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  • How to Turn Customers Into Content Marketers

    According to a recent survey from VerticalResponse, finding and posting content is the most time-consuming social media activity for small businesses. Meanwhile, 43 percent of small businesses spend six or more hours per week on social media, and 66 percent are spending more time on social media than they did a year ago. Clearly, this […]

  • Facebook Cuts off Twitter’s Vine From ‘Find Friends’ API

    Recently Facebook has decided to stop giving its competitors access to its social graph. In particular, it cut off Twitter’s Vine video sharing app and messaging app Voxer from “Find Friends,” the social network’s API that enables users to connect with their Facebook friends. The company is pointing to its Platform Policy, which states that […]

  • Google’s Revamped Image Search Means Better Click-Through Rates

    On Wednesday Google announced an improved Image Search based on feedback from users and webmasters. The revamped product will be rolled out to users over the next few days. The new interface features an in-line panel, which Google says will make the experience “faster, more beautiful, and more reliable.” Users will be able to flip […]

  • Quora Gets Into Blogging, but Does Anyone Care?

    On Wednesday Q&A website Quora unveiled its Blogs product, which is exactly what it sounds like. According to the company’s blog post announcing the new addition to the site, this new feature is ideal for two sets of people: 1) those who don’t already have a big, established online presence; and 2) those who don’t […]

  • Infographic: The History of Sales Technology

    Lattice Engines, a company that uses big data to inform sales professionals, has created an educational infographic walking us through the long history of sales technology. The vertical time line starts at 1440, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Here are some other important years for sales technology: – Early 1980s: voice mails become […]

  • Content Marketing: The 10+ Things Marketers Must Not Do

    Content marketing is a hot buzzword nowadays, and rightfully so. It’s a potentially effective tool that can help establish your company as a trusted leader in your industry, educate consumers, build lasting relationships and drive sales, among other things. That said, it’s wise for marketers to stop and learn about the possible pitfalls before hopping […]

  • Clickbooth Named #1 CPA Network Worldwide

    Sarasota, Florida (January 23, 2013) – Clickbooth, a performance-based online marketing company, has been named the #1 CPA Network of 2013 according to the recently published Revenue Performance magazine.\r\n\r\nEach year Revenue Performance magazine conducts the largest research survey in the performance marketing industry and releases rankings of the top CPA networks worldwide.  As industry veterans […]

  • Study: Sending Text Messages to Sales Prospects Can Boost Conversion Rates by 328%

    By now most companies understand the importance of phone calls in the process of converting a lead to a customer, but what about text messages? Yes, we’re going there

  • A Look Into the Crystal Ball: What’s in Store for Online Advertising in 2013

    By Jeremy Bloom, Co-Founder of Integrate

    Content consumption is happening everywhere on an ever-increasing number of devices: e-readers, game consoles, smartphones, ultrabooks, smart TVs, tablets, ad infinitum. In no industry is this trend more apparent than in digital marketing, where platforms rise and fall like kingdoms in the Fertile Crescent. 2013 will be a year for us to catch up on the innovations of 2012 and prepare for the upcoming developments in augmented reality, wearable computing and near-field communication.

  • Tumblr Updates Its Dashboard to Be Quicker, More Like Twitter

    Tumblr has long been something of a lightweight blogging platform, but with its updated Dashboard today, it seems the company is making itself even lighter. The website has redesigned its Dashboard in a subtle way: Instead of being taken to a whole new page when creating a post based on text, photos, quotes, links, chats, […]