Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Continued Growth for Rakuten LinkShare in Q3 2012”. Collins Says, “Rakuten LinkShare has reported significant growth throughout their network for the third quarter of 2012. Overall same store sales in the Rakuten LinkShare network in the U.S. increased by 36 percent year-over-year (YOY) for the third... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Jump Start Your Online Community”. Kim Celestre says, “Over 40% of Business Technology decision-makers indicate that support forums, discussion forums and professional social networks influence them throughout their online journey, yet many marketers overlook the impact of the conversations... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Marketing emails account for 70% of spam complaints”. David Moth says, “A new report has found that marketing emails account for more than two-thirds (70%) of spam email complaints. This is despite the fact that marketers only account for 18% of total email volume and just... [Read more]

Banner ads can bring in a lot of income for a popular website. The trick is to manage those ads wisely. Some are good fits for your visitors and get lots of clicks. Others may look good on the serface, but never appeal to your site visitors. You need good information on which banners are getting clicked and a good process for weeding out the ones that... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Microsoft: Don’t Get ‘Scroogled’ By Google Search Results”. Mark Hachman says, “On Wednesday, Microsoft began running a national ad campaign to warn users to avoid being “Scroogled” by Google search results that have been influenced by paid placement. Specifically, Microsoft’s... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “PayPal Nearly Tripled Mobile Payment Volume on Cyber Monday”. Christopher Mims says, “People are getting much more used to buying things on their mobile devices, suggest data that PayPal released. On “Cyber Monday” (the online baby sister of Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving shopping... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Holiday Primer: Facebook Offers”. Allison Howen says, “There are 584 million-plus reasons why Facebook is a marketing hotspot. This number of active daily users, makes the social network’s everyday audience about three times larger than the Super Bowl’s. To cater to the increasing... [Read more]

Jason Parker and Charles Kirkland have a new WordPress plugin that’s available at a bargain bin price for a short time. WP Stealth Affiliate lets people lay aside their suspicions and interact with you and become a customer. It does it by generating a survey form that your visitors fill in. You offer a reward for their answers. That could be a... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Stop wasting your marketing dollars: Build your brand first”. Julie Cottineau says, “Although it may seem seamless to the naked eye, branding that is truly on-target is no easy thing to master. But effective branding can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars in the... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “Counterspin on Shopping Search: Shady Paid Inclusion”. Aaron Wall says, “Bing caused a big stink today when they unveiled Scroogled, a site that highlights how Google Shopping has went paid-inclusion only. A couple weeks ago Google announced that they would be taking their controvercial business... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “The YouTube Industry Has A Transparency Problem”. Fruzsina Eördögh says, “YouTube, whose community is ironically stereotyped as oversharers, has business transparency issues. This transparency problem doesn’t come just from Google, it also manifests within the YouTube community’s top-earners... [Read more]

Stephen Gilbert has just released Commission Comet that shows you how to quickly rank sites for 10k+ search terms on the 1st page of Google. If you’re a new entrepreneur you’ll learn how to rank for advanced search terms. In fact, using this exact method they were able to rank a site on page 1 for a “180+ gravity” term on Clickbank.... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Another November Index is Live!”. Carin Overturf says, “This month we’re bringing you a special holiday treat: two Mozscape indices in the month of November! We just released the latest index, and you can now find fresh Mozscape data in Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook?”. Sonia Simone says, “If you spend time on Facebook, you’ve seen a great weeping and gnashing of teeth as Pages realize that they’re only reaching a tiny sliver of their audiences with each post. Facebook’s noisy, overvalued IPO means... [Read more]

The latest article on MarketingSherpa blog is titled “CRM How-to: Tactics on Marketing/IT alignment, database strategy and integrating social media data”. David Kirkpatrick says, “Customer relationship management, by its very name, is much more than the CRM software piece regularly used by Sales. It also incorporates marketing automation... [Read more]

Mao Flynn knows video marketing. He puts his best techniques into Video Marketing To Page One+. In it he shows you: • How to use video to get a consistent flow of high-quality traffic • How to use video to get your offer ranked quickly • How to create professional videos from scratch even if you have ZERO experience • How to guarantee... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Bing Attacks Google With New ‘Scroogled’ Campaign”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Microsoft’s Bing search engine is taking its battle against Google to the next level with a new campaign called “Don’t Get Scroogled.” The company launched a Scroogled website on Wednesday which attacks what... [Read more]

Gail Trahd’s latest ‘PLR Health Wizard’ blog post is titled “This is Just Flipping Fun!”. Gail says, “Flip it! It sounds so easy! Build a site, put up some content, add affiliate products, drive traffic, publish your traffic metrics and sales – and list it on Flippa. Sell that site, make a few dollars for even less hours of work. But... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “Webinar Replay – Facebook Marketing with Amy Porterfield”. Chow says, “Did you missed last night’s webinar with Facebook marketing expert and author Amy Porterfield? Still kicking yourself over it? Well, you can stop now. I have the replay right here for your enjoyment. Even if you were at the webinar”. Webinar... [Read more]

Deiss calls it his Number One Book System. Deiss has been experimenting with marketing on Amazon recently. He recently got 7,000 downloads of his little gardening book. And he got almost 30,000 downloads from his other books during that same time. He isn’t alone. Amanda Hocking sold 5,000,000 copies of her books on Kindle in less than a year.... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Submit Your Performance Marketing Summit 2013 Speaking Proposal”. Collins Says, “Speaking proposals for Performance Marketing Summit 2013, taking place March 12, 2013 in New York City, are now being accepted. The submission deadline is December 21, 2012. Any submissions after this date will not be... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “A/B Split Testing on Facebook Tabs”. Daniel Burstein says, “Here’s a look at a recent test that Zuzia Soldenhoff-Thorpe, Senior Research Manager, MECLABS, ran on the “Newsletter” tab of the MarketingSherpa Facebook Page”. A/B Split Testing on Facebook Tabs MarketingExperiments... [Read more]

Kevin Wilke hosting a webinar on Thursday, November 29 at 8.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “LIMA: Easy “At-Home” Client-Getting Using LinkedIn”. Wilke says, “On this brand new LIMA webinar, you will be given the exact, step-by-step method to get high-paying ideal local business clients using LinkedIn. And you can do this... [Read more]

With Social Signal Tracker you give it a keyword. It gives you the top-10 ranking pages in Google, then gets the counts of social signals for each of these pages from six major social sites. With this data, it computes how strong the social impact of each of these pages is, and the average for the keyword or niche, Then you enter your page’s URL,... [Read more]

Lyris has released ’2012 Lyris Digital Optimizer Report’. The Lyris team says, “Today, complexity is routine. As email has matured and become the norm, other forms of digital communication have emerged. Marketers need to move quickly and make sophisticated connections with their customers. And they need to do it in simple, meaningful... [Read more]

HubSpot has released ‘A Guide to Pinterest’s New Business Accounts’. The HubSpot team says, “47% of U.S. online consumers have made a purchase based on recommendations from Pinterest. Now imagine what happens to that percentage when companies take advantage of actual business accounts! That’s right, Pinterest rolled out... [Read more]

MarketingProfs is hosting a seminar with Rex Briggs on Thursday, November 29 at 12.00 pm ET. The topic of the seminar is “Five Tools for Creating a Social Media Plan and Forecasting Its Impact”. MarketingProfs team says, “What will you learn? How to develop a social strategy that includes content briefs, as well as execution... [Read more]

While affiliate marketing is an easy way to get.started online, it has its limitations; there’s a lot of work involved and you primarily benefit the other marketer, the one whose product you promote. Owning your own products, on the other hand, opens new avenues of profitable marketing to you, You can leverage your own affiliates, for example, who... [Read more]

MarketingSherpa is holding the ‘Email Summit 2013′ in Las Vegas on February 19-22, 2013. Key speakers of the summit are Flint McGlaughlin, Jay Baer, Matt Bailey and more. MarketingSherpa team says, “The Email Summit 2013 agenda has been announced and includes 25 speakers, 30 roundtable discussions, eight breakout sessions, and... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Who Will Win The Google-Amazon-Microsoft Cloud Computing Price War?”. Antone Gonsalves says, “It’s a great time to jump into cloud computing. If your business runs on the Web, you can reap the benefits of a good old fashioned price war among Google, Microsoft and Amazon. The trio is lowering... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Pinterest Finally Means Business”. Michael Garrity says, “It was only a matter of time, but Pinterest, the social pinboard site that took the world by storm, is officially targeting brands. That’s right – it looks like your mom’s favorite social network is ready to start monetizing. Recently,... [Read more]

Buy Websites to Profit , by Mike Slimko, is dedicated to helping you make the most from your websites. You don’t have to build one from scratch; you can build one already built, and if you know how to find them and develop them, you can profit well. But to do this well, you need to: • Select the right site to buy • Pay the right price;... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Let’s Face it: Most Social Media Marketing Is a Waste of Time”. Todd Wasserman says, “The social media marketing backlash has begun. Blame the unlikely team of The Onion and IBM. The formerdropped a pitch-perfect takedown of socmedia “experts” right before Thanksgiving. Then Big... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “46% of businesses don’t measure marketing attribution: report”. David Moth says, “This is despite the fact that 89% of those that do measure attribution say it has benefitted their business, with almost a third (29%) saying the benefit has been ‘major’. The statistics... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Wants Your Credit Card Information”. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “After the re-launch of Gifts, Facebook seems extra motivated to get your credit card information and physical address, in what could be another attempt to gather more data about you and sell more targeted ads. The... [Read more]

Yahoo Answers gets hundreds of thousands of visitors each day, and all of them are looking for answers to pressing questions that are bothering them. Answer those questions, and you’ll be an expert in their eyes. And therein lies a marketing opportunity: People seeking answers are often open to buying solutions. Responding to this opportunity,... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Online Marketing Efforts”. Sonia Simone says, “We have a great bookstore in my town — the kind of place you picture in your mind when you think of a great independent bookshop. It’s perfect for browsing, with lots of comfy chairs to relax in. The books... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “How PayPal Innovation Is Driving Online Payments”. Mashable team says, “As the world moves at the speed of technology, the way you pay for it all needs to be fast, secure and broadly available. PayPal has been filling that role online for more than a decade. Initially launched as a way to let people... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Tajikistan Blocks Facebook, Considered ‘Hotbed of Slander’”. Eric Larson says, “The Republic of Tajikistan has completely blocked Facebook, cutting off more than 40,000 users in the country from the social media giant. The Tajikistan Office of Telecommunications on Monday ordered the country’s... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Biting the Bullet of Technical Debt”. Anthony Skinner says, “Sometimes when you have to bite the bullet, it’s not a clean bite; you’ve got to gnaw away at it until you finally break through. So it goes with our technical debt, but we’ve got a plan to erase the worst of it over the... [Read more]