also has compounding benefits when people share your posts on social media. POPULARITY WINNER! TOTAL FACEBOOK FANS & TWITTER FOLLOWERS NEWT GINGRICH WINS Newt with well over 1.3 million Twitter followers and nearly 200,000 Facebook follow- ers. Did you know that 93% of US adult internet users are on Facebook? And organizations with over 1,000 Twitter followers get 6x more traffic. INBOUND "VOTES" TOTAL INBOUND LINKS WINNER! MITT ROMNEY WINS for having most inbound links to his website! Every link to your site is another vote in the giant popularity contest that is the internet. The more sites that link to you, the better you will rank. Keep on creating and sharing all that great content, and you'll keep moving closer to the top of the charts. OVERALL WINNER MITT ROMNEY HUBSPOT GRADE: 90/100 WINNER! VICTORY! MITT ROMNEY crushes the competi- tion, well in marketing at least. The candidate was tops across the board with a well-shared blog, a large social media following, and over 2,000 inbound links. OVERALL LOSER MICHELE BACHMANN HUBSPOT GRADE: 59/100 LOSER! MICHELE BACHMANN is the big LOSER when it comes to marketing. Really? No blog Michele? She best step up her marketing game if she thinks she is going to make it all of the way to the White House. Stop, did you hear that silence? Yeah, that was the buzz NOT being generated by Bachmann's miniscule social media following. Let's go, Michele! It is time to pump up your marketing. Find out how you stack up against YOUR competition: marketing.grader.com Hubsppt ROMNEY GINGRICH PERRY 2,355 INBOUND LINKS 1.6 MILLION SUPPORTERS 334 SHARES/ARTICLE PAUL ROMNEY PAUL 2,038 INBOUND LINKS 1.4 MILLION SUPPORTERS 114 SHARES/ARTICLE GINGRICH PAUL ROMNEY 29 SHARES/ARTICLE 1,918 INBOUND LINKS 721,000 SUPPORTERS PERRY BACHMANN 493,000 SUPPORTERS BACHMANN 1,263 INBOUND LINKS NO BLOG BACHMANN 1,052 INBOUND LINKS PERRY GINGRICH 277,000 SUPPORTERS NO BLOG