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MarTech » Marketing Management » Marketing Day: January 9, 2012

Marketing Day: January 9, 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: Tebow-Mania Hits Twitter: More Tweets-Per-Second Than Bin Laden, Steve Jobs & Beyoncé’s Pregnancy Among the many miraculous things Tim Tebow has done, we can now add this: a record for the […]

Barry Schwartz on January 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm | Reading time: 6 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:

  • Tebow-Mania Hits Twitter: More Tweets-Per-Second Than Bin Laden, Steve Jobs & Beyoncé’s Pregnancy

    Among the many miraculous things Tim Tebow has done, we can now add this: a record for the most sports-related tweets per second. It happened yesterday during the NFL playoff game between Tebow’s Denver Broncos and the defending AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Tebow’s legend has grown this season thanks to his leading the team on […]

  • Were The Mayans Talking About The End Of Social Media?

    January is traditionally the time when bloggers and commentators like to predict what’s going to happen over the coming months; I’ve even been known to have a go myself. But as I was trying to pull together my predictions for 2012, I couldn’t help but wonder whether I was wasting my time — after all, […]

  • Nook Teams With NY Times To Battle Amazon’s Kindle

    Although we don’t have sales figures, Barnes & Noble’s Nook eReader and tablet line appears to be holding its own against Kindle’s fiery onslaught. This morning the company announced a device promotion with the New York Times to battle its rival: [C]ustomers who purchase a one-year NOOK subscription to The New York Times will receive […]

  • Report: $31 Billion In “M-Commerce” By 2015

    Holiday 2011 is being hailed by many as a kind of breakthrough for so-called “m-commerce”: people buying things on smartphones and tablets. Actually it was more of a breakthrough for smartphone “shopping.” Only a handful of sites — mainly Amazon and eBay — are actually seeing transactions through their mobile apps. The expectation is that […]

  • Marketing Beyond The Funnel With Display Media

    Marketers invest a lot into driving new users to their site and incentivizing them to return and convert. Given the work and dollars spent on this endeavor, it is important to consider what you can do to retain and reacquire customers after the point of conversion. The funnel has become a standard visualization of the […]

  • Reddit Sees 2x Growth In 2011, Now Serving 2 Billion Pageviews A Month

    The most popular social news community, Reddit, hit record numbers in December. The site served over 2 billion pageviews last month, up from 1 billion in February of 2011. Reddit is a community of sub-communities (also called sub-reddits) where people share relevant content and articles. For example, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter sub-reddits exist that users can subscribe […]

Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:

  • Large-Scale Content Optimization Tactics For Enterprise Sites
  • 6 Mobile Search Optimization Trends For 2012
  • Koreans Accuse Google Of “Obstructing” Antitrust Investigation
  • Class Action Lawsuit Against Google For Ads On Parked Domains Turned Down
  • Tips For Managing Negative Keywords In PPC Campaigns
  • 2011: The Year Google & Bing Took Away From SEOs & Publishers
  • Google Logo Honors Addams Family Creator, Charles Addams

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Analytics

  • Google’s [Not Provided]: Assessing 2.5 Months of Analytics Damage, www.smallbusinesssem.com

Applications & Portals

  • Angry Birds, Facebook most downloaded apps in 2011, Reuters

Blogs & Blogging

  • 3 Tools For Managing a Killer Multi-Author Blog, www.convinceandconvert.com
  • 31 Blog Design Mistakes (& How to Fix Them), Heidi Cohen
  • How to Crop, Rotate, Scale, and Flip Images in WordPress, www.wpbeginner.com
  • How to Deal With Comment Trolls Both On and Away From Your Blog, bestbloggingtipsonline.com

Business Issues

  • Facebook Adds In-Game Offers Option For All Developers, Hoping To Further Diversify Revenue, TechCrunch
  • At the Top of Congress’ New Year Agenda? Regulate the Net, techland.time.com
  • CES 2012: Overcrowding the Android tablet market, www.zdnet.com
  • Google reportedly paying smart TV vendors to use Android, www.slashgear.com
  • IPhone Built for China Telecom Gains Regulator Approval, PC World

Content Marketing

  • Why 2012 Will Be the Year of Content Marketing [with 2 Bonus Infographics], unbounce.com

Conversion Optimization

  • Generate Trust With Your Landing Page Copy | 10 Idiot Proof Ways, The Daily Egg

Copywriting, Design & Usability

  • 6 Guidelines for Exceptional Website Design and Usability, blog.hubspot.com
  • 7 Must-Have B2B Web Design Elements for 2012, www.openforum.com
  • Resources to Hack Design, jamie-davidson.com
  • Seven UX Best Practices of Community Design, uxmag.com

Display & Contextual Advertising

  • Rick Santorum’s ‘Google problem’ means ad space for rivals, www.latimes.com
  • Google TV Ads: New year, new partner and new technology, google-tvads.blogspot.com
  • Is Your Facebook Ad Image Worth A Thousand Words?, Search Engine Watch
  • Yahoo Ad Display Business Weakens, YouTube Stays Strong, MediaPost

Email Marketing

  • Are Email Marketers Overconfident in Their Segmenting Abilities?, www.emarketer.com
  • Email Marketing in 2012: 5 Striking Predictions | Business 2 Community, www.business2community.com
  • Email Marketing: How a triggered alert program maintains 40% open rate, 60% click-to-open rate for millions of subscribers, www.marketingsherpa.com
  • Maximize Your Marketing With Autoresponders, www.huffingtonpost.com

General Internet Marketing

  • Amazon Got It Right Last Month, www.mediapost.com
  • The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change, or Perish., www.kaushik.net

Internet Marketing Industry

  • Getting Sophisticated: What B2B Tech Marketers Must Learn from B2C, www.business2community.com

Local Marketing

  • AT&T Interactive Makes YP Data Available to Developers for Free with New API, www.screenwerk.com
  • Loci 2011- David Mihm, blumenthals.com

Mobile Marketing

  • Android as we know it will die in the next two years and what it means for you, an.ton.io
  • Mobile Display: Still Small Potatoes, www.digiday.com

Other Items

  • TV’s Digital Age Will (Truly) Arrive In 2017 | DigitalNext: A Blog on Emerging Media and Technology – Advertising Age, adage.com

Search Marketing

  • 5 Ways to Use Google+ to Improve Your Search Engine Optimization, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
  • Social Signals Increasingly Important to SEO, www.marketingcharts.com
  • Ten Warning Signs That You Have the Wrong SEM Agency, www.ppcassociates.com

Social Media

  • Top Five Things I Resolve To Never Hear A Marketer Say About Social Media In 2012… And Beyond, www.stargroup1.com
  • Twitter has 400,000 volunteer translators, now offers Swedish, thenextweb.com
  • 40 useful updates for your brand’s Facebook page, www.ragan.com
  • 7 Ways To Improve Your Social Media Skills and Influence, www.forbes.com
  • A Beginner’s Guide to Twitter, Read/Write Web
  • Better Engagement Than Facebook, Or Fuzzy Math?, www.allfacebook.com
  • Build Your Social Media Schedule For 2012, socialmediatoday.com
  • Data Reveals a Social Media Success Formula, www.copyblogger.com
  • Do Social Media Postings Always Require a Brand Response?, www.emarketer.com
  • Klout, Egometrics, and Shiny Algorithm Syndrome, brightoak.com
  • Put Google Friend Connect & Reader in Your Social Marketing Strategy – MarketingProfessor.com, www.marketingprofessor.com
  • Warner Bros. to launch photo sharing social network called Out My Window, fusible.com

New on MarTech

    Google favors helpful content over search engine-first in new update
    PGA TOUR transforms fan experience, analytics and customer feedback
    Work in Progress Limits: Getting started with the Agile Marketing Navigator
    Amazon decision to use Nielsen is big boost for beleaguered rating service
    TransUnion partners with Canvas Worldwide to boost omnichannel CX

About The Author

Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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