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:
LinkedIn Reports $712 Million Q2 Revenue, Up 33% YoY Career-focused social network beats Wall Street expectations with a strong quarter. It now has 380 million registered users.
Google Enters Home Services Market With New Ads Test Ads for locksmiths and plumbers are now appearing on some queries in the San Francisco Bay area.
Falcon Social Is Latest To Offer Facebook Topic Data Access Social media management platform partners with DataSift to give clients access to the pool of topic-based consumer data from the social network.
Yandex Q2 2015 Revenue Reaches $250M, Up 14% YoY Russian’s largest search engine says text-based advertising accounts for 91% of its total revenue.
The Missing Link Between Shopper Marketing And E-Commerce Combining the insights of e-commerce and traditional shopper marketing can bolster your brand’s market share, explains columnist Benjamin Spiegel. He walks you through some ways to close the gaps between them.
A New Era Of Digital Content: Engagement And Content Metrics That Matter In a digital world oversaturated with content, how do you stand out from the crowd? Columnist Jim Yu explains why you need to know exactly how your content is performing and what will engage your target audience.
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Google Home Services Ads For Locksmiths, Plumbers Hit San Francisco Market
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
4 Marketing Analytics That Matter, blog.marketo.com
Blogs & Blogging
3 Reasons Why Your Blog Isn’t Generating Any Leads, pushingsocial.com
Grammar-Geeking Tools for Clearer Blog Content, www.blogherald.com
How to Develop the Right Plan to Grow Your Blog’s Readership, www.problogger.net
How to Make Time to Blog, www.blogtyrant.com
Why Business Blogs Don’t Covert, www.semrush.com
Business Issues
Apple dives into SoMa for first big S.F. real estate grab, www.bizjournals.com
Baidu Approves $1 Billion Share Buyback Over Next 12 Months, Bloomberg
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Ideas for August 2015, www.practicalecommerce.com
7 Signs That Your Business Is Ready For Content Marketing, pushingsocial.com
Are You Ready for the Future of Adaptive Content?, blog.kissmetrics.com
Essential Steps of an Effective Content Marketing Plan, www.martechadvisor.com
Six Steps To Creating Amazing Content, www.koozai.com
The 3 Keys to Awesome Content Marketing That Works, www.jeffbullas.com
The three kinds of stories every brand needs to tell, econsultancy.com
Visual Content Marketing: A Resource Guide for Marketers, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Why Interactive Content Marketing is the Future, www.convinceandconvert.com
Conversion Optimization
7 Ways Form Accessibility Can Boost Conversions, conversionxl.com
Are You Making These Conversion-Killing Mistakes?, blog.crazyegg.com
Small Conversion Actions Are Better Than No Conversion Actions, www.komarketingassociates.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
11 Website Design Galleries for Inspiration, www.practicalecommerce.com
4 Tools For A Successful Usability Test, usabilitygeek.com
A UX Lesson for Content Marketers: Your Invisible Advantage, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Good UX Isn’t Enough: Why Good CX Is Important, Too, www.usertesting.com
How Copywriting Can Benefit From User Research, www.smashingmagazine.com
How to Game Friction for Better UX, uxmag.com
How to Write Content-Caliber Ad Copy, 3qdigital.com
How to Write High-Converting Copy Without the Hype, blog.crazyegg.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
How Merkle Is Navigating The Cross-Device Arms Race, AdExchanger
E-Commerce
Amazon Dash Buttons Are Now Available And Cost $5, www.adweek.com
Amazon unveils drone safety plan, www.retaildive.com
Global e-commerce set to grow 25% in 2015, www.internetretailer.com
How Effective Is Your Ecommerce Campaign?, www.ppchero.com
Mobile Accounts for Almost Half of China’s Retail Ecommerce Sales, www.emarketer.com
Email Marketing
10 Email Marketing Tips for Content Marketers, www.contentharmony.com
10 Things You’re Missing Out on by Using a Personal Email Account to Do Your Email Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
5 Subject Line Tips You Haven’t Heard, www.verticalresponse.com
Email Marketing Report Summer 2015, www.g2crowd.com
General Internet Marketing
3 Marketing Strategies for the Slow Season, blog.marketo.com
5 Branding Tips for Building Your Biz: The Chicken & Egg Strategy, SuccessWorks
Big Shift To Digital And Data Marketing Is Shaking Up Client Relationships With Ad/media Agency Partners., www.cmocouncil.org
If You Aren’t Using These 5 Account-Based Marketing Strategies, You’re Doing It Wrong!, www.martechadvisor.com
The Most Common Insights That B2B Marketers Use and Their Drawbacks, www.marketingprofs.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Drink responsibly, and mix your martech responsibly too, chiefmartec.com
Interview with Lori Bush Shepard, MarTech Advisor
Mobile/Local Marketing
6 Ways Wearables Will Enhance the Shopping Experience, streetfightmag.com
Android for Work welcomes new friends, googleforwork.blogspot.com
Angry Birds holds the record for most days as the No. 1 paid iOS app, qz.com
Back-to-school shoppers rely more on smartphones and less on social media, www.internetretailer.com
Google Quietly Distributes New Version of Glass Aimed at Workplaces, Wall Street Journal
Measuring Mobile Effectiveness Still Challenges Marketers, www.emarketer.com
Rogue apps add to ad fraud concerns, econsultancy.com
Sky-High Tech Valuations Led by Mobile Internet, Sequoia Capital Says, www.wsj.com
Social Media
4 Time Management Tips for Social Media Managers, www.toprankblog.com
5 Facebook Advertising Fundamentals to Streamline your Strategy, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
7 Instagram Hacks For Brands, simplymeasured.com
Facebook’s Playbook For Monetizing Messenger And WhatsApp, techcrunch.com
Fashion brands increase Instagram interactions by 77%, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
How do top brand publishers achieve success on social media?, blog.newswhip.com
How to Create a Promoted Pin Campaign on a Budget, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Develop a Winning Pinterest Strategy from Scratch, blog.tailwindapp.com
Leverage Social Media for Events to Achieve Your Goals, www.blogherald.com
More Tips for Twitter Lead Generation Cards, blog.mailchimp.com
Our plan for a more diverse Pinterest, blog.pinterest.com
Pre- or Post-Sale, LinkedIn Is Tops for B2B Customer Engagement, www.emarketer.com
Research: Four ways brands can build customer service relationships on Twitter, Twitter Blog
Social Buy Buttons: Why Product Content Matters, www.getelastic.com
Video, Carousel Ads Producing Huge Gains for Facebook Advertisers, 3qdigital.com
Video
7 Implications of the “Live Stream Economy” for Brands and Businesses, www.thesaleslion.com
CNN takes a page from Facebook with autoplay video, digiday.com
Here’s how to measure the success of branded videos, www.adknowledge.com
Video Reblog: New Video Platforms Bring New Opportunities, www.reelseo.com
Why YouTube Will Be Better Off Without Google Plus, www.reelseo.com
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