IM NewsWatch, April 8, 2013 - Latest IM News including ‘How to Create Consistently Great Content – Copyblogger’ and much more...
April 8th, 2013 at 3:58 am EST‘Passive Profits Formula‘ – Matt Garrett’s Webinar April 9
Matt Garrett is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, April 9 at 12.00 pm PDT. The topic of the webinar is “Passive Profits Formula”. Webinar Details Organizer: Matt Garrett Topic: Passive Profits Formula Day/Date: Tuesday, April 9 Time: 12.00 pm PDT – Time Zone Converter Register for webinar details. ‘Passive Profits Formula’ Webinar [Read more]
‘US Mobile Ad Spending on Social Networks to Reach $4.5 Billion by 2018’ – ‘The Forrester Blog’
The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “US Mobile Ad Spending on Social Networks to Reach $4.5 Billion by 2018”. Jitender Miglani says, “If I were to ask you to name the top three social networking sites, you could probably answer easily. If I asked you to name the next five, you might find it a bit more difficult. You may... [Read more]
‘Audience data is your currency: protecting it is paramount’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Audience data is your currency: protecting it is paramount”. Amy King says, “As the number of ad technology vendors grow and their functions expand, companies continue to implement more and more tags on their websites. This process takes place in stages and incorporates... [Read more]
Autoresponder Software Know-How: Making your most valuable asset productive #ad
Many marketers get lost when trying to choose an autoresponder service. There are so many different things to consider Garry Sayer and Thom Lancaster have created Autoresponder Software Know-How, sharing how they have deeply researched the autoresponder marketplace. It distills all the information they found into an easy-to-read and value-packed guide.... [Read more]
‘Oscar Wilde: Advice on Better Blogging’ by Patsi Krackoff
Patsi Krackoff’s latest blog post is titled “Oscar Wilde: Advice on Better Blogging”. Krackoff says, “You know that your blog is a key part of your search strategy, but do you know how to get the most out of it? What would Oscar Wilde advise for better blogging? Thousands of blog guides exist, but do they really help or just cloud the... [Read more]
‘Do You Inspire Action From Your Followers?’ by Denise Wakeman
Denise Wakeman’s latest blog post is titled “Do You Inspire Action From Your Followers?”. Wakeman says, “Have you ever been inspired by a TED Talk? I asked my Facebook friends what TED Talks inspired them and received some great recommendations for videos to watch. I asked because I’ve been challenged to create and deliver a TED-style... [Read more]
‘Firefox Is Blocking Your Cookies’ – ‘Offervault Scoop’ Blog
The latest article on ‘Offervault Scoop’ blog is titled “Firefox Is Blocking Your Cookies”. Dustin says, “The topic of online privacy is heating up. Recently we talked about how a U.S. congressman is looking to pass the “Do Not Track Me” act. Now Firefox is entering it’s hat into the conversation. By default, a patch for Firefox version... [Read more]
What is emotional SEO and how can it help marketers #ad
Chris Munch is the apparent inventor of the term. He has created a series of free videos in which he explains what Emotional SEO is and why he thinks it’s the most important SEO concept to be discussed in a long time. He connects it with his observation that Google has done poorly in the Social Traffic arena. Google Plus still has significant... [Read more]
‘How to Boost Your Expert Status with a Blog' – ‘The Future of Ink’ Blog
The latest article on ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “How to Boost Your Expert Status with a Blog?. Nina Amir says, “We all know that having an ebook—or any book—will give youexpert status. When you tell someone you are an author or hand them your book, they immediatelysee you as an authorityon your topic. However, in today’s world,... [Read more]
‘How to Use the iPad for Content Marketing’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog
The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “How to Use the iPad for Content Marketing”. Rusty Bishop says, “The iPad is, quite possibly, one of the best way for marketers to enhance their brand image and interact with customers. With iPad in hand, your customers have the ability to view product information and engage with interactive... [Read more]
‘Vine Adds Trending Hashtags To Aid Content Discovery’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article
The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Vine Adds Trending Hashtags To Aid Content Discovery”. Matt McGee says, “Vine has announced a small tweak that it hopes will help users discover content: trending hashtags. They appear on the Explore area, immediately below the existing group of pre-populated “popular”... [Read more]
Azon Traffic Jacking: coax Amazon visitors to visit you, too #ad
Warrior Faraaz has just released Azon Traffic Jacking. It shows you how to pull in major traffic to your sight without ranking for competitive keywords. With this training, Faraaz says, your can get targeted traffic from high-visibility authority websites. Using the techniques in Azon Traffic Jacking, you can get Amazon or other top website to give... [Read more]
‘10 Calls-to-action Presentations’ – Web Marketing Today
The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “10 Calls-to-action Presentations”. Kevin Webster says, “Strong calls to action are key to driving conversions on your website. Whether you utilize text or images, getting interested visitors to complete a transaction relies as much on “the trigger” as it does your product or service.... [Read more]
‘The Top 15 Apps E-Commerce Websites Can’t Do Without’ – ‘Website Magazine’ Article
The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “The Top 15 Apps E-Commerce Websites Can’t Do Without”. Mitchell Harper and Eddie Machaalani say, “Statistics show that online shopping is growing rapidly — a trend that presents both opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs selling via websites. First, some numbers. According to... [Read more]
‘How to Create a Google+ Event [Quick Tip]‘ – HubSpot
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”How to Create a Google+ Event [Quick Tip]“. Brittany Leaning says, “Google+ has a slew of amazing features and hidden gems that may or may not come in handy in your marketing, but Google+ Events are definitely one feature that every business should consider taking advantage of. Whether... [Read more]
Rapid Results when businesses discover their reputation needs repair #ad
Their problem is that complaining customers are more likely to post a review online than a happy customer. Some say, 10 times as likely. The result is that many businesses have many more negative reviews, and these reviews are dragging down their reputation and costing them hundreds or thousands every month. This creates a business opportunity for you.... [Read more]
‘Advertisers Are Worried Facebook Is Going To ‘Invasive, Tedious’ Ads On Your Phone’ – Business Insider
The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”Advertisers Are Worried Facebook Is Going To ‘Invasive, Tedious’ Ads On Your Phone”. Matt Warman and Rob Grant says, “Advertisers warned Facebook today that its Home application needs to avoid irritating users with its adverts. “Invasive, tedious or over-frequent... [Read more]
‘7 Ways to Use Facebook to Display Brand Personality’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “7 Ways to Use Facebook to Display Brand Personality”. Christabelle Tani says, “If you’re using Facebook to heavily advertise your products using corporate-speak, the approach probably isn’t doing your brand any favors. Not only will boring, text-based content fail to help... [Read more]
‘HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs’ – ‘ReadWrite’
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “HTML5: Alive And Well With CIOs”. Matt Assay says, “Apparently, native apps have won. We even said so right here on ReadWrite. After all, Facebook apparently likes native more. Unfortunately, CIOs missed the memo, and the dirty little secret is that most of the world’s software, including... [Read more]
Quick Sharp Profits: $10/Day formula any beginning marketer can use #ad
The latest product from Fergal Downes is Quick Sharp Profits, which he says is good for beginners. After a day or two to get familiar with the process, he says, your time each day will drop so that you can be earning $10-$20 per hour invested. He supplies more than one strategy in Quick Sharp Profits and you select one and get started. Things naturally... [Read more]
‘Twitter Founders Move on to Their Next Big Thing’ – ‘Mashable’
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Founders Move on to Their Next Big Thing”. Seth Fiegerman says, “What do you work on after launching one of the largest social networks in the world? It took some time, but each of the three Twitter founders appear to have come up with their own answers to this question.Ev Williams stepped... [Read more]
‘76 Traffic Sources Mind Map’ – ‘Offervault Scoop’ Blog
The latest article on ‘Offervault Scoop’ blog is titled “76 Traffic Sources Mind Map”. Dustin says, “Ohhh traffic. You either have it and want more or it eludes you like a 3 dollar bill. Today we’ve got a mind map that will share with you 76 different ways you can start driving more traffic to your site. Keep this in mind while exploring... [Read more]
‘Evolution of the Local Algorithm – Whiteboard Friday’ – ‘SEOmoz’ Blog
The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Evolution of the Local Algorithm – Whiteboard Friday”. David Mihm says, “We’ve come a long way since the early 2000′s, and local SEO has changed tremendously since the beginning of online search. In today’s post, David Mihm discusses what factors affect ranking of local businesses,... [Read more]
MAO Flynn’s “Closing Down Sale” on IM Training and software #ad
You may know Flynn from his successful “Detonator” products such as Sales Detonator, List Detonator and Backlink Detonator, or any of his other training products he has developed over the last few years. He has decided to remove his sales pages, such as on the Warrior Forum, and stop selling these products. You can no longer buy the individual... [Read more]
‘How to Create Consistently Great Content for the Long Haul’ – ‘Copyblogger’ Blog
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “How to Create Consistently Great Content for the Long Haul”. Beth Haydon says, “Want to know a powerful secret weapon you can use in your quest for better creative output? Think of it as an industrial-strength antidote to resistance, creative blocks, and stale ideas. This amazing secret... [Read more]
‘We All Start From Zero’ by John Chow
John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “We All Start From Zero”. Chow says, “When I started blogging, there wasn’t anywhere near the support materials and information. WordPress was still just a simple blogging software and not a full Content Management System (CMS) that can do anything. The blogging community was still very new. There was... [Read more]
‘Marketing Optimization: The 3 phases of evidence-based marketing’ – ‘MarketingExperiments’ Blog
The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Marketing Optimization: The 3 phases of evidence-based marketing”. Daniel Burstein says, “When you look at some of the emerging topics in marketing – analytics, metrics, A/B testing, conversion optimization and the like – there seems to be a growing interest among marketers in what... [Read more]
Amazon Disclaimer: Every Amazon affiliate needs one #ad
Amazon requires all its affiliates to include a disclaimer in their promotions, telling people that the affiliate stands to earn a commission from a sale. Leave out the disclaimer, or don’t word it just right, and your affiliate days can come to a screeching halt. Fortunately, Jeff Hampton has just released a WP plugin that creates the correct... [Read more]
Download: ShopIgniter’s ‘Marketing in Social Streams’ White Paper
ShopIgniter has released a free white paper titled “Marketing in Social Streams”. The ShopIgniter team says, “For most brands, reaching customers in social and mobile is a strategic priority. There are huge rewards awaiting marketers that figure out how to both reach customers here and get them on the path to purchase. And since... [Read more]
Reminder- ‘Driving Web traffic and ad sales through strategic content development: A Case Study with The Weather Channel‘ Experian Webinar April 16
Experian is hosting a webinar with on Tuesday, April 16 at 2.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Driving Web traffic and ad sales through strategic content development: A Case Study with The Weather Channel”. Experian team says, “During this webinar Paul Hutton, Sr. Director of Digital Intelligence, The Weather Channel, and Ethan... [Read more]
’4 Tried and True Marketing Automation Recipes for Better Email Nurturing’ – HubSpot
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”4 Tried and True Marketing Automation Recipes for Better Email Nurturing”. Meghan Keaney Anderson says, “Research from MarketingSherpa shows that theemail marketing strategy for most B2B marketers still predominantly revolves around sending mass emails to a marketer’s entire mailing... [Read more]
Jeff Hampton’s 24 hour Marketing Success Plan: Free #ad
Hampton says that, in one day, by following this process he has gone from nothing but an idea to a website ranked on Google’s page 1 (and Bing, too.). In fact, his videos show it happening. Now, to build his mailing list and to promote another product of his, he is training marketers on this 24 hour marketing plan at no charge. In this free video... [Read more]
‘How Do You Track The Success of a Marketing Campaign’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “How Do You Track The Success of a Marketing Campaign”. SEO PAL Blog team says, “Marketing is a tricky business, and aside from spinning money-making slogans and enticing unwitting consumers with witty marketing antics and creative strategies – you need to be able to track... [Read more]
‘Google Paid This Man $100 Million: Here’s His Story’ – Business Insider
The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”Google Paid This Man $100 Million: Here’s His Story”. Nicholas Carlson says, “Two years ago, Twitter was in disarray. On April 14, 2011, Fortune’s Jessi Hempel blasted Twitter for failing to launch exciting new products, generate meaningful revenues, or hang on to executive... [Read more]
‘The new paid Google Shopping: pros and cons’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “The new paid Google Shopping: pros and cons”. Alistair Dent says, “We’re six weeks or so into the migration of retailers’ product listings on Google to the new Google Shopping. Retailers now have to pay for Product Listing Ads (PLAs) to appear in Google’s Shopping section... [Read more]
Birdfather Pro: Become a marketing consultant, backed by an experienced team #ad
Sri Lankan marketer and entrepreneur, Sharanyan Sharma, just launched his second marketing business for local marketers. Like the first one (known as SEO Humvee), it is a hybrid of a franchise, business incubator, and outsourcing coordinator. He calls it Birdfather Pro. He has an opportunity for internet marketers who want to build a social media management... [Read more]
‘Why Your Company Should Create a Talent Community’ – ‘Mashable’
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Why Your Company Should Create a Talent Community”. Kes Thygesen says, “Talent communities may be the next big thing in the world of hiring and HR, but too few companies are using them. If businesses want to access the best job candidates for their open positions and glean employee referrals,... [Read more]
‘Grab the Proven Framework for Strategic Content Marketing that Works (No Charge)’ – ‘Copyblogger’ Blog
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Grab the Proven Framework for Strategic Content Marketing that Works (No Charge)”. Brian Clark says, “Want to discover the smartest ways to mix social media, content marketing, and SEO for lead generation? Want to convert those leads to customers and clients? We’ve got you covered with Internet... [Read more]
‘The Top 8 Priorities for Any One-Man Marketing Team’ – HubSpot
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”The Top 8 Priorities for Any One-Man Marketing Team”. Ginny Soskey says, “When you’re the Jack or Jill of all trades at your company, it’s hard to always follow every piece of marketing advice you read. You know you could follow it if you had a dedicated team to support you, a million-dollar... [Read more]
The Money Trigger: What it takes to build an online business #ad
A recent survey showed that the majority of people wanting to build an online business had been ‘trying’ for 2 years and in that time most had made nothing. Their perseverance is admirable. Nothing is achieved without it. But persisting in doing things that aren’t working may be a sign that you need to improve your approach. If you’re... [Read more]