Thursday, September 18, 2014

the newspaper: September 18, 2014

September 18, 2014
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Ring Partner - Pay Per Call and Your Small Business: Plumbers
There is no question that the pay per call industry is undergoing a significant modern renaissance. Pay per call  is not a new concept, but rather one that is receiving a new boost courtesy of the mobile revolution. Pay per call  strategies have existed for decades via print, radio, and TV ads,...
Malan Darras - What An LSD Trip Taught Me About Problem Solving
When I was a teenager some friends and I experimented with LSD. When you're a small town boy, bored out of your mind and your buddy offers you the opportunity to interact with the fabric of the Universe, you take it. So we tried it. And then we tried it again… and again. We played […] The ...
ShoeMoney - Perception – Not the Product is EVERYTHING
Watching Apple’s latest keynote/product launch,  the marketer in me,  couldn’t help but be amazed at the amount of work they do in presenting the product.  Its nothing new for Apple but I think its the reason for their success. The iPhone & the new Apple Watch are extremely innova...
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Smart Passive Income - How to Grow Your Blog Audience By Building Relationships with Other Bloggers – The Ultimate Guide
One of the biggest lessons I've learned while building multiple successful blogs and businesses is this: you cannot go it alone. Each and every milestone I've had was the result of people I've built a relationship with. In this post, you'll learn a system for connecting to other bloggers and entrepr...
HubSpot - Getting Exceptional Growth: Meet the New HubSpot Marketing Platform
Years ago, when Brian and I started HubSpot, we were on a singular mission. We wanted to help companies get off of the sidelines and into the game. The internet had changed everything, and too many businesses were missing out on the massive potential this cr...
Copyblogger - Here's How Shane Snow (Founder of Contently) Writes
If you are going to run a company around a slogan like “Tell Great Stories,” or rally your troops by adopting the Native American proverb “Those who tell the stories rule the world,” then it pays to build an environment that fosters great writing. Large photographs of your fa...
Adotas - Cracking the Wanamaker Conundrum
The U.S. marketing pioneer John Wanamaker mused in 1902, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half." This famous quip went on to become a popular cliché in modern advertising. But with millions of dollars being spent on mining and understandi...
John Chow - Book Review – The BlogMaster Blueprint, 2nd Edition
John chow dot Com reader, Will Paoletto, has published the second edition of his book, The BlogMaster Blueprint, and it’s available on Amazon Kindle right now. Will is a long time reader, and has done very well for himself. The […]...
OfferVault Scoop - OfferVault Presents Google's New Shopping Scripts And What You Can Do With Them
Whether you are convinced Google is trying to take over the world, or you think they are simply a company who is simply fantastic at innovating ways to give people what they want, one thing is certain. They are succeeding, and they succeed because they excel at making things simple for the end-user....
ConversionXL - Free Conversion Optimization Course #ConversionOctober
New business season has kicked-off. It’s time to get the revenue up, conversions rocking. And I want to help you master the essentials of conversion optimization. So – this October I’m offering a 100% free conversion optimization course. The course is over email: you will get 10 ca...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

the newspaper: September 17, 2014

September 17, 2014
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Zac Johnson - ROTE 033: Burke Franklin Discusses the Importance of Business Planning
It seems like everyone wants to be in business for themselves, but the majority of people simply don’t have the necessarily skills or dedication to... The post ROTE 033: Burke Franklin Discusses the Importance of Business Planning appeared first on Zac Johnson. ...
Ian Fernando - 5 Inspirational Quotes I Just Added to My Office
I recently just moved into our new office and the walls seemed empty. I decided to fill the empty spaces with inspirational quotes. I look up to these billionaires and millionaires everyday. I try to see what they are up to and read as much about them as possible. I wish I just had more […] R...
Inside Facebook - SPMD Kenshoo acquires PMD Adquant
Kenshoo, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, announced today that it has acquired Facebook PMD Adquant, a leading SaaS platform that powers social campaigns for many top grossing apps. Since both Kenshoo and Adquant utilize an engineering-driven......
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Copyblogger - Which of These New WordPress Themes is Right For Your Audience?
Is your website’s design the right fit for the audience you want to attract? I urge you to do more than simply nod and say “yes.” Really think about it. Who are the people who make up your audience? What are their worldviews? And what specific design elements will allow your visito...
HubSpot - How People Buy: The Evolution of Consumer Purchasing [Infographic]
This post originally appeared on the Sales section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. It's the great American pastime. No, I'm not talking about baseball. Or stuffing your face with apple pie. ...
AffiliateTip - Early Bird Ending for Booths and Tables at Affiliate Summit West 2015
The early bird rates for booths and Meet Market tables at Affiliate Summit West 2015, taking place January 18-20, 2015 at Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV, are ending on September 19, 2014. That deadline is NOT flexible. There are still lots of good spots left – don’t miss the best locat...
John Chow - How To Be Miserable and Unhappy
One night, legendary tracker Tom Brown was sitting by a small campfire in the Pine Barrens, bemoaning the cold. His mentor Stalking Wolf was sitting back against a tree, totally relaxed as could be. He asked, "What's your problem son?" […]...
OfferVault Scoop - Green Coffee Bean Manufacturer Fined $3.5 Million for Allegedly Misrepresenting Aspects of Flawed Study
Applied Food Sciences, Inc. ("AFS"), has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it used the results of a flawed study to make baseless weight-loss claims about its green coffee extract to retailers, who repeated those claims in marketing finished products to consumers. The FTC complaint a...
Adotas - Are You Getting the Most Out of Programmatic Mobile Advertising?
Tools for measuring mobile advertising campaign performance have become so advanced in the last year that it's only a matter of time before every brand and agency with user-targeting needs will start looking into running performance-based campaigns. Many of today's leading brands have already st...
PPC Hero - Best eCommerce Experts In PPC
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

the newspaper: September 16, 2014

September 16, 2014
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PeerFly - Welcome to Your New PeerFly Dashboard!
We're excited to officially launch our new Publisher interface! We've added some great new tools to make PeerFly easier and faster to use, let's go over what's changed. The New Sidebar Resources While some of your side bar looks pretty similar to the old version of PeerFly, Global Postback ...
John Chow - Sumo Omni Reloaded – Helping Gamers Win & Injuries Heal
Sumo Lounge is a company famous for their giant bean bag chairs. They are extremely popular with gamers, kids, and anyone else who wants to sit on a giant bean bag. As fun of the bean bags are, it was […]...
HubSpot - 7 Elements of a Perfectly Optimized Social Media Account [Infographic]
One of the toughest parts of being a marketer is staying up-to-date with all of the changes on social media. One day Facebook doesn't have hashtags, and the next it does. The next week, Twitter has a completely redesigned profile layout. After that...
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Ring Partner - Trends Dominating Online Marketing in 2014
Marketing is a fickle industry that is consider by most to be an ever-evolving realm. The manner in which a business markets its products and services must be flexible and capable of adapting to changing technology and consumer opinion. What worked as a marketing tool in 1999 undoubtedly did not wor...
Adotas - iStock by Getty Images to disrupt stock photo industry with bold new changes
(ADOTAS) Monday, 15 September, 2014 – iStock by Getty Images, the original resource for crowd-sourced royalty-free stock images, media and design elements, today launches a series of major changes to simplify purchasing and make its premium content available to customers for even less.  The far r...
AWeber - Stay Ahead of Industry News with AWeber's "A History of Email Changes" Website
The first email ever sent was from programmer Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. Its contents? “QWERTYUIOP.” Yep, the message that changed the future of communication was a line of jibberish sent between two computers sitting next to each other on a shared network. Crazy, huh? We’ve...
ShoeMoney - Don't miss Bart Lorang on the ShoeMoney Show @bartlorang
We've brought back The ShoeMoney Show with full-on energy and quality after its five-year hiatus. Tomorrow at 4p.m CST Episode TWO will be airing with guest Bart Lorang, CEO of Full Contact, on WebmasterRadio.FM Bart is the CEO for Full Contact, a company that works to group a person's electroni...
KJ Rocker - Ways to use storytelling to help your content go viral
Storytelling is like a powerful fuel that will help to boost your viral content marketing. Without a worthy story to tell, your content is nothing. People will not pay much attention to your content because it is nothing special. Instead, people will pay attention to the content that contains powerf...
Blogging Tips - How to Effectively Use Social Media for Blog Interaction?
Social media is something that every blog would require in order to grow their reader base. With the ability to concentrate on a wide userbase and their problems, social media works like a magic wand. If this magical wand is used appropriately, it can make your blog readers stick with you for long. ...
WhatRunsWhere - Insights & Analysis: eLearning
Gone are the days of being late for class. That is, unless your wifi is acting up. That's right –more and more students are moving out of the classroom and into the online world. With that, eLearning has quickly grown to become a $56.2 billion industry, and is predicted to double in size by 2015...
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Monday, September 15, 2014

the newspaper: September 15, 2014

September 15, 2014
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Blogging Tips - The Only WordPress Framework You'll Ever Need…and that's NOT Genesis or Thesis!
Thesis came and passed into oblivion swiftly. Does anyone even use the Thesis framework? In the theme war between Thesis and Genesis, the latter succeeded. Genesis offers a WordPress framework, with varied child themes and site functionalities. From creating agency sites to magazine-style blogs, Gen...
HubSpot - The Best Voicemail I Ever Received ... Was Just A Voicemail
This post originally appeared on the Sales section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Sales. When I was looking for a service that could offload some of my IT administrative duty, I sent an email to a prospective company asking a f...
John Chow - Interview with Nikki Parker, Freemarket.com
Are you looking for a robust marketplace where you can buy and sell web domains and websites? Freelancer.com, which acquired Warrior Forum earlier this year, has now Freemarket.com. Warrior Forum already had a simple platform where users could buy and […]...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014

the newspaper: September 14, 2014

September 14, 2014
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KJ Rocker - Small Yet Forgotten Tactics Of The Successful Viral Content Marketing
Most bloggers in existence might be craving for viral content for one reason and one reason only. They want their content to hit the crowd because in that way, they can get more traffic, and as a result, more profit. However, viral content has been a mystery for most bloggers since it is not easy t...
HubSpot - 11 Lesser-Known LinkedIn Features You Should Be Using
This post originally appeared on the Insiders section of Inbound Hub. To read more content like this, subscribe to Insiders. We often hear marketing and sales reps expressing their love/hate relationship with LinkedIn. Are you one who views the si...
PPC Hero - [Webinar Recording] Landing Page Games: Science vs Magic
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John Chow - Why The Declining Middle Class Doesn't Matter
Saturday is the day we do the Dot Com Lunch. Part of the Dot Com Lifestyle Meetup group, the Dot Com Lunch allows quality face-to-face networking with people who are living the Dot Com Lifestyle. You also get to enjoy […]...
Blogging Tips - Meet Adam Connell of BloggingWizard.com
Everyone finds their way into the world of blogging in one way or another. Some dive into the space to fuel the fire for their passions and what their hobbies are, while others start a blog with the end goal to make money. At the end of the day, blogging is what you want it to be and the more work y...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

the newspaper: September 13, 2014

September 13, 2014
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Blogging Tips - Increase Traffic and Engagement with Facebook Contests
Facebook contests are often talked about, but many blogs and brands still have yet to actually set up their first promotion. The good news is that Facebook is still growing by thousands of new users every minute, so never think that it’s too late for you to jump right in! With the holidays an...
affilorama - 3 Social Media Tools You Should be Using to Improve Your Social Traffic
Where do you go to see what your friends are up to? Where do you go to find out the latest interesting news? Heck, where do you go to find out if people are officially in a relationship? I’m talking about social media.  If you think it’s not important, think again. Check out the in...
ViperChill - SEO and the Stock Market: How to Profit from Google Penalties
We all know that Google updates can be highly frustrating, especially when Google are never forthcoming about exactly what changed and what you can do about it if you feel you were unfairly penalised. For some though, Google changes can slice millions of dollars off the valuation of your company. Wh...
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Smart Passive Income - The #1 Skill All Bloggers and Entrepreneurs Should Learn. I Tried…and Here's What Happened.
I've been consuming a lot of information lately, but this ONE SKILL I just learned is going to have a dramatic effect on all aspects of my life - business and personal. Here's what it is, and the free YouTube video I watched that taught it to me. The #1 Skill All Bloggers and Entrepreneurs Should Le...
Mike Chiasson - Fail Campaign Friday: Local Town T-Shirts
Every few months on the Aff Playbook forums we do a really fun Follow Along contest where a goal is set and people will tackle that goal and post their results. Typically its pretty generic but like “Facebook Campaigns” or “Pay Per Call Campaigns” etc. A few months back we ha...
PPC Hero - These 3 Ethical Advertising Notions are Archaic
HubSpot - The Essential Pre-Conference Packing and Preparation List
I just got out of a meeting where our #INBOUND14 event leader told us to remember to bring a bunch of stuff to the BCEC next week (we're having out big annual conference -- if you still want tickets, they're available 'til Sunday!) ...
AWeber - Converting Facebook "Likes" Into Subscribers
If you were one of the brands that scrambled a few years ago to obtain the sacred Facebook “Like” from as many fans as possible, it’s okay. You weren’t the only one. At the time, it was the most valuable social currency around. But ask yourself this: Now that you have all of ...
AffiliateTip - How Jason Calacanis Helped Our Business
I’ve been following what Jason Calacanis has had to say since he was publishing the Silicon Alley Reporter back in the 90’s. Back in February 2008, Jason was a keynote at Affiliate Summit West 2008, and it was a privilege to have him up on the stage. Anyhow, shortly after that he wrote a...
John Chow - List Building Webinar Encore Presentation
Did you miss my webinar on list building last night? Fear not. We’re doing an encore tomorrow (Saturday September 13) at: 12PM Pacific 1PM Mountain 2PM Central 3PM Eastern My guest on the webinar will be Tim Paige. For those […]...
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