Banned From PayPal! (Permanently “Limited”) Last week while busy at my ‘day job’ I got the following email on the iPhone: (slightly edited for brevity) Dear Randy Brown,The PayPal User Agreement states that PayPal, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to limit an account for any violation of the User Agreement, including the Acceptable Use Policy. ….We are hereby notifying you that, after a recent review of your accountactivity, it has been determined that you are in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy regarding your sales of Subscription Services … Therefore, your account has been permanently limited.You will need to remove all references to PayPal from your website(s) and/or auction(s).
This includes not only removing PayPal as a payment option, but also the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart. We thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you have any questions, please contact the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.Sincerely, PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department PayPal, an eBay Company. How Google Tracks Traffic. Broadband & Internet We all love their traffic alerts, but how exactly does GoogleMaps know how clogged the highway is on your way out of town this weekend?
As the Fourth of July weekend approaches, many of us will be hopping into our cars en masse in search of a long awaited break. Along with an overcooked burger and some mosquito bites, traffic will inevitably factor into each of our weekends. Luckily, we now have smartphones—which, thanks to Google, might actually give drivers some clues as to what to expect on the road ahead. The Best Damn Web Marketing Checklist, Period!
Marketing a website isn't particularly difficult.
It's usually just a matter of knowing what to do, how to do it and having the skills and time to get it done. With that said, marketing a website isn't particularly easy either. There are so many factors and variables in play that at any given time that the job can be quite overwhelming. Obviously I can't address the issue of whether or not you have the skills or time, but I can help you out with the "what to do" piece of the puzzle. I've always been a lover of checklists, especially when it comes to getting things done. Below is my master website marketing checklist covering over 400 specific items over 23 topics. For the sake of brevity, I have kept each check point to its briefest form providing very little explanation. Over the next couple of weeks I'll provide some additional explanation and insights to the lists below. Dan Kennedy on how the internet changed marketing. 13 Reasons Why Social Media Marketing is Worth Your Time. When comparing social media traffic to other forms of traffic, such as search engine, the numbers typically are going to look rather bleak.
While you’ll hopefully see a spike in number of visitors and pageviews, that will often be accompanied by higher bounce rates, lower pageviews per visitor, and a lower average time on the site. With stats like this many bloggers wonder if social media traffic is even worth the time and effort. Despite the tendency of many social media visitors to quickly exit your site and move on to the next one, there are still some very convincing reasons why you should care about social media and why it is worth your time. 1. It’s Free. Social Media Is Key for Marketers (But Not How You Might Think) InShare0 NEW YORK — In the middle of the real social-media boom, advertisers and marketers are still getting a feel for how it can best be used to reach their audiences.
Curtis Hougland, the CEO of the PR firm Attention, told Wired’s Disruptive by Design business conference Tuesday that much of the social-media strategy employed by marketers today follows guidelines that are based on common myths: The Wide Divide Between Brands And Consumers In Social Media. 10 Awesome Tips to help you grow your Fan Page. If you own a business (and I do consider a blog a business) then you most likely have either heard about the benefits of owning a fan page and using it to drive traffic to your blog, attract opt ins, interact with likeminded people, and so much more.
Or you are looking into it as a future investment for your blog or small business. As someone with well over 20,000 Facebook fans I thought I’d share the various methods I’ve used in the last 8 months or so that I’ve had it, in the hopes of helping others to grow their own. For the record, Facebook is the second highest traffic website with 135 million unique visitors each month, if you are able to siphon off even a small portion of that to your blog I’m sure you’d be happy as traffic is truly the lifeblood of a blog, and without it things can be very lonely indeed.
Here are the various methods I’ve personally used to grow my page to almost 22,000 fans in just a few short months. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Www.jeffbullas.com/2011/09/30/6-fabulous-facebook-marketing-infographics/ Social media marketing is dominated by Facebook with research revealing that over 90% of all social marketing endeavours include a Facebook marketing campaign.
Twitter is still used by brands and organisations to engage with an audience and run marketing promotions but its lack of a self service advertising platform has restricted its ease of use as a marketing tool. There are many ways to market on Facebook including paid self serving banner ads that can be the catalyst to kick off an immediate start to a Facebook marketing campaign or creating custom tabs to capture Facebook “likes” Many companies marketing teams are still learning to optimise and utilise the reach and the power of Facebook’s 800 million users as a marketing platform, from when to post an update to what are the best tactics to implement. Here are some infographics that will provide some tips, tactics and insights into the world of Facebook marketing. 1.
Source: Mashable 2. 64 Facebook Marketing Tactics 3. 4. 5. 6. Internet Marketing Resource Center and Email Newsletter from Larry Chase. 16/4/12 WFM: linkable assets. For marketers who are on the move, podcasts can be a time-efficient way to consume trade information.
Below are our top picks for Digital Marketing podcasts that give you the best return on your investment of time. Top Digital Marketing Podcast Feeds There are scores of podcasts about marketing. Some are a colossal waste of time. Others start out like gangbusters and then flame out. We’ve looked at and listened to countless Digital Marketing podcasts over many months. Why do people talk about your product? How do people use the mobile Web? Image by rzymu on BigStockPhoto.com People browse differently on mobile devices than they do on their desktop computers Mobile device users don’t typically “surf” the Internet using mobile devices.
Their motives tend to be more intentional and action-based. Social Media Doesn’t Make Sales – People Do. There’s a deep, dark secret that the social media marketers don’t want you to know.
It doesn’t matter what your social media strategy is unless it includes what you expect the prospect to do after they find you through social media. You can have the biggest following on Twitter and Facebook and Google+, the best videos on Youtube and a constant flow of repins on Pinterest and still not make a single sale. New Media Business Models. Need a Social Media Strategy? Start Thinking Community… In the race to social media influence, brands, professionals, and organisations have been tripping over themselves to ‘get social’. It is now fairly uncommon to find a brand that does not have at least one social media profile or what I like to call branded social space.
The trouble with some branded social spaces is that, in many cases, they are branded spaces. The social is missing. The motivation has been to collect fans and followers, which have resulted in many branded social spaces not actually providing any entertainment or value. Back in the day, before social media was the social media we see today, virtual communities facilitated the two-way interaction. The communities were run by the community members and grew from their participation. The Social Media Management Handbook. Keynote: Awareness Social Business Summit #esmboston.
Which Social Network Should You Use. Social media. Social Media 2012. State of the Social Media Man 2012. Top 10 Social Media Presentations 2009. Top 11 Social Media Presentations 2010. Presentations are a great way to consume information and learn about new topics. Unfortunately, we don't all have the time and money to spend traveling to conferences to see them in person.
Fortunately, the web has helped solve this problem by making it easier to share and watch presentations . Slideshare has become a powerful resource for discovering new ideas. Draw a Stickman. Creating Social Media Content. The other day I had the opportunity to have a conversation via Skype with THE Social Media ‘Profit,’ Lon Safko. Social Media Statistics For 2012
It was a huge year for Social Media and here is a great infographic that rounds up the key Social Media Statistics to kickoff 2012. It’s pretty impressive to see that Facebook has grown to more than 800 million active users, adding more than 200 million in a single year. Twitter now has 100 million active users and LinkedIn has over 64 million users in North America alone. A few interesting take outs for social media statistics in 2012: Facebook Statistics 2012: An average Facebook user has 130 friends and likes 80 pages56% of consumer say that they are more likely recommend a brand after becoming a fanEach week on Facebook more than 3.5 billion pieces of content are shared Twitter Statistics 2012: 34% of marketers have generated leads using Twitter55% of Twitter users access the platform via their mobile.
Trends: Customer Data, Social Media Top Marketing Priorities for CMOs Worldwide. 10 Research Tools for Social Media Strategies. Liana Evans | February 23, 2011 | 5 Comments inShare287 Before you start engaging in social media, you have to know where the conversations are going on, what are the trends, who are the influencers, and who are the evangelists.