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Account-based marketers just got a huge gift from LinkedIn. LinkedIn recently launched its Matched Audiences advertising targeting product to the public. Unlike LinkedIn’s targeting templates, which ...
Last week LinkedIn officially launched its Matched Audiences advertising targeting product to the public. Unlike LinkedIn’s targeting templates, which allow you to build and save audiences using ...
You've been there: a deadline is looming for The Big Campaign. You have the budget, approved creative is finally in place, you've avoided obvious mistakes, and the ad content speaks perfectly to your ...
LinkedIn Groups are a great way to build credibility for yourself or your business. You can join up to 50 of them, but why bother? What benefits could you expect to see by joining even one? Aren't ...
Retargeting: Challenging But Important Retargeting helps convert people who've abandoned your site or app into customers. According to AdRoll, only, "2% of shoppers convert on the first visit" to a ...
The self-service advertising experience within LinkedIn has come a long way in the last couple of years. With 40% of its revenue now coming from content marketing (via direct sponsored content) ...
Focusing on metrics that track to specific objectives is the key to successful tracking of marketing campaigns, said managing VP Julie Hopkins and mobile marketing lead Mike McGwire of Gartner at ...
Yesterday Twitter launched Periscope, its long-rumored live-streaming mobile app service. Hot on the heels of the SXSW darling Meerkat, Periscope is designed to give the ability for anyone with the ...
Building excellent landing pages that result in high conversions is undeniably hard. The most important goal for a landing page is to get your visitor to take a specific action. Nothing else. ...
Here are some of the key things you should know from the world of social media this week:
Copying boiler plate posts between multiple networks using Buffer, HubSpot, Sprinklr, Hootsuite, Salesforce or other cross-posting tools is better than nothing, but you can expect about the same ...
Social media analytics are hard. That's one of the biggest problems with social media. Anything that makes them easier is awesome. Anyone that has spent professional, quality time with Radian6, ...
We all know social search is coming. We've discussed the details of Facebook Graph Search in a previous post. But there are several major hurdles that need to be cleared in order for it to truly ...
This morning on the Today Show Facebook publicly launched the new Timeline view for brand Pages. It's a major departure from the existing look, feel, management, and operation of Pages today. There ...
In late January Facebook finally added support for HTTPS, allowing users to browse the site securely. HTTPS provides a combination of the HTTP and SSL protocols, enabling encrypted communication ...
Well, it's gone for another year. Along with my voice and ability to walk without wincing for the next few days. So here's the big takeaways from the show for me:
A big congratulations goes out to our client AVG Technologies who just ranked 15th in the Social Brands 100! It's now the number 2 technology company behind Dell. Among the companies that AVG ...
Today Facebook presented a 6-month developer roadmap. Finally - it's been frustrating as hell writing a book about Facebook and not knowing what was coming from them and when, not to mention staying ...
Cappy Popp will be speaking at a MITX event Wednesday, June 24, 2009 on a panel titled, 'Web Marketing on a Shoestring - Being Scrappy in a Down Economy'.
Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft's Cambridge Research Center.
Today Facebook launched a beta feature it calls ‘Quick Transitions.’ This feature supposedly results in faster load times for Facebook Platform Application canvas pages. It somehow uses Ajax to load ...
Today I attended the TechTarget Online ROI Summit. Great seminar: most importantly one of the panels was focused on 'Understanding the CIO's Agenda and Making Sure you are on it.' Interesting panel. ...
One of the biggest fears in dealing with social media (especially on a service as public as Twitter) is how to deal with inevitable negative comments about you or your brand. There’s a right and ...
The new (as of March 2009 - who knows what next week holds) Facebook Pages have become more like regular Facebook profiles. The important thing to note for the purpose of this post is that they now ...
This is a very handy feature, especially if you have to write your code in Actionscript 2 for which the Flash CS4 debugger is terrible, terrible, terrible. Trace messages are great but when your ...
Facebook says they will soon be updating the developer application that allows you to manage your applications. It's about time. It's a mess at the moment. As long as they don't break the application ...
This week I attended the excellent MassTLC unConference. Among excellent sessions on effective use of Twitter, how to generate free PR, common startup mistakes, and others the unConference was a ...
Facebook reported yesterday that they are new Events API calls that will: "...allow applications to create, modify, and cancel events, as well as submit a user's RSVP to any event that the ...
One of the first questions we usually are asked by potential clients involves ROI (return on investment.) It is a valid and critical question, no matter the size of the company or its marketing ...
Marketing Sherpa had an interesting post recently on Facebook Pages. I wanted to comment on it since I think though relevant and timely it missed some really relevant points that our clients face as ...
Here are my slides from my presentation this morning at GSP East. Please let me know if you have any questions. Migrating From Facebook To Bebo from hiscapness
I came across this issue today where I was getting an error when trying to add the to a canvas page of a page-only app. The app was installed on a Facebook Page of which I was an admin.
The Facebook API does have a way to set and get cookies, but it is in beta so is not currently part of the FB PHP libraries. I found it out by searching through forums, by trial-and-error, and on the ...
After having looked at MySpace's OpenSocial implementation I wanted to provide a comparison between it and the Facebook development platform. They are based upon completely different models and ...
PHP 4.x introduced magic methods with the __serialize and __unserialize methods. Since then many have been added. Love them or hate them as a language abomination magic methods are here to stay. Most ...
For the longest time I have used 4NT as a replacement for the Windows CMD.exe shell. It provides an environment variable, _CWD, that provides the current working directory. I never knew that Windows ...
I use the console in Firebug all the time to test out one-liners in Javascript (like regexes for instance), but I had no idea that you could type multiple lines of JS in Firebug and run it. As I ...