Comment Liberation + MORE

With the weekend barreling toward us, it’s only appropriate that we take a moment to honor the Facebook efforts of this summer’s hottest movies. Social Media Management company Expion ran the numbers of the Facebook posts for eight of the top flicks then poured their results into a star-studded infographic…

Happy late solstice and early Independence Day, y’all! Clap your hands if summer is your favorite month.These early days of summer are my favorite, before it gets too stiflingly hot to sleep and before my feet get too irreparably disgusting from walking around in flip-flops. While we’re all still in a good mood (right?) let’s review our hottest blog posts from the month of June!The Top 10 Best AdWords Features You’re Not Using – Our new contributor Johnathan Dane put together this list of the most awesome AdWords features that too few people are making use of…

This week Vine saw a lot of dunking, batting, scrumming and serving – as sports Vines collectively dominated the leaderboards. But Hollywood had its own moments, as did Texas state senator Wendy Davis and her filibuster. Sports! We love this vine from NHL as the Chicago Blackhawks went 1-0 up in a…

  

Launching a new product — especially your first — can be incredibly daunting. Even knowing where to turn for help can be hard. So many blog posts are full of free advice on how to successfully launch that I almost didn’t write another one. But many of the posts I read for my first product launch didn’t help me very much…

LinkedIn appears to be testing a weather notification across the header bar area. Since yesterday, hovering over the weather information icon indicates that the service is “Power by sun365”, the makers of a Google Chrome extension and the weather dashboard website sun365.me. And, yes, they say “power,” not “powered…

You’ve all heard of TED Talks, right? Their tagline is “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and some colleagues of mine have surfaced one of their talks that I think has an idea worth spreading to a lot of our readers.
So, I’m blogging about it. Like bloggers do.
The TED Talk is from Google’s Matt Cutts, and the central idea is that you can do anything for 30 days…

As long time readers will know, this blog has had a serious comment spam problem for some time. Today, I believe I have the best possible solution: Comment liberation.
I currently  attract around 3,000 automated spam comments every day, trying to bypass the various filters I have in place. I also get human generated spam, from people who manage to bypass the filters and need to be manually moderated…

After driving my car a decade, I made the decision to go big or go home. Influenced by my Grandfather’s love of his Cadillac and remembering the weekend rides where he took us out… I bought my first Cadillac earlier in the year. The dealership I purchased from is amazing… down to Earth folks from the receptionist, to the salesperson, to the service people…

The CMO Council and NetLine have conducted a study (Better Lead Yield in the Content Marketing Field) that reports 87% of B2B buyers saying online content has a moderate or major impact on vendor selection. The most trusted BtoB content comes from professional associations, not vendors. The most trusted and valued types of content include:

Papers from industry organizations – 50% 
Customer Case Studies – 48%
Analyst Reports – 44%
Independent product reviews – 41%

Even though BtoB marketers spend about 25% of their marketing budgets (and $16…

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Hopefully, you’re reading this roundup pool-side with a delicious pina colada in hand. What better way to brighten your summer day than great content from amazing marketers?
Here are (in this marketer’s opinion) June’s best conversion, analytics, and copywriting articles.
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