Keeping track of your marketing campaigns, and what kind of traffic they are generating for you is essential in order to properly maintain your campaigns and manage your marketing budget. The Google URL Builder is a great tool for such purposes – even more so for those of us who make use of Google Analytics. […]
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Alternative Social Media Marketing Tactics
“Social Media Marketing”, a very important, yet very broad phrase. Social Media Marketing (SMM) gets a blog more targeted traffic, in fact if handled properly it generates more traffic than all other tactics combined. However in recent times, some webmasters have overused and abused social network websites. As a result, white-hat webmasters have a hard […]
Yahoo Will Run Google Adsense Ads
Yahoo has confirmed a a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain co-branded sites using Google’s AdSense for Content and Google’s AdMob services. Yahoo users wont actually notice much of a difference as far as how or where ads appear – the only difference will be that Google Adsense […]
Mailigen Launches 5000 Epic Free Email Marketing Account
[frame align=”left”][/frame]Until now Mailigen did not offer any type of free account, short of their free 30-day trial anyway. A few days ago however Mailigen announced the launch of the 5000 Free Epic Free Email Marketing Account – with which you are able to send and track email marketing campaigns to contact lists that are built […]
Understanding Your Websites Target Audience
Understanding the type of people who visit your site is a very important task because you can use that information to enhance your site to suit them. As a result, you will gain more loyal returning visitors that come back again and again for more. What is the age level and what kind of knowledge […]
Volusion Announces Product Roadmap for 2013
[frame align=”right”] [/frame]I just got word from Volusion regarding their product roadmap for the 2013 year, and it’s full of some amazing features that I can’t wait to work with. Throughout 2012 Volusion store owners sold over 3 times the industry average, making more than $2.8 billion in online sales for the year. I can’t wait […]
25% Off on Free Traffic from Revisitors
I’ve been partnered with Revisitors for a while now, and based on my stats – many of you have taken advantage of the 100 free visitors I offer through them. To those unfamiliar with Revisitors – Revisitors is an online advertising network built to help businesses get geographically targeted traffic to their websites at reasonable prices. With the […]
Facebook Testing Pay-to-Message
Facebook has announced on December 20, 2012 that they were starting a small experiment by giving a small amount of people the option to pay to send a message to someone they were not Facebook friends with, and have that message routed to that persons Inbox rather than their Others folder. This test is designed […]
Get 20% Off Your Email Marketing with Mailigen
I had brought up web based email marketing providers in a post earlier today, so I thought it would be a good time to share a 20% off coupon I I just found out about for Mailigen. Mailigen is web based online email marketing software that helps to create and analyse your email marketing campaigns, and […]
Advantages of Web Based Email Marketing Providers
Many marketers and online business owners are not aware of the advantages of web based email marketing providers over purchasing their own software. While there are pros and cons for either side, professionals tend to choose web based email marketing providers for several reasons which I will discuss throughout this article. After-all when it comes […]
Sharing Links on Twitter Gets Harder
As of February 20th, 2013, you’re going to have two fewer characters to send a message on Twitter when you’re sharing a link. The t.co wrapper that Twitter is using to shorten web addresses is lengthening from 20 to 22 reserved characters. This means that any link you share will now take up two more spaces that you […]
Google Ads New Clickable Arrow to Text Adsense Ads
Google has announced last week a few changes to their Adsense text ads. One change, rolling out already, will make the look and feel of text ads more consistent as consumers and advertisers use screens interchangeably, and distinctions between devices fade. You’ll notice a new clickable arrow icon, as well as slight optimizations to font size, […]
HootSuite Ranked #1 Twitter Client
A recent Brandwatch study found that HootSuite is the #1 Twitter client being used by businesses to manage their social media. This ranking is an great indicator of where social media for business is headed. Download or view the Brandwatch report here. In the meantime take a moment to check out HootSuite’s new video with their own social media coach to […]
LunarPages Partners with Conversion Pipeline
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]LunarPages has recently announced a partnership with online marketing agency Conversion Pipeline in an effort to provide their web hosting customers with Search Engine Optimization and Pay-per-Click services. This new partnership with Conversion Pipeline affords clients the opportunity to promote their brand and advertise their website with first-class Internet marketing expertise. Lunarpages Marketing […]
Google Adwords Business Credit Card Pilot Announced in UK
Back in July we first mentioned the Google Adwords Mastercard for Businesses – which was piloted to a select amount of U.S. based businesses. Today Google announced the launch of the AdWords Business Credit UK pilot, with more invites for U.S. businesses being promised next. There are a few key differences to take note of with the […]
New Focus on Google Adwords Sitelinks Policy
Sitelinks give users a choice of destinations on your website that they can visit directly from your text ads. Hopefully you’ve already been using sitelinks to improve your Adwords campaign performance; and if so – make sure to pay close attention to Google’s Adwords Sitelinks policy so you do not run the risk of being penalized. […]
Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway
All of my clients always receive a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. To help give something back to the community I decided to give away 5 $100 Google Adword credits randomly to those who sign up for our email updates and post a comment on this post. Make sure […]
How Small Businesses Can Use Social Media to Connect With Customers
It’s been a little while since I have checked in with the Blackberry for Small Business blog – and it’s a good thing I did when I did. Dan Sloshberg, Regional Manager for Small Medium Business Marketing in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and his team have put together a video showcasing some examples of how smart […]
Generating Traffic & Sales from Forums
Message boards, discussion forums and newsgroups can all produce very profitable results for you and your business. Most of us already participate in one or more of these and the more you participate the bigger the benefits to you, your business and your website will be. So let’s find out how to make this a […]
Is Your Domain Name Hurting Your Traffic?
You visited a great website some time ago that had some fantastic information on it. It is not easily found in search engines results so you decide to head over to your favorite browser and try to remember the domain name. The problem is that the domain spells out something like keyword-keyword-keyword-keyword-keyword.com. Does that sound normal, […]