The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Christmas Marketing Ideas For 2013”. Ryan Christie says, “Believe it or not, there are just nine weekends until Christmas! We’re at the pointy end of 2013, and businesses around Australia are bracing themselves for the onslaught of consumers. Last year, Aussie shoppers forked out an average of $1200 per person – that’s an incredible $32 billion, throughout the festive season”. Christmas Marketing Ideas For 2013 Business2Community.com  [...]

Sean Lowery has created many products (including several WordPress themes) for online marketers. His latest is the new SellIt Theme. This WordPress theme is very flexible and includes advanced drag-and-drop features that speed up your site building. Not to mention, it creates attractive sites. With the control panel for this theme, you can easily: ■ Add or remove optional elements for your page ■ Change background colors, fonts, logo and favicon ■ Turn on and off entire sections of the theme with a single click ■ Create accordion style drop-down sections to your page ■ Change the heading,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Will Price IPO at $17 to $20 per Share”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Twitter plans to offer 70 million shares priced between $17 and $20 when it goes public in the coming weeks, which means the company may raise as much as $1.4 billion in its initial offering.The company revealed the share price and volume in an update to its S-1 filed with the SEC on Thursday afternoon, which also announced that it has been approved to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Twitter had previously announced that it was seeking to raise $1 billion in its... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “10 Lessons in Building a Million-Dollar Business”. Sarah Goliger says, “I recently attended a fireside chat with Ramit Sethi, personal finance advisor and author of New York Times Bestseller I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Sethi combines behavioral psychology, market research, and analytical testing to delve deep into the minds of his target audience and consumers, and has built a multimillion-dollar business on it. I found that the ideas that he shared with us — on mastering marketing, selling effectively, and building a successful... [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Does Your Company Give Mobile Content Marketing Enough Attention?”. Belinda Summers says, “Pew Research (pewinternet.org) conducted a 2013 study on smartphone ownership in the US. They found out that 56% of American adults own smartphones while 34% own tablets. On top of that 63% of smartphone owners use their devices to go online. Business Insider and ComScore both claim that mobile internet will overtake desktop internet usage by 2014. Time check: 2013 is almost over”. Does Your Company Give Mobile Content... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Study: 30% of Americans Get Their News on Facebook”. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “A new study reveals that 30% of Americans get their news on Facebook, and suggests that the social network drives people to media sites who may not have otherwise done so. Of that 30%, more than half — 78% — said they click on news links to media sites after initially logging on for unrelated reasons, such as checking out friends’ pictures or updating their statuses. In fact, only 16% of Facebook users say that getting news is the primary... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “A six step guide to using Twitter for competitor analysis”. David Moth says, “Competitor analysis is an excellent way for businesses to map out their fledgling social strategy or give existing social channels a shot in the arm. After all it pays to learn from the best and the beauty of social is that a huge amount of useful data is publicly available. It does take time and a bit of skill to mine that data, but luckily there are a number of free tools available to automate at least part of the process”. A six step... [...]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “How To Drive Free Traffic without Guest Blogging”. Chow says, “I received this email two days ago, from one of my blog readers. He wanted to know how to drive free traffic to his blog without writing guest posts. Note that this kind of question isn’t new and I’m sure a lot of you out there would be glad to know other strategies that work. I’m not going to brag here because humility is the only virtue that can take any blogger to the top”. How To Drive Free Traffic without Guest Blogging John Chow’s Blog  [...]

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Worried About Reach? Send An Email!”. Rebekah Henson says, “Are you one of the 82% of marketers concerned about how to reach customers or how effective your reach really is? Don’t stress. If you’re running an email campaign right now, you have the potential to reach a lot more people than you think. And if you’re not emailing yet? Now’s a great time to start, cause it’ll widen your business’s reach. Here’s why“. Worried About Reach? Send An Email! Aweber Blog  [...]

MarketingSherpa has released a case study titled “E-commerce: Edible Arrangements’ countdown ad lifts same-day orders 8%”. Adam Sutton says, “Think you have a great service that no one knows about? Even if it’s not new, it might be worth promoting anyway. Edible Arrangements tried it and increased sales. The e-commerce team increased same-day delivery orders on the Web 8% with simple promotion in a handful of channels. See where the team promoted the service, how, and where the campaign is headed”. E-commerce: Edible Arrangements’ countdown ad lifts same-day... [...]