The latest article on Business Insider is titled “Facebook Ads Are About To Get A Whole Lot More Attractive”. Aaron Taube says, “Facebook announced a partnership with Shutterstock today that will allow ad makers to use the site’s images for free.  Marketers can now access Shutterstock’s inventory of millions of high-quality images directly through Facebook’s ad creation tool. The social network says the new feature will be particularly helpful for small businesses, which may not have previously had the resources to procure quality images for their ads”. ... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “120 Marketing Tactics For Blogging Success”. Jeff Bullas says, “Blogging success can seem like a distant dream when you start out. You aren’t quite sure what to blog about. The choice of technology can be overwhelming. Then learning to use the features and functions of your blogging software is a maze of confusion and confronting choices. What plugins do I choose? How do I optimise for search engines? What are widgets and how do I use them?”. 120 Marketing Tactics For Blogging Success Business2Community.com  [...]

Keeping the visitor engaged with your site is often quite a challenge. There are so many distractions. Anwesh Rath has found that the “cliff hanger” technique, often used in serialized movies or radio/TV programs, can do a lot for keeping site visitors interested. Rath has created WP Cliff Hanger to make it easy to create “hooks” to build curiosity for your offers. For example, you can ask questions to your visitors, and change what they see based on their answer. Your sales copy also can have a provocative statement followed by something like “Click here to find out... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook to Provide Free Photos for Businesses to Use in Ads”. Todd Wasserman says, “Having trouble coming up with your next Facebook ad? No worries. Facebook is here to help. In an attempt to make it easier for businesses to create a Facebook ad, the company announced a deal with Shutterstock on Thursday that will provide free access to millions of images for use in ads. The photos will be available in Facebook’s ad creation tool“. Facebook to Provide Free Photos for Businesses to Use in Ads Mashable.com  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Sprite scores big win thanks to Tumblr’s potential for long-term engagement”. David Moth says, “Drinks brand Sprite managed to outperform its rivals and achieve the greatest exposure on Tumblr in July. This is despite the fact that it only blogged three updates, while second-placed MTV posted a massive 114 times. The findings, which come from a report by Simply Measured, show the high potential for long-term amplification on Tumblr compared to other social networks, as nearly all of Sprite’s 85,000 reblogs were... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “The #INBOUND13 Experience: Inspiring Insights From Exceptional Keynotes [SlideShare]”. Katie Burke says, “INBOUND just wrapped up — with over 5,550 registered attendees, and four jam-packed days of inspiration, education, entertainment, and collaboration. It would be impossible to distill the insights from the entire conference into one blog post, so we’ll”. The #INBOUND13 Experience: Inspiring Insights From Exceptional Keynotes [SlideShare] HubSpot  [...]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “How To Create Authority Blogs and Passive Monthly Income”. Chow says, “I had the pleasure of the starting the first round of sessions at the 2013 Affiliate Summit East. Myself, Zac Johnson, John Rampton, and Syed Balkhi showed the assembled crowd exactly what it takes to create an authority blog and make massive passive income. Syed was the moderator and asked the questions for the first 40 minutes. Then he turned the mic over to the floor so the people in the audience can get answers to questions specific to them”. How To Create Authority Blogs... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “7 Fun Ways To Harness Social Media In Your Business”. The YEC team says, “If your company hasn’t learned to harness the power of the social media world yet, here’s one reason you should: according to Google, nearly 60 percent of people talk more online than they do in real life. So where do you begin? There are plenty of avenues to take. Here are some ideas for putting your business into the spotlight, gleaned from a recent Ragan Conference in Orlando, Florida”. 7 Fun Ways To Harness Social Media In Your Business ... [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “40+ Tools to Advance Your International SEO Process”. Aleyda Solis says, “When expanding your web presence to include international audiences, you’re faced with a new set of challenges. In this post, MozCon 2013 speaker Aleyda Solis offers 40+ tools to help your marketing reach farther than it ever has before”. 40+ Tools to Advance Your International SEO Process MOZ Blog  [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “The Secret Source Of Power For Future Marketers”. Brian Massey says, “I was recently asked, “What do you think the landscape for targeted conversion optimization will look like in five years?” A number of things came to mind, including: Automated personalization technologies that essentially eliminate the need for conversion optimization The end of the website due to the rise of apps The end of the website due to the rise of mobile devices The end of the website due to the collapse of civilization These all... [...]