- Monday, April 20, 2015 from HotinSocialMedia.comLet me guess. You found this article either on search or some social media platforms like . You are excited and probably screaming “cool” deep inside your heart. And then reality kicks in. You wonder why would you (or anyone ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialTimes.comMeerkat was a breakout success at SXSW , and even after Twitter shut down API access , the livestreaming app still managed to dominate the conversation in the media. That is, until Twitter announced Periscope , which has since become the...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Twitter - News and ReviewsThe 12-year-old Lightning singer was caught in a twitterstorm over the capo on his guitar
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from HootSuite Social Media ManagementLive-streaming: a passing fad or a new social media marketing trend your brand needs to master? A few weeks ago, Sunny Lenarduzzi told us about two hot new apps,... Read More The post Social Update: Live-Streaming with Meerkat and Perisc...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialTimes.comFacebook appears to be tinkering with the sizes of emoji sent without text via its Messenger application. Reader Matteo Acitelli of Fanpage.it shared the screenshot above with SocialTimes, noting that when sent alone, emoji are displ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaSony just launched its new flasghip smartphone, but there's one big catch.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaSo you’ve got your eCommerce store up and running, you’re making sales, things are looking good. But you’re not content to just let your business sit, no matter how profitable it is. You are always looking for ways to take your business ...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaCivilians in Yemen’s capital, Sana, documented another day of terror in Twitter dispatches.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from NYT > TwitterMr. Baldwin took to Twitter to grouse about gridlock in Manhattan caused by demonstrators seeking a $15 minimum wage.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaDid you know that 25% of consumers who complain to brands on Facebook or Twitter expect a response within an hour, according to HubSpot? This seems a bit unrealistic, right? Shockingly enough, it might not be. You’ll likely lose respect ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaBrands have started using their Instagram posts to drive traffic to their profile’s bio section — hence the ubiquitous “Click the link our bio!” When users click a URL in a brand’s bio, they are usually directed to content the brand rec...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialTimes.comTwitter can be a little impenetrable for new users. The primary purpose of Twitter is curating a collection of tweeters to follow, or even making multiple lists — and the core user loves this functionality. But unlike most other so...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaHere are some of the most common digital transformation mistakes I have encountered, along with recommendations for how to prevent and/or combat them. How many of these are true for your organization? Are steps being taken to address the...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialThe promotion of HBO's new standalone streaming service, HBO Now, allowed the brand to sustain a high level of digital engagement over the weekend. The service was officially launched April 7.
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SiteProNews » Social MediaFacebook-owned WhatsApp is boasting it now has 800 million monthly active users. WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum made the announcement in a Facebook post: “WhatsApp — now serving 800,000,000 monthly active users. Reminder for the press out there: ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsRicky Gervais' Twitter feed is populated mostly with images of two things: wild animals and the people who kill them. "What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal & then lie ne...
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media ExaminerIs your small business on Facebook? Are you looking for better ways to engage your fans? Small businesses are winning on Facebook more than ever before. In this article you’ll find 11 ways small businesses can improve engagement an...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaWhether you use it for job seeking, as your professional resume, social selling, or recruiting, you probably think of LinkedIn as the a tool for business connections, but it's not, it's a tool for business relationships. Many people who ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaI’ve been speaking since 2005, and I’ve always received feedback such as “We need more people speaking who are actually doing” or “We need more people who understand us and talk with us, not at us.” So, if the attendees who are paying fo...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Social Media“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit. Not just any hobbit, no, you are familiar with this hobbit, but have yet to hear her story. This hobbit, the mother of the famous Bilbo Baggins and the grandaunt to the famous Frodo Baggins...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaJerƩ Longman joined 650 other international amateur runners for the Pyongyang Marathon.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaA small victory in efforts to stem Asia’s booming illicit trade in orangutans and other rare wildlife.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from WebProNews » Social MediaTwitter just announced the launch of a new feature that lets users accept direct messages from anyone, even if they’re not following the sender. Historically, two users have had to follow one another in order to exchange DMs. That ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialJeep is extending the music focus with a new marketing campaign featuring a song called "Renegades" by Brooklyn-based band X Ambassadors. The effort includes print, radio, experiential, social, long-form video, and other digital elements.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaOn the one-year anniversary of Shenzhen-based OnePlus releasing its first handset (the self-titled OnePlus One), the company has announced that there will be no more waiting lists, invites, or special offers. If you want to buy a One han...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media ExaminerAre you marketing on Pinterest? Have you considered Pinterest promoted pins? Pinterest promoted pins (recently opened to everyone) can help you reach more people and drive results. In this article I’ll share five ways businesses ca...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from TechCrunch » SocialMost of us have embarrassing stories about things we’ve shared on social media, but it’s hard to top Ethan Czahor‘s. He was hired as Jeb Bush’s chief technology officer, but shortly after he got the job, jou...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsBy Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday forcefully rejected the fugitive Paul Ceglia's effort to revive what U.S. prosecutors have called his fraudulent lawsuit to extort social media company Faceb...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsIt’s the stuff of childhood nightmares: You’re so unpopular at school that no one wants to come to your birthday party. Indeed, after Moretter discovered that her daughter’s 10th birthday party invitation received no RSVPs, she took to F...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from social mediaResearchers at Purdue are using software to mine tweets for data that can help warn that a dangerous storm is approaching. But the data may not always be reliable and analyzing it can be tricky.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialMedia.orgLike many SocialMedia.org members, Stephanie Dlugopolski started with a career in journalism and PR. To be best in class in social media, I need to stay connected with other professionals who do this and keep my learning current with the...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialTimes.comBandai Namco Entertainment has announced is partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment to create a mobile game adaptation of the live-action film Pixels, which is set to hit theaters in July. The tower defense game will release on mobi...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaMany marketers focus on campaign components with low ROI impact potential instead of implementing the right technology during the right lifecycle phase to free up time for critical tasks like content production and strategy. And since we...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaThis week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of: Social Customer Service is the New Heart of Marketing. This webinar was sponsored by Lithium and featured p...
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from SocialTimes.comCandy Crush Soda Saga developer King has released its newest game on Facebook. AlphaBetty Saga is a word game set in the 1930s, which follows friendly mice on an adventure around the world in search of new words. Players join Betty, her ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social mediaEven though LinkedIn maintains a professional environment, it’s still all-too-easy to make social media blunders. Luckily, all of our top seven LinkedIn mistakes are easily corrected once realized.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsTwitter said Monday it was making it easier to take direct messages private, carving out a bigger space for targeted exchanges on the popular microblogging service. Previously, direct messaging could only occur between two Twitter users ...
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from Mashable | The Social Media Guide » Social Media FeedIf you've ever worried about old tweets or Facebook posts coming back to haunt you — but don't have time to sift through years of posts to manually delete them — a new app may be able to help. Clear connects with your Faceboo...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from VentureBeat » socialPush notifications are no longer just for apps.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2015 from NYT > Social MediaTowns across the country, like Keene, N.H., and Panama City Beach, Fla., that host big gatherings of young people that sometimes turn violent, are instituting bans.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialA large majority of American adults use mobile devices or computers while watching TV, and a big part of this multiscreen activity is devoted to social media -- much of it related to the TV programs, according to a new study from the Int...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! NewsThe first official posters for Zack Snyder's upcoming "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" have been unveiled by the director on Twitter ahead of the movie's IMAX trailer release date on Monday. Monday's trailer ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Social MediaWebsites that aren’t mobile friendly will sink lower in Google rankings starting Tuesday, and names as big as Microsoft and The Daily Mail could be affected.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from AllFacebookSome Facebook users are being prompted to provide the proper pronunciations of their names. Reader Lynette Young shared the screenshot above with SocialTimes, writing in a tweet : Facebook just asked me to teach it how to properly pronou...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from MediaPost.com: socialThe spot's creative, from Anomaly, underscores the brand's key differentiator -- that it's real leaf-brewed tea, not made with powders or concentrates -- by showing the journey of a tea leaf from the field to a bottle of Pure Leaf being ...
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from The KISSmetrics Marketing BlogYour marketing message is often the very first communication between you and a potential customer, which is why it’s so important to nail your first impression. It only takes 50 milliseconds for users to make a judgment about you and you...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Online marketingIf you want to guarantee a more effective strategy, follow these tactics and avoid ones that will do more harm.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Mobile Marketing WatchBig Blue has big ambitions in the world of cutting-edge medical research. IBM has just announced its Health Cloud and Watson cognitive computing capabilities will support health data entered by customers in iOS apps using Apple’s R...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from VentureBeat » Marketing News | VentureBeatVB Webinar: VB’s VP of Research John Koetsier took a beneath-the-hood look at the utterly confusing array of could-based martech tools and platforms. The best solution for an enterprise organization isn’t the same as the best solution fo...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from MarketingProfs DailyLearning about how software developers plan and execute their work can offer useful insights into how digital marketers can better structure and implement their own work. Read the full article at MarketingProfs
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Digital Marketing MagazineIn this competitive digital marketing age, making an ecommerce website successful is not child’s play. You can’t get noticed merely by having good website design, using attractive product images and placing call to action but...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Sales & MarketingA rookie mistake some startup make after raising a bit of money is to hire a public relations (PR) firm. This is akin to asking a marriage counselor to propose to your long-time partner on your behalf. Sound crazy? This is the approach m...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stay updated WVM RSS feedPurina's "Dear Kitten" videos went viral thanks in part to the pet food company's partnership with Buzzfeed, whose creative input helped to create the innovative content. Purina sat down with Marketing Land to discuss the success of the ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from GetResponse Email Marketing BlogAll email marketers eventually face the same problem – low subscriber engagement. It’s natural that your readers will lose interest in your messages, especially if you’re sending them the same content regardless of who ...
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Home - SearchEngineWatchFollowing a recent call-to-action from the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the search giants have made changes like HTTPS-encrypted display ads and email encryption extensions.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Forbes - Sales & MarketingHere’s the question you haven’t been able to answer: Should you blog? You’re a successful entrepreneur — or at least you want to be. You know that blogging is a path to popularity and possible fame. But you’re so busy, and blogging woul...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stay updated WVM RSS feedIf you've seen the Harry Potter films you may remember a particular feature of the wizarding world's newspapers - moving pictures. Cinemagraphs are technically photographs that have some sort of movement incorporated into them. These are...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesThe retailer’s latest designer line sold out soon after the products went live, and few if any of the 250 items are in stock at Target.com. EBay, however, has more than 26,000 “Lilly Pulitzer for Target” items for sale.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Mobile Marketing WatchAs MMW reported Thursday, Apple has announced that it will hold its 26th annual WWDC June 8 through June 12 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, “with more sessions than ever before streamed to developers.” This year’s convention, like last ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Internet Marketing NewsWatchJames Renouf has produced many products for online marketers. Hie newest may be his best. It’s called Global Traffic Monetizer. Renouf is going to show you a game plan for getting traffic and converting your visitors into buyers. After a...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing WeekWith digital music revenues responsible for nearly half (46%) of music sales globally in 2014, equaling physical CD sales for the first time, according to the latest research by record industry body the IFPI, Spotify is readying an impro...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing WeekHavana Club is hoping to become the number one rum associated with the mojito, the most popular cocktail in the UK, by pushing its association with the Cuban drink through a new global campaign.
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Entrepreneur: Latest Content marketing ArticlesMaking keystrokes matter has grown in importance as communication and the text that powers it become increasingly inseparable. This is an abridged guide to writing with clarity and substance.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Web Marketing TodayNot only do people talk to each other when sharing a meal at a restaurant, but they also talk about the restaurant on rating-and-review sites. As such, it is in the restaurateur’s best interest to find out what’s on patrons&#...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Internet Marketing NewsWatchThe latest 'Business.com' blog post is titled “90% of Consumers Find Custom Content Useful: Ramp Up Your Content Marketing Strategy”.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesAlibaba received a $192,000 penalty for pricing during the past two Singles’ Day sales.
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing - ClickZNew wearable technology is giving brands the perfect opportunity for one-to-one marketing.
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stay updated WVM RSS feedWhat do PopSugar, President Barack Obama, and Jimmy Kimmel all have in common? They've all had video content published exclusively to Facebook, foregoing the normal YouTube upload. As predicted by Mixpo's survey , more and more publisher...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Practical EcommerceConversion rate optimization begins with identifying problem areas in your conversion funnel that will benefit from testing and improvements. But how do you establish exactly what ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Mobile Marketing WatchIf you haven’t already noticed, infographics — for entertainment, education, or marketing purposes — are hot and growing hotter by the day. Not surprisingly, infographics have become a popular form of visual marketing c...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Inbound Hub | MarketingBody language: It's one of the most subtle, yet important things to master at work. If you're not in tune with what your posture, facial expression, and other nonverbal cues are telling others, you could be setting yourself up ...
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stay updated WVM RSS feedVideo marketing continues to evolve as more and more consumers are gaining access to video. It's changing the fundamental nature of how we interact with brands. These changes can be used by small businesses and enterprises to better comm...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Internet Marketing NewsWatchJon Myres says, “With more data, devices and channels to navigate than ever before, the role of a digital marketer has become increasingly complicated. Yet people haven’t been put off and interest in digital marketing jobs continue...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from E-Retailers ArticlesThe home-improvement retailer's peak selling season spurs the addition of a week’s worth of online promotions.
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Home - SearchEngineWatchFor the first time Google may allow advertisers to use first-party data to inform search targeting. Here are three ways this change could help search marketers deliver better results for their programs.
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- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Internet Marketing NewsWatchSpencer Kollas says, “As we continue to progress into 2015, it is becoming even more imperative to reassess your deliverability strategy. Historically, marketers have struggled to stay ahead of the constantly changing email deliver...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from VR Marketing BlogReinforce good email list growth practices and help your clients realize better results by keeping an eye out for these five red flags The post Get Better Results: Grow Clients’ Email Lists the Right Way appeared first on VerticalR...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from E-Commerce TimesNokia reportedly will release a new smartphone by the end of 2016. The company last year announced the N1, its first entry in the mobile market since being gutted by Microsoft's acquisition of its devices and services business unit. The ...
- Monday, April 20, 2015 from Stay updated WVM RSS feedWhile mobile video viewing has exploded in recent months, the process of measuring a mobile video's success rate is still a fledgling practice. Brightroll explains how to measure mobile video ad engagement by three parameters: audience, ...
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