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Friday
May102013

Weekly Must Reads

Here is this week's roundup of some of our favorite marketing, e-commerce, and analytics related articles: 

1. How to Use Customer Recommendations to Grow Your Business (Entrepreneur)
2. Twitter Opens Advertising to All U.S. Users: Here's How it Works (Hubspot)
3. E-commerce Trends Point to Bright Future (Practical Ecommerce)  
4. 7 Species of Social Commerce (Mashable)
5. SumAll Links Social Media Activity with Sales Trends (ZDNet)

 

Thursday
May092013

Tools for a Small Budget that Make a Big Impact 

There is a huge selection of online marketing tools available to business owners today. The question is, which tools are necessary and fit a small business sized budget? In this post, we’re going to look at some of the most popular and least expensive tools to help with your search and social media marketing.

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Wednesday
May082013

D/D, W/W, M/M, Y/Y... OMG/WTF? A Guide to Comparing Time Periods

Business owners, managers, execs, and leaders love talking about growth. When folks start talking about growth, one of the most important things to ask is, "What are you comparing it to?" The most common comparisons are day over day (D/D), week over week (W/W), month over month (M/M), and year over year (Y/Y). The period you choose to compare it to is absolutely critical because choosing the wrong period to compare can give you an artificially inflated or deflated picture of your business's performance. We've developed a guide for choosing the optimal comparison period.

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Tuesday
May072013

Measuring Social Media for Real-Time Impact

Regardless of whether you have social media profiles and pages, your customers are probably talking about you on networks like Twitter and Facebook. If that doesn’t make your head spin, then the fact that they are talking about your business 24/7 – and not just during business hours – might. This makes social media a full time, around the clock job. It’s not just something you can set and forget.

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Monday
May062013

A Crash Course in Landing Pages

Landing pages come in all shapes and sizes. Their goal is to focus websites visitors on one call to action. In this post, we’re going to look at different types of landing pages you can create and how to make them successful.

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Thursday
May022013

Weekly Must Reads

Five stories you might've missed this week that we highly recommend:

1. Writing Copy to Increase Conversion Rates (Search Engine Land)
2. How to Create Share-Worthy Content That's Optimized for Search (Entrepreneur)
3. How to Find Marketing Success on Instagram (AllFacebook)  
4. 6 Small-Business Personalization Stratgies (Practical Ecommerce)
5. 20 Ways to Upgrade Your Social Media Marketing (Hubspot)

 

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