The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How to Create Facebook Events Without Annoying Your Friends”. Chelsea Stark says, “It’s always nice to be included. That is, unless it’s a Facebook Event for a 20-piece recorder recital playing Nickleback’s greatest hits. Since Facebook added the ability to plan events and invite your friends a few years ago, it’s become one of the post popular online ways to organize get-togethers. It’s also a feature that pisses people off”. How to Create Facebook Events Without Annoying Your Friends Mashable.com  [...]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “96 Quick SEO Wins – What Can You Do With an Hour?”. Kevin Gibbons says, “If you want to win at SEO in 2013, you must commit to a solid long-term strategy. However, that’s not to say you can’t build small wins into your long-term strategy to strengthen it along the way. Here are 96 quick wins you can implement in an hour or less to see tremendous results”. 96 Quick SEO Wins – What Can You Do With an Hour? SEOmoz  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Creating effective ads for tablets”. Mark Cluer says, “The fastest growth in ad spend is coming not from mobiles but from tablets. Campaigns for tablets are often grouped with mobile, and yet consumer behaviour is different on each. Understanding that difference is critical in creating an effective campaign for tablet users”. Creating effective ads for tablets ‘Econsultancy’ Blog  [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Managing Your Inbound Marketing Sales Funnel”. Greg Linnemanstons says, “Anyone with even a casual knowledge of Inbound Marketing knows its foundation is the art of qualified lead attraction. We often talk about filling the sales funnel with qualified leads, as if the sales funnel were this automated machine or process that turned a steady diet of leads into a predictable output of wonderful new customers. Oh, that it were so simple! No, it’s not simple or easy, but it’s also not rocket science or splitting an atom.... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How a Beauty Company Generated Facebook Buzz Without Giveaways”. Lauren Indvik says, “In November, Nars took on a unique challenge: to promote a new cosmetics collection using social media without giving away free product or paying for advertising. The company decided to develop a Facebook app for the Andy Warhol-inspired collection that would allow Facebook users to make over their profile photos and cover photos in the style of Warhol, with prominent Nars branding throughout. (To see it the app in action, check out the video from Nars... [...]

Ryan Deiss is hosting a webinar on Thursday, January 31 at 9.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “The 7 Sneakiest Tricks and Hacks We’ve Discovered That Can DOUBLE Your Business In The Next 90 Days”. Webinar Details Organizer: Ryan Deiss Topic: The 7 Sneakiest Tricks and Hacks We’ve Discovered That Can DOUBLE Your Business In The Next 90 Days Day/Date: Thursday, January 31 Time: 9.00 pm EST – Time Zone Converter Register for webinar details. ‘The 7 Sneakiest Tricks and Hacks We’ve Discovered That Can DOUBLE Your Business In The Next 90 Days’ Webinar  [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Five Ways to Treat Your Retail Customers Better (and Boost Profits) in 2013”. Kim Ann King says, “Now that the dropping of the Times Square ball and the popping of the champagne bottles are a distant memory, it’s time to get serious about your strategies for 2013. How will you treat your customers? How will you acknowledge their experiences and build their brand loyalty? How will you encourage interaction with multiple channels? The short answer: listen to them”. Five Ways to Treat Your Retail Customers Better (and Boost Profits)... [...]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Paid Social Ads To Increase in 2013”. Pete Prestipino says, “Most, if not all, digital brands invest in non-paid social media marketing efforts today, but a new report from Nielsen-owned Vizu indicates that many online marketers are planning on spending more on paid social media ads. The Vizu/Nielsen report indicates that 64 percent of online marketers say their budgets for paid social advertising will increase this year, while 34 percent said their budgets will remain the same. Just 2 percent will decrease their budget”. Paid... [...]

At noon EST, a new tool for improving your position in the search engine results pages (SERPs) wil be released. It’s called Syndication Rockstar. Syndication is a familiar tool in the publishing world. Pundits syndicate their articles. Cartoonists syndicate their cartoons. An article is sent to many outlets where it is published, essentially unchanged, many times. This has value for the creator (they influence many more people this way) and for the publisher (they get high quality content without having to pay a full-time salary. Web creators now have a process that lets them syndicate their... [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “3 Ways to Make your Website Sell”. Andy Curry says, “There are two common reasons to have a website. One, it needs to make your business easy to find. Second, it should sell for you. Website visitors won’t read everything on your site. I know this by studying Google Analytics data for different websites in different”. 3 Ways to Make your Website Sell Web Marketing Today  [...]