Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
Pushing Place Tips, Facebook Offers Free Bluetooth Beacons To U.S. SMBs Facebook is expanding its location-based program to reach walk-in consumers with marketing messages.
Home Improvement Store Creates Camera-Equipped Birdhouses That Tweet It’s spring — a time for birdsong and DIY building projects. One retailer has combined these two trending topics for a Twitter campaign.
Account-Based Marketing: New Buzzword Or New Reality? Is ABM all hype or the next big thing? Columnist Rachel Balik takes a look at the elements you need to start building an account-based marketing strategy.
How Busy Local Businesses Can Leverage Data & Technology For Content Marketing Think you’re too busy or non-techie to adopt online marketing as a local small business? Contributor Chris Marentis suggests you build on a foundation of content marketing and use the technologies now at your fingertips.
5 Keys To Improving Your A/B Tests If you want valuable customer insights, you need to test — and test some more. Columnist Jordan Elkind offers five approaches for more effective marketing experiments.
Report: Mobile Ads Drove 80 Percent Increase In Store Visits Within 24 Hours Between smartphones and tablets, mobile devices now play a larger role in product and brand discovery than laptops.
13 Mobile Marketing Stats You Need To Know Want to know the key mobile statistics that will help you become a better marketer? Columnist Aaron Strout digs into the numbers that matter.
Snapchat Displaces Google+ App From ComScore Top 15 Chart On Friday comScore released its latest monthly smartphone data for the US. Over the past quarter the iPhone is the only major device that appears to have gained marketshare.
Survey: Few National Retailers Take Apple Pay Or Intend To This Year Most retailers are notoriously conservative, even lethargic when it comes to adopting new technologies.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Confirmed: Google Capital-Backed Thumbtack Hit With Manual Action For Unnatural Links
Advanced Link Auditing & Best Practices For Acquiring Authoritative Links
Women’s World Cup Google Logo Marks Today’s FIFA Match-Up Between U.S. & Australia
Tumblr’s New GIF Search Engine Takes The Pain Out Of Having To Use Actual Words
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Identify Leaks in Your Sales Funnel With Analytics, blog.crazyegg.com
Why Your Marketing Team Needs a Quantitative Analyst, www.marketingprofs.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Site Metrics to Use for Comparing Blog Performance, www.blogherald.com
Don’t Hit Publish ’til You’ve Solved This Blogging Problem, www.blogtyrant.com
Luring Clients Through Your Blogs, www.compukol.com
Segment Your Blog Content to Drive More Leads and Sales, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Business Issues
Apple finally puts female executives on stage, www.theverge.com
Apple Said to Build High-Speed Network for Fast Content Delivery, Bloomberg
Content Marketing
13 Marketing Stars Show The Big Picture of Content Marketing Strategy, www.toprankblog.com
3 Tools Analyze Pinterest Impact on Your Content Marketing, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
5 Tips to Shape Up Your Content Marketing, www.cmswire.com
B2B Content Marketing: Top Tactics, Goals, and Tools, www.marketingprofs.com
Crucial Things Internet Marketers Need to Remember Part 3: Content Marketers, authoritylabs.com
Easy Ways to Share Your Branded Content, www.searchenginejournal.com
How SAP Used Subscribers to Fuel Content Marketing Success, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Next Up For Podcasts: Programmatic Native Advertising, adexchanger.com
The Psychology Behind Sharing Content, blog.raventools.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Effective Ways to Successfully Convert Prospects to Customers, www.martechadvisor.com
7 Infographics to Explode Landing Page Conversions, www.searchenginejournal.com
How to Get Users to Embrace Your Offer (Without Resorting to Shady Marketing Techniques), blog.kissmetrics.com
Smart Pricing Strategies for Generating Higher Conversions, www.marketingprofs.com
Turn Your Website into a Lead Generation Machine, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
18 Tools for Writing Compelling Content, to Attract Customers, www.practicalecommerce.com
A Primer on Writing Good Documentation, wptavern.com
Designing For Animation, www.smashingmagazine.com
The Challenges of Creating a Fluid Website Design, www.branded3.com
How Website Design can Elevate User Experience and Site Visibility, www.martechadvisor.com
Domaining
A Critical Moment for the Future of the Internet, www.huffingtonpost.com
When Will The 2nd gTLD Round Open? ICANN Puts Out RFP For Study, www.thedomains.com
E-Commerce
4 Insanely Easy-To-Implement Features For Ecommerce Retailers, www.ppchero.com
Leading jewelry e-retailer Blue Nile opens its first physical showroom, Internet Retailer
Men’s Wearhouse names a new head of e-commerce, www.internetretailer.com
Why focusing on negative reviews pays off for a retailer, www.internetretailer.com
Why Retailers Should Offer Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store, www.emarketer.com
Email Marketing
5 Awesome Contextual Emails from UK Brands, blog.movableink.com
5 Tips To Get Higher Email Open Rates on Mobile, smallbiztrends.com
7 Essentials of Successful Email Nurture Campaigns, www.martechadvisor.com
How to Prevent Email Fraud with DMARC, blog.returnpath.com
Presidential Subject Lines: What Can We Learn?, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
Digital Marketing Is Underwhelming, New Survey Finds, www.cmswire.com
Webinar: What Is “Phase 3” of SMB Digital Marketing?, screenwerk.com
Which Form of Digital Advertising Is The Most Effective?, www.jeffbullas.com
Which trends are changing the way marketers engage with global customers?, econsultancy.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Bigcommerce appoints a CEO with IPO experience, www.internetretailer.com
IAB Tech Lab Takes Over Management of “Open Video Viewability” Initiative, www.iab.net
MarTech
4 Important Facts About Data Management Platforms, www.martechadvisor.com
Can Marketing Tech Adoption Catch Up to Data Adoption?, www.emarketer.com
Why Marketing Automation Isn’t Enough, unbounce.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
42% of consumers have never shopped on mobile, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
5 Ways Mobile Is Improving the In-Store Shopping Experience, streetfightmag.com
50+ fascinating stats about mobile commerce in the UK: 2015, econsultancy.com
Digital Investors Say ‘Show Me the Money’ on Mobile, www.emarketer.com
Mobile is eating the world: chat apps are now platforms in their own right, qz.com
Top Used Apps in America: Google, Whatsapp and More, blog.similarweb.com
Social Media
15 New Social Media Templates to Save You Even More Time, blog.bufferapp.com
3 Ways to Increase Sales Using Social Media, www.martechadvisor.com
33% who use social for customer service get no response, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Building security into buyable Pins, engineering.pinterest.com
Facebook Extends Availability of Place Tips, www.adweek.com
Get to Know Your Twitter Community with Twitter Audience Insights, blogs.constantcontact.com
How Marketing Can Help Provide the Social Support Your Customers Need to Buy Your Products, www.silverpop.com
How To Maximize Your Social Media Communications, heidicohen.com
How to Use Google+ Collections for Business, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How TV Is Using Social to Drive Clicks and Viewers, www.convinceandconvert.com
Looking to get more likes on Facebook?, www.razorsocial.com
Pinterest Loses Partnership Chief Joanne Bradford, blogs.wsj.com
Snapchat Uptake Varies Among Europe’s Teens, www.emarketer.com
The Top 10 CPGs on Social, www.socialbakers.com
The Worst Things You Can Call Yourself On LinkedIn, www.inc.com
Why the “Buy It” pins aren’t a game-changer…yet, 3qdigital.com
Video
Add value to your brand with video content, blog.bufferapp.com
How to Create Video Thumbnails That Boost Views, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Report: Periscope, Meerkat Have Long Road Ahead of Them, www.adweek.com
YouTube Video Ads: Top Strategies for Video Marketers, www.reelseo.com
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