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Forbes Facebook Puts Everyone On Notice About The Death Of Organic Reach June,06,2014 By: Ewan Spence
Facebook’s Brian Boland has taken to a Facebook blog to talk about the decline of a post’s organic reach in the social network. In his role as VP Ads Product Marketing, he walked through the implications as organic reach becomes a less effective engagement tool.A post’s organic reach reflects how often it will be seen without any further help from either the Facebook algorithm or paid-for engagement. Read More
Bloomberg
Pinterest Rolling Out Self-Service Advertising
June,05,2014 by: Sarah Frier
Pinterest Inc., which was valued at $5 billion last month, is opening up its advertising to all users as the scrapbooking website seeks additional revenue.The 4-year-old startup, which first started making money off of marketers in May, is testing a new program where any person or business can pay to promote their posts, known as pins, so they get viewed by more Web users, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement today.Read More
Business News Daily
Customer Engagement: 3 Essential Tips for Small Businesses
June,05,2014 By: Nicole Fallon
As a small business your website is often the first place consumers will go to find you. Your site is your chance to make a good first impression on potential leads and bring back existing customers. If you want to accomplish this, it's important to make sure your website keeps its visitors interested and engaged. Most brands are aware of the need to create an engaging Web presence, but smaller ones typically don't think they have the time or to constantly update their website with fresh, new content, or even create a website at all. Read More
Site Pro News
Social Apps and Tools to Help Transform Your Business
June,06,2014
By: Tina Courtney-Brown
The social space is as dynamic as a politician’s promises – it changes. A lot. Keeping up with social media marketing trends is literally a full-time job.If you’re like most companies, learning to use the social scene to boost sales and revenues is a priority, but hardly an exact science. As marketers, we are only as wise and savvy as our tools allow, so staying on top of new trends and apps for social media is essential to success.Read More
KaratBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
3 tactics to make your content marketing more effective
June,04,2014
by: MICHELLE MANAFY
Many business owners find themselves strapped for time or cash or both. So the need to engage in content marketing to promote products and services--it can be pretty daunting. Small businesses aren't alone when it comes to this problem, either. Some of the biggest companies and brands have teams hard at work trying to get their content marketing figured out.
Small Biz Club
5 Ways to Protect Your Small Business on the Internet
June,04,2014
by: Staff
The Internet can be an incredible platform and resource for small business owners in all industries. On the other hand, it can be one of the most risky tools you ever use. 1800Accountant offers these helpful hints on protecting a business online: Read More
Advertising Age
Facebook Courts Small Business: 'We Don't Want to Take a Ton of Money'
June,04,2014
By: Mark Bergen
If you run a small business, Facebook wants some face time with you. And maybe just a few of your ad dollars."We don't want to take a ton of money," Dan Levy, Facebook's director of small business, told a crowd of around 350 small business owners assembled in Manhattan on Tuesday morning. "We want to take the money that helps you grow your business." Read More
Social Media Examiner 8 Types of Twitter Cards Businesses Are Using
June,04,2014
By: Kristi Hines
Do you know what a Twitter card is? Do you wonder which one is a fit for your business? Twitter cards enrich your tweets with additional content, media and calls to action. In this article I'll share eight types of Twitter cards, how to install them and their analytics options... Read More
KaraBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
That’s what I always tell new hires at my agency, because no matter how hard B2C marketing gets, it can feel like it’s nothing compared to marketing to the enterprise. So what social tools can help do the heavy lifting for B2B? You might be surprised by the number of tailor-made tools out there for communication and engagement. Here are some recommendations based on six goals for B2B marketers Read More
e-Marketer
Females Press the Pin Button
June,02,2014
By: Staff
eMarketer expects the number of US Pinterest users to climb 15.0% this year, reaching 40.1 million consumers, or 15.9% of the population. Women will make up an overwhelming majority of this group, with 34.1 million female users accounting for 85% of the total audience. Read More
Web Pro News
What Brands Are Doing Wrong With Visual Social Media
May,29,2014
By:Chris Crum
In case you haven’t noticed, consumers on the Internet are doing a lot of their online communication through visuals these days. People are sharing roughly 1.8 billion photos every dayjust on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and WhatsApp. But image sharing reaches far beyond personal photographs and these particular services, and brands are waking up to this fact. Read More
Okay, email marketer mavens: forget that “awesome” in the headline of this story. It was a mistake. So were the exclamation points. The awesome word is a no-no, according to Christopher Ratcliff, a writer at Econsultancy, a company which advises internet marketers on a wide variety of topics. So are excessive exclamation points and other subject line madness. His recent internet screed, “45 words to avoid in your email marketing subject lines,” is — frankly — spot on. Read More
KaraBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
App aims to make caring for an ill loved one less onerous
May,30,2014
By: Callum Borchers
Renee Fry was fresh off a stint as deputy chief of staff to former governor Mitt Romney and was settling into a new marketing job in 2008 when she suffered a seizure and learned she had a massive brain tumor. “Your life just changes overnight,” she said. As did the lives of Fry’s mother and sister, who were thrust into the role of caretakers, helping her recover from a successful 14-hour surgery and managing the extensive rehabilitation she needed to regain motor function. Read More
Physician Practice
Retail-based Health Clinics: A Benefit or Detriment to Patient Care?
May,27,2014
By: Staff
For many patients, the convenience and quick service provided by retail-based clinics (RBCs) is difficult to resist. But is it a healthy way to receive and provide patient care? In a recent Practice Notes blog, practice administrator Lean Didomenico McCallister, wrote that while such clinics have their drawbacks, they also provide useful alternatives to her practice's patients. Read More
HealthDataMangement
Web-Based Counseling a Cost-Effective Approach for Heart Disease
May,29,2014
By: Greg Goth
Web-based and live counseling programs can effectively reduce incidents of heart disease for patients at high risk for the disease, and Web-based programs are particularly cost-effective, according to research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.UNC officials say the work adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that nontraditional approaches to healthcare are becoming ever more important in managing health and disease. Read More
Med City News
Treating people with dignity and respect will make patient engagement easier and better
May,29,2014
by: Lisa Goren
All it takes is a single visit to the doctor’s office to place one’s pride and self-esteem a dozen notches below baseline. I didn’t think much of my appointment, knowing it was just a routine scan at the dermatologist’s office, a new annual pilgrimage resulting from a diagnosis called Middle Age. Entering the room, the medical assistant asked me to undress and, as is customary, pointed to the gown and the sheet that would further preserve my dignity. She instructed me to tie the gown in the back and then she promptly left.Read More
KaraBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
This Week's Home/Small Business Online News
Marketing Profs Are You Wasting Your Time on Twitter? Four Ways to Make It Count May,27,2014
by+Sonja Jobson
You've just sent your latest tweet out into the giant black hole known as the Twitter stream.Now what?Are you confident that the time you devote to marketing on Twitter actually pays off? And if it is paying off, how exactly I've met more than a few frustrated small-business owners who want to take advantage of all the great benefits social media marketing offers, but they just don't know whether their time investment will get them anywhere.
House Defense Bill Would Raise Small Business Contracting Goals
May,27,2014
by:+Charles S. Clark
The defense policy bill that cleared the House May 22 is controversial for multiple reasons, most stemming from its rejection of many of the Obama administration’s cost-cutting proposals in troop compensation, military bases and weapons systems.
But deep inside the 700-plus page National Defense Authorization Act are also provisions to open more federal contracting opportunities to small businesses, and some of these measures are troubling to major contractors. Read More
Mobile Marketing Watch
Mobile Marketers: Are You Near Me Now?
May,27,2014
by:+Michael Essany
It was more than a decade ago that the ubiquitous phrase “Can you hear me now?” invaded American consciousness. Back then, cell users were asking the questions. Today, it’s mobile marketers. And the question they’re asking is: “Are you near me now?” Read More
Small Biz Club
5 Tips for Saving Money That You Haven't Tried Yet
May,27,2014 by:+Staff
Small savings can often lead to large differences in the bottom line of any business, which is why so many business owners consistently look for creative ways to save money. If you can somehow manage to do more while spending less, you will probably see more success in the long run. The goal is to run your business in the black, and being fiscally responsible is the way to accomplish it.
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
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DuctTape Selling
Two Secrets to How Small Businesses Can Win More Sales
May,05,2014
by+Mike Schultz
Selling at a small business isn’t easy. The bigger companies have brands that help them open new doors and win competitive sales. They have strong marketing support. And often they have deep pockets and aren’t afraid to use them. However, small businesses can leverage an advantage that is more powerful than any of these. This advantage? The power of ideas. It may sound corny, but it’s true. Harnessing the power of ideas is a huge advantage for many small businesses. That is, if they’re willing to do it. How do we know?
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Marketing Profs
Four Email Marketing Tips to Help You Get the Most Out of Gmail
May,19,2014
by:+Edward Touw
In the past few years, Gmail has been making a lot of waves in email marketing: priority inboxes, promotions tabs... Every new release seemed intended to make life harder for email marketers. But if we all just stop complaining for a minute, we might be able to see that we're being offered lots of hidden opportunities. Here are four email marketing tips to help you get the most out of Gmail.
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Socially Stacked
Facebook Reach has Plummeted. Here’s How to Reach Fans Now.
May,20,2014
by:+ShortStack
When Facebook changed its algorithm again, many brands — we’re betting MOST brands — noticed a major decrease in their organic Facebook reach. It used to be around two percent and now it’s closer to one percent. While this is undoubtedly frustrating, we’ve focused our attention on working with the new Facebook reality instead of fighting against it (and/or complaining about it!).
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BizReport
Extole: How to build referrals weekly, monthly, quarterly
May,19,2014
by:+Kristina Knight
Email can be one of the strongest referral avenues for many retailers, but not all brands are using all three top-performing streams - the promotional email, the transactional email and the welcome email to build referral traffic.
Welcome emails are just that - a welcome from the retailer to the consumer who has signed up for a list. The key with welcome emails is to include an area to tell the subscriber how to earn rewards or discounts by referring their friends.
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KaraBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.
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Social Media Examiner
2014 Social Media Marketing Industry Report
May,19,2014
by+Michael Stelzner
Do you wonder how your peers are using social media?
Wondering if you should focus on Instagram or podcasting, or put more effort into blogging?In our sixth annual social media study, more than 2800 marketers reveal where they focus their social media activities, which social tactics are most effective and how content plays a role into their social media marketing.
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Los Angeles Times
Kiva Zip microlending program hopes to be the Lyft or AirBnB of finance
May,14,2014
by:+TIFFANY HSU
Microlending nonprofit Kiva.org hopes to do for small-business financing in Los Angeles what Lyft has done for transportation and AirBnB has done for lodging – take it to the people.The organization is partnering with the city of Los Angeles on the local launch of its Kiva Zip pilot program, which enables individuals to make small loans directly to entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur
How to get started on your first marketing video
May,17,2014
by:+MIKAL E. BELICOVE
Q: How do I make videos for my business when I've never shot anything before?
A: Look at you, stepping out of your comfort zone. It's a smart move: Studies show that online shoppers who view video are nearly twice as likely to make a purchase as nonviewers. On Facebook, videos are shared 12 times more than links and text-based posts combined.
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Web Pro News
Here’s Why Pinterest’s New Funding Is Good News For Your Business
May,16,2014
by:+Chris Crum
Pinterest has reportedly raised a new $200 million round of funding, valuing the company at $5 billion. Investors are apparently impressed with the direction the already popular visual social media site is taking, which includes new native ads and enhancements to the search experience.
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KaraBars International
Welcome to Karatbars
Karatbars International GmbH specializes in the sale of small 999.9 pure gold bars and gift items. We offer unique product lines, including specialty collector’s items that celebrate special moments such as the Birth of a baby, Weddings, Easter, Christmas and Birthdays. Karatbars has steadily expanded its product line by using the highest standards in the industry for gold production. Karatbars also offers a line of limited edition or privately branded collector gold cards. Collector cards, especially rare limited edition cards, will often appreciate over the market value of gold.