Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Mobile Email Benchmarks and Trends by Industry”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Consumers open almost half of all marketing emails on mobile devices, yet they prefer to interact with promotional messages on a computer, according to a recent report by Yesmail Interactive. The study found that that 49%... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Affiliate Summit East 2013 Recap, @VentureBeat Publishes an Objective Post, and @skimlinks News”. Collins Says, “On the August 26, 2013 episode of 7 Minutes in Affiliate Heaven podcast (listen to 7 Minutes in Affiliate Heaven), I the recently ended Affiliate Summit East 2013, checking out Philadelphia,... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Are You Putting Up Barriers to Your Best B2B Content?”. Julia Borgini says, “Recently I forwarded a whitepaper link to a friend. He’s an Agile trainer and consultant, and I thought he would be interested in the white paper on Agile marketing methods. Turns out he wasn’t,... [Read more]

Paul Power is offering three businesses with complete sales funnels all ready to go, to bring you online instantly with a business website you can use for years to come. In Profit Maximizer, he gives you complete website packages for three businesses, including: • Squeeze pages (6 in total; 2 for each business) • A report you can give away... [Read more]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”There’s A Major Shift From TV To Digital Video Ad Spending”. Laura Stampler says, “Bad news for the TV industry. After polling 5,000 advertising executives attending the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Digital Content NewFronts, the IAB found that 75% of U.S. senior executives... [Read more]

The latest article on the ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “Five Reasons You Must Build an Opt In List?. Kathleen Gage says, “One of the most common questions I am asked by budding entrepreneurs is, “What’s the best way to build my business and make great money?” Hands down,building an opt in listis one of the most important things... [Read more]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “25 Free Email Tools”. Pamela Neely says, “Don’t let anybody tell you an attractive email newsletter has to cost a lot of money. These free resources can get your emails to look like they came from a Fortune 500 company, all for a lemonade stand price. If you are starting out on a shoestring... [Read more]

When someone comes to your Amazon affiliate site seeking a particular solution, sometimes they don’t find what they are looking for. Then they tend to click away without buying anything. That’s unfortunate. But suppose that before they do, you offer to help they find a better match for their needs? Wouldn’t you get more sales if you... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Formulas for E-Commerce SEO Success”. Pete Prestipino says, “The marketing practice of search engine optimization is more difficult for merchants than any of the other triad of Web professional endeavors (information publishing and service provision being the second and third). Each has... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Yahoo’s Username Recycling Gets Rolling”. ReadWrite Editors say, “Yahoo has begun reassigning old, unused usernames to new users who placed requests on a Yahoo wishlistearlier this summer. Users will receive an email if they received one of their top five choices. If not, Yahoo will... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Researcher: Google U.S. Traffic Beats Yahoo Global Visits”. Todd Wasserman says, “Not so fast, Yahoo. After comScore figures last week showed that Yahoo drew in more U.S. unique visitors to its sites than Google for the first time since 2011, another researcher has chimed in to show a... [Read more]

Bill Holton just announced a new collection of vector drawings for the medical niche. 180 drawings of doctors and nurses in various poses. You get male and female, young and middle aged. Plus 72 more in street clothes. Plus background drawings you can merge with them. And more. They can dress up your PowerPoint presentations, or your website, YouTube... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “10 great examples of responsive design from around the world”. David Olshanetsky says, “Responsive design as a standard feature on a website is growing quickly. There is no longer much of a debate over whether brands need a mobile site, as consumer demand dictates that... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”How to Turn Your Blog Subscribers Into Valuable Business Leads”. Pamela Vaughan says, “With so much emphasis on quality content these days (and rightfully so!), it’s easy to forget about some of the other things that make an effective blog tick. But let me tell you — building... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “From Keywords to Contexts: the New Query Model”. Tom Anthony says, “Gone are the days when a search query simply involved a string of words. Today’s queries include all sorts of implicit data — location, device, etc. — that add to the search engines’ understanding of what searchers really wanted... [Read more]

Ryan Martin has a long track record of Google Adsense earnings. He lets Google place ads on his site and is paid a commission when someone clicks on one. Although other people are disparaging the earning potential of Adsense, he is turning a profit with it. Now, Martin has released Adsense Armageddon to show us how he does it. He doesn’t rely... [Read more]

Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Websites Will Become the AM Radio of the Internet?. Baer says, “If your marketing is sufficiently useful, your audience will keep your brand close – on their home screen, in their inbox, in their Twitter and Facebook feeds – and, when they need you, they’ll access whatever... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “How to Raise Money for Your Business”. Brian Clark says, “You know what sucks? Talking to money people. Whether they want to buy you or invest in you, it’s just no fun. And that’s if you can get their attention in the first place. We’ve had those discussions ourselves earlier this... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Landing Page Optimization: 6 common traits of a template that works”. John Tackett says, “What are some common characteristics successful people share in common? Is it having a natural curiosity fused with a creative wild spark? Or perhaps, it’s the end result of dialing into just the... [Read more]

Craig Tuttle has found a path to a long-term business using Private Label Rights (PLR) material,created by other people and made available at a small charge for selected marketers to profit from. Tuttle does well with reworking PLR and selling it as his own product. He says he has “broken the code”, and now he has created PLR Decoder to... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “5 Common Mistakes to Avoid on Google+”. Shanna Mellon says, “Google+ maybe a newer social network, but it’s a powerful one. In fact it is now the second largest social media network behind Facebook after only launching just over two years ago. So why are so many Google+... [Read more]

This is our last chance to tell you about Experian’s webinar on Tuesday, August 27 at 1.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Driving smarter acquisition with Yahoo!”. Experian team says, “During this webinar Felix Escobedo, Director – Account Management, Yahoo! and Aly Baker, Director – Client Development, Experian... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Three Deadly Reasons Most Websites Fail”. Mike Volpe says, “Consider this: There are about 700 million websites. But to most of us, only a tiny fraction of those sites exist because we jump from bookmark to bookmark, scanning our favorite homepages and refreshing our feeds. People are loyal... [Read more]

Even if you don’t know what SEO is, Phillip Snipes has training to show you how you can become your own SEO master. With a little guidance, he says you can do it and do it well. Snipes has just released Silent Sniper SEO to show you how it’s done. With help from Snipes, you will find out: • How to Set up your own Domain and Hosting... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “9 Data Sets Every Ecommerce Company Should Measure”. Scott Gerber says, “To see big wins in e-commerce today, entrepreneurs need to cover all of their bases, from organic SEO to mobile advertising. Analytics tools can create a pretty detailed snapshot of where your business stands — too detailed,... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Why You Should Incorporate Storytelling Into Your Email Campaigns”. Karen Frasca says, “Traditionally, marketing has been about making noise, in one way or another, to stand out, get attention, and drive sales. And today’s marketplace is arguably the noisiest it’s ever... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “The worst content marketer in the world?”. Doug Kessler says, “Everyone thinks content marketing is the only way to win a market. Here’s a little story that might disprove that. I hate naming names, but there’s a company out there which just doesn’t get content... [Read more]

Lists are the cheapest, most effective way to promote your brand and your products online. They consistently sell more than paid advertisement and social media marketing, combined. In fact, most of the other strategies are most effective when you send the traffic they generate to a traditional squeeze page and capture your visitors’ email addresses.... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”The 7 Personalities Every Successful Social Media Manager Has”. John Bohini says, “There aren’t many instances in our professional lives where having multiple personalities is seen as a positive trait. After all, it spawns dishonesty, deceit, and fosters a tense environment often... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Analyze Your “Search Footprint” with Google’s Paid & Organic Report”. Pete Prestipino says, “Google has released a new report that will enable digital marketers to analyze and optimize their total search footprint, comparing performance for a query when you have either... [Read more]

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