Businesses are overwhelmed by all the different options available to help improve their operations, revenue, and growth. Marketing is just one of the many topics that New England companies can learn to streamline at this year’s New England XPO for Business, taking place next Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at John B. Hynes Convention Center. This event is the largest B2B networking conference in the Northeast, featuring 36+ educational seminars and hundreds of business products and services.

Marketers today are faced with a number of challenges dealing with the fast-paced nature of the internet and the constantly developing trends associated with it. Are you up to speed with how personalization is affecting marketing?

Implementing inbound marketing tactics has always created measureable results, regardless of the industry. Medical device manufacturing companies have spent time and money investigating ways to improve their website development and search engine optimization. Some, like MediPurpose, are starting to see success using inbound marketing to drive growth.

What's next for marketing and communication in 2011? The upcoming 'What's Next: Your Marketing Communications Roadmap' conference in Washington D.C. will address this question and more, sharing the freshest thinking and newest approaches to help your business discover where it needs to take its marketing next year and beyond.

Dreamforce, one of the largest cloud computing conferences of the year hosted by Salesforce, has commenced today, and you can bet HubSpot is all over it. The event, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today through Thursday, brings together thousands of attendees as well as leaders in cloud computing to collaborate and learn.

Want to find out how to jump-start your content marketing?

HubSpot Founder & CEO Brian Halligan will be at Schwartz Communications headquarters in Waltham, MA on December 15 for a breakfast roundtable on content marketing from 8:30 to 10 AM. Halligan will join fellow content marketing experts Ross Levanto, senior vice president at Schwartz, and Ann Handley, chief content officer of MarketingProfs.

Looking for some quality, live education about inbound marketing topics such as search engine optimization (SEO), social media, and business blogging? Well, we hope you can make room in your schedule, because the Inbound Marketing Summit (IMS) will be coming to Boston on October 6-7, 2010.

It's that time again. South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, the popular annual technology conference held in Austin, Texas, has collected session ideas, and now they want to hear from you about what you'd like to see at the event, to be held March 11-15. Because SXSW is a community-driven event, the voters' opinion accounts for 30% of the SXSW session decision-making process.

Looking to increase the effectiveness of your business' search marketing campaigns? Join HubSpot VP Customers Jonah Lopin at the b2b Search Strategy Summit on June 23 in San Francisco to learn best practices and discover top tools and tips that can be implemented immediately to turn around and optimize your B2B search marketing campaigns.

For the second year in a row, we're pleased to announce HubSpot's recognition as an AlwaysOn East Top 100 company in the SaaS and Enterprise category.