Infographic: 10 Years Of LinkedIn + MORE

To celebrate its 10th birthday, LinkedIn has created an infographic with interesting stats about the service, including membership growth by year, by country, and the most popular company pages. Want the infographic for yourself? You’ll find it here: LinkedIn Celebrates 10 years of Brand…

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Remember: Your biggest fans can attract new leads (Image source)
Too often, when marketers think of attracting new leads to their product or service, they forget one of their most powerful tools: happy customers. There is nothing more attractive to leads than seeing happy customers who already use your service or product…

On December 19th, 2012, HubSpot held its annual charity auction during which HubSpotters offer up skills, items, and assets others might want to pay money for.
People were offering up Celtics tickets, cooking lessons, personalized rap songs, and, in my case, the @HubSpot Twitter account. As HubSpot’s social media manager, I was a little uh …

It’s true. We buy from people we like.
Not the ones who give us the best deal or the best service. Not the ones who do the best work. But the ones we like the best.
That being the case, getting your prospects to like you is an important part of the selling process.
So how do you become likable in digital marketing, where you may never meet with or talk to your customers?
More specifically, how do you do that on a single sales page?
There are five things you can do to up the like-factor of your sales copy…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes all the way from the UK via our friend, Michael Truby, Outreach Executive for Oxford based SEO company SEOptimise.
As a marketer striving to make your mark in this competitive world, you’re probably constantly looking for solutions to help you devise the most innovative marketing program…

Most small business owners miss out on great, free exposure, because they fail to advertise their products or services, to the people who see them each day.
For example, their car is seen daily by lots of people, yet they have nothing displayed on their car to promote their business. They wear a t-shirt during the summer, but don’t think to get one with their company logo on it…

Our friends at Hanapin Marketing and PPC Hero need your help!Pat East, the CEO of Hanapin Marketing, teaches a summer workshop at Indiana University that covers all aspects of Internet marketing, including a core module in PPC. Their grades are dependent on demonstrating their PPC knowledge by successfully creating and managing an AdWords account for a real business…

HubSpot has introduced Social Inbox, a new application that integrates social media monitoring and publishing with HubSpot’s contact database, enabling marketers to create segmented views of the social activity of their leads, customers, and biggest evangelists. The new integration reduces the noise associated with social media listening, alerts companies to key individuals in need of responses, and provides context for social media interactions, replacing loud and interruptive tactics with marketing people love…

Say what you will about Klout (and I am sure someone will have plenty to say about it for sure) but they are making progress in tying a measure of social media impact with Perks for those who ‘measure up’.
The latest offering is actually pretty interesting. The Klout blog explains
Today we’re announcing a partnership with American Airlines that gives Klout users access to nearly 40 worldwide lounge locations including San Francisco, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, London and many more…

John Jantsch talks about podcasting
Podcasting is making a comeback thanks to a growing consumer demand for content. If you’re not listening to podcasts, or better yet, producing your own audio content, you better reconsider.
photo credit: Bill Selak via photopin cc
I’ve been publishing the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast since 2005…

  

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2.4 billion internet users worldwide with 70% of them using the internet every day. That’s 37.3% of the world’s population… an increase of 566% since the year 2000. The number of mobile devices used to access the Internet has doubled, with 38% of media interactions every day made on smartphones…

I’m a sucker for a color infographic and this infographic from The Logo Company is a good one.
Scientists have been studying the way we react to colors for many years. Certain colors make us feel a certain way about something. As long as the designer knows what these colors and emotions are, the designer can use that information to help present the business in the right way…

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