The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “35 Free Templates to Make Content Creation Faster & Easier”. Pamela Vaughan says, “I joined HubSpot in September 2011 as a blogger. At the time, I needed to know how to write and educate through my writing. Flash forward to today. My content role has evolved eons beyond what I could ever have imagined. To conquer lead gen, I mastered ebook production. To help spread data, I learned how to create infographics. And while I still regularly blog, that typically means designing a SlideShare to accompany each post”. 35 Free Templates... [...]
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The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “US Online Holiday Sales Grow at a Double-Digit Pace for the Third Consecutive Year”. Sucharita Mulpuru says, “Forrester’s “US Online Holiday Retail Forecast, 2013” launches today. In it, we predict that for the third consecutive year, online holiday sales (November and December) are expected to grow at a double-digit pace and pull in over $78 billion. This represents about one-third of the overall retail sales volume for the year. This optimism is largely due to ever-increasing numbers of consumers choosing the... [...]
Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Skimlinks Launches Link Creation Tool”. Collins Says, “Skimlinks has launched Skimlinks Editor, a linking tool for content monetization. Skimlinks Editor is available in the Google Chrome Web Store, and it automatically notifies affiliates of monetization opportunities, and they can instantly compare commission rates across merchants to maximize affiliate revenue. The real-time price comparison technology enables affiliates to direct readers to merchants with the most competitive pricing”. Skimlinks Launches Link Creation Tool Shawn Collins’... [...]
The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “Social Media Marketing on the Go: 10 Mobile Apps Reviewed”. Radhika says, “Social media marketing can get hectic. Whether you’re promoting your blog, promoting your products or simply being social and building relationships online, being good at social media often means being on the ball 24/7. Thanks to smart-extension-of-my-arm phones, though, you no longer have to stay deskbound while you maintain your always-on social presence. Here are 10 of my favorite social media apps. They make sure I can keep an eye on social... [...]
Denise Wakeman’s latest blog post is titled “I’m A Google Fangirl – Here’s Why”. Wakeman says, “I admit it. And recently I shouted it out loud on a webinar or podcast interview.I’m a Google Fangirl. Yep, I love Google, especially Google+. Every day, Google+ gets better, especially if you’re doing business online. And if you want toamplify your visibilityand message to a wider audience, well, there’s no better social platform on the Web. IMHO. Let me demonstrate for you the power of using a platform with so many integrated elements, by sharing a sequence of events and posts that... [...]
The latest article on the ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “Getting Started with Video: Types of Videos You Can Create″. Lou Bortone says, “When it comes tomarketing your business (or your book) with video,there are dozens of potential paths to take. From traditional “talking head” videos to narrated PowerPoint videos toGoogle Hangouts, there’s no shortage of ways tocommunicate your message. In fact, the number of video options can be overwhelming. To overcome the overwhelm and determine which kind of video is right for you, I’ve created this brief (14-minute) video ongetting... [...]
The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Email Benchmarks: The Value of a Mobile Click, CTRs by Industry, Subscriber Activity Trends”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Across all industries, 16% of sales driven by email now happen via a mobile device, with 56% of those mobile sales being completed on a tablet and 44% on a smartphone, according to a recent report by Yesmail. The email conversion rate (number of orders divided by unique clicks) remains higher for desktop than for mobile (3.7% versus 1.3%). However, revenue per mobile click is almost double that of a desktop click, suggesting... [...]
Once you have a blog (or any WordPress site) set up the way you like it, it’s helpful to be able to clone it (for example, IM NewsWatch might be cloned to create Model Plane NewsWatch), but if it has been around a while, it will have posts and comments in it. You want the structural elements of the site in the new clone, but you probably don’t want the actual data. In this case, it’s good to be able to wipe the slate clean, emptying the database of all posts, pages and comments. Doing that manually is a terrible chore. But there is an automated solution. Simple Spencer has created... [...]
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “20 Statistics That Will Drive 2014 Marketing Strategies”. Pam Dyer says, “As 2013 draws to a close, marketers are looking ahead to next year when social media marketing will begin to take center stage. No longer a luxury, it will become a must-have in 2014 marketing strategies. Digital asset management firm WebDAM found that marketing on the social Web will move toward critical mass over the next few years as more budget is allocated by brands, and custom content will become increasingly import as companies fight to... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “9 Reasons No One Is Reading Your Blog”. Pamela Vaughan says, “Look at you! You’re blogging! Likely because you’ve heard us (or countless other sources) tell you how important and beneficial it is for an effective inbound marketing strategy. So … where are all the readers? According to the movie Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come.” So why aren’t they coming? Well, my friends, this isn’t baseball — or a movie — and unfortunately, that’s not really how it... [...]