The latest article on the ‘The Future of Ink’ blog is titled “How to Get Reviews by the Truckload on Amazon″. Penny Sansevieri says, “These days, we hear a lot aboutbook discovery.As more and more books hit the market, readers are deluged with choices and authors are struggling to get in front of new readers and even existing fans. RecentlyBowkerannounced that the number ofbooks published each day in the US is up to 3,500. This does not include all eBook data since many eBooks are published without ISBN numbers that Bowker can track. What this has done is createa strong need for a reader’s... [...]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Go to ClickBank Exchange After Affiliate Summit West 2014”. Collins Says, “ClickBank is bringing back their official event, the ClickBank Exchange, right after Affiliate Summit West 2014 on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 in Las Vegas. ClickBank Exchange 2014 is taking place the day after Affiliate Summit at Paris Las Vegas, so you can combine the two events to make four big days of networking and learning. There is a special deal for folks attending Affiliate Summit – they’ve extended their Cyber Monday 50% off deal to run till the end... [...]

IM NewsWatch has been reporting on the video training available from Emka Strimatis on building squeeze pages. Today he announces his new WordPress plugin to assist you in creating not only squeeze pages (also called lead capture pages), but also sales pages, webinar registration pages, thank you pages, download pages and more. To earn a living from your site, these pages are needed, and this new software can simplify making professional sales-related pages for you. This is not a typical”marketing page creator” that you’ve seen before. Typically, they are confined to a few variations.... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “2014: the mobile SEO timebomb”. Chris Liversidge says, “Over the last four months, Google has been ramping up its publicity of a more aggressive target for mobile site performance: sub one second page load times. Enforcement of this aspiration comes from Google’s usual source: algorithmic rewards for sites achieving this goal. You just need to look at how industry commentary has exploded around site speed issues over the last couple of years to see the impact this strategy has had”. 2014: the mobile SEO... [...]

MarketingSherpa has released a case study titled “E-commerce Marketing: 540% higher revenue-per-email for automated send”. Adam Sutton says, “E-commerce marketers who sell custom or expensive items are typically not looking for impulse buyers. Instead, they nurture long-term relationships, hoping for a sale weeks or months down the road. A custom clothing site decided to build relationships with its email program, and to do so, it tested an autoresponder with hand-picked product suggestions. The result: 540% higher revenue-per-email in the first test. See how the team selected... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Why marketers need to be not just helpful, but useful”. Jason Thibeault says, “The idea of being helpful, of providing content and resources to prospective and current customers that may not have anything to do with your organization, is a new and radical concept for many marketers. “You mean you want me to publish content that doesn’t sell my product?” The idea is simple: give people want they want and eventually they consider you a trusted resource. But is being helpful enough? Is helpfulness really... [...]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “10 Steps to Ethical Content Curation”. Pawan Deshpande says, “To fill their pipelines with a steady stream of timely, relevant content that doesn’t have to be created from scratch, a growing number of marketers are using content curation—the process of finding, organizing, annotating (contextualizing), and sharing digital content on a specific topic for a target market. Compared with the creation of original content, curation can be a faster and easier way to generate content. But bad curation can damage your brand’s credibility... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Facebook Still Dominates Social Sharing, But Pinterest Is Now Tops For E-commerce”. Greg Finn says, “Gigya, a social customer management and tools company, has released its most recent social sharing report which contains some eye-opening information. The global sharing champion was Facebook, to no one’s surprise; but, Pinterest’s numbers have skyrocketed, even surpassing Facebook for e-commerce-related sharing. Out of all social networks, three made up 91% of all sharing. Leading the way in social sharing was... [...]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “5 Negative SEO Techniques That Could Hurt Your Website”. Radhika says, “If you have been in Internet marketing long enough, you know you need to understand the magic of SEO. You should at least have a working knowledge of how “doing SEO” brings traffic to your site and helps it move up in the world of rankings and relevance. With this in mind, you have probably mapped out an SEO strategy for your site (if you haven’t you really should!). You’ve planned and executed and planned some more and then one day …... [...]

Anything that complies with their terms and conditions, of course. The point is that now you can build a store inside Facebook, and do it easily without technical skills. Product developer, Karthik Ramani has created Social Mini Store Pro to make even beginners into Facebook marketers. With this new software, you can create an attractive, professional landing page in Facebook in no time at all, with no technical expertise required. But that’s not all; create a sales page, a Thank You page, etc., using his templates. You can do all this with: • No technical expertise needed • No... [...]