“Keep your finger on the pulse of what your readers love/hate/need/want” + MORE

5 Ways to Avoid Marketing Your Next eCourse to Everyone – thinktrafic.net If you design a course for everybody — and try to sell to everybody — you’ll dilute your voice, neuter your material, and be stuck with lackluster sales and unhappy customers. One size has never fit all! You probably know this already, right? You know about targeting your market, nicheing down and all that… Continue Reading On thinktrafic.net » Internet Marketing 101: Facilitate Comparison of Price and Features – dailyblogtips.com Two friends of mine are working on a project where they sell a study guide for an important exam...

“Keep your finger on the pulse of what your readers love/hate/need/want” + MORE

5 Ways to Avoid Marketing Your Next eCourse to Everyone – thinktrafic.net If you design a course for everybody — and try to sell to everybody — you’ll dilute your voice, neuter your material, and be stuck with lackluster sales and unhappy customers. One size has never fit all! You probably know this already, right? You know about targeting your market, nicheing down and all that… Continue Reading On thinktrafic.net » Internet Marketing 101: Facilitate Comparison of Price and Features – dailyblogtips.com Two friends of mine are working on a project where they sell a study guide for an important exam...

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 26, 2013 + MORE

App Store Optimizing: ASO For Your Google Play Store – searchenginepeople.com/blog App Store Optimizing: ASO For Your Google Play Store App Store Optimization is our topic today. Specifically, we will look at Android Apps and how-to optimize your Google Play Store. With the Google Play team celebrating their first "birthday," consumers have gone mobile and whether you are building Shopping Apps, Gaming Apps, or Social Apps, we need to learn the tips to get a piece of the Google Play cake… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » 14 Tips on How to Become a More Efficient SEO Professional – searchenginewatch.com/seo Most...

Marketing Day: March 26, 2013 + MORE

5 Big Brand Landing Page Examples [with Critiques] – unbounce.com/blog The big question here is: “Do the big brands produce better landing pages than the average SMB?” Do they utilize professional designers and take advantage of their status and brand image to design experiences that work in perfect concert with their other brand properties (Website, magazines, advertising)? In this post, I’ll look at 5 company’s landing pages and critique what’s good and bad about each of them – and things they might want to throw into an A/B test for optimization… Continue Reading On unbounce.com/blog » High-Speed Coding: Goodbye, Zen...

4 Ways Introverted Young Treps Can Win in an Extroverted World + MORE

Why You Should Consider Cutting Overhead With Part-Time Employees – entrepreneur.com Part-time employees can be essential to running your business. Here are a few things to consider when hiring. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » 12 Ways To Get More Business from Your Website – businessknowhow.com How can you get more business from your website? Or make sure your first website is a good sales tool? Here are 12 tips to help fix or avoid common website mistakes. Continue Reading On businessknowhow.com » Surprise Negativity Buster: Rituals – inc.com Creating small, secular rituals can help you clear your brain and get...

'World's Smallest Cellphone Charger' Provides Emergency Backup + MORE

'World's Smallest Cellphone Charger' Provides Emergency Backup – mashable.com/social-media/ A cellphone charger claiming to be the “world’s smallest” aims to save users in a pinch when their battery is dying. Comparable to a quarter in size, the Fuel Micro Charger is designed to provide 20 to 30 minutes of extra talk time, or up to a few hours more while on standby. Massachusetts-based creators Devotec Industries says it’s “perfect for when you have had an unexpected delay, or haven’t been able to fully charge your phone, and need to make a few calls, send a work email or use your...

9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog + MORE

How emotions killing your blogging career – bloggingtips.com Blogging could be a great career for people, which not only helps in raising revenue for your sustenance but also helps you in expressing yourself. It is also a form of expressing hordes of words and sentences about your passion. However, unlike any other career, if you choose to live without a proper poise in your life, you are bound to make your emotions go uncontrolled, which could be devastating for your blogging career… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » 7 Ways to Write Damn Bad Copy – copyblogger.com/blog/ It’s obvious that creativity...

Google Kills Blocked Sites Search Feature + MORE

Back to the Future: Forecasting Your Organic Traffic – seomoz.org/blog Posted by Dan PeskinThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. Great Scott! I am finally back again for another spectacularly lengthy post, rich with wonderful titles, and this time – statistical goodness… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/blog » Google Kills Blocked Sites Search Feature – searchenginewatch.com/seo Remember Google’s search feature that let you block websites? The one...

How To Build Your Own Custom Google Analytics Dashboard + MORE

Facebook Adds Reply to Comment Feature: A Cheer Rises Up Across the Land! – marketingpilgrim.com Take notice, my fine readers, today is a banner day – I’m going to say something nice about Facebook. After years of wishing and hoping, Facebook just implemented replies to comments. Yes, you heard it right. Now you can directly respond to a comment whether it’s first, last or somewhere in the middle… Continue Reading On marketingpilgrim.com » Design Patterns: C-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solution To Navigation Fragmentation On Android – smashingmagazine.com    There are 3,997 different Android devices. Your navigation should work with all of...

How to Get a Small Business Loan + MORE

8 Startup Events and News to Watch This Week – youngentrepreneur.com Google gets Baton Rouge businesses online, StartUp Britain kicks off, Brad Feld gets personal about starting up, Rob Irizarry schools Montana’s entrepreneurs on the science of starting up, avoiding startup mistakes with legal know how, the Hitachi Foundation offers $200k in prizes at Young Entrepreneur Award…this weeks notable news and startup events for young treps… Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » How to Get a Small Business Loan – businessknowhow.com When you’re trying to get a small business loan, banks and lenders are really only interested in one thing: your...

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This Week On Twitter: Social Media User Demographics, Twitter’s 7th Birthday, Fake Tweets Alert – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes the latest social media user demographics for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram, a celebration of Twitter’s seventh birthday, a warning that screenshots of Tweets can no longer be trusted, tips on how to rock social media in just 30 minutes per day and a look at what happens every 60 seconds on the internet… Continue Reading On mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ » Do You Fit the Profile of Tech...

84 Must Read ‘How to’ Blog Posts (and 3 Winners Announced) + MORE

Meet Sophie Lizard from BeAFreelanceBlogger.com – bloggingtips.com Every blogger can benefit from the skills of a freelance blogger and that is something that Sophie Lizard of BeAFreelanceBlogger.com definitely specializes in. In addition to helping bloggers write better, Sophie also helps bloggers and writers discover how to make real money in the world of online freelance writing and blogging… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » 84 Must Read ‘How to’ Blog Posts (and 3 Winners Announced) – problogger.net Last week here on ProBlogger I ran a ‘Group Writing Project‘ where I invited readers to go away and write a ‘How To‘ Post...

Google Penguin Tightens the Noose on Manipulative Link Profiles [Report] + MORE

Google Penguin Tightens the Noose on Manipulative Link Profiles [Report] – searchenginewatch.com/seo A new report says that Google’s Penguin update is getting stricter. Initially, websites with about 80 percent manipulative links saw their rankings demoted. Now Google Penguin is hitting sites with link profiles composed of 65 percent of bad links. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Open Letter To EU Competition Commissioner Exerts Pressure For Tougher “Vertical Search” Settlement With Google – searchengineland.com Late last week a group of Google critics, rivals and complainants sent an “open letter” to EU competition commissioner Joaquín Almunia asking him to focus on the “vertical search”...

Business owners: Never confuse silence with satisfaction + MORE

Build Your Google Analytics Infographic on Visually – marketingtechblog.com We love Visual.ly for finding and sharing infographics. DK New Media is a certified designer on Visual.ly, with a ton of great infographics we’ve researched, designed and promoted for our clients. As well as static infographics, the Visual.ly team continues to enhance their dynamic infographics as well… check out this great Google Analytics infographic that pulls your weekly stats into a beautiful design… Continue Reading On marketingtechblog.com » Zero Moment of Truth: 8 Steps to Readiness – marketingtechblog.com Late last year I stood in for a colleague to do a presentation...

The Steps to Complying With Safety Standards + MORE

The Steps to Complying With Safety Standards – entrepreneur.com How to make sure you are keeping your employees safe on the job. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » ‘Impact Entrepreneurship’ Places Importance on Social Consciousness – youngentrepreneur.com As a social-impact entrepreneur, you need more than a passion for doing good. Here’s how some ‘treps are putting their chops to work to run successful enterprises and make the world a better place. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Small Business Growth with a New Idea – businessknowhow.com Launching a new product or a new marketing initiative can raise the awareness of your company....

Social Media News: Demographics, Twitter Engagement, Cover Photos + MORE

Twitter Careers: New Jobs Posted This Week – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ This continues our series highlighting new positions posted at Twitter each week. Check out past listings here. This week, Twitter added 190 new jobs to its career page. And here they are: continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. Continue Reading On mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ » Your cross-platform brand and the Epic Battle between Mad Men & Math Men – venturebeat.com/category/social/ Muhammad Yasin is the Marketing Director at HCC Medical Insurance Services When you look at the stakeholders of a website, the folks doing the heavy lifting of strategy and execution, you will find two types...

Viral Videos – Hit or Miss? + MORE

Viral Videos – Hit or Miss? – blogherald.com Viral videos are pretty hit or miss, and not many brands can match the virality of independent series like My Drunk Kitchen or Awkward Black Girl. Still, the brands who try can end up winning big: Old Spice and Progressive are just two brands who’ve used humor, silliness and social media to achieve virtually instant name recognition… Continue Reading On blogherald.com » Grab 7 Years of Copyblogger Teaching in 20 Emails (No Charge) – copyblogger.com/blog/ Want to discover the smartest ways to mix social media, content marketing, and SEO for lead generation?...

Weekend Favs March Twenty Three + MORE

Share Your Google Analytics Data As An Infographic – marketingland.com Wouldn’t it be great to get weekly website performance updates as a simple, easy-to-read graphic? Now you can go beyond the Google Analytics dashboard with a new creative  – and free – tool by Visual.ly. The New Google Analytics Report automatically delivers an infographic… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » SpeakPipe: Put Voicemail on your Website – marketingtechblog.com If your business doesn’t have the resources to man the phones and respond to every request that comes through your site, you may want to...

Entrepreneur Says Fun Is the Key to Productivity + MORE

The 'Etsy Economy' and Changing the Way We Shop – entrepreneur.com The online handmade marketplace is seeking to reimagine retail. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » What the Rolling Stones Can Teach You About Business – inc.com The force that drives sexagenarian Mick Jagger just might be the reason you’re an entrepreneur.In December, my wife, Elaine, and I attended a 50th-anniversary concert of the Rolling Stones at Brooklyn, New York’s new Barclays Center. They’re often referred to as the Strolling Bones these days, and with good reason… Continue Reading On inc.com » The Incubator Bringing Washington D.C.’s Entrepreneurs Together – youngentrepreneur.com...

Want To See Pictures Of Twitter's Office Visitors? Meet @Twisitor + MORE

Optimize Your YouTube Videos Using Google Trends – sproutsocial.com/insights Although social media marketing continues to dominate, a good marketer knows not to focus your marketing strategy on just one tactic. Ideally, social media should work alongside search engine optimization. Your customers are using both, so an interplay between the two is something you have to be prepared for… Continue Reading On sproutsocial.com/insights » Facebook adds ‘listen later’ button to music stories in the feed – insidefacebook.com Facebook has added a “Listen Later” button to Open Graph music stories in the feed, allowing users to fill out a new section of...

The Wave System: How to Get Your Facebook Page Updates Seen By More People + MORE

5 Easy Ways to Make People Take Your Offer – bloggingtips.com Do you know how to reap maximum profits from your online business? It’s simple. You just need to know how to make people take your offer. In this way, no matter what you’re selling or promoting, you’ll always get people to grab it. You’ll make more sales if you know the secret to make people take your offer… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » Why You Should Fire Yourself – copyblogger.com/blog/ What would you do if you discovered that the secret to your success online lay in firing yourself? Would...

6 steps for creating a scalable, repeatable blogger outreach process [Infographic] + MORE

6 steps for creating a scalable, repeatable blogger outreach process [Infographic] – searchenginepeople.com/blog The research is done, the content has been created, and a finished product is ready to live its life online. All outreach hopes to maximise effectiveness through engagement. No matter how visually stimulating the infographic, nor how many great witty quips you've included in the content- it will not attract traffic, links and shares if you don't prepare for scalable outreach to a targeted audience… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Cheap Parlor Tricks for Competitive Analysis by SERP Weighting – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by ChaseSEO What can an...

Yahoo’s Firefox Toolbar Serving Up Questionable Affiliate Links As Coupons + MORE

Yahoo’s Firefox Toolbar Serving Up Questionable Affiliate Links As Coupons – marketingland.com Yahoo’s partnership with a toolbar provider has led to questionable affiliate links showing up in the latest version of Yahoo’s Firefox toolbar. How questionable? In one case, an affiliate was redirecting traffic from Ticketmaster.com to a competing online ticket seller. In other cases,…. Continue Reading On marketingland.com » The 3 Keys to Success – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ Enjoy this guest post from Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Joe Costantino. photo credit: seeveeaar via photopin cc What separates the good from the great in any endeavor? What allows one athlete to compete...

How Email Marketing Benefits Your Small Business + MORE

'Entourage' Star Adrian Grenier Starts Music Incubator (Video) – entrepreneur.com While the young actor has already co-founded or invested in several startups, this time Grenier is changing his tune. Brian Solis spoke with him about his new venture. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » A Tech-Savvy Way to Do SMB Accounting – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight. Continue...

7 tips for first-time SXSW’ers + MORE

Facebook tests another Timeline layout with elements from new and old designs – insidefacebook.com Although Facebook publicly announced a new Timeline layout last week with posts in a single column on the right and customizable modules to the left, some users are seeing another design, which is more of a hybrid of the new and old Timeline. Blink VP Planning and Media Eti Suruzon says her profile was updated Wednesday, but it doesn’t look like the version Facebook has launched to others… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Facebook to drop mobile bookmarks for all apps except cross-platform games – insidefacebook.com...