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:
Building One Of The Most Social Nonprofits Ever: 5 Questions With (RED)’s Chief Digital Officer Chrysi Philalithes talks about how her brand was the first nonprofit to win over one million followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Infographic: Optimal Image Sizes For All The Social Networks Looking for precise specs for your Facebook cover photo? This handy cheat sheet from Spredfast has the answer to that and other social media photo details.
Google Announces Wireless Service Intended To Promote Industry Innovation Google Wireless: the rumor was true. At the Mobile World Congress conference yesterday in Barcelona, Google announced that it was in fact going to launch its own (MVNO) wireless phone service.
Fitbit Campaign Helped People Convert 1 Billion Calories Into 1.5 Million Donated Meals The fitness tracker brand reminds users of its value by counting the calories they’re burning — and donating the equivalent to the hungry.
Why You Need Content & Martech To Work Together Contributor Mary Wallace says martech is the conveyor belt that delivers the widget — the content. No belt, no widget. No widget, no need for the belt.
Cashing In On Kanye: How Award Show Triggers Can Benefit Your Brand When you think about real-time marketing, social media platforms likely come to mind. Contributor Jason Warnock explains how email campaigns can piggyback on live events, too.
Does My Business Really Need A Mobile App? If you already have a mobile-friendly website, is an app a necessity? Contributor Daniel Cristo says you only need one if you don’t want to fall behind the competition.
Twitter Experimenting With Analytics For Individual Tweets Twitter is testing ways to give quick access to how well your tweets are performing.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
How to Find a Good Marketing Analyst, adage.com
Blogs & Blogging
7 Blogging Nightmares and How to Avoid Them, www.jeffbullas.com
Are you thinking about your blog all wrong, www.convinceandconvert.com
My Blog Traffic and Podcast Audience Results For February, mackcollier.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
Robert Rose Says Content-driven Experiences Are the Next Era, contentmarketinginstitute.com
The 7 Steps to a ‘Good-to-Great’ Content Marketing Strategy, blog.bufferapp.com
The Fundamental Reason Why Content Marketing Works, smallbiztrends.com
This Former BuzzFeed Exec Is Running Crazy Cool Sponsored Content Experiments at the Daily Mail, contently.com
Three great examples of high-performing visual content marketing, econsultancy.com
Why Quizzes Are Content Marketing’s Secret Weapon, buzzsumo.com
Conversion Optimization
3 Easy-to-Fix Errors Killing Your Conversions Right Now, blog.crazyegg.com
A Scientific Model for Creating Emotionally Powerful Landing Pages, unbounce.com
Reduce Your Bounce Rate with Personalized Audio Guidance, www.convinceandconvert.com
Split Testing Tools for WordPress for Better Conversion Rates, www.wpexplorer.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
60 Ways to Screw Up the Customer Experience, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Thorntons vs. Hotel Chocolat: user experience comparison, econsultancy.com
Domaining
Infographic With All Domain Extensions, www.domaininvesting.com
More security issues prang ICANN site, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
7 Surprises When Adding Clicks to Bricks, www.practicalecommerce.com
Inside Alibaba, the Sharp-Elbowed World of Chinese E-Commerce, www.wsj.com
The Terrible Truth About Mobile Shoppers, blog.movableink.com
Wholesalers call e-commerce their top sales channel for 2015, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
7 Advanced Email Tools to Pump up the Volume on Your Marketing, www.verticalresponse.com
How the Amount of Text and Images Impact Email Click-Through Rates, blogs.constantcontact.com
New Welcome Message Study – Find Your Best Customers, blog.returnpath.com
What Do Email Marketers Want to Know About Readers? Everything, www.emarketer.com
Why Your Email Marketing Should be Based on the Customer Journey, blog.kissmetrics.com
General Internet Marketing
For Brands, 2015 Is Shaping Up to Be the Year of Positivity, www.adweek.com
Interview: Sonia Simone of @Copyblogger Media, www.toprankblog.com
The New Brand Building in the Era of Engagement, blog.marketo.com
Which Digital Marketing Tactic Has the Biggest Revenue Impact?, www.marketingprofs.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Accomplice Secures $5 Million Series A Funding, www.businesswire.com
bRealTime’s Programmatic Mobile Marketplace Continues Exponential Growth, www.marketwired.com
Evergage Announces Plug-and-Play Integration, www.prweb.com
High Finance and the Sharing Economy for Brands, www.sharethis.com
Invoca Introduces First-ever Native AdWords Integration, www.prnewswire.com
Sizmek Announces Senior Sales Promotions and Appointments, www.sizmek.com
SmartBear Launches Software Developer Network, smartbear.com
TeamQuest Names Dino Balafas Vice President of Marketing, www.teamquest.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Brands That Make Your Mobile Life Cooler, www.adweek.com
Domino’s makes ordering on-the-go even easier with smartwatch integration, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
High-End Android Phones Show Higher Engagement than iPhones, www.adweek.com
Is It Time To Build An App?, adexchanger.com
Local Media Companies Now Need a Digital Business to Survive, streetfightmag.com
Samsung Pay vs. Apple Pay vs. Android Pay, www.yahoo.com
Waze Becomes One Of Google’s Pre-Installation Options For Android Devices, techcrunch.com
Wearables: The Next Mobile Payment Device?, www.emarketer.com
Wearables: Three factors that provide a compelling use case, econsultancy.com
What Sites See Most Mobile Action in the UK?, www.emarketer.com
Reputation Management
Apology 101: How to Save Your Reputation, www.searchenginejournal.com
Social Media
Twitter Escalates Its Own ISIS Battle: 2,000 Accounts Suspended Last Week, abcnews.go.com
16 Ways to Use Social Media to Promote Your Event, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
26 Social Media Monitoring Tools, www.razorsocial.com
5 Social Analytics Tips for Midsized Companies, simplymeasured.com
7 Tools to Sell Products on Instagram, www.practicalecommerce.com
CMOs: It’s Time to Hand over Inbound Social Media, www.conversocial.com
Drive Foot Traffic with Facebook Local Awareness Ads, www.verticalmeasures.com
Facebook and LinkedIn executives illustrate just how big mobile is for their businesses, www.internetretailer.com
Facebook Was an NBA All-Star, www.adweek.com
How Are Social Networks Used to Share Financial Content?, www.adweek.com
How Can Twitter Website Cards Help Your Business?, smallbiztrends.com
How mouth-watering is Krispy Kreme’s social media strategy?, econsultancy.com
How To Integrate Social and CRM Data to Improve Your Twitter and Facebook Ads, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Introducing friend-finding and two-step verification to Digits, www.Twitter.com
NCAA March Madness reveals growing role for Snapchat in sports marketing, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Top 10 Social Media Marketing experts on Twitter to follow, www.edupristine.com
What Motivates Customers to Make Recommendations on Social Media?, www.marketingprofs.com
Video
Where NOT to Place Annotations on YouTube Videos, www.reelseo.com
Why It’s Time to Switch to HTML5, www.adweek.com
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