Marketing Day: December 13, 2012
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Studies: As Mobile Email Usage Soars, Marketers Budget More For Email, Mobile And Social Next year looks to be a strong one for email marketing according to a StrongMail survey of […]
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Studies: As Mobile Email Usage Soars, Marketers Budget More For Email, Mobile And Social
Next year looks to be a strong one for email marketing according to a StrongMail survey of more than a thousand marketers released today. The survey found that marketers plan to deploy more budget to email, social and mobile next year — which makes sense given a second study by ReturnPath found mobile open share […]
- Facebook Rebuilds Android App In Native Code To Improve Speed
A new version of Facebook’s official Android app is available today, and the company is advertising it as “faster than ever.” In its announcement, Facebook says things like looking at photos and opening the Timeline are twice as fast as they were before. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Facebook made the same claims in […]
- Facebook Makes Getting More Page Likes Easier For SMBs
This morning Facebook rolled out a new, simpler way to get more Page likes. It’s aimed chiefly though not exclusively at small businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 10,000 fans. That undoubtedly includes the overwhelming majority of SMBs with a presence on Facebook. The tools to create the simpler ad unit are in the Page admin […]
- Twitter Expands Keyword Targeting Choices For Promoted Tweets
Advertisers using Twitter’s Promoted Tweets product have new keyword options to target their tweets in Twitter’s search results, along with a new tool to import keywords from other online ad platforms. The company is launching three keyword matching options, along with the ability to use negative keywords, too. Search marketers will be familiar with the […]
- Google Expands “Confirmed Click” Functionality To In-App Smartphone Display Ads
How many times have you accidentally clicked on a mobile display ad, when you meant to hit the adjacent content on that tiny phone screen? More importantly, how many of your pay-per-click ads have been clicked on accidentally? This is the problem Google is trying to solve with new “confirmed click” functionality for its in-app […]
- 30 Essential Business Apps For Your Smartphone
Interactive marketing professionals don’t just use mobile to reach their customers — they’re often avid users of the technology themselves. Whether it’s to manage campaigns, to get work done while on the go, or just to become personally familiar with mobile user behavior, getting to know your devices and apps is critical. But when it […]
- TweetLevel: A GPS For Twitter
The dog never ate my homework. Or at least, I never tried to use that as an excuse, which is odd, considering my family actually owned a dog kennel. To this day, the memory of homework sends chills down my spine — I just wasn’t one of those people who dashed off their evening assignments with ease. […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Google Transparency Report Now Showing False Takedown Requests
- 3 Top Line Search Marketing Resolutions For 2013
- Report: FTC To Say Google Did Not Violate Antitrust Laws
- Hot & Cold Trends In Search Going Into 2013
- November ComScore Data Suggest PC Search Volume May Have Peaked
- Google Maps Is Back On The iPhone: Native iOS App Released
- Google Experiments With New Flight Explorer Feature
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- Amazon signs another tax deal, Internet Retailer
Analytics
- Big-Data Meltdown & 7 Other 2013 Predictions, www.allanalytics.com
- Google Tag Manager Overview, blog.search-mojo.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 8 Mistakes I Have Seen Guest Bloggers Make: As a Publisher & a Business Owner, www.copypress.com
- ‪How To Write Content Your Readers Will Actually Read‬, www.stayonsearch.com
- How long should blog posts be?, www.hallaminternet.com
- Introducing WordPress.com Enterprise, en.blog.wordpress.com
- The KISSmetrics Guide to Blogging, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Why the Battle Between Instagram and Twitter Matters For Fashion Bloggers, heartifb.com
- Why You Should (or Shouldn’t ) Use List Blogs, www.poweredbysearch.com
Business Issues
- Terillion Acquires Hotel Guest Review Company GuestComment, Marketing Pilgrim
Content Marketing
- 7 content marketing trends to watch for 2013, www.ragan.com
- Content Types that Attract Relevant Leads, www.tone.co.uk
- War of Words: Myth-Busting Content Marketing, Online Marketing Blog
Display & Contextual Advertising
- 77% Of Brand Advertisers Still Haven’t Embraced Online Video, socialtimes.com
Domaining
- Marchex end user sales report, part 3, domainnamewire.com
Email Marketing
- Many consumers who like e-mail also want text messages, Internet Retailer
- More Emails Being Opened On Mobiles Than Through Browser-Based Webmail, www.marketingcharts.com
General Internet Marketing
- Marketing Best Practices: 5 Reasons to Ignore Them, www.wordstream.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- Social PPC Buyer Beware! #SEO Content Agencies Now Quietly Peddle Paid, www.aimclearblog.com
Reputation Management
- How Co-branding Can Make Two Reputations Better than One, www.trackur.com
- Reputation Management: How to Make Bad News about Your Brand Vanish Off the Face of the Internet, Social Media Today
Social Media
- 24 of the Best Google+ Guides, Tips, Rants and Raves of 2012, webbiquity.com
- Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr, New York Times
- 2012 Wasn’t the ‘Twitter Election,’ But Watch Out for 2016, PBS
- 9 incredibly useful Twitter tools, www.prdaily.com
- App.net messaging API now available, blog.app.net
- Guardian kills its Facebook social reader, regains control over its content, GigaOM
- Social Media Doesn’t Work, And Here’s Why, www.outspective.com
- Welcome Package Update – Top Writers, www.quora.com
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