Tuesday, August 6, 2013

This is our second chance to tell you about MarketingProfs’ seminar with Kim Gusta on Thursday, August 29 at 12.00 pm ET. The topic of the seminar is “Taming the Content Beast: How to Avoid Content Creation Overload”. MarketingProfs team says, “Keeping up with content creation is tough. Experts advise you to constantly pump... [Read more]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “How To Create An Authority Blog Using Case Studies”. Jonathan Love says, “Did you know that you can personally provide new and interesting insights into internet marketing – even if you aren’t an expert? I’m Sarah Chrisp, the manager of Affilorama’s affiliate program.... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Trend in Early-Stage eCommerce Markets”. Zia Daniell Wigder says, “As brands eye a growing number of eCommerce markets around the globe, it’s important to understand the trends that mark early-stage markets and how these trends often evolve with time. A few different factors suggest... [Read more]

Presentation Bolt is a Presentation Template bundle of 7 attractive, professional looking PowerPoint templates. These templates are easy to use so you can easily become a presentation expert in just a few minutes. Since a professional presentation will help you gain credibility with prospects and help you close more deals, a small investment in xxx... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Keep Calm & Send Email: Industry Experts Offer Hopeful Outlook On The New Gmail Inbox Tabs”. Amy Gesenhues says, “On May 29, Google began rolling out a newly designed Gmail inbox that includes five separate tabs to group emails. After the announcement on Google’s... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “22% of Opt-in Emails Not Reaching Inboxes”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Nearly a quarter (22%) of opt-in marketing emails never made it to inboxes in the first half of 2013, according to a recent study by Return Path. Based on a sample of nearly 1 trillion messages sent worldwide, the report found... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Build Your Brand with Hashtags”. The Personal Branding Blog team says, “Do you want to be seen as a subject matter expert? If so, leveraging the power of hashtags is a quick and relatively easy way to build your brand around a particular topic. Hashtags are a word or short... [Read more]

Hotels need to pay attention to their online reputation, but many don’t. Unhappy guests can leave bad reviews that influence future travelers. Happy guest rarely leave reviews without prompting. Hotels may not know it, but they need a manager for their online reputation. This is your opening to offer them online reputation management services,... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Tumblr’s Growth May Have Hit The Wall”. ReadWrite Editors say, “Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr may have saddled the still-troubled Internet giant with a wasting asset, Buzzfeed reports. Traffic figures supposedly “directly measured” by Quantcast show... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “You Get What You Pay for With Website Hosting”. Collins Says, “There was a big web hosting outage this past Friday with Bluehost, HostMonster, HostGator and JustHost having problems for an extended period of time. Apparently, the outage was related to server maintenance at a Provo, UT data center. This... [Read more]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”Facebook Has Hired A Guy From Pepsi To Fix Its ‘Weird’ Problem”. Jim Edwards says, “The news that Facebook has hired Gary Briggs, a former brand manager of Pepsi, to be its new chief marketing officer may come as a surprise. Many people thought Facebook already had a... [Read more]

From the creative team of Dani Wijaya and Pumama San comes a new tool that will be welcomed by Amazon affiliates, AGCZON Automated WordPress Theme. This new theme has been created to make the affiliate’s job simple. The theme has been coded to automatically build listings for Amazon products in the niche you select. The creators have built-in... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “5 Common Brand Messaging Mistakes by Marketers”. Leyl Master Black says, “Messaging is an important part of branding. Your marketing messages must capture your audience’s attention and compel them to action, whether they’re shopping in the store, browsing on your web site or recommending... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”The Ultimate Guide to Attending INBOUND 2013″. Rachel Sprung says, “In two short weeks, we’re excited to kick off our annual inbound marketing event, INBOUND. (Aptly named, eh?) Yes, it’s a lot of work to organize an event like that … but attending an event —... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Having a CAPTCHA is Killing Your Conversion Rate”. Tim Allen says, “CAPTCHAs are billed as easy for humans and hard for robots, but the reality is that they detract from the user experience and turn away conversions. It’s time we gave them up”. Having a CAPTCHA is Killing Your Conversion Rate MOZ... [Read more]

Amanda Craven has been warning us about the shift in marketing for quite a while. It hits all marketers, online and offline. People don’t like being force-fed advertisements. They want to be in control, making their own decisions about what ads they see. The result is that “outbound marketing,” in which you mail flyers or send email... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “3 Ways to Get What You Want by Giving People What They Want”. Demian Farnworth says, “We all long for something. Love that will last. The ability to influence people. Scenic vacations. Financial, political, or psychological independence. Less anxiety. Stunning creative achievements. Organizational... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “Analyze All Your Backlinks with Ahrefs.com”. Chow says, “It’s something that I’ve said in previous posts on this blog, but it’s something that is very much worth reiterating. Knowledge is power. It doesn’t matter how driven you might be or how creative you might be, because you really need to arm... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Email Marketing: Learn from 3 A/B test results to set a firm foundation for your next campaign”. John Tackett says, “When I was a teenager, I once had to help my father build a large concrete slab in front of our home. For me, it was nerve-wracking as I spent hours bearing the brunt of... [Read more]

Mike McKay is back with another of his famous Amazon affiliate marketing kits. This time it’s for cameras and he calls it Camera Cash Crescendo. Every Amazon affiliate needs quality content on their website to attract customers. Reviews of recent products are a prime example of content that people are searching for, content that will bring people to... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Facebook Pages: “Liking” Strategy”. Roxanne Roark says, “If you pay much attention to your Facebook Page newsfeed stream, than you probably have noticed quite a few “ABC Page has liked a status” or “XYZ Page has liked a photo” or “..commented on a link” or... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Google Adds Touch Controls to Chrome Browser Test Build”. Vignesh Ramachandran says, “Google is reportedly experimenting with touch-friendly features for its popularChrome browser. The Verge reported Monday that Google’s latest Canary build includes a slide-to-navigate feature for... [Read more]

Whether you are just overrun with work, or are having a dry spell in your creativity or are wanting to enter a new niche that you are unfamiliar with, you may have a need to create content but not be able to do so through your own creativity. Fortunately, there are alternatives. The CopyBlogger.com site just posted an infographic that summarizes 22... [Read more]

Sean Mize has been doing email marketing for a long time. Over the years he has become an expert email marketer. Today he shares with us 47 of his successful emails. You can use them as they are, or you can simply draw inspiration from them and possibly modify them to fit your own products All these emails are in the “internet marketing”... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “The Best Content Ideas Come From Customers’ Nightmares”. Barry Feldman says, “Want to get frighteningly good at content marketing? Take a trip with me to the dark side. Off we go… venturing into some scary territory: the human psyche. Who knows what we’ll find. It could be... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “9 Pro Tips for Entrepreneurs on LinkedIn”. Scott Gerber says, “LinkedIn is more than a handy way to sort through connections and make introductions — it’s also a powerful platform to supercharge your content marketing efforts (even if you’re not a LinkedIn Influencer just yet). To... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Social Business Is Here To Stay (Report)”. Tricia Morris says, “Social business is up and coming and for sure, here to stay, according to a new global executive study from MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte. The report, Social Business: Shifting Out of First Gear, shows... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Global Business and Consumer Tablet Forecast Update, 2013 to 2017”. JP Gownder says, “In our new report,  [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”Let’s Get Personal: Why We Need to Market to Individuals, Not Audiences”. Ranjan Roy says, ““Three-fourths of the hours streamed on Netflix are spurred by the algorithms that recommend specific shows and movies based on a subscriber’s past viewing.” That’s what I... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Social Saturation: 72% Of Online American Adults Now Use Social Networking Sites”. Greg Finn says, “As of this May, nearly three out of every four online Americans used social networking sites according to new research from Pew Internet. This number jumped 7.5% from late... [Read more]

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