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Keeping The Big <picture> Small: How To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images + MORE

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Weekly Wrap: Heart of Business Has Arrived! – benchmarkemail.com/blogs It was a big week for us at Benchmark. We launched our brand new podcast called Heart of Business. We’re giving away a bunch of iTunes gift cards to celebrate, so make sure you check it out.Related Articles Weekly Wrap: Goin’ to Coachella…In My MindIntroducing the Heart of BusinessDefending Cake over Liability Issues – the Weekly Wrap Continue Reading On benchmarkemail.com/blogs » One CEO’s Take on Google Glass. Do You Agree? – marketingpilgrim.com Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman is pretty opinionated, especially about Google Glass. Let’s keep this simple. Watch this video...

Leadership Lessons: Can You Really Get More Done with Less Time? + MORE

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Picture This: Instagram Is The Fastest Growing Social Network For Brands With 14% Growth This Quarter – marketingland.com Since Facebook purchased the filter friendly photo app Instagram last year brand adoption has skyrocketed according to a new study of the top 100 brands by SimplyMeasured. Since purchase last year, the Facebook owned Instagram has flourished. The post-purchase growth jumped 500% in just a year,… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » The Norwegian Art of Strategic Waiting – rohitbhargava.com/blog Choosing not to preserve a 1000 year old Viking ship doesn’t really surprise anyone in...

Infographic: 10 Years Of LinkedIn + MORE

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Infographic: 10 Years Of LinkedIn – marketingland.com 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… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » 3 [Awesome] Ways to Identify Your Biggest Fans & Collect Customer Testimonials – unbounce.com/blog Remember: Your biggest fans can attract new leads (Image source) Too often, when marketers think of attracting new leads to their product or...

Brooks Brothers’ Gatsby Collection & Other Advertising Tie-Ins That Totally Missed the Point + MORE

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Why isn’t my problem as important to you, as it is to me? – jimsmarkteingblog.com I had a bad customer service experience today, which contained a valuable lesson. I’d like to share that lesson with you. It started when I needed tech support from my email provider, Mailchimp. Every encounter I have had with their support team has been poor and today’s encounter was no exception… Continue Reading On jimsmarkteingblog.com » The Smashing Editor’s Choice: A Free eBook – smashingmagazine.com    Nearly half a year ago, we introduced our eBook subscription model, also known as the Smashing Library. We knew...

What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content Marketing? + MORE

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A Quick-Start Guide to Universal Analytics – blog.crazyegg.com There’s something new from Google Analytics. OK, well, maybe it’s not that new. The search giant announced Universal Analytics back in October 2012 and now it’s in open beta. As a stats junkie I had to try it out, and I thought you might like to as well. So here’s my walkthrough of the setup phase… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » Celebrating A Decade’s Worth Of Professional Networking On Linkedin – marketingland.com On the heels of announcing record level financial results and member engagement numbers for the first quarter of 2013, Linkedin...

2013 SoDA Report: Digital Marketing Outlook + MORE

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A lesson from Mark Twain about Going Out On a Limb – jimsmarkteingblog.com One of the foundations of success, is a willingness to go out on a limb, when necessary. In fact, in business and in life generally, all meaningful progress is preceded by the decision to take a risk, go out on a limb and do something. Out on a limb Starting a family, starting a business, relocating – all of these life changing decisions require us to go out on a limb… Continue Reading On jimsmarkteingblog.com » Online Success Starts with CXM – marketingtechblog.com Customer Experience Management uses technology...

Making Eye Contact With Your Webcam + MORE

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Let Marketing Pilgrim Help Your May Job Search Effort! – marketingpilgrim.com Turning the calendar page and starting a new job search in May? Don’t forget to check into the Marketing Pilgrim Internet Marketing Job Board. If you are looking for a new job then find the full listings here. If you are looking for that perfect hire you would be hard pressed to find a better audience than ours for just $27 / per month per listing as well… Continue Reading On marketingpilgrim.com » Infographic: Social Ad Spending Forecast – marketingtechblog.com Social media ad revenues expected to grow to $11 billion...

4 Pillars of Lean Web Design + MORE

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Twitter Updates iOS App To Integrate Better With Vine & Adds Better Account Switching For Android – marketingland.com A handful of feature changes have been added to the official Android and iOS apps today to help users view local trends, switch accounts and fully integrate with the iOS only Vine product. A global change for both apps included support for the new 160 markets that Twitter Trends announced last… Please visit Marketing Land for the full article… Continue Reading On marketingland.com » 3 Ways to Use Multi-Channel Analytics Reporting for Better Marketing & Business Decisions – toprankblog.com The average consumer goes through...

What Makes a Great Facebook Landing Page? [Examples] + MORE

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What Makes a Great Facebook Landing Page? [Examples] – unbounce.com/blog Will these Facebook landing pages get the thumbs up? (Image source) In 2009 I was introduced to the concept of having a dedicated landing page for each PPC ad. I saw first hand how conversion rates soar when this simple process is put into place and knew I would be an advocate for rest the rest of my professional life… Continue Reading On unbounce.com/blog » “Get More Likes”: Facebook Promoted Page Ads Now Available Globally – marketingland.com First introduced in the U.S. last December, Facebook has now made Promoted Page...

April Top 10: WordStream’s Best of the Month + MORE

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5 Ways to Make Your Advertising Extraordinarily Effective – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ Advertising is an important part of the lead generation puzzle. Some marketers suggest that you can do without the cost and low returns they attribute to advertising, but done right, advertising is a tremendous tool. photo credit: x-ray delta one via photopin cc I advocate an approach that calls for a mix of lead generation tactics that includes advertising, public relations and a systematic approach to referral generation… Continue Reading On ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ » Twitter Doesn’t Exactly Instill Confidence in Memo to Journalists – marketingpilgrim.com Twitter has taken a bit of...

Power Your Online Marketing with CDNify + MORE

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Interview With Nadine Chahine: The Art And Craft Of Arabic Type Design – smashingmagazine.com    The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge of less familiar writing systems from around the world. The aesthetics and structure of such designs can be strongly related to the shape and legibility of the letterforms, so learning about international writing systems will certainly help you to create more attractive and engaging Web designs… Continue Reading On smashingmagazine.com » Sick and Tired of a Boring Brand? Color It Vibrant...

CSS3 Transitions: Thank God We Have A Specification! + MORE

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The truth about Steve Jobs, research and planning – jimsmarkteingblog.com Steve Jobs was a remarkable person. Like many, I have studied his career for years and been amazed at what he achieved, in such a very short time. One of the things that happens whenever someone has a massive impact in any area of life, is that their ideas get misquoted or distorted. Today’s post looks at one element of Steve Jobs’ work, which is often quoted by small business owners, yet has no foundation in fact… Continue Reading On jimsmarkteingblog.com » Save Your Business Blog From Google’s RSS Hammer...

Talk is cheap + MORE

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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...

Help, Viral Searches Killed My PPC! 5 Tips for Detecting Unrelated Search Queries Early + MORE

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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...

The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Graph Search + MORE

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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...

How to Optimize Your Business Blog [Checklist] + MORE

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Value Proposition: How do you create an effective value prop? – marketingexperiments.com/blog/ Tweet In today’s Web clinic at 4:00 p.m. EDT – “How You Can Use Email to Discover the Essence of Your Value Proposition (in 5 Simple Steps)” – Austin McCraw, Senior Editorial Analyst, MECLABS, will use our research to help you discover an effective value proposition, and answer questions like: What do your customers find most appealing about your offer? … Is it the price? … Is it a specific feature? … Is it the broader brand association? But first, we wanted to learn some value proposition insights...

How to get more done in less time and improve your thinking + MORE

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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” + MORE

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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 + MORE

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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,...

TV programming? + MORE

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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...