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:
Enterprise Web Analytics Platforms 2015 – New Marketing Intelligence Report Completely updated with the latest industry statistics, developing market trends, new vendor profiles and product updates.
Jump-Start Your Content Marketing With These 4 Strategies With all the time and effort that goes into content marketing, the big question is: How do you get it to truly work? Columnist Quinn Whissen outlines four winning strategies.
Stop The Interruptions! Marketing In The Age Of The Always-On Consumer The growth of the Internet of Things is bringing marketers unprecedented opportunities, says columnist Kevin Lindsay. But he warns it also increases the likelihood of getting it wrong.
Eddystone Beacon Explainer: An Interview With Google’s Chandu Thota On July 14 Google announced a new developer initiative called Eddystone. It’s a new open format for Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons.
Email Marketers: The Marketing Leaders Of The Future? Is email marketing the right career path for you? Columnist Jose Cebrian explains why email marketers’ skills are just what the marketer of the future needs — and explores how those responsibilities are broadening.
Europe Widens Antitrust Probe Of Google Around Ad Contracts, Content Scraping The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that The European Commission (EC) is expanding its antitrust probe of Google.
Need A Reason To Attend SMX East? Here Are 10. SMX East is the largest gathering of search marketers of the year. Here are 10 reasons they flock to Manhattan… and why you should, too!
IKEA Kicks Off Tweet Campaign In Canada & An Influential German Book Critic Reviews Its New Catalog The Swedish furniture company promotes the release of its new catalog through lighthearted social efforts, urging customers to #GrabLifeByTheCatalogue.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Goes After The App Interstitial: Protecting Consumers Or Its Own Search Monopoly?
Because My Crystal Ball Is Broken And Other Reasons To Bring Broad Match Back In 2015
Duke Kahanamoku Google Logo Honors The Legendary Surfer On His 125th Birthday
Google Controls 65 Percent Of Search, Bing 33 Percent [comScore]
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Attribution: Putting the Pieces Together, analytics.blogspot.com
Blogs & Blogging
Business Issues
Facebook Down 12.1%, Apple Down 10%, Google Down 6.5%, Microsoft Down 5.8% As Stock Markets Plummet, techcrunch.com
Staff Exodus, Pressure From Microsoft, Apple Hit Google Now, recode.net
The 20-year rise and fall of Microsoft Windows, from 1995 to now, qz.com
Unicorns Hunt for Talent Among Silicon Valley’s Giants, www.nytimes.com
Content Marketing
7 Surefire Ways to Get More Impact From Your Content Marketing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Five Skills You Need to Curate Standout Content, www.marketingprofs.com
How to Amplify Your Content ROI, www.convinceandconvert.com
Let’s All Go Home Because the Madden Movie Is the Best Content Marketing of All Time, contently.com
The Future of Content Marketing: Integration, Optimization and Participation, www.toprankblog.com
The Power of Imagery in Content Marketing, www.jeffbullas.com
Conversion Optimization
How to Engage and Convert More Visitors in the First Critical 20 Seconds, blog.crazyegg.com
The A/B Test That Increased Our Product Adoption and Blog Conversion, blog.kissmetrics.com
The Agency Guide to Selling Clients on Landing Pages, unbounce.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
A Marketer’s Guide To Choosing A WordPress Theme, www.searchenginepeople.com
How to Improve Your Writing, www.ducttapemarketing.com
Typographic Patterns In HTML Email Newsletter Design, www.smashingmagazine.com
Why UX Design Benefits from Ongoing Customer Collaboration, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
Brave New Domain World, www.stateofdigital.com
E-Commerce
3 Ways to Personalize Products for the Shopper, www.practicalecommerce.com
7 E-Commerce Sites Winning on Social Media, blog.similarweb.com
Add to Cart: How to Get More People to Take Action on Product Pages, www.shopify.com
How to Choose the Right KPIs for Your E-Commerce Store, www.searchenginejournal.com
If your B2B customers are not ordering from your website, here’s why, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
10 steps to email success at Christmas: part one, econsultancy.com
4 Sure Ways to Make Your Email Super-Relevant to Your Customers, www.martechadvisor.com
5 Tips to Supercharge Your Emails With Instagram and Twitter, www.adweek.com
How The New York Times gets a 70 percent open rate on its newsletters, digiday.com
How We Made a Non-Annoying Popup Form for The Thread, blog.mailchimp.com
It’s Not You, It’s Your Subject Line, blog.returnpath.com
What Makes a Marketing Email Go Viral?, www.marketingprofs.com
General Internet Marketing
99 Online Marketing Tools You Won’t Be Able to Live Without, www.wordstream.com
Getting Management Support for Digital Marketing Initiatives, localu.org
Is Your Business Getting Reviewed on These 10 Platforms?, www.searchenginejournal.com
What Reddit AMAs Teach Us about Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Adadyn and OpenX Partnership Expands Inventory, www.businesswire.com
MarTech
Don’t buy marketing technologies, build layers instead, chiefmartec.com
Five More Questions To Ask When Choosing A Marketing Technology, blog.movableink.com
MarTech Convergence = Job Convergence, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
5 words to describe courageous mobile marketers, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Can Native Save Mobile Advertising? ‘The New York Times’ Sure Hopes So, contently.com
Five tips for reducing mobile app churn, econsultancy.com
Social Media
4 New Twitter Features Over the Past Month, www.clixmarketing.com
5 Facebook Ads Changes: What Marketers Need to Know, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
An Introduction to Social Media Stats and Reports, blog.bufferapp.com
As Brands Dig Deeper Into Social Data, Twitter Opens Up To Third-Party Developers, adexchanger.com
Facebook Adds “Donate Now” Button for Nonprofits’ Page Posts, Link Ads, www.adweek.com
How Instagram Is Changing the Way Brands Look at Photography, Online and Beyond, www.adweek.com
How to Use a $5 Twitter Ad to Redefine Your Digital Strategy, www.jonloomer.com
Research: what Tweet content reveals about social TV loyalty, www.Twitter.com
Seven Habits of Highly Successful Social Media Professionals, www.marketingprofs.com
Study: Is Instagram Becoming Saturated? Follower Growth and Engagement Down, www.adweek.com
Twitter cuts off Diplotwoops and Politwoops in all remaining 30 countries, openstate.pr.co
Twitter Faced SEC Queries on Change in Engagement Measures, blogs.wsj.com
Twitter’s web users will now get desktop notifications for direct messages, VentureBeat
Why Social Marketers Need to Collaborate With CRM Teams to Accurately Measure Social ROI, www.martechadvisor.com
Video
How @tvland uses autoplay video on Twitter to drive tune-in, www.Twitter.com
The Future For Artists And Celebrities (And YouTubers) Is Direct Intimacy, techcrunch.com
Three Ways to Grow a YouTube Audience, www.reelseo.com
YouTube Star Combines Great Stories, Quirky Personality, and DIY Ethos, contentmarketinginstitute.com
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