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  • Infographic: The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing

    Prestige Marketing Inc., an online marketing solutions provider, has created an infographic laying out the benefits of affiliate marketing. The company defines affiliate marketing as “paying a commission for a set of affiliates to independently advertise your brand.” Here are some of the highlights: –

  • Advertising Is Hindering the Adoption of Responsive Web Design

    Responsive Web design continues to gain attention and implementation, as all kinds of companies across all industries try to offer consumers prime experiences no matter what device they’re on. However, it seems that there’s a hurdle that’s hindering the adoption of responsive design: advertising. Jenny Xie writes about this difficulty for PBS MediaShift, and while […]

  • Twitter Cards Get Some Improvements: Mobile App Deep-Linking, 3 New Types of Cards

    Twitter Cards, which help developers richly display their content within tweets on the Web and on mobile devices, got some nifty improvements on Tuesday. The social network, which says more than 10,000 developers utilize Twitter Cards, announced mobile app deep-linking in Cards. Though it might sound ubernerdy, it’s a feature that enables users to tap […]

  • Report: Email Marketing Accounts for 15% of the Average Marketing Budget

    Email continues to be a mainstay for businesses, despite the onslaught of social media and all things mobile. A report from iContact affirms this and finds that 83 percent of small and medium-size businesses say email is important or critically important to their overall marketing strategy. The report also notes that businesses are spending more […]

  • LivingSocial Partners With Custora to Improve Customer Acquisition and Retention

    LivingSocial has an agreement in place with Custora, a “predictive marketing analytics platform that helps retailers identify their most valuable customers and keep them coming back.” The daily-deals company will use Custora’s platform to help it improve its predictions of customer behavior and shopping activity. The two companies have laid out two initiatives: –

  • 5 Alternative Ways Facebook Can Increase Its Revenue

    There’s little doubt that Facebook pages remain an essential part of many companies’ marketing strategies, but there’s also little doubt that brands are frustrated by the chokehold the social network has on the reach of a page’s posts. Last year, Facebook shared that brands’ page updates were seen by an average of just 16 percent […]

  • 5 Tools for Researching Your Twitter Followers’ Demographics

    Twitter recently introduced gender targeting for its advertisers, which means marketers should be even more focused on how demographics play a role on their efforts on the social media platform. After all, understanding who your followers are can be the difference between pathetic engagement and frequent conversations. Ann Smarty, founder of My Blog Guest, shares […]

  • Infographic: How to Rock Social Media in Just 30 Minutes a Day

    Pardot, a B2B marketing automation software provider, has put together an infographic offering some pointers for busy marketers who are tasked with social media campaigns. As if marketers didn’t have enough to worry about, social media has entered the picture to gobble more and more of their time each day. However, all that’s needed to […]

  • Study: 57% of U.S. Smartphone Owners Receive a Mobile Ad at Least Once a Day

    According to Nielsen’s “The Mobile Consumer” report, 57 percent of smartphone owners in the U.S. get mobile ads at least once a day on their phones, while 24 percent get them weekly, 10 percent get them monthly and 8 percent get them less than once per month. South Korea (78 percent), Turkey (74 percent), China […]

  • How to Optimize Your Lead-Generation Forms

    E-commerce sites can run a series of great A/B or multivariate tests for conversion rate optimization (CRO) and expect a 20-something lift in sales, at best. Lead-generation marketers are fortunate because they can expect a much bigger impact on their results, according to Justin Rondeau, editor of WhichTestWon, writing for Econsultancy. “In fact, the average […]