44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing The term “content marketing” sounds like a hip buzzword to describe the latest marketing craze, but in reality, the concept has been around since the first newsletters came rolling off the presses. And if there’s one single reason why companies around the world continue to incorporate “content marketing strategies” into their yearly plans – it’s because it has been working for hundreds, if not thousands of years! Let’s go over a short recap as to why content marketing is a good marketing strategy to employ for today’s online audience: Show You’re an Authority on a Subject – When you offer unbiased and valuable information on a given subject matter, you earn trust with people who visit your blog or website. The following resources below will help anyone learn about why content marketing is important to any business and how to get the most of it. For Beginners For beginners to people looking for primers on content marketing, these links will get you on the right track. 1. Writers block. 14.
Use Live Chat for Customer Engagement & Higher Conversions [Meet Olark Imagine this scenario Your customers are wandering aimlessly around your landing page not sure whether to buy or cry… What do you do? You ask them “What’s wrong, or how can I help?” But how? Introducing Our Latest Partner in Crime Conversion – Olark (Comes with brightly colored cape and tight speedos) To explain a little about how and why you should add a live chat widget to your Unbounce page, we had a chat with our new friends over at Olark to hear it straight from the source. How does Olark help with conversion and customer engagement? People have a natural degree of anxiety about finding businesses they trust on the web, and websites use a variety of methods to minimize this feeling past a threshold where the user is in a state of mind where they can be converted. User reviews, detailed photos, professional web design and expert endorsements all help address this anxiety, but having a genuine human presence can give you the edge in helping them overcome their fear. A/B Testing Tip
japh(r) by Chris Strom: 366 or How I Tricked Myself into Being Awesome Like most developers, I am an introvert, so it is hard to say this: I am awesome. Fuuuuuu.... I can't even leave it at that. I look at so many amazing people in the Ruby, Javascript, and other communities that actually are amazing and I feel like I haven't done anything. I wrote three books on very different technologies that I knew nothing about. I wrote The SPDY Book, which is still the only book on SPDY: Three months later, I co-authored Recipes with Backbone(.js) with Nick Gauthier: Three months later, I wrote the first book on Dart, Dart for Hipsters: Each of these technologies has two things in common:They are game changing (or at least possibly)I knew nothing about them before I started writing them. How did I do it? Blogged every, single day. I honestly don't know why I started doing this. And it worked. Every time I do this, I learn. And then, doing it again the next day reinforces the learning. I am proud that I didn't let this get in the way of what's important. So what's next?
Penguin Analysis: SEO Isn't Dead, But You Need to Act Smarter | Microsite Masters EmailShare 2704EmailShare The new Google Penguin update was a big change that has been very unsettling to SEO’ers, both blackhats and whitehats. It seems that everywhere you go, people who had previously considered themselves to be “professionals”, are now dumbfounded as their stable authority sites have moved from ranking in the top 5 for competitive keywords, to not ranking at all. There has never been more whispers (both jokingly and not), that SEO is dead. Which leads me to… The Number One Question People Are Asking: What Did This Update Do and How Do I Recover? Microsite Masters is in a unique position as we operate as a rank tracker; we have historical ranking data for thousands of websites. Ok, Now On To What You Really Care About. Link over-optimization is one of the most thrown around concepts in the SEO community now, so it was naturally where we decided to look first. What does this mean? Taking a look at the above information we compiled says much of the same. What are those?
TUTORIAL: How to import leads into HubSpot | HubSpot You can import lists of existing leads into your HubSpot account after creating a spreadsheet of leads following the instructions in this article. When leads are in your HubSpot account you can: Re-engage your leads - Segment your leads so you can send them targeted communications via email and lead nurturing workflows, automating the process of turning leads into customersGet lead intelligence - Receive lead revisit alerts, see when your imported leads view your site, and get social media information so you can make more effective sales callsClean up your list - De-dupe your lists automatically, and then use lead nurturing campaigns to determine which of your leads are most qualified to become customers Importing your database of leads will equip your sales team with unique lead intelligence, and help you automate the process of driving leads further along the sales cycle. Instructions Follow these steps to import a CSV spreadsheet of leads into your account. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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S DMV - Vehicle Registration - Vehicle Modifications and Registration Class Modifications to a vehicle can affect its registration Part 106 of the DMV Regulations describes the vehicles that are registered in the commercial class and in the passenger class. Part 106 also describes how some modifications that you make to your vehicle can affect the correct registration class of your vehicle. A description of the modifications appears below. Each description includes a reference to the DMV Regulations. Important: The DMV cannot examine your vehicle to determine the correct registration class. Modifications that change a registration from 'Passenger' class to 'Commercial' class Cars (Part 106.2 (e)) - you can register your car in the 'Commercial' class if all the seats behind the driver are removed. Modifications that change a registration from 'Commercial' class to 'Passenger' class Vans (Part 106.3 (d)) - you can register a van in the 'Passenger' class if the van hasat least one side window behind the driver and or
Gstreamer and OpenCV for image stabilisation « Le coin à Guij I am now back from Prague where I gave a talk on image stabilisation (and my holiday pictures). Hopefully a video of the talk will soon be online. In the meantime, I would like to explain a bit my efforts in written form, with some details slightly updated from the talk (the code progressed a bit since then). UPDATE: The talk is now online. I got interested in the issues of image stabilisation through a helium balloon photography project in which I participated. Thankfully, I work at Igalia, which means that on top of my personal time, I could spend on this project some company time (what we call internally our hackfest time, of up to 5 hours per week). Original problem statement I have around 4h30 of pictures taken from a balloon 100 metres high. This is due to the huge differences occurring between two consecutive frames. Here is an example of two consecutive frames in that series: As you can see, from one frame to the next, a lot of pixels would change. Standing on the shoulders of giants