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:
Report: Mobile Now Accounts For 22% Of All Email-Generated Revenue & 45% Of All Email Clicks Yesmail’s quarterly email report finds email revenue continued to rise even after last year’s holiday push, up 12% in Q1 2015 over Q4 2014.
Why Social Media Insights Are A Gold Mine For Inbound Marketers Inbound marketing content must speak directly to what your audience cares about, explains columnist John Donnelly III.
Avoid The Martech Wormhole: Tips For Integration So You Can Focus On The Customer Minimizing the amount of time you spend accessing and compiling data from your marketing technologies will give you more time to think about what’s really important, says columnist Katrin Ribant.
iPhone-Friendly Website Strategies Every Brand Should Be Considering How do you optimize your website for iPhone users? Columnist Sonny Ganguly offers key strategies to connect with more customers through your mobile site.
Apple’s News App In iOS 9 To Take On Flipboard & Facebook Apple’s new News app, which will launch with the iOS update this fall, could give publishers a big audience boost.
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Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
AOL acquires and shuts down predictive-analytics startup Velos, venturebeat.com
Havas Reveals Metric Designed To Track Media Quality, adexchanger.com
How to use historic data to predict marketing campaign outcomes, econsultancy.com
The Now And Next For Predictive Analytics, www.cmo.com
What questions to ask to make your data matter, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Easy Ways to Refine Your Blogger Outreach Emails, theoutreachmarketer.com
Blogging: Is your Post Adding Value or Only Creating Noise?, www.martechadvisor.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
5 Questions to Answer Before Hiring A Content Marketing Consultant, pushingsocial.com
5 Tips to Grow Your Content Marketing Career, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Content Strategy Words of Wisdom from Kristina Halvorson, www.toprankblog.com
The Rock Star’s Guide to Content Creation, Content Marketing and Promotion, mackcollier.com
How to Make Your Content Stand Out From the Pack, www.cmswire.com
Overcoming 10 Content Marketing Challenges, www.koozai.com
The Content Strategy Behind Orange Is the New Black, www.komarketingassociates.com
Conversion Optimization
Clicks are only half the battle: How to turn engagement into conversions, myemma.com
Smart Pricing Strategies for Generating Higher Conversions, www.marketingprofs.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
5 Common UX Mistakes to Avoid on Your Mobile Site, www.usertesting.com
Quick Tips for Copywriting that Actually Converts, blog.crazyegg.com
Scannability: Principle and Practice, www.uxmatters.com
Why Web Design is Dead, uxmag.com
Your website needs (better) forms, yoast.com
Domaining
How real estate agents use domain names, domainnamewire.com
Minds + Machines Offering Free Domains In .Work & .Casa, www.thedomains.com
New top-level domains struggle for recognition, econsultancy.com
E-Commerce
Amazon Prime membership hits 41 million in the US, www.internetretailer.com
Buyable Pins and eCommerce Sites, www.goinflow.com
Don’t Follow Ecommerce Trends, Leapfrog Them, www.getelastic.com
How Ecommerce Bazaars Are Supporting Traditional Businesses, adexchanger.com
How to Protect Against Credit Card Chargebacks, www.practicalecommerce.com
Seven of nine US consumers now pay sales tax when shopping on Amazon, www.internetretailer.com
Will Ads on Shipping Boxes Be the Key to Amazon’s Profitability?, www.adweek.com
Email Marketing
3 Valuable Insights Into Selling Email Marketing to Your Clients, www.verticalresponse.com
Are Trendy Subject Lines Right for Your Business?, blog.mailchimp.com
Data Overload? Focus On These 3 Metrics that Drive Sender Reputation, blog.returnpath.com
The Best Tactics for Improving Email CTRs, www.marketingprofs.com
This is not your grandmother’s email address, www.internetretailer.com
Travel Industry Email Marketing: Timing, Frequency, Content, blog.movableink.com
General Internet Marketing
Everything Marketers Need to Know About Apple Music, www.adweek.com
How High Is B2B Account-Based Marketing Adoption?, www.emarketer.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Falcon Social Reports Double Digit Growth and Expansion Plans in NYC, www.businesswire.com
KnownCircle Expands Social Referral Marketing Services to Local Businesses, blog.knowncircle.com
Marketing Edge Names 11 New Trustees To Its Board, www.marketingedge.org
MarTech
21 marketing technology stacks shared in The Stackies, chiefmartec.com
Marketing Automation Buyer’s Guide: highlighting the human element of data-driven marketing, econsultancy.com
Marketing Automation Is for Your Sales Team, Too, blog.marketo.com
B2B vendors add content management to their e-commerce software, www.internetretailer.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
1800Flowers.com readies a more personalized mobile app, Internet Retailer
Businesses Are Going Mobile – but How?, www.emarketer.com
Mobile has thrust the purchase funnel into warp speed, digiday.com
Mobile shopping accounts for a larger share of online sales, Internet Retailer
Why travel marketers must leverage city-specific targeting to increase ROI, www.mobilemarketer.com
Social Media
12 Social Media Marketing Trends for Small Business, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
20 Time Saving Social Media Apps and Tools You Should Use, smallbiztrends.com
5 Tips to Ensure Success in Social Media Marketing, www.martechadvisor.com
Facebook Disconnects Facebook Connect From Microsoft, www.adweek.com
Facebook is bringing back the old-fashioned silent film, qz.com
Facebook Makes Retail Beacons Available for Free, blumenthals.com
Facebook Messenger On Android Hits 1 Billion Downloads, techcrunch.com
Facebook scraps secret plan to build satellite to provide internet in developing world, www.businessinsider.com
Getting Started With Facebook Dynamic Product Ads, www.verticalmeasures.com
Google+ Sending Reminder Emails to Users About Missed Posts, www.thesempost.com
Hashtags Aren’t Gimmicks: How Buffer’s Twitter Chat Reached 49,993,695 People in One Year, blog.kissmetrics.com
How Food Brands Can Nail Instagram, www.adweek.com
How Many Photos Are Uploaded to Snapchat Every Second?, www.adweek.com
How to Measure the Performance of Your Twitter Ads, blog.adstage.io
How To Optimize Twitter Ads for Business, www.ppchero.com
How to Recover From a Negative Social Media Update, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Instagram is launching a redesigned website with bigger photos, www.theverge.com
Three Essential Steps to Choosing a Facebook Marketing Partner, www.adknowledge.com
Twitter Analytics In The Age Of Customer Centricity, www.socialbro.com
What Social Marketers Struggle with Today, plus What You Can Do, simplymeasured.com
Video
Airline Safety Videos: The New Video Marketing, www.reelseo.com
Facebook Video Learning Curve; Targeting Connected Devices, adexchanger.com
Muted auto-play forces publishers to get creative, digiday.com
PageScience Debuts Video Platform For Health And Pharma Advertisers, adexchanger.com
Pixability Releases Update to Landmark Beauty on YouTube Study Pixability, www.pixability.com
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