USM is hosting the ’Corporate Social Media Summit’ in New York on June 16-17. Key Speakers Don Montanaro, CEO, TradeKing Group, Inc. Price B. Floyd, Vice President of Communications, BAE Systems Toni Jones, Social Media Director, U-Haul International Katie Richman, Director of Social Media Strategy & Social Products, X Games... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “How to add embedded call-to-action buttons to your Facebook posts”. Matt Owen says, “If you take the time to churn through the various brand updates that pop up in your Facebok feed, you’ll quickly notice that some look more professional than others. This isn’t necessarily... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “6 Tactics That Turn a Blog Into a Business Engine”. Stanford Smith says, “?Somewhere, a business owner is writing a blog post. She writes the headline first, pens a killer introduction, and makes her point with 892 carefully crafted words. Satisfied, she hits “Publish” and waits for... [Read more]

Kenster is offering free video training in how to earn a living online. He is rolling out a new product in a few days and would like to introduce himself to you so you will know what he has to offer when he announces his product. It looks like he plans 4 videos. Two are ready now at The IM System. Another is coming later this week and the fourth will... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Google+ Hangouts: eight creative examples from global brands”. David Moth says, “It’s fair to say that Google+ has failed to capture the world’s imagination in the same way as Facebook and Twitter. Many brands diligently update their pages on a daily basis yet see very... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Advertisers Brace As Google Revisits “Not Provided” Policy To Show Keywords For Ad But Not Organic Clicks”. Ginny Marvin says, “Google managed to stoke the rumor mill twice in the one day this past week with somewhat cryptic announcements, putting search marketers... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”How to Integrate Email Campaigns With the Rest of Your Marketing”. Sam Kusinitz says, “Email as a marketing channel isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. According to Nielsen, email is one of the most effective methods for mobilizing contacts. This suggests that if you hope to improve... [Read more]

Walter Jayanth has just announced new software that helps Amazon affiliates keep the inventory shown on their sites up to date.and profitable. He calls it RipperKing™ Azon Ripper. If you want to create Amazon Niche Sites that will earn money for you, you need to make sure you: • Find the most profitable niches, • Discover the keywords that are... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Analytics: How metrics can help your inner marketing detective”. Anuj Shrestha says, “Why are there so many different metrics for the same component of a website? For example, page views, visits, unique visitors and instances, just to name a few. Which metrics should you use? Are all of... [Read more]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “When to Use Real-Time Google Analytics”. Kevin Webster says, “Web analytics exist to provide data about traffic and visitors to a website, to facilitate business decisions. It’s important to look at historical trends and how changes to site functionality and content affect long-term... [Read more]

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “How To Prepare For The New Facebook Page Design”. Brandon Olson says, “Facebook began rolling out a new design for Pages last week. The intention is to make it easier for people to find the information they want and to help Page owners access the tools they use most. With the new design, there are... [Read more]

James Brown reports that he has found that the taboo against “reciprocal links” is not valid. If the sites that link to you are quality sites, their links are beneficial, even if you also link to them. In the first place, most traffic comes to most websites apart from Google. Google, itself, only claims that they account for 28% of a site’s... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “A Startling Case Study of Manual Penalties and Negative SEO”. Yonatan Dotan says, “This January, I was at a talk at SMX Israel by John Mueller – Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst – about how to recover from a manual penalty. The session’s moderator opened the talk by asking the hundreds of people seated... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “5 Engaging Pinterest Strategies for Merchants”. Allison Howen says, “Pinterest isn’t a social network that retailers should overlook. In fact, recent Piqora data shows that total revenue driven from Pinterest has increased by more than 78 percent year over year. The challenge... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Writing Content Your Audience Wants to Read”. Amanda Clark says, “Content, whether it’s social media, a press release, blogs, or Web copy, doesn’t have to be read. Most of the time and effort you put into writing it is wasted on skim-throughs and an overbearing amount... [Read more]

SEO experts have said for years that of all the backlinks that can build your search engine power, .GOV links are the best. Since .GOV sites are only available to government agencies, these sites are considered authoritative in the extreme. There are a few government sites that allow you to contribute links. These sites can be useful to build authority... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “The Secrets To Traffic Generation”. Chow says, “Many businesses and bloggers in general have realized the traffic that can be generated for their website through consistent and specific blog postings. When someone can create a consistent stream of interesting blogs, you will also create a stream of visitors... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Twitter Study: Photos, Videos Lead To Most Retweets”. Matt McGee says, “Tweets that have a photo or video URL tend to lead to the biggest increase in retweets for verified accounts on Twitter. That’s the key takeaway from a Twitter study out this week that analyzed... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”A Beginner’s Guide to LinkedIn Showcase Pages”. Sasha Laferte says, “Having more than one buyer persona is a balancing act. If they’re very different, you may feel like you’re constantly in danger of not giving one enough attention, or confusing your personas with untargeted... [Read more]

The rising popularity of Pinterest demonstrates the power of images to hold people’s attention. That same attraction can now build the traffic for your own site with the new WpPinReview Theme. This theme could be used for an affiliate site. For example, if you’re an Amazon affiliate, insert product pictures to create back-links to your affiliate... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “The many ‘deaths’ of digital marketing”. Ashley Friedlein says, “In the last six months there has been talk of the death of digital marketing. Forrester recently mooted that digital marketing is dead and that we are now in an era of “post-digital” marketing. In his... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Facebook Testing Business Manager, A Powerful Tool For Agencies And Large Businesses”. Martin Beck says, “Managers of Facebook pages for agencies and large business take heart. Facebook is testing a new dashboard that seems to solve many issues that have for years frustrated... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “E-Commerce Profiles in Site Performance Optimization”. Pete Prestipino says, “One of the most pressing concerns for online retailers is maintaining a high-level of performance - particularly during the high-traffic holidays. There is, of course, no shortage of solutions on the market... [Read more]

Designers can do a good job in creating your marketing branding, the look and feel of your website and your web presence on Web 2.0 properties, such as Facebook. The only issues are that you may have to try several designers before you find one that understands you goals well enough that they can deliver what you need. Then, there’s the delay... [Read more]