Marketing Day: April 15, 2013 – marketingland.com Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the Web. From Marketing Land: Battle Over Data: Disconnect 2 Lets Users Block Tracking On More Than 2,000 Websites It’s an ongoing challenge for marketers: Users say they…. Continue Reading On marketingland.com » iPhone Users Do More Virtual Shopping Than Android Users – marketingpilgrim.com It’s no secret that I’m an iPhone fan and I often get a lot of flack from commenters regarding my obvious bias. But I can’t help it when the...
Weekend Favs April Thirteen – 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/ » 3 Ways To Double Your Email Open Rates – blog.crazyegg.com Over the past 5 posts, we’ve covered a lot, including… Topic #1: Email Marketing: What’s Working...
Why You Are Ignoring The Most Important Data – socialmediaexplorer.com Business is having a love affair with big data. In the last few months it seems that every conference and webinar I come across has “big data” on the agenda. Big data is the allure of more. More information. More access to behavior. Opportunities for more sophisticated analysis. The thinking goes likes this: If we know every move people make then we not only know everything, but we can predict everything… Continue Reading On socialmediaexplorer.com » Twitter Acquires We Are Hunted, Should Open New Marketing Doors For Artists – marketingland.com...
WSJ: Yahoo Wants Deeper Relationship With Apple – marketingland.com Earlier in the week I speculated that Yahoo might be able to follow Facebook’s lead and create a Home-like proprietary software layer on top of Android. But there would be risks in doing so. An alternative way to boost mobile usage and traffic might be to deepen an existing partnership with…. Continue Reading On marketingland.com » Twestival – #GivingTuesday – socialmediaexplorer.com Twestival is back! Twestival combines social media and in-person events to raise money for charity. And it works! The first global Twestival was in 2009. Since then, Twestival has raised $1.75 million...
TripAdvisor ProActively Adopts Viewability Standard With “Delayed Ad Call” – marketingland.com TripAdvisor ushered in a big change to their display ad placement platform last week that could have repercussions well beyond the travel industry. In a proactive response to ad industry initiatives to move from a “served” to a “viewable” impression metric, the company… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » 70 Percent of Mobile Searches Lead to Online Action Within an Hour – marketingpilgrim.com If you received traffic from a search engine today, send a thank you card to Alan Emtage. He built...
LinkedIn Now Testing Facebook-Style Mentions, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week – blog.hubspot.com There are so many changes in the world of marketing that it feels almost impossible to keep up. Well, some big players in social media and marketing have been making moves that are hard to ignore. In fact, nary a week goes by your favorite social networks aren’t sprinting to release something new. This week is no different… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Literally throwing money down the toilet – Yes, literally! – jimsmarkteingblog.com I had to smile yesterday, on a trip to Gainsborough Old Hall,...
Weekend Favs April Six – 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/ » How to Create a Google+ Event [Quick Tip] – blog.hubspot.com Google+ has a slew of amazing features and hidden gems that may or may not come...
The Top-30 WordPress Plugins [Infographic] – blog.crazyegg.com When it comes to functionality and performance, it’s hard to beat a WordPress website. But all that power doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of the plugins you select to solve problems and add features. The challenge, of course, is choosing the right ones. Since you have to choose from a database of more than 22,000 options, the whole topic of WordPress plugins can be overwhelming… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » 4 Tried and True Marketing Automation Recipes for Better Email Nurturing – blog.hubspot.com Research from MarketingSherpa shows that the email marketing strategy...
In Praise of Vanity Metrics – socialmediaexplorer.com In a recent Velocity Content Marketing Hangout, Joe Chernov said something interesting. In fact, he said very little that wasn’t interesting. But this one made me raise an eyebrow that took a while to come back down. Joe said, “Don’t knock vanity metrics. Sometimes they’re all you’ve got… Continue Reading On socialmediaexplorer.com » Marketing You: The key to building a great business! – jimsmarkteingblog.com It has never been easier to locate people or suppliers in your industry, who are capable. Search engines and social networks allow us to find capable people and check...
Nuance Creates Mobile Advertisements That Talk Back – marketingpilgrim.com Conversations, word-of-mouth, chat — it’s amazing how many auditory words we use to describe text-based actions. Replying to comments on Facebook is a conversation, sharing a product review in a blog is word-of-mouth and chatrooms have functioned for years without any chatter at all. Nuance is going to change that… Continue Reading On marketingpilgrim.com » HubSpot Launches Free Tool to Analyze the Shareability of Your Tweets – blog.hubspot.com I love data. I’ve spent the last 5 years of my career dedicated to doing research on huge datasets of hundreds of thousands...
Dynamic Remarketing Ads: The Future of Google Remarketing – wordstream.com/blog Google’s new dynamic remarketing feature – currently in beta – is hands down the best release from Google I’ve seen in a long time. As far as I’m concerned, this will be a MUST DO for all e-commerce websites that are advertising with Google.I’ve recently had the opportunity to try out the new dynamic remarketing ads, and in this post, I’ll explain how they work, why they’re better than traditional remarketing, and why you should care… Continue Reading On wordstream.com/blog » 15 Insider Tips for Creating a Content Creation Machine...
How to Tell Google Not to Index a Page in Search Results [Quick Tip] – blog.hubspot.com Indexing as many pages on your website as possible is tempting for marketers who are trying to boost their search engine authority. While it’s true that publishing more pages that are relevant for a particular keyword (assuming they’re also high quality) will improve your ranking for that keyword, sometimes there’s just more value in keeping certain pages on your website out of a search engine’s index… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Weekend Favs March Thirty – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ My weekend blog post routine includes posting...
How To Remove Ugly URL Parameters from Google Analytics Reports – blog.crazyegg.com Is Google Analytics cluttering up your reports with 100′s or thousands of unique pages that don’t really exist? The problem is created by ugly URL’s. You know what I mean when I say ugly URL’s? Here’s an ugly one: http://www.crazyegg.com/welcome?txn=222050&tl=30 What makes it ugly is the ?txn=222050&tl=30 These are parameters that are appended to the URL of a very important page on the Crazy Egg website — the Welcome Page… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » Marketing Day: March 29, 2013 – marketingland.com Here’s our daily recap of what happened...
25 SEO Tools for Links, Keywords and Rank Tracking – marketingtechblog.com We’re always on the lookout for great tools and with a $5 billion industry, SEO is one market that has a ton of tools to help you. Whether you’re researching you or your competitors’ backlinks, trying to identify keywords and cocurrence terms, or simply trying to monitor how your site is ranking, here are the most popular SEO tools and platforms on the market… Continue Reading On marketingtechblog.com » Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Better Social Strategy. – marketingtechblog.com Mind the spelling error and the fact that a fat guy...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Klout’s New Product Invites Businesses To Get Serious About Social Influence – marketingland.com Klout is hoping businesses will start to take social influence — and Klout itself — more seriously with today’s announcement of an analytics dashboard called Klout for Business. Klout describes it as “a set of tools designed to help you unlock the reach and power of your… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » How User-Generated Content Powers Better Social SEO Results – socialmediaexplorer.com User-Generated Content (UGC) allows online properties to grow in size and depth through an open-relationship with online...
How a Pro Marketer Would Sell a Used Workout Machine on Craigslist – blog.crazyegg.com It doesn’t matter whether you are writing offers for a Fortune 500 company or Craigslist. To get results, you use the same basic techniques. Let’s take a look at some Craigslist ads to see what works. Then try the same techniques on your own sales pages and see if they don’t make a difference. Start with a compelling title Every offer should start with a strong headline… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » Business to Business Alternative Marketing – marketingtechblog.com One of the opportunities for Business to...
Responsively Retrofitting An Existing Site With RWD Retrofit – smashingmagazine.com Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, touchscreen mobile devices have exploded in popularity. They have introduced new problems, new solutions, new interactions, new ways of thinking and, of course, new costs to our clients. The most important question on everyone’s mind — clients and developers alike — is, “How can we provide a great Web experience to our users on mobile?” It All Started With iPhone The mobile Web was rarely considered before the iPhone (mostly because mobile browsers were so bad)… Continue Reading On smashingmagazine.com »...
