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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...

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...

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...