The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Study: Instagram Is The Fastest Growing Social Network, Top Brand Engagement Up 350% Since Last Year”. Greg Finn says, “Instagram is the fastest growing social network with 150 million users and 40 million photos being uploaded each day according to social analytics company Simply Measured.  A new report from Simply Measured shows that brand engagement and interaction is also thriving on the photo-based social network with 71% of top brands now participating. Brand adoption of Instagram is now rivaling Google+ and... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Facebook Top Social Login Choice on Websites, Google Gaining”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Among social login options on websites—the ability to register and log in using an existing social network or email identity—Facebook is the top choice with US consumers, according to a recent report by Janrain. The analysis of data from Janrain’s user management platform found Facebook identities accounted for 45% of all social logins on websites in the third quarter of 2013. That was a slight dip in share compared with the second quarter of... [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “Twitter Just Told Everyone How It’s Thinking About The Future Of Real-Time Bidding”. Aaron Taube says, “The director of Twitter’s advertising products team has given the world a glimpse into how the company’s future business plans could include real-time bidding, the process by which publishers sell ad slots to marketers via the sort of automatic trading done on Wall Street. In a post for Medium titled “Demystifying Programmatic Marketing and RTB,” Twitter director of product Ameet Ranadive explains... [...]

Mike McKay has just released one of his famous marketing packages for Amazon affiliates. This time he is getting your affiliate site ready for Christmas: Christmas Toy Domination. It allows you to target the biggest Seasonal niche on the planet, Christmas, and he has divided the toy niche into 5 lucrative sub-niches: • Luxury Dolls • Educational Toys • Teddy Bears • Disney Toys • Additional Christmas toys For each of these sub-niches, McKay give you: 1. 100s of exact match keyword searches, including how many searches per month, cost per click and competition 2. 100s of exact match domain... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “5 Common Inbound Marketing Superstitions: BUSTED”. Michael Lieberman says, “It’s common for people to be scared of the unknown. Especially the things we can’t explain or don’t understand… like ghosts or supernatural occurrences! Regardless of what you believe in, the same thing can be said about inbound marketing. While it may be a relatively familar topic for some, there are still a lot of business owners, CEOs and marketing executives who are cautious of inbound marketing. Scary, right? This post is going to debunk... [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “3 Misconceptions About Web Analytics”. Kevin Webster says, “With web analytics becoming mainstream, many misconceptions and half-truths now exist — from cost, to ease of use, to what it will and won’t do for an organization. Here are three misconceptions about web analytics that small business owners should be aware of. Web Analytics Solutions”. 3 Misconceptions About Web Analytics Web Marketing Today  [...]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “10 (More) WordPress Themes for Every Person”. Amberly Dressler says, “Last week, Website Magazine published “33 WordPress Themes for Every Person”, which detailed some themes that could be a good fit for certain “types” of people, from musicians and massage therapists to crafters and car dealers. Many of our readers asked for WordPress themes for other types of professionals, so we bring Part II of this article below. Keep in mind, as one reader commented in the first post, that these are ideas, not absolutes. Editors... [...]

Producing professional-looking materials for offline businesses (and for your offline consultancy) is sometimes a challenge. Finding good visual elements, suitable for offline niches can be tough and time-consuming. Sharon Odom has just released her Offline Mobile Toolbox, with: ■ 150 royalty-free images for offline niches (choose the ones you want from 700 available) ■ A whiteboard video to use on your own site to gather leads from restaurants ■ An infographic about consumer searching for local businesses on mobile phones ■ Autoresponder series on the importance of mobile optimization... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Americans Will Spend $6.9 Billion on Halloween This Year”. Zoe Fox says, “Roughly half of Americans will celebrate Halloween this year. The 158 million revelers will spend slightly less money on Halloween this year than they did two years ago, but spending in 2013 is expected to total $6.9 billion, down from the $8 billion in 2011.How are Americans celebrating? Forty-four percent of the country’s population will carve pumpkins. Statista‘s chart reveals more interesting numbers about Americans’ Halloween behavior“. Americans... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “International SEO: 22 tools and one infographic to help improve your strategy”. David Moth says, “International SEO is a complex challenge for digital marketers due to the intricacies of local languages and customs. Unfortunately it’s not enough to assume that UK companies can expand into Latin America simply by translating their content into Spanish and Portuguese. Luckily there are some free online tools available to make the task slightly simpler and automate some parts of the process”. International SEO:... [...]