Bronto has released a free guide titled “Retailers’ 2013 Marketing Guide”.The Bronto team says, “Let’s face it, some “trends and predictions” reports are, well, rather predictable. What commerce marketers need are upcoming trends, on-target predictions and actionable advice from in-the-trenches experts.Written by marketing strategists who provide revenue-driving guidance to retailers on a daily basis, this guide provides need-to-know information and includes examples from top retailers showing these trends in action.Topics include:Using past purchase... [...]
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The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Report: LinkedIn Will Buy Pulse App for $50 to $100 Million”.Seth Fiegerman says, “LinkedIn is close to acquiring Pulse, a popular news reading app, for as much as $100 million, according to a new report.Citing unnamed sources, AllThingsD reported that Pulse had been in acquisition talks with several big companies, including Yahoo and Microsoft, but that LinkedIn won out. The publication has since heard that the deal is set to be for between $50 and $100 million, and talks between the two companies are said to be “nearly complete.”Though... [...]
The latest article on ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Is Social Content Curation The Next “Better” Thing?”.Kelsey Jones says, “Social content curation has blown up in the past year, after a late start that began to show traction around 2007-2008. Pinterest continues to experience massive growth, with Wanelo nipping at its heels. Social media users have gotten smarter when it comes to sharing; many are no longer posting Facebook statuses about what they ate”. Is Social Content Curation The Next “Better” Thing? Marketing Land [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “8 Real-World Stories Of Why Startups Fail”.Scott Gerber says, “Failure: it’s a common theme among start-up founders. In the Silicon Valley, it’s almost a badge of honor. But for all the dire statistics out there, what are the real reasons some start ups don’t make it? And what lessons can we learn from them?We asked 8 (now) successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to share why a prior start-up didn’t make it – and what they’re doing differently knowing what they know now”.... [...]
The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “SXSW Day 3: The Top Social Buzz”.Bob Al-Greene says, “A huge majority of the chatter about South by Southwest took place on Twitter yet again Sunday, with a SXSW-related tweet dropping every four seconds.Tina Roth Eisenberg, who gave one of the two interactive keynote addresses over the weekend, trended highly — drawing three times as much chatter as Rachel Maddow and Nate Silver“. SXSW Day 3: The Top Social Buzz Mashable.com [...]
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Engagement in Social Media”.Angela Hausman says, “On the surface, engagement in social media is relatively simplistic. Members of the social network “like” posts, comment on them, or share them. Or users create their own posts about brands or upload images containing branded products, which are posted to their own social profile or on that of the brand. Members can also choose to further engage brands by “Liking” them on Facebook, which transforms them into a fan of the brand or they can follow the brand on Twitter... [...]
Ty Cohen is hosting a webinar with Dan Zarrella on Wednesday, March 13 at 3.00 pm ETD. The topic of the webinar is “How To Generate Instant Cash Flow While Leveraging Other People To Do All The Work”.Webinar DetailsOrganizer: Ty CohenTopic: How To Generate Instant Cash Flow While Leveraging Other People To Do All The WorkDay/Date: Wednesday, March 13Time: 3.00 pm ETD – Time Zone ConverterRegister for webinar details.‘How To Generate Instant Cash Flow While Leveraging Other People To Do All The Work’ Webinar [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “8 Ways Your Content Strategy Should Change With the New Facebook News Feed”.Anum Hussain says, “Yesterday, Facebook announced the biggest change to News Feed in its seven-year history. During the opening of this announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared how almost 50% of News Feed content today is photos and visual content“. 8 Ways Your Content Strategy Should Change With the New Facebook News Feed HubSpot [...]
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “2013: Your Last Chance to Get Social Media Marketing Right”.Rick Delgado says, “Social media has become an important marketing tool for any business that wants to succeed in the current marketplace. It is a landscape that is constantly changing, and if you do not keep on top of your social media marketing techniques, it is easy to get left behind. No one can know for sure what 2013 will bring for social media, but the companies who thrive are the ones who are ready and quick to adapt. We cannot predict which new social... [...]
The latest article on ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Twitter Touts Its B2B Lead-Gen Capabilities (& Has A New Ad Tool In The Works To Help)”.Matt McGee says, “Twitter’s all-out assault on potential advertisers continued today with the latest in a series of blog posts explaining the benefits of doing Twitter ads. Today’s target? The B2B community.The company is touting how tweets can have an impact on B2B tech audiences, again using statistics from its recent work with Compete. In this study, Compete examined the online activity of more than 6,000 Twitter... [...]