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February 14th, 2013 at 3:00 am EDT

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‘How to Recode Your MoneyDNA for Automatic Success‘ Melanie Benson Strick’s Webinar 4.00 pm EST

Melanie Benson Strick is hosting a webinar on Thursday, February 14 at 4.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “How to Recode Your MoneyDNA for Automatic Success”. Melanie says, “This Thursday on the webinar I’ll reveal: The cost of not knowing the REAL problem that is lurking in your blind spot (even smart entrepreneurs can... [Read more]

‘10 Lessons From Digital Pioneers on How To Become a Digital Success’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “10 Lessons From Digital Pioneers on How To Become a Digital Success”. Paul Springer & Mel Carson say, “If you could speak to the brains behind the TED Talks videos, Google’s Webmaster community, my.barakobama.com, the Net’s most successful advertising entrepreneur, and a celebrity... [Read more]

‘The Most Important Sales Tool for Your Kindle Books? – ‘The Future of Ink’ Blog

The latest article on ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “The Most Important Sales Tool for Your Kindle Books (and How to Perfect It)- Part One?. Karon Thackston says, “Does this sound familiar? You spend weeks or months creating an ebook. You organize… you categorize… you summarize. Finally, the book is converted and ready to upload... [Read more]

Project X Tube: How to get your videos to rank in the search engines #ad

If you create videos to enhance your affiliate marketing results, it only makes sense to do what it takes so people will actually see them. Otherwise they do you no good. So you need your videos to rise to the first page of Google. In Project X Tube, Cliff Carrigan shows you simple techniques that he says will help get you there. In this package, Carrigan... [Read more]

‘Social Customer Service is Now a 2-Headed Monster? by Jay Baer

Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Social Customer Service is Now a 2-Headed Monster?. Baer says, “In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about customers using Facebook more and more as a customer service channel. Interesting new research from Social Bakers uncovers an important... [Read more]

Matt Carter’s ‘Secrets to Building a Huge Email List’ Webinar on Replay

Matt Carter’s ‘Secrets to Building a Huge Email List’ webinar is on replay. Carter says, “Hi folks Below is the replay for an awesome webinar on email list building that I recorded recently with Shane MeLaugh. Shane delivered some of the best content on list building I have ever heard. Honestly, if you’re not building an email... [Read more]

‘Ditch the Funnel: ‘Purchase Loop’ Echoes New Buyer Behavior’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Ditch the Funnel: ‘Purchase Loop’ Echoes New Buyer Behavior”. Lenna Garibian says, “With the advent of digital, social, and mobile media, the consumer buying process has become more complex than simply identifying a need, exploring options, and making a purchase, according to new... [Read more]

7 Offline WSOs For 1 Price: 72 hour sale underway #ad

If you are looking to grow an business as an online marketing consultant for offline businesses, the robust training in these 7 Offline WSOs For 1 Price can give you proven tips and techniques for building your business. • Mobile Cash Code shares three effective techniques for selling mobile-friendly websites to business owners, • Overnight Offline... [Read more]

‘Google Play Gives Email Addresses To Developers, Raises Privacy Issues’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Google Play Gives Email Addresses To Developers, Raises Privacy Issues”. Danny Sullivan says, “Attention is being focused on how Google Play — Google’s app and content store — provides the name, email address and city location of those who purchase apps. Google’s... [Read more]

‘How to Turn Timely Tweets Into a Tool to Help Your Business’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “How to Turn Timely Tweets Into a Tool to Help Your Business”. Patrick Himes says, “Twitter has been growing rapidly in influence over the last year. The company has been making progress developing its ads and promoted offerings to businesses. One of the most recent developments... [Read more]

‘4 Common Blog Writing Stumbling Blocks’ by Patsi Krackoff

Patsi Krackoff’s latest blog post is titled “4 Common Blog Writing Stumbling Blocks”. Krackoff says, “There are many reasons to have a business blog but the most important is that it’s great for retaining clients and customers. Business blogs offer insights into your services, product updates, and compelling relevant content that solves... [Read more]

White Label PLR Videos show you the technical side of internet marketing #ad

Steve Dougherty has done a service for technically challenged internet marketers. In White Label PLR Videos, he makes the messay technical work seem simple. These 14 videos talk about the process of building a website, starting with registering a domain name, organizing your data, getting hosting, uploading your files to your hosting server and more.... [Read more]

‘How Andre Chaperon Developed His Unique “Soap Opera Story” Email Newsletter Formula’ – ‘Entrepreneurs-Journey’ Blog

The latest ‘Entrepreneurs-Journey’ blog post is titled “How Andre Chaperon Developed His Unique “Soap Opera Story” Email Newsletter Formula”. Yaro Starak says, “Back in 2007 I met Andre Chaperon in Florida at one of the very first Rich Schefren Strategic Profits seminars. Before that Andre was a familiar name to me because I had seen... [Read more]

‘6 Things I Learned about Making Money with Local Lead Generation’ – ShoeMoney Blog

Jeremy Schoemaker’s latest blog post is titled “6 Things I Learned about Making Money with Local Lead Generation”. Schoemaker says, “OK my last post was like a hemorrhoid (rather inflammatory), so I’ll tone this post down a bit.. If you are in performance marketing space and are sick of doing affiliate marketing, local lead generation is... [Read more]

‘A Domain is Essential for Affiliate Marketers’ by Shawn Collins

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “A Domain is Essential for Affiliate Marketers”. Collins Says, “Q: I was so pleased to find your youtube information. Hopefully you can help me. I recently applied for Google adsense and was not accepted. I would like help uniformly monetizing my platforms (youtube, blogger, etc). I am an actress from... [Read more]

WP Profit Detonator: WP plugin for increased profits #ad

MAO Flynn is a name well-known to IM NewsWatch readers. He’s the creator of several pieces of marketing software and the author of several training products. WP Profit Detonator is his latest software, a WordPress plugin. This plugin, he says, will help you turn visitors into subscribers and buyers using powerful psychological principles Flynn... [Read more]

‘Digital Disruption Front And Center In 2013’ – ‘The Forrester Blog’

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Digital Disruption Front And Center In 2013”. James McQuivey says, “You’re going to hear a lot about digital disruption in 2013. And not just from the traditional culprits, like Silicon Valley startups or Israeli engineers or Russian coders. You’ll hear about digital disruption... [Read more]

‘Black Hat vs. White Hat Social Media Marketing’ – ‘Website Magazine’ Article

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Black Hat vs. White Hat Social Media Marketing”. Allison Howen says, “When it comes to social media marketing, there is a long list of best practices and worst practices that brand managers should be aware of. Sometimes the lines of good and bad get blurry, and even though a brand might... [Read more]

‘The Problem With A 100-Word Privacy Policy’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “The Problem With A 100-Word Privacy Policy”. Adam Popescu says, “Last Thursday a new bill was introduced by California Assemblymember Ed Chau that seeks to cut legalese in online privacy policies to a minimum and give people easy-to-digest policies. From the bill itself: “The privacy policy... [Read more]

Green screen virtual studios 3.0: Put some pizazz in your videos #ad

As more and more marketers are turning to video to get their message out, they are turning to the same green screen technology TV stations have been using for a long time. With this technology, you or your announcer can be placed in any kind of environment you choose, from standing in front of the White House to deep inside a cave. Jose Nunes has created... [Read more]

‘Amazon Tops Apple and Google as Most Reputable Company in U.S.’ – ‘Mashable’

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Amazon Tops Apple and Google as Most Reputable Company in U.S.”. Anita Li says, “Amazon edged out Apple to become the most reputable company in the U.S., a new study suggests. Harris Interactive interviewed over 14,000 members of the general public for its 2013 Reputation Quotient, which... [Read more]

‘Optimizing Email: Tests & Methods To Increase Conversions‘ Aweber Webinar February 27

Aweber is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, February 27 at 1.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Optimizing Email: Tests & Methods To Increase Conversions”. Aweber team says, “In this FREE webinar with live Q&A, we’ll: Review real email tests that achieved double-digit gains Shatter common myths about testing and optimization,... [Read more]

‘Facebook apps: there’s no such thing as a free audience’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Facebook apps: there’s no such thing as a free audience”. Patricio Robles says, “Facebook’s success hasn’t only netted its founders, early employees and investors billions of dollars, the world’s largest social network has built an ecosystem that has... [Read more]

No Fluff Mind Blow: Trend-based marketing for higher sales #ad

If you can see a major trend just starting to happen, you need to jump on it. Get in ahead of the crowd. It will pay off. James Renouf’s new No Fluff Mind Blow will help you quickly catch the wave on new trends so you can jump in before competition grows fierce. These strategies can be implemented on a Mac, PC, or even a smart phone, and you can... [Read more]

‘Social Authority: Our Measure of Twitter Influence’ – ‘SEOmoz’ Blog

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Social Authority: Our Measure of Twitter Influence”. Peter Bray says, “Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Social Authority, our metric of Twitter users’ influence. There are plenty of vanity metrics out there, but Social Authority offers something compellingly different!”. Social... [Read more]

‘Email Marketing: What you can learn from an 80% decrease in clickthrough rate’ – ‘MarketingExperiments’ Blog

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Email Marketing: What you can learn from an 80% decrease in clickthrough rate”. Daniel Burstein says, “On the MarketingExperiments blog, we often share tests we conduct with Research Partners. Today’s post was run on our own marketing campaign. The team tested a promotional email for... [Read more]

‘3 Quick Ways to Find Hidden Guest Blogging Opportunities’ – ‘Copyblogger’ Blog

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “3 Quick Ways to Find Hidden Guest Blogging Opportunities”. Rae Hoffman says, “Guest posting is a great strategy for building an audience — no doubt about it. If you regularly write guest posts for legitimate blogs that feature quality content, your posts can be an amazing source of traffic... [Read more]

WP Ad Control: So people stop ignoring your ads #ad

The new WP Ad Control plugin creates sophisticated pop-ups for your WordPress site. And its flexibility is unmatched by any other pop-up creator: • Cache the IP address of each visitor so that you can avoid showing the same ad twice (if you want to.) • Rotate multiple adds which the user stays on the page • Set delays for pop-ups to appear... [Read more]

‘Email Optimization: How to Improve Results with Testing [Webinar]’ – Aweber Blog

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Email Optimization: How to Improve Results with Testing [Webinar]”. Hunter Boyle says, “Let’s say your email content is already pretty strong. You’ve got good open rates, decent clickthroughs and a steady flow of traffic to your site and landing pages. What else could you really need? How about... [Read more]

‘5 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter’s Vine App to Drive Social Media ROI’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “5 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter’s Vine App to Drive Social Media ROI”. Adella Choi says, “Are you looking for brand-new user generated content for online marketing?Spend 6 seconds to entice your social media target audience and to share the best moments with the new hero of... [Read more]

‘Google lays out its argument for brands to get mobile’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Google lays out its argument for brands to get mobile”. David Moth says, “It’s fair to say that Google has a vested interest in encouraging brands to make better use of mobile, but it can’t be denied that it also makes a very compelling argument. At Bite’s Empty13 event... [Read more]

Income Jacker- Marketing on YouTube just got easier #ad

Edwin Torres has just released Income Jacker- YouTube Marketing Software, simple software (he calls it “3-click software”) that improves the placement of your videos in search engine results. Torres is an affiliate marketer, and he uses Income Jacker- YouTube Marketing Software constantly. He says it helped him use YouTube effectively, and... [Read more]

‘5 Dead Simple Ways to Track Social Media ROI’ – ‘Mashable’

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “5 Dead Simple Ways to Track Social Media ROI”. Todd Wasserman says, “How do you figure out that $1,000 you spent on Facebook was worth it? It’s complicated. How could it be otherwise? Marketers have been spoiled by search advertising with its last-click attribution, but the reality is... [Read more]

‘Forget Opens: The Stat You Really Need To Track Is Sales’ – ‘Marketing Land’ Article

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Forget Opens: The Stat You Really Need To Track Is Sales”. Amanda Gagnon says, “Too many email marketers are focusing on opens. By “opens,” I mean open rates, the ratio of people who receive a marketing email to those who actually open it. Opens are a very popular... [Read more]

‘Online Privacy: The Opt-Out Revolution Is Almost Here’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Online Privacy: The Opt-Out Revolution Is Almost Here”. Antone Gonsalves says, “What if two-thirds of the people on the Web were invisible, secretly visiting websites and searching for products and services while leaving Internet giants like Google and Facebook in the dark about what they were doing? With... [Read more]

WP Convert PRO: Customize your content based on traffic source #ad

WP Convert PRO is a brand new WordPress plugin that can vary your site’s content (it lets you use any kind of information: videos, Adsense, ads, etc.) : WP Convert PRO lets you show hundreds of variations of your website, catering to various types of traffic. For example, show different offers: • Visitors from Google get offer A •... [Read more]

‘Video Statistics: The Marketer’s Infographic’ – ‘Business 2 Community’ Article

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Video Statistics: The Marketer’s Infographic”. Leigh Kellner says, “Have you heard that the average internet user in the US watches 19 hours of online video each month, or that shoppers who view video are 174% more likely to purchase? Let’s face it: keeping tabs on all the... [Read more]

‘February Mozscape Index is Live’ – ‘SEOmoz’ Blog

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “February Mozscape Index is Live”. Carin Overturf says, “The latest Mozscape index is now live – just two and a half weeks after our last January index release! All Mozscape data has been refreshed across all our applications so you can see the latest data in Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, PRO... [Read more]

’38% of companies will be increasing their investment in Social Media Management Systems this year: report’ – ‘Econsultancy’ Blog

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “38% of companies will be increasing their investment in Social Media Management Systems this year: report”. Amy Rodgers says, “In the last couple of years Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) have cemented their position in the marketing arsenal of many large companies. The Econsultancy... [Read more]

NewsBook provides you fresh Facebook posts every day #ad

Coming up with niche-related content on a daily basis is sometimes tough. Writer’s block is a key issue for some marketers. Well, if you post your content on Facebook, there’s now a solition. Introducing the new NewsBook, the PC software that automatically creates nich-related posts for you. You can have as much control over the operation... [Read more]