Marketing Day: November 25, 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 Places For Business Rolls Out Review Inbox, Listing Customer Ratings & Reviews All In One Place According to today’s post on the Google and Your Business blog, Google Places for […]
Barry Schwartz on November 25, 2013 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:
- Google Places For Business Rolls Out Review Inbox, Listing Customer Ratings & Reviews All In One Place
According to today’s post on the Google and Your Business blog, Google Places for Business is rolling out a new Review feature. Now, businesses with a verified listing can see their customer ratings and reviews all in one place with the new Review Inbox that has been added to the Places for Business dashboard. Google says […] - Infographic: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Shopping Stats
The holiday shopping season is about to kick-off once again with “Black Friday,” the busy shopping day after Thanksgiving in the US. Meanwhile, “Cyber Monday,” which follows Black Friday, continues strong. Will 2013 break records set in 2012? That seems likely. Below are stats about both days, compiled into an infographic by the folks at […] - Confirmed: Katie Couric To Become “Face Of Yahoo News”
Though it was widely reported last week, this morning Yahoo confirmed that Katie Couric would join the company as “Global Anchor.” CEO Marissa Mayer made the announcement on the company’s Tumblr blog: In addition to being the face of Yahoo News and shooting features for our homepage, Katie will continue to host her syndicated daytime […] - Holiday Email Marketing: Will You Be On Santa’s Naughty List?
This holiday shopping season, we anticipate record growth for online sales, with Thanksgiving expected to reach $1.1 billion, Black Friday at $1.6 billion and Cyber Monday at $2.27 billion, up 15% year-over-year. With retailers opening their doors and flipping the switches for online sales earlier, your email inbox is likely already a digital deluge of […] - Top 5 Ways To Use Reviews For Better App Store Optimization (ASO)
App store optimization (ASO) is the process of improving an app’s rank in an app store for search results related to the app. It’s the app store equivalent of SEO for Web pages. Just like SEO, ASO involves working to build up a great search ranking to drive downloads. One of the best app store […] - With Celebrity Directions Waze Becomes Vehicle For “Ride Along” Film Promotion
Last week, Universal Pictures announced that comedian Kevin Hart would be “the very first celebrity voice featured in U.S. versions of [Waze].” Universal is hoping to use the tie-in to promote an upcoming film in which Hart is starring, called “Ride Along.” Ride Along also stars rapper-actor Ice Cube and appears aimed primarily at African-American […] - Location Sharing Along With Photo & Video Backups Arrive On The Google+ iOS App
This weekend, Google updated the Google+ iOS app that allows for full resolution backups of all photos and videos as well as a “Latitude-esque” location sharing feature. While the update 4.6.0 is for iOS, the full res backups are for iOS7 only (which does require adequate cloud storage space). The location sharing feature allows users […] - Report: Katie Couric Exits $40 Million Deal With ABC For Yahoo
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is raiding the world of traditional media to build a roster of top talent to add prestige and new (video) content to the Yahoo brand. Roughly a month ago, Mayer poached long-standing New York Times columnist David Pogue to help boost and build out new technology news coverage for the site. […] - Facebook’s Sandberg Says “The Majority Of US Teens Use Facebook Almost Every Day”
In an interview with Mike Isaac of AllThingsD.com, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg claimed the media over-reacted to Facebook CFO Ebersman’s comment during a recent earnings call when he mentioned the site was seeing a drop in daily usage among teens. Sandberg told Isaac, “As we said on the earnings call, overall US teen usage of […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- 5 Trusted Accounts Every Local SEO Should Have
- Google’s Matt Cutts: We Dropped The 100 Links Per Page Guideline But We May Take Action If It Is Too Spammy
- Google Trusted Stores Now Integrates With AdWords, Shows StellaService Ratings In US
- Covario Named 2013 Search Agency Of The Year By OMMA Third Year In A Row
- White Ribbon On Google’s Homepage Helps Raise Awareness For UN’s Campaign To End Violence Against Women
- 6 Ways Google Webmaster Tools Can Improve Your SEO Strategy
- Ask.com Posts Most Popular Questions Of 2013 Without Waiting To See What Gets Asked In Dec.
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Actionable Insights You Can Find in Google Analytics Multi-Channel Reports, Search Engine Watch
Blogs & Blogging
- Top 9 Blogging Communities That Can Drive Massive Traffic, addictedme.com
Business Issues
- Forward Secrecy at Twitter, Twitter Blog
- FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe to Halt DNA Test Service, Bloomberg
- Inside a Twitter Robot Factory, Wall Street Journal
Conversion Optimization
- Reach Redefined: the most valuable marketing metric, digimind.com
- 18 Mind-Blowing Landing Page Stats [Infographic], ion interactive
- How to Use Features and Benefits to Gain Higher Conversions, The Daily Egg
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- The Effect of Human Faces in Web Design, The Usabilla Blog
Ecommerce
- PunchTab Expands International Business, as Customers Around the Globe Adopt the Company’s Loyalty and Rewards Platform, marketwired.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
- Google Glass developers: We’re still flying half-blind, CNET
- ’Tis the Season to go Mobile, Facebook for Business
- Entrepreneurs see opportunities in Google Glass, usatoday.com
- Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Posts Guide on Converting to Android from iPhone, Mac Rumors
- How mobile app data can be used to engage and retain customers, Econsultancy
- Penetration of Smartphones, Tablets Grows Among US Teens, eMarketer
Other Items
Social Media
- Google patents robot help for social media burnout, BBC
- StumbleUpon Marketing: How to Drive More Traffic to Your Content, Social Media Examiner
- A spurned techie’s revenge: Locking down his ex’s digital life, Ars Technica
- 3 Tools for Finding Influencers on Social Platforms, Online Marketing Blog
- 4 Qualities Every Successful Social Media Campaign Must Have, Search Engine People
- How to Make the Most of Visual Tweets, internetmarketingninjas.com
- Who should be @TIME’s Person of the Year?, Twitter Blog
- Why you should share your blog post more than once on Social Media: The case for reposting content, The Buffer Blog
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