Marketing Day: December 14, 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: Google+ Android & iOS Apps Get Communities Support, Other Features Google is updating both the Android and iOS versions of its Google+ app with a host of new — but mostly […]
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:
- Google+ Android & iOS Apps Get Communities Support, Other Features
Google is updating both the Android and iOS versions of its Google+ app with a host of new — but mostly minor, frankly — features. The biggest addition to me, an iOS user, is the addition of support for Google+ Communities — the feature that rolled out about a week ago for desktop Google+ users. […]
- Marketing Biz: Yahoo Organic Search Ads, Sinistar & Lots Of Smartphone Screencaps
This week in marketing was rife with smartphone-related features from Twitter filters to Google Maps on the iPhone to Google’s new confirmed clicks feature to defeat fat finger ad clicks. But to me it was Yahoo’s new cost-per-lead format in organic search results and Delivery Agent’s $5 million round of funding from Samsung Ventures that […]
- Survey: 91 Percent Have Gone Into Stores Because Of Online Promotion
Though most retailers, advertisers and brands have not yet caught up, we are firmly in the multi-platform era. Newspaper-backed local shopping platform Wanderful Media released findings from a shopping survey of just over 1,000 US adults yesterday. The findings both confirm what we already know about changing consumer behavior and provide more color. Reflecting the […]
- The Top Apple iOS Apps Of 2012
Apple has released their top apps of 2012 for the App Store in iTunes, you can access the list in iTunes by clicking here. The top free apps for 2012 in the App Store are: (1) YouTube (2) Instagram (3) Draw Something Free (4) Flashlight (5) Facebook (6) Pandora Radio (7) Temple Run (8) Pinterest […]
- Study: Affluent Consumers More Likely to Use Digital Coupons Than Lower Income Groups
Digital coupon marketing provider RevTrax has released study findings that include several months of digital coupon activation and in-store redemption data across the US. The company identifies the leading locations and demographic trends tied to digital coupon activity. The data in the study were collected in Q2 2012 and based on millions of online to […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Google In Privacy Flap With Germans Over New iOS Maps
- Bing’s Social Sidebar Lands On The iPad
- Reporting On Social Media Engagement
- Search In Pics: Yahoo Tropical Party, Google Zeitgeist Wall & Matt Cutts Face Palm
- Yahoo Announces Secure Search Partnership With AVG
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Analytics for the Non-Analytical, overit.com
- Making Sense of Marketing Attribution [Infographic], www.getelastic.com
Blogs & Blogging
- How to Quit Publishing Bad Content, www.copyblogger.com
- Lookin’ Good! A Brief Intro to Inline CSS for Bloggers, www.problogger.net
- The One Thing You Can Do Now to Help Your Blog Succeed in 2013, www.mackcollier.com
- WordPress 3.5 Passed 1 Million Downloads, Weblog Tools Collection
Business Issues
- Head of Google.org Shona Brown leaving to advise nonprofits and startups, www.theverge.com
- Levchin Says Mayer’s "Very Ballsy Move" to CEO of Yahoo Was Inspiring, All Things D
Content Marketing
- Five core elements of audience building content strategy, econsultancy.com
- Don’t Forget The “Marketing” in Content Marketing, www.quicksprout.com
- Visual Content Creation Ideas, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
- 8 Fatal Mistakes that Can Sabotage Your Conversion Rate, www.tone.co.uk
- Top 20 Conversion Insights of 2012, unbounce.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Five Signs of an Advanced Ecommerce Site, uxmag.com
- Web Discussions: Flat by Design, www.codinghorror.com
Email Marketing
- Promise vs. Intrigue: What is the most effective way to word a subject line?, www.marketingexperiments.com
- The Scientific Method Applied to Your Email Program: A Simple How-To Guide, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
- What’s My Brand Identity and How Do I Communicate It?, www.bruceclay.com
- 10 New Year’s Resolutions for SMB Online Retailers in 2013, www.business2community.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Which will come first: mobile payments or flying cars?, Internet Retailer
Other Items
- Winter cleaning, Official Google Blog
Reputation Management
Social Media
- Developers can now easily add ‘go to app’ or ‘play game’ buttons to Facebook pages, Inside Facebook
- Pinterest pulls Twitter integration, says it was just a test, www.dailydot.com
- 6 Twitter Mistakes Every Business Owners Should Avoid, level343.com
- ESPN to Use Twitter to Send Instant Replays of College Football, New York Times
- My Social Media Predictions for 2013, Social Media Today
Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.
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