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:
According to a new holiday shopping survey sponsored by e-commerce platform MarketLive (carried out by the e-tailing Group) mobile and social channels will play a significant role in holiday shopping this year. The survey was conducted online among 1,000 smartphone owners, equally divided between male and female, who spend at least $250 annually on e-commerce. […]
In less than 90 days, 2015 budgeting will be complete, Black Friday will be a distant memory, and new marketing objectives will be the measure of your success. Be ready! Hone your paid, earned, and owned social media marketing skills at SMX Social Media Marketing in Las Vegas, November 19-20. Attend and you’ll learn proven […]
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Comedian Billy Eichner of Funny of Die & Fuse TV fame should be quite flattered every time he catches the new Burger King commercials. Eichner popularized “drive by” interviews in his “Billy On The Street” segment that included yelling, fast-talking, screaming and celebrities. The commercial in question […]
Are you spending too much time on content analysis? Contributor Travis Wright describes a tool that might make your content marketing life a lot easier.
Retargeting has become an essential tactic in the modern marketing arsenal. It increases the effectiveness of all other marketing efforts, increasing brand awareness, recall, and driving customers down the funnel to ultimate conversion.
To make ads copy easier to read, Google is rejiggering how AdSense text ads display on mobile devices. In the new look, shown above, the headline (in blue) and description are bigger than in former iterations. That’s a good thing for users, no doubt. The next step Google’s taken here in the name of a […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google’s Eric Schmidt In Berlin: “Really, Our Biggest Search Competitor Is Amazon”
Influencer Marketing & Authorship for SEO Now – October 21 Webcast
Bing & Google Offering New Search Tools For 2014 Election Season
Be Ready for 2015! Attend SMX Social Media Marketing – Early Bird Rates Expire Friday
Simple Math To Show Potential Clients Why Local SEO Is Important
Google Non-Mobile Friendly Icon Being Testing In Mobile Search Results
Hold Your Horses: The Knowledge Vault Is Just A Research Project For Now
Google Searches For Halloween Costumes Show Frozen’s Elsa, Olaf & Anna Top The List
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
10 Tips for Bloggers to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing, profitblitz.com
Analytics
B2B Marketers know what they want when it comes to Analytics, www.webanalyticsworld.net
Blogs & Blogging
How This Brand Blog Grew to 50 Million Monthly Readers in Just 10 Months, contently.com
How to Blog Like A Pro with Rebekah Radice, denisewakeman.com
My Recipe for Success: How to Launch a Successful Blog, moz.com
When Bloggers Need a Break From Blogging, www.blogherald.com
Business Issues
Publicis Groupe Takes Stake in Matomy, www.adweek.com
Will Ads Become the Next Net-Neutrality Battle?, Wall Street Journal
Content Marketing
5 Ways Content Marketers Can Get More Value from LinkedIn, contentmarketinginstitute.com
A Quick and Easy Content Marketing ROI Tip Sheet, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Content Marketing Advice that Deserves a Second Look, www.highervisibility.com
The Huffington Post offers agencies content lessons, digiday.com
The Upworthy of Branded Content, or a Doomed Experiment?, contently.com
Top 2015 B2B Content Marketing Tactics, heidicohen.com
Use Content Marketing ROI to Stop Blogging, www.lunametrics.com
We’ve Gone Full Circle, www.mashbout.com
Conversion Optimization
5 Ways To Increase Conversions Using Instant Gratification, blog.crazyegg.com
Four Absolute Essentials of High-Converting Copy, blog.kissmetrics.com
How to Gather Customer Insights to Increase Landing Page Conversions, unbounce.com
Nevada Commission on Tourism Uses Behavioral Insights to Double Conversions, www.cardinalpath.com
Why Replacing All Copy with Promotional Copy Isn’t a Good Idea, 3qdigital.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
27 Best Copywriting Formulas: How to Tell a Captivating Story Online, blog.bufferapp.com
Eye Catching Forum Posts: Learn how to write them every time!, www.yourforumblog.com
How to Write Ridiculously Persuasive Landing Page Content, www.impactbnd.com
The Future of UX Leadership: Radical Transformation, www.uxmatters.com
Domaining
Governments totally cool with two-letter domains, domainincite.com
E-Commerce
Chinese Users Want the Same E-Com Experiences as Their Western Counterparts, uxmag.com
Ecommerce Product Description Writing Driving You Nuts? Here are 6 Ways To Describe Almost Anything, www.marketingwords.com
Rendering Authentic Ecommerce Shopping Experiences, www.practicalecommerce.com
Understanding the Drivers of Cross-Border E-Commerce, advertise.bingads.microsoft.com
Email Marketing
5 Simple Ways to Get More Paying Customers Out of Your Email Marketing, unbounce.com
From Football to E-Marketing: How to Create Raving Fans, www.silverpop.com
Understanding Mobile Email Statistics and Benchmarks, blog.getresponse.com
General Internet Marketing
7 Things All Great Brands have in Common, www.revenews.com
CEO Of Beauty Startup Julep Talks Using Digital Media To Grow Business, www.adexchanger.com
CMOs Plan a Digital Overhaul for 2015, relevance.com
Critical components for your omnichannel strategy, www.internetretailer.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
Share Your Photos, Not Your Phone, blogs.technet.com
9 Hot Mobile Apps for Instagram, www.razorsocial.com
CTRs Aren’t Enough for Mobile Ad Measurement, www.emarketer.com
Event Marketing Sees Big Returns From Mobile Content, relevance.com
How Tinder Tackles an M-Commerce Problem, www.getelastic.com
Wayfinding For The Mobile Web, www.smashingmagazine.com
Reputation Management
Five ways to ensure a 1-star reputation, www.trackur.com
Social Media
10 Best Tweeting Tips to Take Home, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
48% of Marketers Using Social Media for Retargeting, Planning to Spend More, www.mediabistro.com
7 Obsolete Social Media Tactics You’re Wasting Your Time On, www.quicksprout.com
7 Social Media Psychology Studies for Smarter Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
B2B Marketing on Facebook? Yes!, www.toprankblog.com
Facebook comments: now with stickers, www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook Restores Ad Targeting of Users 65+, allfacebook.com
Facebook: Great for Ads, Bad for Ads, www.dailyconversions.com
Football Added as Facebook Ad-Targeting Option, allfacebook.com
How to Improve Your Facebook News Feed Visibility, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Shhh… Three Facebook marketing secrets, econsultancy.com
Snapchat ads will spur flood of creative content, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
The 101 Best Social Media Tools (Free & Premium) For 2014, www.minterest.org
Twitter Partners With Bank to Offer Money Transfers via Tweets, www.mediabistro.com
Why Online Marketers Should Be Paying Attention to the Rise of Ello, ppc.org
Video
Disney’s Maker to Produce TV Specials With Web Celebs, adage.com
Facebook Video Ads Aren’t Making the Social Network New Friends, www.reelseo.com
Wild Mobile; Video’s Weak Spot, www.adexchanger.com
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