The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Twitter Testing Automatic In-Stream Image Previews on Twitter.com, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week”. Desming Wong says, “There’s been a lot of buzz about social media this week, especially around social search and visual content. Companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Microsoft have all made some great new additions to their features to improve the social experience for their users”. Twitter Testing Automatic In-Stream Image Previews on Twitter.com, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week HubSpot  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “30-Day Challenge: 8 Little Changes to Your Marketing That’ll Make a Big Impact”. Corey Eridon says, “You’ve all heard of TED Talks, right? Their tagline is “Ideas Worth Spreading,” and some colleagues of mine have surfaced one of their talks that I think has an idea worth spreading to a lot of our readers. So, I’m blogging about it. Like bloggers do”. 30-Day Challenge: 8 Little Changes to Your Marketing That’ll Make a Big Impact HubSpot  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “This week’s finest digital marketing infographic”. Ben Davis says, “This week’s finest digital marketing infographic, courtesy of Intent HQ, looks at the personalization and privacy of social media. A timely and exciting topic. The study looked at 2,000 UK adults who use social networks, with around a third (32%) agreeing they have become more selective in the information they share about likes and interests on social networks. There’s also some interesting data in the graphic about the motivations... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How to Harness the Power of Data to Elevate Your Content”. Meghan Lockwood says, “If you were going to ask your CEO for more inbound marketing budget this year, which argument would be more convincing: “I ‘feel’ it’s the right thing to do,” or, “48% of marketers are increasing their inbound budgets this year, and it’s the third year in a row the industry is expanding at almost a 50% rate. We need to capitalize on this trend.””. How to Harness the Power of Data to Elevate Your Content HubSpot  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “The Ultimate Editing Checklist”. Pamela Vaughan says, “As we all know, content creation isn’t as simple as just stringing together a few words and clicking “publish.” At least all high-quality content creators know this. From start to finish, content creation has quite a few steps if you really think about it — concepting, production, and the whole editorial process. Unfortunately, it’s that last one that often gets undermined/rushed through/swept aside, as content creators hurry to get things out... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Bye Bye, Google Reader: 3 Viable RSS Reader Alternatives You Can Use”. Corey Eridon says, “On July 1, 2013, Google Reader will be shutting down for good. It seems like forever ago that wewrote about this (in reality it has only been about 3 months), but since most people do things at the last minute, I figured it was pretty likely you haven’t switched your RSS reader over to something else. I certainly haven’t”.  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “How will the introduction of new gTLDs change the internet?”. Kelly Salter says, “With new gTLDs due to start appearing on the web, it’s time again for brand owners to stop and think about their domain strategy. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body responsible for managing and coordinating the Internet’s Domain Name System, last week made a surprise announcement that the first new gTLD could go live in the internet as early as August 28 2013 and we may see the first registrations... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Econsultancy announces The Digitals 2013 winners”. Graham Charlton says, “Last night we announced the winners of the Econsultancy / NMA The Digitals awards, which celebrated the best of digital marketing and ecommerce.  At a posh do at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, compere Dara O’Briain announced the winners, which included brands like Barclays, ASOS and Auto Trader. Here’s the list of winners in full”.  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “8 Data-Backed Ways to Get More Repins on Pinterest”. Ginny Soskey says, “There are all sorts of do’s and don’ts out there onoptimizing your content for Pinterest. Keep descriptions short and hashtag-rich. Don’t use shortened links. Include price information. Verify your account. But we don’t often hear about optimizing one of the most important pieces of content on Pinterest: the image itself”.  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Google’s Enhanced Campaigns: what we’ve learned from migration”. Heledd Jones says, “With less than a month to go before the Enhanced Campaigns (EC) migration deadline, we’re starting to hear more and more about the impact of the biggest change to AdWords in years. Both Adobe and iProspect have reported in the last few weeks that they’ve seen CPC (Cost per Click) increases of 6% and 9% respectively and yet a lot of companies still seem to be in the dark on the impact this will have on their bottom... [...]