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:
Will Facebook’s “Empathy” Button Be Good News For Marketers? Sep 21, 2015 by Martin Beck Marketing experts weigh in possible impact of Facebook’s plan to test a way for people to express shorthand emotions other than Like.
Webinars: Social Media Compliance (Tues.); Global Content Marketing (Thurs.) Sep 21, 2015 by Marketing Land Two opportunities to learn from digital marketing experts.
SMX East Is Next Week! Connect With The Best & Brightest. Sep 21, 2015 by Marketing Land The chance to learn cutting-edge, proven SEO and SEM tactics is what makes SMX East a must-attend event. But connecting with others who share your interests and challenges is just as valuable. At SMX East, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with more than 1,500 others like you, whether you work in-house or at an agency, B2B or B2C.
Shhh. Your Email Program Should Be A Secret Weapon Sep 21, 2015 by Jose Cebrian How do you gain a competitive advantage with your email program? It’s all about differentiation and leveraging your data to drive results, says columnist Jose Cebrian.
Gmail Ads: What’s New (And Not New) With This Native Ad Type Sep 21, 2015 by Susan Waldes Gmail Ads, formerly known as Gmail Sponsored Promotions, are now a standard part of the AdWords toolbox. Columnist Susan Waldes explains how they work so that you can start taking advantage of them.
Big Data Makes For Better Outbound Marketing Sep 21, 2015 by Victoria Godfrey Don’t let inbound marketing overshadow your outbound marketing. Columnist Victoria Godfrey discusses how data-driven campaigns are bringing outbound marketing into modern times.
Aarrrrr, Ahoy Matey! Pirate’s Booty Campaign Celebrates International Talk Like A Pirate Day Sep 18, 2015 by Pamela Parker Pirate Brands gets into the spirit of the occasion, offering parents activities and encouraging pretend pirate play as it seeks to build its brand.
Twitter Unleashes Special Hashtag Emoji For The 2015 Rugby World Cup Sep 18, 2015 by Danny Sullivan Rugby fans with countries in the tournament can celebrate with custom hashtags that reflect their teams.
TapInfluence Brings Automation To Influencer Marketing With TapFusion Sep 18, 2015 by Marketing Land Staff Company calls its new product the “first influencer marketing automation platform.”
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Are You Measuring for Customer Success?, www.cmswire.com
Why Social Marketers Need to Put Analytics First, simplymeasured.com
Blogs & Blogging
10 Blogging Tips We’ve Learned from International Idioms, www.convinceandconvert.com
7 Powerful Blogging Insights From Matt Cutts, pushingsocial.com
When Your Blog Attracts Wrong Readers, What You Can Do About It?, www.blogherald.com
Business Issues
Apple Speeds Up Electric-Car Work, www.wsj.com
It’s Now Officially Sundar Pichai’s Show At Google, techcrunch.com
Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit, New York Times
Content Marketing
4 Creative Ways to Your Content Marketing ROI, www.searchenginejournal.com
Bullseye: The 5 Rings of Content Marketing ROI, contently.com
Can Anna Kendrick, Gloria Steinem, and Kate Spade Help Usher in a Better Era of Branded Content?, contently.com
Generation Gap: Online Content Consumption and Age, www.marketingprofs.com
Repurposed Content VS Repromoted Content, heidicohen.com
Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively, www.kaushik.net
When it Comes to Connecting With Content, the Time of Day Means a Lot, www.nielsen.com
Why It’s Time for More Participation in B2B Content Marketing, www.toprankblog.com
Conversion Optimization
Top 10 Conversion Rate Optimization Infographics, www.usertesting.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Display & Contextual Advertising
Domaining
GoDaddy Hangout: “How To Value A Domain”, www.domaininvesting.com
Microsoft registers six 2-letter domain names, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
eBay Launches New Speedy Shipping Service in Germany, smallbiztrends.com
Ecommerce trends in the Middle East: stats, econsultancy.com
How Brands on Facebook Can Reach “Connected Shoppers” in Latin America, www.adweek.com
Referral Marketing 101: 7 Tactics to Launch Your Own Referral Campaign, company-enterprise.myshopify.com
What You Need to Know about the 2015 Holiday Shopping Season, www.socialmediatoday.com
Email Marketing
Clean or cluttered? Inside the email inboxes of media and marketing execs, digiday.com
How to Use an Exit-Popup Strategy to Grow Your Email List (Without Annoying Your Readers), www.marketingprofs.com
In Japan, Most Marketing Emails Are Read on the Desktop, www.emarketer.com
Let’s Get Serious: List Quality and Complaints, blog.returnpath.com
Ultimate Guide: 11 Sign-Up Strategies for Building Your Email List, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Your Top-to-Bottom Email Checklist: What to Include Before You Hit Send, www.copyblogger.com
General Internet Marketing
Active malware campaign uses thousands of WordPress sites to infect visitors, Ars Technica
Buyer Personas: Insights for Experience Driven Marketing, www.jeffkorhan.com
For Marketers, Every Day is a Holiday, blog.returnpath.com
How Subscription Services Master Brand Loyalty, blog.marketo.com
Is offline data the dark horse of digital marketing?, digiday.com
Rebranding Done Right: 5 Examples You Can Learn From, blog.kissmetrics.com
The New CMO Agenda: Shifting to a Customer-Obsessed Model, adage.com
Why You Should Invest In Multilingual Digital Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Purch Acquires Active Junky, an Innovative Customer Loyalty and Rewards Platform, purch.com
Comparative Reports for MailChimp Pro, blog.mailchimp.com
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
Baby Boomers Not Fans of Mobile Ads, www.emarketer.com
Does Your Mobile Home Page Drive Visitors Away?, www.getelastic.com
How To Reach Your Mobile Customers, www.cmswire.com
iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus Arrive on September 25, www.apple.com
WatchOS 2 Brings First True Experience With Apple Watch, techcrunch.com
Why chat messaging apps are a location-based alternative to geofencing, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Reputation Management
Beware harming your ‘personal brand’ on social media, www.reuters.com
Shining in Your Area of Expertise, www.compukol.com
Social Media
4 Steps To Effective Social Selling On Linkedin, www.searchenginepeople.com
4 Things You Need to Stop If You Want To Be Productive on Social Media, www.jeffbullas.com
How Harrods Is Using Instagram to Craft a Luxury Identity in 2015, simplymeasured.com
How Instagram Images Enrich the Email Experience [Infographic], www.marketingprofs.com
How to Automate Your Tweets: 3 Useful Twitter Apps, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Make Your Tweets Mobile-Friendly, www.adweek.com
How Twitter Is Reshaping the TV Landscape, www.adweek.com
Is Paid Social Media Amplification Worth it for Your Business?, blog.crazyegg.com
Social Media Strategy: where to begin?, yoast.com
The State of Social Media Marketing 2015, blog.similarweb.com
Video
Brands and Entrepreneurs Target Millennials by Livestreaming, smallbiztrends.com
Facebook videos have fleeting lives, digiday.com
How Periscope is Breaking Media Boundaries, www.convinceandconvert.com
Inside Periscope’s Deep Bond With Turkey (The Country), www.buzzfeed.com
Pandora Presses Play On Direct-Response Mobile Video, adexchanger.com
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