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:
Mobile Is Converting: Accounts For More Than 30 Percent Of US Ecommerce Transactions In Q2 Online retailers and travel firms find success with apps. Cross-device measurement is becoming increasingly important.
Facebook Touts Big Atlas Mobile Attribution Success For Live Nation’s Madonna Tour Concert promoter saw a 66% increase in ticket sales tied to mobile devices, an fact that Facebook says would have been impossible to know without Atlas’ “people-based” measurement.
ICANN Proposes Policy Changes To Remove Privacy Protection Around Domain Name Owner Info Details that currently can be listed as private – like an owner’s name and address – could be made public under the new policy.
Facebook Testing Lead Ads To Simplify Filling Out Forms On Mobile New ad unit automatically populates forms with contact information that consumers have shared with the social network.
When’s The Best Time To Tweet? For Maximum Clicks, Buffer Says 2 A.M. Tweets in the wee hours produce higher engagement per tweet, according to a report by the social management platform.
Quick Tips To Grow And Maintain A Healthy Email List How do you get your email marketing list off the ground and then keep it growing by leaps and bounds? Columnist Eric Dezendorf offers some tips.
Is Google’s Mobilegeddon Scaring Website Owners Into Bad Design Decisions? Columnist Brian Massey believes Google may be doing businesses a disservice by recommending a responsive Web design to improve the mobile experience.
Publishers Have Begun Prepping For Facebook’s Instant Articles Launch Newsrooms have begun readying content for the coming Instant Article ramp up. With some publishers planning on launching 30 to 40 articles each day, the ‘instant’ gold rush is near.
Swrve Launches Predictive Marketing Suite For Mobile Apps Mobile marketing automation company says tool lets marketers engage with consumers proactively in a matter of seconds.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Yahoo’s New Mobile Browser Search Results Are Better Than Its App
Reduce Cart Abandonment and Increase Revenue with Customer Reviews- July 29 Webcast
Are Your Summer Hours Showing In Google? New Tool Makes Checking Google My Business Listings Easy
Regional Associations Lend Support To Search Engine Land Awards
Matt Cutts Extends His Unpaid Leave With Google Through 2015
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing: How to Set a Commission Structure, www.practicalecommerce.com
Analytics
Big Data Management Requires a Big Makeover, www.emarketer.com
Which data challenges cause the most pain for marketers?, econsultancy.com
Will You Need Analytics to Track Your App’s Behavior?, www.cmswire.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 Ways To Flood Your Blog With Traffic Using Pinterest, www.jeffbullas.com
Answer These 25 Questions Before Publishing Your Next Post, pushingsocial.com
Cloud-Based Tools to Stake Your Business Blog on, www.blogherald.com
How to Interview Someone by Asking Memorable Questions, shankman.com
How to Write Magical Blog Titles that Get Results, www.thesaleslion.com
Why Picture List Posts Are The Perfect Content Formula, www.martechadvisor.com
Why We Blew Up Our Blog, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
4 Tips for Creating B2B Content When You’re at a Loss for Words, www.toprankblog.com
Could Animation Be Your Next Content Piece?, www.distilled.net
Expedient Content Marketing on a Shoestring Budget, www.compukol.com
State of Content Marketing: B2B Tech, contently.com
The Future of Content Creation Requires Humans Not Robots, contentmarketinginstitute.com
These Mistakes Can Make Your Content Marketing an Epic Failure (but You Can Avoid Them), www.marketingprofs.com
Why IBM’s content strategy hits the mark, econsultancy.com
Conversion Optimization
Friction: The Mobile Conversion Killer, unbounce.com
How Jargon Kills Conversions, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Vistaprint Turns to UserTesting to Understand Vexing Usability Issue, www.usertesting.com
Domaining
Can’t find a .com domain for your business? Try .xyz, www.bizjournals.com
This is Why People Hate ICANN: GNSO Resolution for Next round of New gTLD’s, www.thedomains.com
What I Say I Am Doing With a Domain Name, www.domaininvesting.com
E-Commerce
Amazon Prime members convert 74% of the time, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
45 words to avoid in your email marketing subject lines, econsultancy.com
Help! I’m Suspended for Sender Reputation Data, blog.returnpath.com
How Online Fashion Retailers Are Using Customer Data in Email Marketing Programs, blog.movableink.com
New Automatic Follow-Up Emails, www.verticalresponse.com
Why Website Visitors Aren’t Joining Your Email List (And What You Can Do About It), blogs.constantcontact.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Hubspot’s Sales Products Adopted by 60k+ Companies as CRM Exits Beta, ir.hubspot.com
Introducing Passport: Your Entry To A New World Of Email Design, www.mailjet.com
Nielsen Enhances Retail Measurement Services By Integrating Brand Equity Metrics in a Single Platform, www.nielsen.com
Plyfe Launches No-Cost Platform to Produce Polls, Quizzes, Swipe and Advanced Programming With No Coding Required, www.prweb.com
Social Media Marketing Platform SOCi Launches Google+ Pages Integration for Business, www.prnewswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
3 Types of Mobile Messages for Marketing, blog.marketo.com
On the Importance of Building Local Products With Merchants in Mind, streetfightmag.com
Optimizing your mobile content, yoast.com
Proof Push Notifications Matter for Mobile Apps in China, www.emarketer.com
Survey: Yelp is #1 Choice for Finding Doctors, Lawyers & Home Service Providers, officialblog.yelp.com
The Official Medium App Is Out Of Beta And Live In The Play Store For All, www.androidpolice.com
Social Media
4 Twitter Tools that Help You With Customer Service, www.verticalresponse.com
6 Surprising B2B Facebook Marketing Case Studies, www.convinceandconvert.com
Ads on Instagram: a user’s perspective, econsultancy.com
Engaging Your Company in Social Media, www.stonetemple.com
Facebook Hires Yahoo Cybersecurity Chief, blogs.wsj.com
Getting Your First 1,000 Facebook Fans, blog.kissmetrics.com
How to Use Facebook Custom Audiences for Increased Reach, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
I Watched a Day’s Worth of Snapchat Discover Stories: Here’s What I Learned, contently.com
Social Media Enters the US Workforce, www.emarketer.com
Unilever’s Axe drafts Justise Winslow to reach NBA fans on social, www.mobilemarketer.com
What Marketers Need to Know About 5 New Types of Social Commerce, www.adweek.com
Video
3 Ways Meerkat Is Soundly Beating Periscope in a Side-by-Side Marketing Test, www.adweek.com
6 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Music Video on YouTube, www.reelseo.com
Consumers’ Mobile Video Viewing Habits, www.marketingprofs.com
Four practical tips to engage people with teaser video ads, econsultancy.com
Four Reasons to Take Advantage of Facebook’s Evolving Video Strategy, www.marketingprofs.com
The Video View Metric, www.adknowledge.com
Tumblr Launches “Tumblr TV” A GIF Search Engine With A Full-Screen Viewing Mode, techcrunch.com
UK Digital Video Viewers Keep Eyes on the TV, www.emarketer.com
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