Hubspot's recent market survey on the state of Inbound Marketing for 2011 reveals some interesting trends in marketing spend validating the importance of inbound marketing as a low cost lead generator.  Consumers are becoming immune to uninvited communications and wish to be left to their own methods when going through the buying decision process.  It's about control, and the consumer is now the one who now has the power of choice in what information is received.

From time to time we get asked about "experts" that promise to get your website to appear on page one of Google's search results.  Our first question in response is usually "for what keywords or phrases?"  The answer is usually something like "I dunno."