Marketing Day: March 7, 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: The Google +1 Button Gets A Google+ Themed MakeoverToday Google announced a new-look Google +1 button that matches the new Google+ theme. Traditionally the +1 button was a white box with […]
Barry Schwartz on March 7, 2012 at 5:04 pm | Reading time: 4 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:
- The Google +1 Button Gets A Google+ Themed MakeoverToday Google announced a new-look Google +1 button that matches the new Google+ theme. Traditionally the +1 button was a white box with a blue +1 that turned a very loud royal blue when clicked. The +1 button was launched nearly a month before the Google+ network and had looked quite different. Until now. The […]
- How To Watch Apple’s “See & Touch” Event Live (Sort Of)At 10am PT today, Apple’s holding a major product event called “See & Touch,” where the “iPad HD” is largely expected to be launched. There’s no live stream, so if you want real-time coverage, you’ll need to follow one of the live blogs below. So far, here are places I’ve found with live blogging pages […]
- Infographic: What Should You Be Testing On Your Site?Testing your web site? You should — and you should be testing more than the landing page. Different pages, from your own search results to checkout pages should be tested, as well as particular elements such as copy and call-to-action buttons. The folks from Monetate have put together an infographic listing things you should consider […]
- US Now Has More Than 100 Million Smartphone Users — comScoreYesterday comScore released its monthly report on mobile market share among device makers and operating systems. There were no revelations or startling facts. Android and iOS continue their gains, while others lag or are in decline. The trend is especially worrisome for Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Phone. Mobile internet just under half PC internet population The […]
- Once Upon a Tweet: Telling Stories In TwitterIn November 2009, author Rick Moody published the entirety of a short story tweeted out in 153 hourly posts. He didn’t simply take a story and break it up into tweet-sized chunks, but specifically wrote it on Twitter. Moody said that he saw Twitter’s character limits as “some strange, poetical limitation that would be fun […]
- The Basics: Numbers That Matter In Email MarketingMarketing is often about numbers. You want to increase revenue, improve growth, decrease the unsatisfied customers and so on. Email marketing especially relies on numbers. Click-through rates, open rates, bounces and more are piled on to the list of metrics to watch. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all of these stats, so you need to […]
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Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- The Art of Setting Facebook KPIs, SEOptimise
Content Marketing
- 3 things you need to know about free press release websites, Smart Insights
- Everything You Need to Know about Using Title Tags in Content Marketing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Ultimate Guide To Responsive Web Design: Tools and Examples, 1stwebdesigner.com
General Internet Marketing
- 15 Presentation & Public Speaking Tips that Rock, blog.junta42.com
- Harvard Lesson: Verbs Beat Adjectives, Neuromarketing
Internet Marketing Industry
- 10 ways NOT to break up with a client, Conversation Marketing
- Influencer Marketing – What it is, and Why YOU Need to be Doing it, SEOmoz
Mobile Marketing
- Embedding Google AdMob Ads Within A UITableView, Google Ads Developer Blog
- Apple Introduces New iPad, thenextweb.com
- comScore Reports January 2012 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share, comScore, Inc
Other Items
- Pinterest’s Founding Designer Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy | Co.Design: business + innovation + design, www.fastcodesign.com
Search Marketing
- 10 Ways to Increase Your PPC CTR, PPC Hero
- How Internet Service Providers Affect SEO, SEO Theory
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