Today Mark Dulisse introduced version 2 of his single WordPress theme that builds a complete sales website: SalesPress Pro It is a complete Sales Page System, but it is more. It includes template Pages for all sales-related needs: • Video Sales Pages • Content Pages • Membership Pages • Squeeze Pages • Webinar Registration Pages • Download and Thank You Pages • Disclaimer Pages • Life Streaming Pages • Blog Pages Some of the special features include: 1. The ability to upload your own template for any page 2. The ability to create video opt-ins 3. The... [...]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “Are you annoying your audience?”. Jonathan Love says, “Did your tweet last night strike a chord with your followers? What about that controversial post you just Facebooked? Your social following is made up of real people with opinions; how they’re reacting to you and your content could indicate whether your bottom line is about to zoom… or tank. Irrelevant, boring, or just plain annoying Tweets or Facebook posts could see your audience drop (followed swiftly by your sales). But how do you know if you’re... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “How to Optimize Your Pinterest Page”. Brittany Berger says, “So, social media optimization. We’ve been talking about it a lot. This Monday will be no different, but next week will be the last week of the series. This week we’ll be talking about Pinterest, which we’ve looked at in an optimization sense before. But before, we wrote about how to optimize your website for Pinterest. Now we’re showing you how to optimize Pinterest for search engines and audiences. I’m going to go about this post differently than... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “A Beginner’s Guide to Inbound Lead Generation”. Anum Hussain says, “We’ve all been through it. The moment you’re about to dig into the best darn pile of spaghetti and meatballs you’ve ever seen. Just as you twist your fork in the pasta, spear a mouth-watering meatball, and go in for the first savory bite … the phone rings. “May I speak to Aaahnooom Hahsahn?” says the telemarketer on the other end. “This is an important message regarding your oven preferences.””. A Beginner’s... [...]

Kevin Docherty has been working on a tool to improve communications between site visitors and site owners. Today’s visitors become irritated when they can’t get their questions answered. Making it easy for the visitor to contact you when something is unclear to them is key to building loyal clients. Docherty has just released WP Connect, the second generation of his communications plugin. With it, you can assure that your visitors are never more than one click away from contacting you. WP Connect places up to five buttons in your sidebar. You decide how many buttons and which functions... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “The Most (and Least) Effective Keywords in Email Subject Lines”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Emails with the word “alert” in their subject lines have a 38.1% higher than average open rate and 61.8% higher click rate, according to a recent study by British marketing firm Adestra. The keywords “free delivery” (+50.7% higher open rate, +135.4% click rate) and “bulletin” (+15.8%, +12.7%) also performed very well in the email campaigns analyzed. On the other hand, “report” (-23.7% average lower open... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Facebook Displaying Ads That Users Have Previously Hidden”. Greg Finn says, “Ever feel like you are seeing the same Facebook ad that you “hid” previously? Well, you aren’t crazy. You did choose to hide that ad and it is still showing up. Or, at least a near copy is. Facebook is hiding ads on a URI basis. AllThingsD reported that the hide functionality on the ad targeting does not apply to the entire domain, rather the specific product/section/link.  This means that you may hide an ad from your retailer for... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “eBay Now Expands Home Delivery Service to Desktop”. Emily Price says, “Getting that last-minute gift from Best Buy, missing tool from Home Depot or medicine for that cold you picked up at work, just got a little easier. eBay Now, a service that lets you order products from local retailers and delivers them in around an hour, officially launched for the web Monday. Already available in San Francisco, San Jose and New York City, the service also expanded into the Bay Area Peninsula, Brooklyn and Queens”. eBay Now Expands Home Delivery... [...]

Is your site viewed as an authority in your niche? Being an authority makes all the difference in your ranking. And your ranking makes all the difference in your sales. In Authority Revolution, Josh Precht shows you how to build up your site to authority status. Precht has created a step by step game plan on becoming authoritative. He has taken the guess work out of the process so you can know what to do and what to avoid to be successful. Knowing the things to avoid is important. In fact, this aspect of SEO is as important, probably, as knowing the things to do. Google has a distaste for sites... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “US consumers more likely to moan about brands on Twitter: study”. David Moth says, “The US and UK are said to be two nations divided by a common language, and it seems they are also divided by a common social network. A new study by 360i has found that Twitter usage patterns vary greatly between the two nations, particularly when looking at what time of day people are active on the network and how they engage with brands. For example, Twitter users in the UK are more likely to be active in the late morning and early... [...]