Marketing Day: Facebook Admin Apps, Email Tips & A Tour Of Our New Site
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: Page Admins Stick To Native Facebook Apps For Posting On Business And Brand Pages How do you post to your business or brand Facebook Page? Although there’s no shortage of third-party services […]
Amy Gesenhues on August 11, 2014 at 5:14 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes
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:
- Page Admins Stick To Native Facebook Apps For Posting On Business And Brand Pages How do you post to your business or brand Facebook Page? Although there’s no shortage of third-party services and apps to help Page administrators manage posting to the social network, most are using native Facebook tools, according to social media analytics provider Quintly. Quintly analyzed 5 million posts made by 110,000 Facebook Pages in July […]
- Questions To Ask About Your Biggest Marketing Technology Challenges
What happened in the marketing technology industry? If it was made for, well, marketers, why is it so freaking hard for traditional marketers to wrap their minds around the space? Many of the marketing technology solutions solve only one problem or part of the problem. There is no be-all, end-all marketing technology solution that will […] - Yahoo’s Twitter Account Hacked, Tweets Out Ebola Outbreak Report
Even the big guys are susceptible to infiltration. Yahoo’s News Twitter account @YahooNews was compromised yesterday and the hackers were able to push out a fraudulent Tweet about a non-existent Ebola outbreak as shown above. Thankfully Yahoo was able to correct the issue in just a short matter of time and released the following Tweet: […] - Dodge Dart Finds Humor In The Endless Scroll On Its YouTube Page
Actor/comedian Craig Robinson, famous for The Office and Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is making quite a name for himself in the ad world. Just a few months ago, he could be spotted fronting several very funny ads for Hay Day. Now, he, along with fellow actor/comedian Jake Johnson, is fronting a campaign for Dodge […] - Viewability Rising As Programmatic Dominates & Fraud Proliferates
The number of companies using programmatic ad buying is increasing by the day. A recent Advertiser Perceptions survey reports that 78% of high-level decision makers are now using programmatic technologies and strategies across campaigns. On the positive side, programmatic allows marketers to buy audiences using data and increases media efficiencies. However, concerns within the real-time […] - 10 Reasons To Attend SMX East, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in NYC
We get it. You’re responsible for increasing site traffic, sales and ROI. You cope with constant algorithm updates (Penguin/Panda/Pigeon, oh my!). Evaluate new ad formats and platforms. And test, test and test again to maximize conversions. Your continued success depends on keeping up. That’s why you should come to SMX East for search and internet […] - Prep For Email Segmentation To Reap These 3 Benefits
As marketers, we like deliverables. They serve as tangible signs that we’ve moved the needle on the company’s bottom line. Saying “I got 4,000 leads last month” or “my prospect list size is 78,000″ doesn’t actually say all that much, but we all feel like the bigger the number, the better. Even when speaking to […] - Introducing The New Marketing Land!
Notice anything different today? I sure hope so, because we’ve just launched the new Marketing Land website! You can call it Marketing Land 2.0, if you’d like, because this is our first redesign since the site launched back in December, 2011. Our sister site, Search Engine Land, has also been relaunched. While both sites obviously […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Indian Govt. Rages At Google Maps Outing Of Secret Bases
- Perseid Meteor Shower 2014 Stars In Its Very Own Google Logo
- Chinese Man Sues Baidu Over “Gay Conversion” Ad In SERP
- Google: No Comment On Possible Google Algorithm Update Over The Weekend
- Using Autocomplete To Hijack Local Search Results & Improve Online Reputation
- 10 Reasons To Attend SMX East, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 in NYC
- Music Is Google’s Latest Ad Test In The Knowledge Panel
- Introducing The New Search Engine Land!
- A Search Marketer’s Guide To Becoming An Excel Power User
- Google Settles Shareholder Suit, Will Set Aside $250M To Disrupt Rogue Online Drug Ads
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Smart Dashboard Modules: Insightful Dimensions, Best Metrics, www.kaushik.net
Blogs & Blogging
- 11 Cool Things You Can Do With WordPress (But You Probably Aren’t), www.searchenginejournal.com
- Don’t Do That! Your Must-Know Guide to Blogging Culture, www.blogtyrant.com
- How Furthering Your Formal Education Can Help You as a Blogger, www.blogherald.com
- The 3:00 a.m. Secret Question That Drives Meaningful Success, www.copyblogger.com
Business Issues
- Judge Rejects Settlement in Hiring Suit Against Google, Apple and Intel, New York Times
- Google is Backing a $300 Million High-Speed Internet Cable, thenextweb.com
Content Marketing
- 20 Tools For Creating Brag-Worthy Visual Content, www.thunderactive.com
- 50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists, New York Times
- 8 Content Curation Tools That Will Slash Your PR Budget, www.vocus.com
- Content Engagement Report Identifies Scrolling as a Key Metric for Content and Media Optimization, www.addthis.com
- Content Marketing Optimization: The Ultimate Guide, heidicohen.com
- Content Marketing Rules: What to Ditch and What to Keep, www.jeffbullas.com
- In the Content Marketing Kingdom, Third-Party Experts Rule, www.marketingprofs.com
- This is How You Write a Content Strategy That Works, contently.com
- Visual Content: The Key to Effective Brand Storytelling, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- Your Days Of Struggling With Content Creation Are Over, authoritylabs.com
Conversion Optimization
- Little-Known Form Facts that Increase Conversion Rates, blog.crazyegg.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- How to (Try to) Write a Perfect Headline, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
- Trust in Experience Design, uxmag.com
- What Apple’s secret in-house university teaches employees about good design, qz.com
Domaining
- A look inside Google’s new domain name registrar, domainnamewire.com
- Biggest new TLD surprises (upside and downside), domainnamewire.com
- Your Domain Name Should Sell Itself, www.domaininvesting.com
Ecommerce
- 10 ways to increase customer engagement in ecommerce, econsultancy.com
- 43% of QVC’s U.S. revenue now comes from the web, www.internetretailer.com
- 6 Marketing Strategies for National Retailers Managing Local Outlets, streetfightmag.com
- Brand pages on online marketplaces: A good idea, badly executed, econsultancy.com
- Could These 5 Technologies Change Ecommerce?, www.practicalecommerce.com
- The Bloomberg terminal for fashion tells retailers exactly what consumers want in real-time, qz.com
Email Marketing
General Internet Marketing
- 9 Scary Marketing Terms, Made Less Daunting, blogs.constantcontact.com
- How Good Is Google At Digital Marketing?, www.adexchanger.com
- Six More Media and Marketing Buzzwords That Must Die, adage.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- The New TV Pilot Season: Bringing YouTube Stars, Channels And Bloggers To TV Screens, techcrunch.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
- 12 Points Your Customers Should Know Before Writing a Review, www.localvisibilitysystem.com
- Mobile Onboarding: A Beginner’s Guide, www.smashingmagazine.com
- Restaurant chains eat up mobile for more personal, timely relationships, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
- Wearables are the new loyalty frontier, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Social Media
- 10 Top Retailers on Facebook, for Ecommerce Inspiration, www.practicalecommerce.com
- 18 Tips for a Successful Social Media Strategy, www.searchenginejournal.com
- 59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps That Do Pretty Much Everything, blog.bufferapp.com
- 9 Interesting Social Media Tools, www.razorsocial.com
- Facebook Post Frequency: How to Find Out What Works, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- Here’s What Happens When You Like Everything On Facebook, adage.com
- How to Use Bitly to A/B Test Your Tweets, www.mediabistro.com
- How to Use Twitter Animated GIFs to Improve Your Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- Marin Software Says Facebook Ads Get Bigger Uptick Than Google for Back to School and the Holidays, www.adweek.com
- Parenthoods Debuts A Mobile Social Network Just For Moms And Dads, techcrunch.com
- The Future of Social Media Content Strategy is Really Deja Vu, contentmarketinginstitute.com
- The TSA and 4 Other Unexpectedly Awesome Branded Instagram Feeds, contently.com
- Twitter’s Small Chance To Maim Email, techcrunch.com
- Why Original Content Works on Google Plus, www.ryanhanley.com
Video
- BuzzFeed Video Shares Its Formula for Explosive Growth, www.reelseo.com
- How to Get Fans to Like your YouTube Channel: The Top 30 Channels in Outdoor that Know How to Wow, www.touchstorm.com
- Interview with Brian Russell of Media Distribution Solutions: Behold the Power of Video, www.searchinfluence.com
- Survey: YouTube Stars More Popular Than Mainstream Celebs Among U.S. Teens, variety.com
- Unruly Rolls Out Nielsen OCR for Video Advertisers, Marketers, www.reelseo.com
- Vine Competitor Groopie Lets Vloggers Create TV-Style Shows Together, techcrunch.com
- YouTube Creator Discovery Handbook Part 1: Watch Time and Getting Found, www.reelseo.com
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