People spend a lot of time on Facebook, more than on Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Apple and Microsoft websites combined. That’s a big crowd you can market to. The problem is how you can funnel people from Facebook to your own website, where you have an offer they need to see. TaleOut, by Daniel tan, lets you automatically post your blog content on Facebook or on Twitter or both, so it is seen and these social crowds can become aware of your latest material. By the way, LinkedIn and Google+ are coming soon. You have a lot of flexibility in how TaleOut works. Besides choosing Twitter or Facebook,... [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “REPORT: Twitter Ad Revenue To Hit $1 Billion in 2014”. JimEdwards says, “Emarketer, the advertising research company has a new estimate of Twitter’s revenues: $582.8 million in global sales in 2013 before closing in on $1 billion in 2014. Of that, $308 million will be from mobile ad impressions alone in 2013, the company reckons. Note that Twitter‘s revenues — fueled by its new Ads API — are scaling up a little bit like the way Facebook’s did before its IPO“. REPORT: Twitter Ad Revenue To Hit... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “After You Capture A Lead, What Comes Next?”. Juliette Kopecky says, “Congrats on generating some awesome leads for your sales team! Now what? As marketers, our primary responsibility is to generate qualified leads for sales. However, our job doesn’t stop immediately after we get the leads in the door. Answering the “Now what?” question can be tricky. Just because someone downloaded your ebook or subscribed to your blog doesn’t mean they are ready for your sales team — in fact,Gleanster Research (pdf download)... [...]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Free Access to Videos from Affiliate Summit East 2011”. Collins Says, “Videos of educational sessions from Affiliate Summit East 2011, which took place August 21-23, 2011 at the Hilton New York, are now available to watch for free. The full-length videos of the Marc Ostrofsky, Wil Reynolds, and Bryan Eisenberg keynotes, as well as 36 breakout sessions are now all available on YouTube”. Free Access to Videos from Affiliate Summit East 2011  [...]

There are a lot of reasons for marketers to cloak links, but cloaking also has its downside. It makes people suspicious of what you might be hiding, and, as usually practiced, it looks very “commercial”, not natural. Not to mention what they do to your SEO. But these disadvantages are eliminated with Link Cracker. This new software handles cloaking and redirection without going to any external service whose reputation you can’t control. All your cloaked links are seen as sub-directories on your own site; you don’t share a host site with thousands of other marketers, including... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Opens News Feed to Targeted Brand Posts”. Todd Wasserman says, “Facebook on Wednesday rolled out a new feature that lets brands target users for status updates that don’t appear on their brand Pages. The intent is to let brands target a subset of customers without alienating other members of its customer base. For example, a sporting goods brand could run a post appealing to basketball fans. While the post wouldn’t appear on the brand’s Page, it would run in the News Feed of fans who have an affinity for the... [...]

‘Business 2 Community’ is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 17 at 2.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “Best Practices from the World’s Most Social Technology Companies”. The ‘Business 2 Community’ team says, “Join the leading enterprise social practitioners from Cisco, Dell, Samsung, and SAP in a frank conversation about how the world’s most social large technology companies are executing at global scale. LaSandra Brill (@LaSandraBrill), Richard Margetic (@ByJove), Jessica Kalbarczyk (@JessKalbarczyk), and Brian Rice (@briansrice) will share their insights,... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “How to Engage Your Audience On Social Media”. Poeabby Masoud says, “We have all heard that the key to a successful social media strategy is the level of consumer engagement. What we do not hear as commonly is how to exactly engage our audiences. As a marketer or business owner working to maximize your social media presence, the first question to ask yourself is, ‘Have I captured the right audience for me?’. Some of you might still be within the building phase, so you might not have had the opportunity to capture... [...]

German Lafrida spent months traveling to Asia and Africa to recruit people who could become effective virtual assistants. Then he trained them in the skills they need to be effective at their jobs: 1. Website + Blog maintenance 2. Blogs + Forum+ Directory 3. Affiliate Platform and offer 4. Video+ Audio 5. Article Writing 6. Email Marketing 7. Ebook + Kindle Creation 9. Customer support 10. Word Processing and PowerPoint 11. Facebook and Twitter 12. Ecommerce and online stores>/p> And he continues to give them ongoing training in additional skills. He is offering to let you hire them, full-time... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “The 10 Commandments of DIY Marketing Design”. Keith Frankel says, “When we first posted a photo of our do-it-yourself design ebook cover on Facebook, one of our fans challenged us a bit on whether we really designed the cover ourselves by commenting, “I bet 1 million $ they hired someone to design that image.” Since I’m the guy who leads the creative services part of our Brand & Buzz team at HubSpot, I figured I would step out from behind the curtain and share the truth about how we go about designing our content”. ... [...]