Not Your Average Marketing Post: You Can Teach An Old Dog New Tricks – searchenginepeople.com/blog In my later forties I found myself heading into a new career…. Familiar with advertising and a little acquainted with internet advertising, I ventured into the internet media of SEO and PPC. Welcomed with bright smiles and eager faces I bravely walked into an office staffed with employees my children's ages with knowledge and patience I had not witnessed before in my 30+ years working… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Google Marks Ella Fitzgerald’s Birthday By Giving The First Lady Of Song Her Very Own...
How Dyson’s Winning Strategy Depends On Who They DON’T Hire – rohitbhargava.com/blog The “Ballbarrow” was never really a product destined for greatness. Replacing a wheel in a traditional wheelbarrow with a ball hardly qualifies as a groundbreaking technological innovation. But it does solve a problem. Great inventions usually do. And when James Dyson first created and produced his Ballbarrow, it was a hit with gardeners seeking an alternative that wouldn’t leave wheel shaped trenches in their garden… Continue Reading On rohitbhargava.com/blog » Responsive Layouts: How To Maintain Hierarchy Through Content Choreography – smashingmagazine.com One of the issues we need...
What Would-Be Entrepreneurs Fear Most About Starting Up – youngentrepreneur.com An unstable income is almost always guaranteed when just starting your business, but research shows it’s one of the top fears that keeps Americans from becoming entrepreneurs. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » The 10 Best Cities to Start a Business – entrepreneur.com A new report ranks the top cities for startups based on lending, business friendliness, hiring pool and local economy. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Stop Wasting Your Employees' Money – inc.com A law professor argues that many retirement plans are so bad your employees could literally sue you...
Tomorrow on TNW: Your chance to ask HopeMob’s founder Shaun King your entrepreneurship questions – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ Streaming live on The Next Web, HopeMob founder Shaun King will answer questions from readers at 3 p.m. ET (12 p.m. PT) Thursday, April 25th. As part of the Young Entrepreneur Council’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Shaun will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » How a Tweet Toppled the US Stock Market in Seconds – socialfresh.com/blog Yesterday, social media controlled the stock market . A breaking news tweet was posted to @AP, the Associated...
Tips to Create Effective Sales Pages – dailyblogtips.com If you already have a sales page, or are planning to build one soon, you should check out a post from my buddy Karl Staib, titled 10 Tips to Create a Sales Page that Converts Prospects to Customers. Karl goes through the strategies that worked well on his own sales pages, including the best practices of the industry… Continue Reading On dailyblogtips.com » Why Use PPC with SEO – bloggingtips.com There are many reasons to use pay-per-click (PPC) marketing, with search engine optimization (SEO). By using these two proven online marketing strategies...
Changes to Facebook Pages: The New Canvas for Mobile Marketing – searchenginepeople.com/blog First the responsive newsfeed, then Facebook Home, and today there were changes to Facebook Pages. If it wasn't apparent that Facebook was serious about being "mobile first" before, it certainly is now. Why change the Pages layout? Over 680 million people access Facebook via a mobile device every month, and people engage with brand pages than they ever did before… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Getting Granular With User Generated Content – seobook.com/blog The stock market had a flash crash today after someone hacked the AP account &...
Facebook Launches New Mobile Design for Business Pages – blog.hubspot.com If you’re the proud owner of a Facebook business page, your page’s mobile presence is about to get a makeover. Today, Facebook announced some design and layout improvements to the mobile version of Facebook Pages in response to the fact that half of Facebook Page visitors access those pages from their mobile devices… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » 7 Key Factors That Can Boost Local Reviews Up to 900%: An Interview with the Master of Local Search – blog.crazyegg.com Bob Sommers is one of the most likeable guys you’ll ever...
How Jay-Z Went From Music Mogul to Sports Agent – youngentrepreneur.com A timeline of the life and career of Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter, who transformed himself into a $450-million brand. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » 'The Office' Actor Rainn Wilson Builds a Site for Life's Biggest Questions (Video) – entrepreneur.com Growing social networking site SoulPancake aims to be a ‘question collective’ where users discuss and debate their deepest philosophical quandaries. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Do You Like Your Paper White or Green? – noobpreneur.com The ‘green’ aspects of going paperless: how it can benefit your business and the world around...
Facebook redesigns mobile business pages – insidefacebook.com Facebook today released a new mobile layout for business and fan pages, which gives users more actionable information up top but pushes unpinned page posts further down the screen. The redesign better optimizes pages for the mobile use case, for instance, looking up a store’s location or hours, viewing a restaurant’s photos or seeing reviews and friend recommendations… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Ex-Googlers launch venture-backed SRCH2 to speed up enterprise search – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ SRCH2, an enterprise search startup created by Google veterans, has officially launched, while also announcing an “insider round” of...
The Importance of Using Credit Cards to Run a Blogging Business – bloggingtips.com I’ve been running my online business for over 15 years now and when I first started out I was just a kid. I didn’t have any credit, so I couldn’t get a credit card. For the longest time I was using a credit card in my parents’ names and with all of the spending online they had some killer credit history! Soon enough I was finally able to get a credit card of my own and then the fun began! Having a credit card for your...
800 Best SEO Posts of the Last 4 Years – searchenginewatch.com/seo Have you ever thought which of SEO and marketing websites statistically provides the best content? Or if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? The sunsetting of Google Reader forced me to find out whose content really is king. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Transmedia Storytelling: Building Worlds For and With Fans – seomoz.org/blog Posted by gfiorelli1 John loves Batman. He's collected comics since he was nine years old, is proud of owning the first edition of Gotham by Gaslight, and still remembers the afternoons spent watching the...
8 Tools I Use Every Day for Social Engagement – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ I get asked what tools I use for some of my daily social routines on a somewhat frequent basis. The other day I got that question and it dawned on me that many of the tools I’ve written about for the basic stuff have changed or evolved over the past six months. So, I thought it might be useful to write a post outlining my current tool set for consuming, sharing and interacting online… Continue Reading On ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ » The Future According to Larry Page: Outlook Lazy – wordstream.com/blog...
Richard Branson on Building a Strong Reputation – youngentrepreneur.com Virgin Group’s founder on why earning the trust of investors, future partners and suppliers rests on building a strong personal reputation. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Barefoot Wine's 'Get Rich Slow' Scheme – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com Barefoot Wine founders Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan share their business experience and growth story, and dish on their new book “The Barefoot Spirit.” Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » Small Business Index Finds SMBs are Motivated to Go Green to Save Money (infographic) – .businessownersideacafe.com/ According to a recent survey conducted by Office Depot, Inc., a leading...
YouTube is testing a new auto-generated playlist feature called YouTube Mix to aid in video discovery – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ YouTube is experimenting with a new feature designed to help users better discover videos and channels on its site. Called “YouTube Mix”, it’s an auto-generated playlist that will display suggested videos based on what you’re reading. While the video service already has suggested videos displayed in the right-hand sidebar of each page, YouTube Mix offers users the ability to watch 50 videos continuously that it thinks they’ll be interested in… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » Terrorists on Twitter: Al Qaeda tweets to...
Stop. Don’t post that post! 7 questions to ask before you hit publish – problogger.net This is a guest contribution by Kate Toon, an award-winning SEO and advertising copywriter. You have a blog post. Who cares whether you wrote it yourself or paid someone to create it? It’s the right length. You’ve shoe-horned your chosen keyword phrase ‘Pink llama-wool pyjamas’ into it five times… Continue Reading On problogger.net » 7 Reasons Why Acting Goofy On Your Blog Helps Business – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our host is Brianne Walter, here Brianne explains why you don't have to be serious on your blog...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings – searchengineland.com Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. There’s no official announcement that I can find about the app, and as best I can tell, the iClarified blog was first to report on it. The… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines & Example – searchenginewatch.com/seo Writing an awesome reconsideration request is critical when you’re attempting to...
Playlist: Favorite Bands & Artists on Twitter – benchmarkemail.com/blogs Favorite bands and artists to follow on Twitter, in honor of Social Success Stories.Related Articles Introducing Social Success Stories & iPad Mini GiveawayAdding Social Sharing Links to Your Email CampaignsHow Email Marketing Will Evolve In 2010 Continue Reading On benchmarkemail.com/blogs » Don’t Let Your Content Marketing Hit A Wall – unbounce.com/blog Don’t let your content marketing hit a wall (Image source) Don’t look now, but content marketing has hit a wall. In the past month alone, experts at Marketing Profs, Interacter, and Forrester have questioned the legitimacy of what was once...
Crowdfunding Industry On Fire: Trends to Watch – youngentrepreneur.com Market research data shows that 308 active crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion last year. In 2013, the industry is expected to raise $5.1 billion. Here’s a look at where the rapidly-evolving industry is heading. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com »
Here we go again: Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox taken down for hours by ‘another strong DDoS attack’ (Updated) – thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ The world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has once again been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. At the time of writing, the site has been down for over three hours, as the company scrambles to fight back. On Facebook and Twitter, the company first informed its users that it was experiencing an outage and then later followed up to confirm the source was indeed yet another DDoS attack… Continue Reading On thenextweb.com/socialmedia/ » Video games...
Here’s a few keyword tips that work wonders – bloggingtips.com If you do a quick search, you’ll see there are more than a few keyword tips out there and trying to put together a good internet marketing plan can get a little confusing if you take all the advice to heart. It’s best if you read only the ones that are proven successes. Following are several you can’t do without… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com »
Weekend Favs April Twenty – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road… Continue Reading On ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ » The Beal Deal with Jennifer Cario (@JenniferCario) – marketingpilgrim.com The Beal Deal is back! I’m not quite sure where to start with the introduction for my...
What Angel Investors Want Now – youngentrepreneur.com The second annual Halo Report released today shows where angels are excited to invest, both by sector and geographically, and how much they are commonly investing. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » How a Group of Friends Made a Dent the $6 Billion Bike Industry – entrepreneur.com Childhood pals find big profits in stripped-down bicycles with their company Pure Fix Cycles. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com »
Social Media News: EdgeRank, LinkedIn Ads, Twitter – sproutsocial.com/insights While you’ve been busy updating your company’s Facebook page, keeping your customers up to date through Twitter and posting the latest corporate video on YouTube, we’ve been reporting on the latest in social media news for businesses large and small. In case you’ve missed any of it, here’s a recap of this week’s breaking stories… Continue Reading On sproutsocial.com/insights » These 10 Cats Are More Awesome Than Yours – mashable.com/social-media/ As with humans, some cats just have “it” — that mysterious quality that somehow sets them far apart from lesser kitties We have found 10 such kitties that...
4 Valuable Blogger Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss – bloggingtips.com If you’re a new blogger, you’re bound to have many questions about building your blog, promoting it, making money from it, and more. One of the best ways to learn how to grow your blog, especially if you want to make it a career, is to attend a blogger conference. Not only are these great for educational purposes, but they give you the opportunity to network and connect with other bloggers… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » 5 Writing Links You’ll be Glad You Clicked – copyblogger.com/blog/ This week on...
