MarketingSherpa has released the ’2012 Website Optimization Benchmark Report’. The MarketingSherpa team says, “The 2012 Website Optimization Benchmark Report includes: More than 2,500 companies surveyed 127 charts with analytical commentary Most critical page elements for conversion KPI’s that drive bottom-line results Sample... [Read more]

The latest issue of ‘Early to Rise’ newsletter has been released. Craig Ballantyne says, “In a period of just four days we had been all over the Eastern side of Germany. Our travels had taken us on a car racing adventure at Porsche in Leipzig, and then Oktoberfest celebrations in Munich, followed by more driving skill training at... [Read more]

Sean D’Souza has released the latest issue of PsychoTactics Newsletter. The featured article is titled “Why Customers Choose The Higher Priced Product (More Than 95% of the time)”. Sean D’Souza’s latest article: Why Customers Choose The Higher Priced Product (More Than 95% of the time)   Imagine you’re going to a workshop. The... [Read more]

You’ve probably seen (and maybe you have bought) software the generates QR codes. But Mark Sandquist has just released a unique piece of code. It builds your consulting business while it creates QR codes fo you or your clients that can have a variable URL destination. Most QR codes have a fixed destination, hard-coded into the code. But with... [Read more]

Lakshmi Harikumar’s latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Nine Tips for Building a Solid Mobile Website”. Lakshmi says, “For many people, mobile devices have become the primary way of accessing the Internet. In fact, in some parts of the world, mobile internet usage has surpassed desktop internet usage. In short, your audiences... [Read more]

The latest issue of ‘Search Engine Roundtable’ newsletter has been released. Search Engine Roundtable Newsletter Contents Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: October 12, 2012 Google AdWords Tests New Background Color But Why? Poll: Did Your Site Recover From The Google Penguin Update? How Does Google Determine User Metrics For Ranking? Google:... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Banking On Infomercials – A MultiChannel Profit Opportunity at Affiliate Summit West 2011”. Collins Says, “This was a conference session titled Banking On Infomercials — A MultiChannel Profit Opportunity from Affiliate Summit West 2011, which took place January 9-11, 2011 at Wynn Las Vegas. Speakers: Frank... [Read more]

Bill Guthrie’s latest training Free the Boss, goes live today, October 16, 2012. It tackles the often-misunderstood subject of outsourcing. Trying to do everything yourself will limit your potential. You aren’t skilled in all the things needed to grow your business, and you only have 24 hours in a day. For best results, your business needs... [Read more]

Dafne Canales Lees is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, October 16 at 7.00 pm MDT. The topic of the webinar is “Cracking the Google Code – SEO Training”. Webinar Details Organizers: Dafne Canales Lees Topic: Cracking the Google Code – SEO Training Day/Date: Tuesday, October 16 Time: 7.00 pm MDT - Time Zone Converter Register for webinar... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “The Mobile War”. George Colony says, “CEOs should be aware of an approaching tech war — because its outcome is going to change their customers. As the Web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise. This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems... [Read more]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “How to (Not) Meet Users’ Expectations”. Kathleen Fealy says, “Consumers have expectations when entering a website. Some expectations are tangible, such as wanting to obtain specific information. Others are intangible, such as feeling safe — trust factors provide this element. If expectations... [Read more]

Mao Flynn has released this new training, 10 Steps to $10K per week, to help you build a stable, profitable business online. The key to this income is what Flynn calls “digital assets”. A digital asset is a web-based property that puts money into your pocket every month. It is easy to replicate, costs virtually nothing to operate, and makes... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Web Privacy Tech in Focus”. Pete Prestipino says, “If you’re struggling to help users maintain privacy on your site, check out the combined tag management system and visitor privacy solutions from Ensighten, which has just been awarded a patent for its consumer privacy management technology.... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Now You Can Search Your Email, Docs & Spreadsheets Right From The Main Google Box”. Jon Mitchell says, “Google expanded its field trial Monday for anyone who wants to be able to search their personal stuff into the main Google search box. In addition to Gmail messages, you can now make your... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter is Experiencing Outages”. Todd Wasserman says, “Twitter was having a rough night on Monday. The service was working intermittently, causing the term “Twitter is Over Capacity” to trend nationally on the microblogging service. Twitter addressed the glitch on its blog Monday night,... [Read more]

InkThemes.com has released beautiful new Blackbird WordPress Theme, suitable for offline businesses (see the many samples on the sales page) as well as online businesses. This new theme turns your plain website into something special. It offers outstanding (and sometinmes unique) features: • It is fully responsive to the portable device the visitor... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “What Is Tag Management?”. Mike Pantoliano says, “Managing and making changes to tags can be tedious and involve unnecessary red tape. Tag management is a concept that was born out of the increasing need for more agile marketing measurement and tracking ability. Now that Google has released a free tag... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “How to Create a Minimum Viable Online Business”. Chris Garrett says, “Overwhelm is fast becoming the 21 century entrepreneur’s disease. If you are feeling overwhelmed in your business online right now, take comfort in the fact you are not alone, and there are solutions! The first solution,... [Read more]

Jeremy Schoemaker’s latest blog post is titled “The FTC Goes Mobile”. Schoemaker says, “As the world goes mobile, so does the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Earlier this year, the Commission held a public workshop to hear and discuss ideas for updating its “Dot-Com Disclosures” guidelines (created in 2000) to fit the new world of digital... [Read more]

You need good content on your site, but often good content goes unnoticed. Backlinks from other high-value sites can make the search engines take notice and give your content the prominence it deserves. Joe Finn’s Backlink Alchemy X shows how to get the kind of links that are worth a lot in building your site’s authority. More than that,... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “Zero To $200,000 In 1 Month with Your Own Info Product”. Chow says, “Product Camp SoCal is coming November 3 at the California State University, and I’ve submitted the following topic for presentation. Zero To $200,000 In One Month – How To Launch Your Own Info Product In this real life case study”. Zero... [Read more]

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Custom Email Templates: Save It Once, Use It Everywhere”. Crystal Gouldey says, “Earlier this year we announced a new message editor that’s available in all accounts. We’ve been continuing to work on it to make it better and better based on customer feedback. The new editor has been great for our... [Read more]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Content Marketing: Tactics that have worked for your peers”. Daniel Burstein says, “According to the 2012 MarketingSherpa Lead Generation Benchmark Report, 54% of marketers use content marketing as a lead generation tactic. Join Flint McGlaughlin, CEO and Managing Director, MECLABS, this... [Read more]

Chris Munch has created a new introduction to Kindle marketing. The price is tiny ($2.47, but rising), but the information can help you increase your Kindle earnings. The videos in Kindle TRIPLER Pigeon can help you build a genuine business on the Kindle platform. In Kindle TRIPLER Pigeon, Munch exposes the biggest mistake Kindle authors make, one that... [Read more]

Bronto has released a white paper titled “Turn Customer Data Into Revenue”. The Bronto team says, “As a marketer, you know that collecting and using customer data has countless benefits. For example, enabling dynamic content. But when channels multiply, how do you stay focused on collecting the “right” data and using it... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Yahoo Poaches Top Google Exec to be New COO”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Marissa Mayer just made her biggest hire yet. Yahoo has poached Henrique de Castro, a top executive from Google (Mayer’s previous company), to serve as its new chief operating officer, the company announced Monday. In his... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “It’s Time To Prioritize Market Insights Evolution”. Richard Evensen says, “Market insights professionals typically have to make a lot of decisions around how to optimize a limited budget with high (and ever increasing) demands for insights. Which stakeholders? Which projects? Which... [Read more]

Easy Video Flix was just announced in the last week and already over 100 copies have been sold. Why the widespread interest? It’s very flexible and lets you add a video to your site from: • YouTube • Any FLV, F4V, Mov, MP4, or M4V file you have rights to Whether its family videos or movie trailers you can access on YouTube or elsewhere in... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Say Hello to the New eBay”. Allison Howen says, “eBay has released a series of design and general experience updates intended to improve user engagement and also compete with the popular daily deal site, Groupon. The changes include a site redesign, a new daily deal section and a tool that... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Last Day to Grab Our New Content Marketing Ebook Without Registration”. Brian Clark says, “Heads up, today’s the last day to download our free 22-page content marketing ebook without registering first. I wrote this piece to explain the integrated process of content + social + search as an... [Read more]

Citrix Online is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, October 23 at 1.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “The Business of Awesome: How to Make Your Business Boom”. Citrix Online team says, “Join the Business Awesome series to learn: Which marketing strategies and trends are disasters in disguise How to establish trusting relationships with... [Read more]

With Wpermit-All in 1 Licensing Solution, you can create unlimited licenses quickly and easily and encrypt your work using the built-in encryption function to strengthen your protection from theft. With this WordPress plugin, you have control over how your intellectual property is used: • Limit maximum number of licenses on a domain • Revoke... [Read more]

Melanie Benson Strick is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, October 17 at 7.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “The Secret to Turning The Right Ideas into Big Money and Impact Offerings”. Webinar Details Organizer: Citrix Online Key person: Melanie Benson Strick Topic: The Secret to Turning The Right Ideas into Big Money and Impact Offerings Day/Date: Wednesday,... [Read more]

MarketingExperiments is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, October 17 at 4.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “5 Steps to Effective Content Marketing: How to extract the maximum revenue from your content”. MarketingExperiments team says, “Many marketers think that by creating valuable content through blogs, whitepapers, webinars, etc. you... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “New Cyberwar Rules Of Engagement: Will The U.S. Draft Companies To Fight?”. Brian Proffitt says, “Last week’s call from U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for an expanded offensive role in cyberwar activities may have the ring of Hollywood drama, but the real-world implications for U.S.... [Read more]

Easy Video Flix was just announced in the last week and already over 100 copies have been sold. Why the widespread interest? It’s very flexible and lets you add a video to your site from: • YouTube • Any FLV, F4V, Mov, MP4, or M4V file you have rights to Whether its family videos or movie trailers you can access on YouTube or elsewhere... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “The Winners of The #ASW13 Networking Plus Passes”. Chow says, “Here are the ten winners of the Affiliate Summit West 2013 Networking Plus Passes. These passes are worth up to $749 each and entitles the winners admission to the Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, Keynotes, Sunday educational sessions,... [Read more]

Howie Jacobson is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, October 16 at 1.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Virtual Camp Checkmate”. Jacobson says, “This zero-cost Checkmate training will show you how to cut through the clutter to become the obvious choice in your market. In the webinar, you’ll experience the combined power of the Checkmate... [Read more]

Danny Iny and Daniel Levis are hosting a webinar on Tuesday, October 16 at 8.00 pm EST. The topic of the webinar is “More Traffic & Subscribers via Fast, Easy Writing”. Iny says, “During this live training event, you’ll discover and learn (for FREE): How Danny’s blog grew from 140 readers to 14,000 (without Twitter, SEO, PPC, Pinterest,... [Read more]

British marketer Sarah Staar has recorded a seminar she taught on getting started in marketing on the internet and doing it for minimal expense. She shares her approach to earning $100 per day without destroying your personal life. Beginners Blueprint To $100 A Day she shows how to build a real business, not just make opportunistic forays into marketing, hoping... [Read more]