Digital Marketing: The 7 Essential Channels – Business 2 Community
When Henry Ford was selling automobiles in the early 20th century, all he had to do was assemble the cars and get them into show rooms as quickly as possible. By the time the cars were in the show room, there were several customers in…
Mobile Technology May Not Always Be the Answer – Innovation Excellence (blog)
As the world plods onto bigger, greener and higher tech pastures, one would assume that every industry would go right along with it. The public release of the Internet heralded the downfall of some, such as video rental stores and travel agencies. Those that survived…
What Brands Need to Know About Visual Social Media [Infographic] – MarketingProfs.com (subscription)
Today’s fastest growing social media channels are visually based, according to the following WebDAM infographic. Here’s the scoop for engaging your visuals-loving customers. Consider your brand across all visual touchpoints, suggests WebDAM. Include logos, typography, press kit, photography, and icons. Also, post images often. “Posts…
How to Leverage Social Media for SEO: Link Building – Marketing Land
I recently asked a room of experienced marketers how they thought social media marketing could assist their SEO efforts. The answers were more or less what I had expected to hear: Social media helps foster relationships, which in turn helps build links and improves rankings….
Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 Edge+ is bigger and smarter – The Verge
Everything else about the look and feel of the S6 Edge+ is remarkably similar. The glass body is ringed by metal, with volume buttons on the left and a sleep / power button on the right. There’s a headphone jack and speaker on the bottom…
Vancouver’s high-tech hurdle: Attracting top-level talent – The Globe and Mail
From left: Version One Ventures CEO and founder Boris Wertz, BuildDirect president and CEO Jeff Booth, Vision Critical founder and president of corporate innovation Andrew Reid, Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes, Shoes.com chairman and co-founder Roger Hardy, Plentyoffish CEO and founder Markus Frind, and…
Using Storytelling in Your Software & Technology Marketing: When & How – Business 2 Community
In the fall of 1995, when the Internet was still young, an executive named Irving Wladawsky-Berger was put in charge of IBM’s new “Internet Division.” His mission? To figure out the business value of the internet. At that time, the Internet was just beginning to…
The importance of search engines for your dental practice: New patients start here – Dentistry IQ
Before people select a health-care provider, hospital, or facility for their medical needs, they often begin their decision journey online. Studies by the Pew Research Center found that eight in 10 online health inquiries start at a search engine. Your dental practice’s website serves many purposes….
Study Shows Retailers Use Marketplaces to Acquire New Customers … – EcommerceBytes
Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State of Retailing Online…
5 Features For a Stellar Social Media Strategy with BuzzBundle – Search Engine Journal
This is a sponsored post for BuzzBundle. If you are part of a small social team or doing it on your own, you know social media planning can be a major time suck. By the time you research content, write quality content, develop a sharing plan,…