Anatomy of adult education e-learning best practices

adult education, e-learning, HubSpot Academy, Opencity Inc

In our search for best practice examples of e-learning, the HubSpot Academy remains one of the best illustrations we have encountered. As we dissect their certificates, learn how they apply the principles of adult education.

It is a pre-requisite for adult education that learners must be motivated. We see that the broad HubSpot led inbound movement achieves this admirably.

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Blog template to publish in under 2 hours

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Create your blog post in less than 2-hours using our illustrated blog template explained here.

The original customer story published on the HubSpot Academy focussed on our tips to optimise your blog in 45-minutes. We now go one stage further, with a template to help you write and optimise your post in under 2-hours. We have used WordPress in this example.

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Where to blog?

Where to blog, Opencity Inc, inbound marketing

Many organisations are hedging between onsite blogs, Medium and LinkedIn Pulse. Here we explore key questions, insights and offer recommendations.

Which blog publishing platform is the most appropriate in what circumstance or whether you should post the same or different content to each?

  • Brands that blog generate 67% more leads per month than those that don’t.
  • Blogs give websites 434% more indexed pages and 97% more indexed links.

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Inexpensive inbound tools – update

Opencity Inc., Inbound Marketing, Inbound on a Shoestring Budget, Digital Communications, inexpensive inbound tools

We have updated and expanded our original popular post – Inbound on a shoestring budget.

Cash flow is tight for most new businesses and non-profits. We set out to prove how close you can get to inbound best practice on a shoestring budget, with inexpensive inbound tools. These are our latest tips.

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Top recommendations for delighting the customer

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Delighting the Customer is what an executive leadership summit should really be about. Cascading the absolute focus on delighting the customer through an entire organisation from the top down.

The important of delighting the customer for both employees and customers is consistent with the advice from the Harvard Business Review article Making Customer-Centric Strategies Take Hold.

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