The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “17 Ways to Jumpstart your Email Opt-in Box”. Pamella Neely says, “There are dozens of things you can do to get more email subscribers. Hosting a webinar, pay-per-click advertising, guest blog posting, and Facebook contests are just a few of them. But the easiest way to grow your list is to improve your opt-in box. If your email list is barely growing, or even slowly shrinking due to list churn, consider these 17 items. Add an opt-in form to every page of your site. Don’t just add a link to sign up forms – add the form itself.... [...]
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The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Yahoo Is Testing Ads Which Sell You On Apps”. Selena Larson says, “Yahoo has a strategy for making money on smartphones: The company isreportedly rolling out ads which prompt users to download other apps across its mobile properties. Mobile app-install ads are an increasingly popular way of making money off of mobile websites and apps. They typically appear in streams of content and help drive downloads to mobile applications. For instance, if you’re playing an online sudoku game, you might see an advertisement to download another game... [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “The Internet Of Things: The Real Money Is The Internet, Not The Things”. Matt Assay says, “The Internet of Things is real and growing, but the money will come neither from Internet nor the Things. Instead, the big money will derive from business services that pull data from those IoT networks. Unfortunately, a lack of standards threatens to slow the market’s maturation as vendors are forced to build the devices, sensor networks and services that run on top of them. According to Gartner, the Internet of Things will balloon to 26 billion... [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Windows 8.1 May Become A Freebie OS”. Adriana Lee says, “Microsoft is reportedly building a variation of Windows dubbed “Windows 8.1 with Bing.” It’s apparently part of an experiment to offer the operating system with tighter integration to featured Microsoft apps and services—primarily, at least at first, Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Windows Bing may also be part of a plan to boost adoption by giving away the OS for free or at a reduced cost to both individual users interested in upgrading their Windows... [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Don’t Waste Your Time with Native Advertising”. Brian Clark says, “ It’s a brilliant piece of native advertising. Visually appealing and information rich, this sponsored content walks you through numerous variations of oysters, where they hail from, and interesting facts about each. The New Orleans, we learn, was the preferred oyster of Jean Lafitte, and is the key to Oysters Rockefeller. The sweet and succulent Tangier oyster captivated Captain John Smith when introduced by Pocahontas, and the rest is history. Next, you’re... [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Bitcoin Needs Better Oversight, But No One Agrees On The Details”. Lauren Orsini says, “The implosion of Mt. Gox, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has many cryptocurrency believers and government entities alike agreeing on one thing: The Bitcoin economy needs some kind of regulation to prevent fraud and rebuild trust with users. That’s the easy part. Exactly what kind of regulation? That’s the hard part. Don’t expect an answer soon. Bitcoin’s inventor (or inventors), known only by the pseudonym Satoshi... [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Facebook To Kill @Facebook.com Email Service”. RW Editors say, “Facebook is sunsetting the @facebook.com email service that went generally unused, The Vergereports. Initially launched in 2010, the email service allowed Facebook users to send and receive messages in one inbox, with the option of forwarding it to the personal email connected to the social network. Most people had not been using their @facebook.com email addresses, a Facebook spokesperson told the publication“. Facebook To Kill @Facebook.com Email Service ReadWrite [...]
The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Why Every Tech Company Needs An English Major”. Matt Assay says, “It’s an increasingly tired meme that we need more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates. Of course we do. Research shows we need more qualified workers to accommodate an economy that’s increasingly reliant on engineering skills. But there’s something else we need: English majors. Why? Because as important as the technology is that powers our lives, businesses also depend on humanities-oriented communicators to articulate why the technology... [...]
The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Agile Teams Are Critical For Social Marketing Success”. Kim Celestre says, “I often ask marketing leaders how they organize their resources for social, and the responses are rarely the same. I hear everything from: “We have one person in PR who does social part-time” to “We have hundreds of full time social marketing managers across the globe.” Despite this disparity, I find that marketers often share the same level of frustration when they try toadvance their social marketing initiatives. Whether they... [...]
The ‘Computer World’ has reported on Google’s plan for expansion of its gigabit-speed Fiber Internet service in 34 US cities. Martyn Williams says, “Google has chosen 34 cities across the U.S. as the next sites for possible expansion of its gigabit-speed Fiber Internet service. The cities encompass nine metro areas and include Salt Lake City; San Antonio; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte, North Carolina; clusters of cities around Silicon Valley, including Mountain View where Google has its headquarters; Atlanta; Portland, Oregon; Phoenix; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The... [...]