Business Growth Blog

Articles by Krista Moon

Krista Moon

Krista Moon, President of Ascend Business Growth, specializes in digital marketing strategies that deliver qualified sales leads. She delivers thousands of leads to small businesses by helping them get discovered, build a following, and become thought leaders in their industry.

Connect on:

MedTech Content Marketing Basics for Improved ROI

Most MedTech companies regularly create marketing content such as webinars, presentations, publications, posters…the list goes on (press releases, web pages, blog articles, social posts). Creating and promoting content is essential for advancing growth. Getting the right content in front of the right people increases awareness, builds trust and credibility, and generates opportunities.

Read More

Biotech Website Basics to Optimize User Engagement

Your website is most likely the first impression your potential customers or other key stakeholders will get about your biotech. It only takes mere seconds for someone to form an opinion based on their user experience.

A well-structured site gives visitors a feeling of competency and trust. In addition, it encourages them to engage with your company, creating more opportunities to help you accomplish your business goals and objectives. Here are four biotech website basics required for developing a digital presence optimized for your biotech company’s growth.

Read More

SEO Basics to Get Your Biotech Found Online

Google processes over 3.5 billion searches per day, and some of those searches are inevitably related to your science and mission. Search engines index websites based on the content found on each web page. The only way your target audience even has a chance to find your website organically is by optimizing your pages for words and phrases relevant to your business.

Here are the search engine optimization, or SEO, basics required to increase your biotech company’s online visibility and get found and noticed by people interested in your industry, company, and science.

Read More

Example of Optimizing a High-Performing Web Page

We have a top-performing blog article for website traffic - it gets 6x more than our next highest-trafficked page, our Home page! As any good marketer would do, we are always looking for ways to optimize high performing pages. The goal is to make sure the people coming to the page match our ideal customer profile, get value, have plenty of opportunities to engage with more content, and can easily self-select into the sales process.

Read More

HubSpot Training: CRM Property Customization and Management

HubSpot CRM is a database that stores information about the people related to your business. In addition to standard contact data, such as phone, email, and address, users can add or customize fields to their unique situation and needs. Here is a quick overview of how to manage properties in HubSpot.

Read More

HubSpot Training: Lists, Views, and Contacts

Marketers and salespeople need to communicate with the same customers at various stages of the buyer’s journey. HubSpot is a centralized database for all business growth related contact data. Here’s an overview of how each role typically uses HubSpot to quickly access the lists, views, and contacts they need to do their job.

Read More

HubSpot Training: Maintaining GDPR Compliance

The days of email blasts to lists of contacts are coming to an end. The EU and California instituted more stringent privacy laws in 2018. More states and regions are soon to follow. If you use HubSpot, and email to contacts in the EU or California, here are some tips on using their GDPR functionality.

Read More

HubSpot Training: Customize Contact, Company, and Deal Record Views

The number one benefit of HubSpot, in my view, is that the CRM is central to the entire tech stack. If set up correctly, it stores multitudes of valuable data about the one thing sales, marketers, and business leaders care about the most: target buyers. These are the people that will, hopefully, become their future customers. Taking time to set up contact, company, and deal record views in HubSpot is essential to use the tool effectively. Watch the video or download the slides to see how to do it.

Read More

Moon Marketing Rebrands to Ascend Business Growth!

We’ve rebranded! When we added Moon Marketing as a DBA back in 2013, we thought it had a nice ring to it. It’s alliterative, Moon is my last name, it’s descriptive, and it’s a fun theme to play off (space) - so why change it? There is one primary reason why we decided to make the shift.

Read More

How Much Do Small Businesses Spend On Marketing?

You want to grow your business. You know you need to do more marketing to expand your reach and attract more customers. You also know that good marketing isn't cheap. It's scary because you're thinking of increasing expenses, but you don't have a clear vision of what you'll get in return.

Read More

Stay Connected

Popular