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2010 January 5
Internet marketing news from around the web:
Email Marketing: ‘When’ is Just as Important as ‘What’ on MarketingVOX – The Voice of Online Marketing
| “Timing in an email marketing campaign – that is, deciding on what day or even what time of day the send button gets hit – is as important as actually crafting the message and selecting which…” |
Google’s Monopoly Power on Economist’s View
| “It is not illegal to have monopoly power, but there are limits on how that power can be used. Has Google crossed over the line?: Search, but You May Not Find. by Adam Raff, Commentary, NY Times: …Today, search engines like Google, Yahoo and…” |
Increase Your Website’s Profit By Linking To Free Giveaways on MakeUseOf.com
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“If you’re like many other new bloggers, you’ve yet to establish enough of a subscriber base so that advertisers are coming to you with money for advertising. This is why so many new bloggers opt to use affiliate marketing or Google…” |
Top 10 Content Marketing Articles of the Year on Junta42 Content Marketing blog
| “An annual Junta42 tradition, I enjoy going back and seeing the most popular content marketing articles for both the blog and the Junta42 community every year (here is the 2007 and 2008 review). NOTE: for you content marketers, this is…” |
Will Google Adwords Professionals Search Force Agencies To Get Certified? on Search Engine Watch Blog
| “Google has launched a beta search platform for those certified by the company as professionals who can help manage Adwords campaigns. People can look up by location and amount they want to spend on a weekly basis. and find people who have passed the…” |
The Long Tail of Humor on Daring Fireball
| “Buzz Andersen on the difference between Tweeteorites and other Twitter favorite aggregators: As I’ve used it, I’ve found I like Tweeteorites better than the Favrd leaderboard for the same reason I like Foursquare but not Yelp; or the…” |
Facebook Page Tips on Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan
| “Looking for a how-to on creating a Facebook Page (like, for your library)? Check out this article by Jesse Stay on Techipedia: How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page. The guide is short and pretty straightforward. Stay offers not only…” |
Google and Multivac on Google Blogoscoped
| “Neil Fraser compares Multivac, a giant all-knowing computer from an Isaac Asimov short story, with Google. “An army of civil servants fed it data constantly and another army correlated and interpreted the answers it gave”… [By Philipp...” |
| “Now that we have at least two alternatives to Gmail, we can move on looking for replacements to other Google services. Quoting Piwik's FAQ: Piwik is the leading open source web analytics software. [...] One of the principle advantages of Piwik is…” |
Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Events on Mashable!
| “It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. Is your event not on this…” |
CA Anti-Virus Plus Anti-Spyware 2010 1 User Free AR at Newegg on BensBargains.net Latest Headlines
| “Newegg has CA Anti-Virus Plus Anti-Spyware 2010 1 Year 3 PC’s for $50 – $50 rebate [Exp 12/29] = Free with free shipping. Features anti-spam protection, anti-virus scanner, web banner blocker, and includes 2GB of online backup from Mozy.” |
Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally Social on Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
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“Small Businesses Will Simply Become More Naturally SocialThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing This past year brands large and small rushed head on into social media marketing. They had to learn about all things Twitter, hire social media…” |
Eight trends to look for in 2010 on VentureBeat
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“(Editor’s note: Dave Kellogg is CEO of Mark Logic, an information infrastructure software company. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.) Given the tumultuous events of 2009, it’s easy to forget the world didn’t come to a standstill….” |
Repurposing GIFs for Email Marketing on MarketingVOX – The Voice of Online Marketing
| “Marketers leery of the pitfalls of video email marketing can get the best of both worlds by repurposing a Web 1.0 technology: GIFs – or Graphics Interchange Format – as a substitute, according to…” |
8 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 on ReadWriteWeb
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“At the beginning of this year, analyst firm Gartner released a report that highlights eight up-and-coming mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next two years. According to Nick Jones, vice…” |