Marketing Day: March 20, 2013

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 Launches Notes Service, Google Keep Need to jot down quick notes to organize your information? That company which aims to organize your information, Google, has a new service designed to […]

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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 Launches Notes Service, Google Keep
    Need to jot down quick notes to organize your information? That company which aims to organize your information, Google, has a new service designed to help: Google Keep. Currently only available for Android 4.0 and higher , the service offers to sync your notes across devices, plus take in written (typed) notes or transcribe them when […]
  • Coca-Cola Clarifies: Social Media Is “Crucial” & Drives In-Store Sales
    A Coca-Cola executive threw cold water on social media buzz earlier this week when he told an advertising conference that the company doesn’t see a relationship between online buzz and the company’s short-term product sales. But the company has followed-up today with a clarification, saying that social is “crucial” and has been driving in-store purchases. […]
  • Klout’s New Product Invites Businesses To Get Serious About Social Influence
    Klout is hoping businesses will start to take social influence — and Klout itself — more seriously with today’s announcement of an analytics dashboard called Klout for Business. Klout describes it as “a set of tools designed to help you unlock the reach and power of your most influential audience members.” It’s not Klout’s first […]
  • Yes, Digg Was Dropped From Google Briefly, Back Now
    Some have noticed that pages from Digg were no longer appearing in Google today. Both the social media news site and Google confirm this was the case, due to mistaken malware issue. It’s now been solved. Matt Sawyer tweeted that Digg seemed to be off Google earlier today, and it was picked up by State […]
  • Google Gets A Battlestar Galactica Cylon
    Move over Stan, Google’s pet T-Rex. Google’s SpaceShipOne replica? More ancient history. The latest on the “things to see at Google” list might be the company’s resident Cylon. That’s right. Cylons are at Google. Googler Richard Hay posted a picture, spotted by Search Engine Roundtable, of Google’s resident Cylon today on his Google+ account: It’s […]
  • Here Comes Another Button: “Send To Kindle”
    The new “send to Kindle” button may not be just another button to put on your site or blog. Because of Amazon’s brand and Kindle’s reach (both hardware and software) it could, if publishers comply, see meaningful adoption by consumers. In Q3 last year Amazon created a Send to Kindle Chrome browser extension. (There’s no […]
  • Hiring The Email Designer
    Best practices and smart tactics go a long way, but the most important part of any successful marketing program – email or otherwise – is building the right team. So, what do you look for when hiring an email designer? Here’s a short list of key factors to help ensure you have the right folks […]
  • Watch Wars: Samsung Races Apple To Develop Wearable Computer
    Consumers have only recently gotten used to smartphones and barely integrated tablets into their routines. Soon they’ll be presented with yet another mobile device: wearable computers (watches) from both Apple and Samsung. There are other companies offering or developing versions of a “smartwatch” as well. One such device is the Pebble smartwatch (pictured at right), […]
  • Consumer Behavior Survey Finds Personalized Service Options Win Over Brand Loyalty
    Findings from a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive and inContact, a provider of cloud contact center software, prove companies cannot rely on brand loyalty when it comes to keeping existing customers or winning new ones. The survey, conducted online February 11 through February 13, 2013 using a nationwide sample of 2,191 U.S. adults aged […]
  • Facebook Rolls Out Lookalike Ad Audiences Globally
    As of today, those Facebook advertisers across the world that leverage Custom Audiences will have access to new Facebook Lookalike targeting. Lookalike Audiences allow advertisers to expand upon specific user sets that have been uploaded to find a larger (but still targeted) audience. Custom Audiences allow advertisers to upload a list of email addresses into […]

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