The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Lead Nurturing and Marketing Automation: 15 Key Questions Answered (Question 1)”. Sid Smith says, “Question 1: How do you achieve alignment between Marketing and Sales? The essential question that the various stakeholders often ask themselves is this: Will I be better off collaborating or... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Offervault Scoop’ blog is titled “Amazon Goes Head To Head With Google and Facebook”. Dustin says, “Don’t mistake it. 2013 will be the year of a battle royale with the biggest players the Internet has seen. It’ll be a fist fight of the highest order. And you’re going to be able to profit from it. Everyone knows... [Read more]

Shawn Collins has posted a video “Social Media Business Etiquette Do’s & Don’ts at Affiliate Summit West 2011”. Collins Says, “This was a conference session titled Social Media Business Etiquette Do’s & Don’ts from Affiliate Summit West 2011, which took place January 9-11, 2011 at Wynn Las Vegas. Speakers: Nadia Aly, CEO, Digi... [Read more]

He calls himself “The Profit Wizard” and he offers a new system he says makes him consistent passive income using videos that he creates quickly and hosts on video sites, so he doesn’t need a site of his own, which saves him the cost of hosting. Profit Wizard describes this simple process in Video Profit System. He says that you can... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “8 Awesome Advertising APIs”. Michael Garrity says, “Web businesses use application programming interfaces (APIs) for all sorts of the things, depending on their unique needs and the demands of their customers. These interfaces allow website developers to easily migrate their software to... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “China’s IT Market Will Rebound In 2013”. Bryan Wang says, “Forrester’s Asia Pacific (AP) team has just published its 2013 predictions report, focused on regional IT spending, technology adoption, and vendor dynamics. The predictions that will most affect the Chinese market: Transformation... [Read more]

Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “4 Customer Service Lessons from the Biggest Brands on Twitter?. Baer says, “As we learned a few months ago in a recent release of The Social Habit (a social media research project that Jay is working on with Tom Webster, Mark Schaefer, and Jason Falls), customers have high... [Read more]

Paul Pavel’s new WP Tube Squeeze lets you make attention-getting squeeze pages, with a real video in the background, so people stay and watch. It’s a WordPress plugin that can be used with your WP themes. It’s easy to use, and the squeeze pages it creates are professional and good-looking. The plugin uses the latest HTML 5 and CSS... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Social Media Marketing: Conversion and Testing”. Angela Hausman says, “Conversion is the name of the game in social media marketing and is at the heart of efforts to measure the ROI (Return on Investment) from your social media marketing campaign. And, testing is the key to... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “How To Be A Million-Dollar Entrepreneur – And Why It Matters”. John Fearon says, “If you have a startup, ignore the business plan, financial projections, valuations and statistics for now. Instead, look at yourself. Would investors spend $1 million to have coffee, much less champagne, with you? Let’s... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Mobile optimisation is the ‘most exciting digital opportunity’ for 2013″. Graham Charlton says, “Mobile optimisation is the most exciting digital opportunity for marketers in the coming year, according to stats from a new Econsultancy report. Our latest Quarterly... [Read more]

Dr. Veit Schenk just released Google Crystal Ball. With the many changes to Google’s algorithm in the last year, the results provided by classic keyword research tools may not be the best information. So Dr. Schenk has released this new tool. On his sales page, Dr. Schenk illustrates some of the strange results Google is providing for keyword... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “How To Be The Go-To Expert – Part 1”. Chow says, “I’m starting a new blogging series on how to become the go-expert in whatever field you choose to blog about. I’m not sure how many parts there will be, but I do know the series will help you greatly in”. How To Be The Go-To Expert – Part 1 John... [Read more]

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Guerrilla Marketing for Small Businesses: Repurposing Content”. Corey Post says, “In this age of search and social media, small business owners have access to the greatest marketing platform the world has ever known – the Internet. The Internet feeds off of informative and shareable content, making... [Read more]

The ‘MarketingSherpa’ team has published a video ’Optimizing the Evolving Landscape of Mobile Email Marketing’. This presentation provides the blueprint on how Corzo and his team developed a mobile marketing program at The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club (a Marriott Vacations brand). Corzo faced two key challenges: Email landing... [Read more]

If you want to build an Amazon affiliate business, blogging is a good way to do it. Now it’s easy to get started in the health niche with a set of 10 Crystal Health Niche Blogs in 10 health sub-niche blogs with initial content already included. For each of these blogs, you get: • A premium WordPress theme that you can customize • A professional... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “A/B Testing: Changing 3 words results in 43% increase in funded accounts”. Daniel Burstein says, “A recent MarketingExperiments Web clinic featured the following experiment … Background: This test was implemented in the secure section of a large financial institution’s website.... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Claim Google Authorship for Your WordPress Website in 3 Easy Steps”. Jarom Adair says, “Hopefully you’ve already caught the importance of Google Authorship, the mechanism by which Google’s search engine rankings can be influenced by Author Rank. If you haven’t, Google Authorship basically... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Semantic Web and Link Building without Links > The Future for SEO?”. Simon Penson says, “Rand’s recent WBF about co-occurrence was a real wake up call for those still transfixed with link building practices of old. While anchor text based links may still have some effect, there is little arguing... [Read more]

Wil Adams has created Amazon Video Blast to provide Amazon affiliates with the content they need for increasing sales. These 75 video reviews target 4 profitable Amazon niches: ? Espresso machines ? Portable Recorders ? Radio-controlled cars ? Trampolines Use these reviews on your own sites are in video sharing sites to attract targeted visitors... [Read more]

Experian is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, January 16 at 1.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “A 2012 Online Holiday Season Recap”. The Experian team says, “As we welcome the beginning of a new year and with the holiday season fresh in your mind we are here to put together the recap of what we learned during this past peak retail... [Read more]

The MySmallBiz University team has published a video titled “How To Use The KISS Rule In Marketing”. The MySmallBiz University team team says, “Did you know that it applies to online Marketing? You’ll know why after you watch this video. It’s a whiteboard and audio session that covers some important points for any online marketer. If... [Read more]

Silverpop has released the ’4 Common Digital Dilemmas and Ways to Solve Them’ guide. The Silverpop team says, “In the search for increased engagement and revenue, a handful of challenges surface repeatedly. Finding the right balance of technology and human understanding to overcome these challenges can be tough. Download our white... [Read more]

Many ways have been tried for getting web traffic. Some work; some don’t. Social media are currently one of the best. The best known are Facebook and Twitter. But there are others; some of them quite effective. Paul James discovered an under-appreciated social site, Tumblr, and found that it can be a marketer’s “secret weapon.”... [Read more]

HubSpot has released the ‘Social Media Publishing Schedule’ template. The HubSpot team says, “With so many different social networks to manage, don’t you wish there was an easier way to plan which content, offers, and other updates to share on each account… and when? Our customizable Social Media Publishing Schedule will... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Stock Hits $30 For First Time Since July”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Facebook may finally be over its 20-something phase. The company’s stock hit $30 a share on Wednesday for the first time since mid-July, after several consecutive days of hovering around the $29 mark. The stock... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “3 in 4 Say Claims in Ads Are Exaggerated”. Lenna Garibian says, “More than three in four consumers say most of the claims that brands make in advertisements are somewhat exaggerated (57.4%) or very exaggerated (19.0%), according to a study by Lab42. Only 2.8% of consumers surveyed say the... [Read more]

Robert Plank has released his latest product, and this time he’s targeting marketers who need to create sales pages. (Is there any other kind?) Paper Template 2.0 creates sales pages (and opt-in pages) for a site based on WordPress. Plank is something is a WordPress expert. This isn’t his first WordPress product. He’s most famous for... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Eight types of social tools and how you can use them”. Tim Aldiss says, “The number of social tools is bewildering: what is the difference between a social media listening tool and an engagement platform? What are Enterprise 2.0 platforms? For anyone who is perplexed by the... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “3 Free SEO Tools That You Can Use For Your Local Business”. Ryan Cruz says, “As part of promoting your local business using search engine optimization, I’d like to share some FREE SEO Tools that can help you achieve top rankings for your websites. These tools are 100% free,... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Offervault Scoop’ blog is titled “Banner Critic – Steal These Tips”. Dustin says, “We love display traffic around here. You can use it to get avalanches of targeted traffic. And best of all it’s scalable. There’s almost always more traffic than you could ever buy. But there’s a problem with display. You have... [Read more]

A direct Facebook ad campaign may not have worked for you. Many people report the same thing. However, there are other ways to use Facebook in your marketing, ways that are more effective. Mike Buontempo has just released Social Cash Takedown to show how you can gain fans for your fan page, monetize with those fans, and keep your edge rank up. In this... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “So What’s Up for Amazon in 2013?”. Todd Wasserman says, “Among the Gang of Four in tech right now — Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon — Amazon is the only business that revolves around content. The company’s hardware products are basically buying machines. Amazon is dabbling... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Build relationships, not links, for SEO in 2013″. Heledd Jones says, “Having worked in Search marketing for around 7 years now, 2012 felt like the year of ‘blogger outreach’ to me and there were some great examples of how to do itand which brands were doing it well Here... [Read more]

The MySmallBiz University team has published a video titled “Easy Way To Ruin Your Google Rankings”. The MySmallBiz University team team says, “Want to get a get your Google Page Rank moved to zero and quickly decrease the number of qualified visitors that visit your sites? Then follow these easy steps. In my book “Get Ranked... [Read more]

Matt Carlson has just released a guide to CPA for beginners called CPA Crusher. In it, he shows you 8 Money Making Methods that are proven and tested to make you cash with CPA offers. In this 40 page guide you will discover: • How to monetize your blog or website using CPA • How to use YouTube to promote CPA offers • Techniques that will... [Read more]

Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Why Email Volume Won’t Decrease?. Baer says, “There have been several blog posts and predictions recently (most notably this one from Ryan Holmes, the CEO of Hootsuite) prognosticating that email volume will diminish in 2013, as consumers make greater use of collaborative... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Guide to Replicating SEOmoz’s Graphs in Excel”. Annie Cushing says, “If you run reports from the SEOmoz toolset, you may find it difficult to make your data look as sexy as the graphs you see on the site. I hope to close that gap with this post and give you the tools to format your data like... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “2013, The Year That Twitter Becomes Email (For the Masses)”. Monty Munford says, “I’ve just tweeted a link about Twitter’s ‘impending’ IPO for 2014 when it is expected to be valued at $11 billion. This is a ridiculously low valuation and I will tell you why. I’ve used... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Is Top Social Network in 127 Countries”. Zoe Fox says, “Facebook‘s reach just keeps getting wider. According to social media analyst Vincenzo Cosenza’s biannual World Map of Social Networks, Facebook is the leader in 127 of the 137 countries observed, the Los Angeles Times reports.... [Read more]