Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
Over the last two years, we’ve seen companies develop display solutions that show ads based on the keywords prospects search as they navigate the Web. The introduction of search retargeting represented a major leap forward for direct response and brand marketers who were thirsty for new audience acquisition and engagement solutions that performed better. What […]
With a community of one billion people, Facebook’s reach is undeniable – but how can you make sure you actually connect with your fans and cultivate new ones? Twitter’s new user directory will drive more search traffic – and more advertising opportunities – but is it worth the investment? Attend SMX Social Media Marketing for […]
What’s the most popular email client out there? The iPhone, which stats says now is used by more people than Outlook. That goes along with a trend of more email now being opened on mobile devices than in desktop clients, though the use of webmail could be happening in both places. The stats are from […]
Three embarrassing things about me: I recently discovered I’ve been using the word nonplussed wrong my whole life; I listen to Journey without an ounce of irony; and once, in San Francisco, I needed help to figure out how to turn on the sink in a women’s restroom. Whew, that felt good. And if my […]
Galloping into the annals of bad portmanteaus comes the word “phablet.” This is the would-be combination of phone and tablet, as you might have expected. It’s being used to describe devices larger than the largest Android smartphones (4.8 inches) but smaller than 7-inch tablets. The Galaxy Note is the exemplar of this new category (if […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Finding a (Good) Niche in Affiliate Marketing, www.sugarrae.com
Performance Marketing is NOT Affiliate Marketing, Sarah Bundy
Analytics
3 Features in Google Analytics that can help you save time, work smarter, and not harder!, www.webanalyticsworld.net
Blogs & Blogging
4 Reasons Why Original Blog Content is Important for your Company, www.rightmixmarketing.com
Corporate Blogging for SMBs: How to Get More Employees to Contribute, www.wordstream.com
Business Issues
Twitter: It’s time for patent trolls to bear the costs of frivolous lawsuits, GigaOM
Avoiding Facebook Fate Is Twitter CFO Goal on Way to IPO, Bloomberg
I’m Joining Twitter, www.mikeindustries.com
Twitter Buys Vine, a Video Clip Company That Never Launched, allthingsd.com
Twitter Mulls an In-House Video-Hosting Service, allthingsd.com
Content Marketing
Better Content Marketing: 5 Types of Content That Your Community Craves, Online Marketing Blog
How-to Take a Boring Topic and Create Engaging Content, www.ryanhanley.com
Why Content Writing Needs A Little Less Einstein And A Little More Oprah, www.websearchsocial.com
Conversion Optimization
Conversion Rate 101: Effective Pricing Tables, bryaneisenberg.com
These 5 Squeeze Page Tricks Have Helped Me Get Up To 58.6% Opt-In Rates, KISS Metrics
Copywriting, Design & Usability
16 examples of microscopic attention to detail in UX design, econsultancy.com
Designing for readability checklist, www.distilled.net
Mythbusting the Responsive Design Myth, www.zurb.com
The business of design, www.designer-daily.com
UX: The New Brand Leaders, johnnyholland.org
Why Web Design Projects Shouldn’t Be Treated Like Software Development, uxmastery.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Email Marketing
Email Marketing How-to: 5 steps to improve your email newsletter, MarketingSherpa
How to Use Email to Reach Out to an Existing Customer Base, www.stayonsearch.com
Six Email Marketing Holiday Predictions, MediaPost
General Internet Marketing
FMCG becomes biggest online ad spender, www.marketingweek.co.uk
Most effective testing methods for value proposition, MarketingSherpa
The Giant Robot Guide to Combining Marketing Tactics, spinsucks.com
Internet Marketing Industry
People on the Move in the Social Business Industry, Oct 9, 2012, www.web-strategist.com
Mobile Marketing
Reputation Management
Restaurant.com Requires Diners to Actually Eat Before Reviewing, Marketing Pilgrim
Social Media
How To Stop Chasing Followers And Likes, Search Marketing Standard
Twitter outage caused by human error, domain briefly yanked, news.cnet.com
5 Facebook Marketing Resources You Didn’t Know About, www.seomoz.org
53 Percent of Americans Who Follow Brands in Social Are More Loyal To Those Brands, Convince and Convert
7 ways to successfully promote your Facebook contest, socialfresh.com
Calculate the ROI of Social Media, www.briansolis.com
Faking Twitter: An Experiment in Automation, www.webpagefx.com
Fall TV: New shows, more Tweets, Official Twitter Blog
Forums Outperform Blogs? Srsly?, socialhabit.com
Have We Gone Too Far With Influence Measurement?, www.mpdailyfix.com
If Twitter Gets Into The Video-Hosting Game, It Could Be A Wonderful, And Horrible, Thing, TechCrunch
The Five Marketing Tools Needed to Penetrate Reddit, Social Media Today
The Social Media Automation Dilemma, www.mattbeswick.co.uk
The Ultimate List of Social CEOs on Twitter, www.strategicobjectives.com
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