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:
Enterprise Local Marketing Automation Tools — New Marketing Intelligence Report Sep 29, 2015 by Marketing Land Completely updated with the latest industry statistics, developing market trends, new vendor profiles and product updates.
SPONSORED MESSAGE: Get A 360-Degree View Of Marketing Effectiveness With Marchex Call Analytics Sep 29, 2015 by Marketing Land Read The New Report: The $1 Trillion click-to-call economy
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Talks Mobile, Video & Offers Her Take On Ad Blocking At IAB MIXX Sep 29, 2015 by Amy Gesenhues “I personally think it’s a mistake to install ad blockers,” says Mayer.
Video Carousels & Brand Awareness Bidding Highlight A Slew Of Facebook Ad Additions Sep 29, 2015 by Greg Finn A handful of new enhancements and additions to Facebook Ads have been rolled out, including video in carousel and a new type of brand bidding.
Leveraging Content For In-Store Sales Sep 29, 2015 by Rebecca Lieb Many retailers still aren’t making the most of digital media to bolster their in-store sales. Columnist Rebecca Lieb delves into her recent research on the trend and offers recommendations on how to turn it around.
iOS Ad Blockers Begin Dropping In Popularity Sep 29, 2015 by Danny Sullivan For the first time since iOS 9 launched, no ad blocker is number one on the paid apps chart for iPhone.
Yext Launches Xone Beacon Network For Offline-To-Online Engagement Sep 28, 2015 by Greg Sterling Yext, which has primarily been a business data and presence management company, has launched Xone, a new (free) in-store beacon program for enterprises with multiple locations and small businesses (SMBs).
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
5 Pointers to Help Affiliates with Holiday Selling, www.practicalecommerce.com
Affiliate Window Launches Careers Portal, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Publisher Stories: Stacey Kelly, Sunshine Stacey, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Analytics
How We Used Analytics to Delete Older Content, www.webanalyticsworld.net
Measuring Engagement With Native Content, blog.newswhip.com
Nielsen Says Total Audience Measurement Is Coming ‘by the End of the Year’, www.adweek.com
Website Analytics: Plugins That Provide Post Stats, Search Engine People
Blogs & Blogging
37 Blogging Tips in Around 27 Minutes, www.blogtyrant.com
No Time to Maintain a Business Blog? Use LinkedIn, www.verticalresponse.com
Business Issues
AppDynamics Names David Wadhwani CEO, www.wsj.com
Apple privacy policy update 2015: how it uses your data, www.wired.co.uk
Tim Cook Offers Microsoft An Olive Branch At Box Enterprise Event, techcrunch.com
Yahoo to Pursue Alibaba Stake Spinoff Without IRS Ruling, www.wsj.com
Content Marketing
7 Ways Content Marketing Can Be Used By Sales Teams For Dramatic Results, www.thesaleslion.com
How to Build Buzz for Your Content, www.copypress.com
How to Use Chunking to Generate Content Ideas, neomam.com
Million Dollar Content – An Analysis of the Web’s Most Valuable Organic Content, moz.com
Morgan Stanley Reveals How It Produces Awesome, Timely Financial Content, contently.com
The Proven 8 Step Formula for Content Marketing Success, www.verticalmeasures.com
Conversion Optimization
11 Characteristics of Persuasive Call-to-Action Buttons, www.usertesting.com
Can Negative Reviews Increase Conversions?, blog.crazyegg.com
Ignorant No More: Crash Course on A/B Testing Statistics, conversionxl.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
10 Guidelines For Navigation Usability, usabilitygeek.com
4 big lessons from The Huffington Post’s redesign, digiday.com
Five Steps to a Close-to-Perfect Website Launch, www.marketingprofs.com
Using Clever Copywriting to Enhance Social Visuals, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
What Grid System Architecture and the Golden Ratio Do for Web Design, uxmag.com
Domaining
8 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Website, www.searchenginejournal.com
How To Prioritize Your Website Testing, www.goinflow.com
New TLD competition report is worthless, domainnamewire.com
E-Commerce
Amazon Taps “On-Demand” Workers for One-Hour Deliveries, www.wsj.com
Top Five Ways to Grow Your Multi-Channel e-Commerce Business, www.retaildive.com
Email Marketing
Brilliant examples of brands killing it with email marketing, myemma.com
How Two Key Factors Affect Email Open Rates, www.marketingprofs.com
New Study offers what works in email marketing, www.reachmail.net
Pop-ups push consumers to give email addresses to retailers, www.internetretailer.com
Talking Agile Email Marketing with Movable Ink CEO Vivek Sharma, www.skyword.com
General Internet Marketing
3 Reasons Leadership Will Interfere With B2B Marketing Initiatives, www.komarketingassociates.com
7 Traits for Successful Digital Marketing Agency Client Relationships, www.toprankblog.com
Report: Why Life Event Marketing Is More Effective Than Demographic Targeting, www.adweek.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Brand Networks Fuses Native Advertising and Content Marketing on a Single Platform, Market Wire
ChoiceStream Enables Greater Programmatic Control, Transparency with Revamped Self-Service Console, www.choicestream.com
Origami Logic Raises $25 Million to Solve Marketing’s Biggest Problem, Business Wire
Sizmek Selected to Join the Amazon Trusted Creative Partner Program, www.sizmek.com
Tubular Labs Opens East Coast Headquarters in New York City, www.businesswire.com
Web CMS Platform From Primero Systems Addresses Complex Needs of Franchises, Market Wired
MarTech
Mobile/Local Marketing
6 Mobile Website Wins, www.koozai.com
Android is now used by 1.4 billion people, www.theverge.com
Are Marketers Finally Getting the Hang of Location-Based Mobile Ads?, www.adweek.com
Editor’s Take: The Apps vs. Browser Debate Is a Distraction, streetfightmag.com
Google’s Android Marshmallow Will Officially Launch Next Week, techcrunch.com
Higher mobile budgets correlate to higher revenue, www.mobilemarketer.com
Internet Users in the US Block Ads Less than in Western Europe, www.emarketer.com
S’more to love across all your screens, googleblog.blogspot.com
Say Hello To Google’s Nexus 5X, Starting at $379, techcrunch.com
Top Free Android Apps August (India), blog.similarweb.com
Social Media
159 Top Social Media Sites: The Ultimate List, www.alan-rothstein.com
5 Tweet copy best practices for mobile app promotion, www.Twitter.com
B2B Marketing Interview With LinkedIn’s Jason Miller, www.toprankblog.com
Facebook Lookalike Audience Best Practices, 3qdigital.com
How Facebook Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Rating Point, adexchanger.com
How Smart Brands are DemoCasting in Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Drive Website Traffic With Instagram, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Encourage Employees to Share Your Content on LinkedIn, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Use Paid Social to Improve your Conversion Funnel, www.seerinteractive.com
Scaling Social Media Across Many Locations With Whole Foods Natanya Anderson, www.stonetemple.com
Social media and crisis management: a Volkswagen case study, econsultancy.com
Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit, recode.net
With Facebook Down and Everyone Looking to Twitter, Brands Missed Their Moment, www.adweek.com
Video
AOL Unveils Mobile Video Network Go90 With Parent Verizon, adexchanger.com
‘The IAB State of the Digital Video World’ Examines 19 Markets Around the Globe, www.iab.net
Comcast Announces a Streaming Video Platform of Its Own, www.adweek.com
How Blab Went From an Idea on a Napkin to the Hottest Thing in Social Media, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Use Twitter Videos, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Preview of new capabilities coming to YouTube advertising, Inside Adword
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