10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, FB, GRPN, PCLN) + MORE 11/09/2012
Happy Friday! Here's the news: Priceline will buy travel site Kayak for $1.8 billion. Groupon had another big miss on earnings yesterday. Speaking of Groupon, the company reportedly fired about 80 people yesterday. Kevin Ryan is reportedly stepping down as Gilt Groupe CEO. Sheryl Sandberg sold anot.... More »
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Made This 'Harlem Shake' Video To Mock Enemies, But Now They Want Removed From YouTube 03/03/2013
The 'Harlam Shake' meme, which involves one lone person dancing to an electronic music song by Baauer, before a group of people begin dancing when the song "drops", began in Australia earlier this year, but soon spread around the world. Now even Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the controversial Islamist.... More »
How Twitter Knows So Much About You Before You've Even Signed Up + MORE 03/10/2013
If you've been on Twitter for years, like many people in the tech and business world, it's easy to forget what it was like signing up and using it for the first time. The truth is that learning to use Twitter was really hard back then, and many new users abandoned the service. In 2009, its retention.... More »
A Surprising Winner Arose From The Instagram-Twitter Spat + MORE 12/22/2012
BABBAGE'S inbox was swamped one recent morning with hundreds of e-mail notifications. Various friends and acquaintances wanted to add him as a contact on Flickr, a photo-sharing service which once set the world ablaze but which had been all but extinguished for years. The reason for the su.... More »
Facebook roundup: Bing social search, PMD policies, Open Compute Summit, more + MORE 01/19/2013
Facebook shares back below $30 - Wall Street was apparently unimpressed with Facebook’s Graph Search announcement. Facebook shares, which surged past $31 last week in anticipation of the company’s first big press event since going public, closed today at $29.66, down 6.5 percent from M.... More »
NEW YORK: This Is What Your Flooded Subway System Looked Like After Hurricane Sandy
– http://www.businessinsider.com/
The MTA has just posted a bunch of stunning pictures from inside the New York Subway system, which got flooded, and is shut down in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The worst impacts were Downtown/Wall Street area, not surprisingly. Meanwhile, an official timetable on expected Subway reopening is supposed to come out today. Please follow Business Insider on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
How to Attract Customers With Pinterest
– http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/
Imagine your ideal clients.Now think about what kind of pictures or visual images they would enjoy.If you can create (or curate) visually compelling content, then Pinterest could be a great social platform for you.When used the right way, Pinterest can drive massive traffic to your website, build loyal communities around your brand and convert fans into buyers.Beyond the PinIn February 2012, Pinterest bypassed Twitter in terms of referral traffic…
How to Manage Millennials
– inc.com
The delicate art of building a culture that embraces employees of all ages, from Baby Boomers to Millennials.With employees whose ages range from 18 to 55, managers at SceneTap have a pretty complicated job.The 26-employee company, which sells an application that lets barhoppers scout out the ratio of male to female patrons at local nightspots, has younger employees in the IT department who are keyed in to social media and are always connected by smartphone…‘Toxic’ Data Cripples Email Marketing Efforts
– http://www.business2community.com/
A world of toxic data keeps email open rates lowMore and more companies rely on generating leads from consumer collected online, but research reported by Eloqua shows that 14% of this data is faked, while 30% is valid for just one year or less.21% hit ‘mark as spam’A further hurdle is the inbox. Email marketing targets those potential customers who have signed up to receive updates via online forms. However, 21% of the recipients report the messages they receive as spam, which condemns emails from the sender company to end up lost in the junk mail folder…Be Afraid: 33 Scary Online Marketing Tales of SEO, Social Media & Content Marketing
– http://www.toprankblog.com/
Happy Halloween to all the online marketing ghosts, ghouls, and goblins out there.Have you ever heard or received a really bad piece of online marketing advice? Maybe the recommendation was founded on total hearsay, completely out of date or you discovered that the suggestions actually hurt, rather than helped? Scary! At one time or another we’ve all received the trick and not the treat in our internet marketing candy basket.
In this post you’ll find 20 scary SEO, social media and content marketing tales from the team at TopRank Online Marketing and from our friends on Twitter @TopRank, fans on Lee’s Facebook page and the TopRank Facebook page…