The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Celebrating Small Business For National Small Business Week”. Rebekah Henson says, “Small businesses enrich their local communities by creating jobs, building economies, giving to charities and so much more. No wonder we have a whole week dedicated to all the awesome ways small businesses improve communities all over the US. AWeber began as a one-man operation 15 years ago and has grown to a marketing service“.  [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “Beyond Pinterest: The Best Of Other Social Commerce Business Models”. Josh Luger says, “Facebook and Pinterest may be the biggest players in social media – but they don’t own the social commerce space. Social commerce is still a young category, with room for new formats and innovations that might bring the worlds of social media and e-commerce into closer synergy. Other players, from daily deals site Groupon to Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, have also tried to leverage social ingredients to boost retail sales,... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Has #Facebook just become #Twitter?”. Kari Havard says, “The hash has been around for a very long time, it’s always riding the zeitgeist, a trendy so and so. One small symbol has come to represent instant access to topics of interest, in the here and now. Utilised by Twitter for years, Facebook have now introduced it. This is no small addition to Facebook. It actually has very significant consequences”. Has #Facebook just become #Twitter? ‘Econsultancy’ Blog  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Must-Read Small Business Advice From Real Entrepreneurs [SlideShare]”. Hannah Fleishman says, “Small businesses are deceiving. Why? Because there’s really nothing small about them. The ideas that spark them, the minds that lead them, the risks that advance them, and the heart that goes into them — they’re all pretty … big”.  [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “The Ad Business Is About To Suffer A Stunning Defeat At Hands Of ‘A Volunteer Who Hangs Around The Offices’ Of Firefox”. Jim Edwards says, “The entire ad industry is close to being outwitted by a Stanford graduate student who volunteers his time to work on tracking policy for Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser. He may end so called “third party cookie” ad tracking inside that browser. Jonathan Mayer, who turned off tracking cookies in Firefox when talks with advertisers over whether browsers... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Why marketers should focus on persuadables”. Arjan Haring says, “Persuasion is a hot topic. But do you also know which of your customers you can persuade? I recently talked to one of the leading figures in Data Science, Eric Siegel, author of Predictive Analytics. And he concludes that organizations in essence don’t just want to know what consumers will do – they want to know what they can do about it. I never really thought about it that way, but it makes sense right?”.  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How to Turn One Idea Into a Bottomless Backlog of Blog Posts”. Jay Acunzo says, “This situation sound familiar? You have an idea, then lose it, then come back to it again. You write it down quickly, check some email, get derailed, jump into a meeting, grab a coffee, then settle back in … only to hate what you thought of in the first place. You have no problem writing a post once you have an idea, but coming up with the idea in the first place can be the hardest part”.  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Facebook’s Graph Search: will it save f-commerce?”. Philip Rooke says, “As the CEO of an ecommerce business with over 2,000 shops on Facebook, I have a unique perspective onFacebook selling. After two years of testing, my company sees fewer sales from our global Facebook presence than from orders originating in New Zealand, where we don’t have a marketing or sales presence, or a country-specific website. Quite frankly, Facebook has been underwhelming for sales generation“.  [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “59% Say Running a Small Business Is Harder Today Than 5 Years Ago [INFOGRAPHIC]”. Pamela Vaughan says, “Small businesses don’t exactly have it easy. And with new marketing technologies emerging at a rapid pace in recent years, it’s no wonder 59% of small business owners say it’s harder to run a small business now than it was just five years ago”.  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Is Google sacrificing quality in return for greater diversity?”. Jonny Artis says, “‘Domain Clustering’ is a Google update that was never officially announced, but one which has the potential to impact the search marketing landscape. In this post, Lee Allen, Technical Planning Director and Matthew Barnes, SEO Executive at Stickyeyes, provide an in-depth analysis into this under the radar update”.  [...]