The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Social Media SEO Basics”. Prasanna Bidkar says, “Social media SEO has become an important factor with changes to search engine algorithms. SEO has been an integral part of digital marketing for a long time now. However, search engine algorithms now look for pages and blog posts shared on different social media networks and the number of shares that they get”. Social Media SEO Basics Business2Community.com  [...]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “How to Write an Email Newsletter in 90 Minutes”. Pamela Neely says, “Writing a newsletter is one of the most difficult marketing stumbling blocks for a small business owner. You know it’s a task worth doing, but every week or month the email newsletter deadline rolls around and you think, “What I am going to say in the newsletter?” The good news is that if you can carve out even 90 minutes, you can get that newsletter done. Here are six tips for helping you develop your newsletter”. How to Write an Email Newsletter in 90... [...]

Well-known marketer Matt Garrett has just released a large set of graphics every online marketer can use. His WP Web Graphics package includes a wide variety of graphics, with something for every need. You get over 2 GB of graphics, including: • Arrows in many (over 3000, in fact) shapes and sizes • Over 300 textured backgrounds • Over 100 badges • Nearly 250 buttons • 90 doodles and other hand-written graphics This is just the beginning. You also get calls to action, stars, stamps, text styles, timeline templates, book covers and more, far too many to mention individually. You... [...]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “30 Conversion Tools for Merchants”. Allison Howen says, “Conversions are like puzzles, because in order to obtain a sale, merchants must first put all of the right “pieces” into place. These pieces include anything that directly impacts the user-experience or a prospect’s perception of a brand, from product image features to customer service tools. After all, getting a prospect’s attention is only half the battle, which leaves it up to a merchant’s marketing tools and website features to get these leads to convert”. ... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Stop Comparing Pinterest To Fancy Already”. Lauren Orsini says, “Eight million daily uniques. Thirty-five languages. $100,000 a day in revenue. Is it time to stop comparing Fancy to Pinterest yet? When Fancy first came on the scene in early 2012, the image-sharing community looked a lot like a certain social-media site we’d seen before. Users could pin—er, “Fancy”—items to digital image boards and then click to purchase. It was called “Pinterest for shopping.” Awed by items’ exorbitant prices, I called it “Pinterest... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “The Teacher’s Guide to Social Media”. Eric Larson says, “Education is a two-way street — oftentimes, those who teach could stand to learn a few things as well. Social media, for one, is largely dominated by Generation Y. We invented it, we grew up with it and we know it like the back of our keyboard-ready hands. In some schools, tablets and social networks are becoming primary classroom tools. Even digitally-versed teachers need to evolve with the language of their increasingly connected students”. The Teacher’s... [...]

Dan Murray, an admitted serial product creator (he has created 37 information products in 8 niches in just 6 years), has just released Black Hat Product Creation 2.0 to show you his winning method for finding a lucrative product opportunity and then creating a profitable product to respond to that opportunity. If you are like IM NewsWatch and are averse to “black hat” methods, you needn’t fear this training. Calling it “black hat” is apparently a marketing gimmick, lending an air of mystery. When the IMNW evaluator read through this training, it all looked open and... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Six useful case studies on where to place your CTA to maximise conversions”. David Moth says, “There are many factors that influence the design of yourcall-to-action and it’s certainly a feature that benefits from extensive testing and tweaking. It’s likely that it’s an area that is somewhat neglected though, as our new Adobe Digital Marketing Optimisation Survey found that a majority of companies (53%) spend less than 5% of their total marketing budgets on optimisation activities, despite the fact that a small... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “SlideShare Launches New Infographic Capabilities, and Other Inbound Stories of the Week”. Ginny Soskey says, “It’s finally that time of week again — that time when, at long last, you can catch up with last week’s inbound marketing news. You’ve plowed through Monday’s emails, Tuesday’s tweets (plus scheduled some more), and Wednesday’s writing for next week’s blog posts. You’ve even optimized a few landing pages”. SlideShare Launches New Infographic Capabilities, and Other... [...]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “An Introduction to Integrated Marketing and SEO: How It Works and Why It Matters”. Stephanie Chang says, “To be successful in SEO today, a solid understanding of supporting marketing disciplines is imperative to success. Read on to think bigger about the direction of our industry, and learn what you can implement into your day-to-day work to reach your marketing goals”. An Introduction to Integrated Marketing and SEO: How It Works and Why It Matters MOZ Blog  [...]