In my office, I have some dead spots, where the WiFi signal doesn’t reach very well. The result is that the speed drops significantly, or sometimes even stops altogether. That can be bad news for your efficiency. So, I am interested in whatever can be done to improve our WiFi results, including an article I read today. As reported on DailyFinance.com,... [Read more]

eMarketer is hosting a webinar on Thursday, November 21 at 1.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “7 Social Media Ad Trends for 2014″. eMarketer team says, “Call 2014 the year of “social acceptance.” More marketers are committing budget to paid social media advertising, and social media companies are offering a wider range... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Clickbooth Launches RevContent”. Collins Says, “Clickbooth has launched RevContent, the next phase in the their cost per click product formerly known as CBCPC. CBCPC came out in 2010, and RevContent is the next step with an expansion into the content recommendation market RevContent allows advertisers... [Read more]

Shawn Anderson has just released another of his “wicked simple” ways to earn a living online. (You may remember his Wicked Simple Commissions, from a month ago, that sold over 1000 copies). This one is called Wicked Simple Profits. Anderson reports, and some buyers confirm, that the process in this new training can result in $100/day income,... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Build Responsive Emails with Ink”. Allison Howen says, “Marketers cannot control what devices their emails are read on, which means that all messages need to be optimized for mobile nowadays. But despite the fact that more than 40 percent of emails are opened on mobile devices, many... [Read more]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled ”Twitter Is Now Worth Nearly As Much As The World’s Largest Advertising Company”. Aaron Taube says, “In the latest piece of evidence that the advertising world once dominated by Mad Men creatives is giving way to one owned by technology and analytics gurus, a social media network... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Blog SEO: How to Easily Optimize your Blog for Search”. The Wishpond Blog team says, “Do you write a great business blog but struggle for readership? Have you heard of Search Engine Optimization but think it’s too complicated or too time-consuming? This article will dive... [Read more]

Chris fox and Andrew Fox have sold about 800 copies of FB Gorilla (over 1000 if you count the upgrades they also sold.) Maybe they have decided that it is underpriced because they say they are raising the price to $197, from their current price of $37. This new software puts Facebook to work automating your marketing for you. Use it on as many fan pages... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”10 Examples of Brilliant Email Marketing”. Ginny Soskey says, “At one point or another, we all need inspiration to do our jobs better. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a marketing veteran who has navigated through years of changing technology or a newbie fresh out of college... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “E-Commerce To Cross $200 Billion Threshold This Year”. Greg Sterling says, “It’s all but certain that when the smoke clears after Q4 holiday shopping in the US, e-commerce will have crossed the $200 billion threshold for the first time. That’s based on extrapolating... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “75% of American Children Under 8 Have Access to a Smartphone or Tablet”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Three-quarters of US children 8 and under now have access to some type of “smart” mobile device at home (such as a smartphone or tablet), a jump from 52% just two years ago, according to a... [Read more]

A Solo Ad is an ad sent in your behalf by the owner of a mailing list. These days, this is a growing advertising opportunity. There are a lot of people selling solo ads to other marketers. Usually, these ads are promptly sent to their mailing list, although occasionally you find a crook who takes your money and walks away without delivering your ad. But... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “How to use social media monitoring to generate viable leads”. Joel Windels says, “There are numerous advantages for businesses in using social media monitoring tools, most of which are regularly discussed. But one of the benefits that is quite often overlooked is lead generation.... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “How One Man Saved the Family Furniture Business, Then Built a Wildly Successful Online Fitness Company”. Beth Hayden says, “Ryan Masters has done the heavy lifting a successful content marketing strategy demands, and it has enabled him to break into one of the Internet’s toughest markets:... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Stock Soars on Day 1 and Other News You Need to Know”. Stan Schroeder says, “Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly... [Read more]

WordPress sites are fast and flexible, but native WordPress isn’t customized for mobile devices. For that, you need a WP theme that is specially designed with mobile users in mind. There’s a beautiful new mobile theme by Jay Moreno called JumpMobi Inspire that makes building an effective mobile site quick. It even comes with a set of 5 pre-configured... [Read more]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Social Circles – Use Social Media to Build a Touchpoint Corral?. Baer says, “There are very few sure things in social and email marketing… The open rate for email is 25% on average. The reach of a Facebook post (without paying to promote it) is approximately 5% – 15%.... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “4 Conversations That Don’t Involve Rank Reports – Whiteboard Friday”. Dana DiTomaso says, “With the controversy over the value of keyword rankings, many marketers are looking for other ways to report their progress. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Dana DiTomaso shows us several conversations... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Curalate Study Finds Instagram Images With Blue Hues Win More Likes”. Amy Gesenhues says, “After analyzing over 30 image features of eight million Instagram photos, visual analytics provider Curalate found images with blue hues received 24 percent more Likes than... [Read more]

Dan Green thinks the best place to find online customers is among the Billions of Facebook members. But to be effective in using Facebook, you need to target the members who are clearly interested in your niche. Don’t broadcast your ads to everyone; narrow-cast just to the niche audience. Facebook has done a lot of the target identification for... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Ashton Kutcher on Digital Innovation, Risks and Big Rewards”. Adam Popescu says, “Ashton Kutcher is the new face of Lenovo, helping the world’s top PC maker market and even reportedly design its new line of tablets. A far cry from the onscreen dimwit he portrayed early in his career,... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “The Benefits Of Using WordPress As A Content Management System”. Renee Shupe says, “What began as a blogging tool in 2003 has grown in less than a decade to become the largest self-hosted Content Management System (CMS) platform in the world, used on millions of sites and... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “comScore Offers Smarter Social”. Allison Howen says, “Popular measurement and analytics provider comScore has introduced a new partnership that aims to provide better social media benchmarking and competitive intelligence insights to its clients. The partnership is with a company... [Read more]

There’s a lot of buzz about marketing on Facebook, and rightly so. It works well for some products. But its business-oriented cousin, LinkedIn is perfect for some niches, even better than Facebook. Most Facebook members are leisure-oriented. Most LinkedIn members are business people. Let that difference sink in. If you are selling a business... [Read more]