Twitter has a highly engaged mobile user base. Based on mobile application popularity, Twitter has begun to fall behind Google+ in around the world, according to a study by GlobalWebIndex. The study ignores third-party apps, as well as Gmail, which may have a greater effect on the study if they...
By Jennifer Kim Marketers today are faced with the challenge of moving beyond traditional media routes and reaching a consumer accustomed to choices and adjusted speeds. Technological advancements accelerate as consumer behavior is thwarted by media formats and simultaneous marketing impressions of...
Facebook Applications are unique, extended Facebook experiences you can add to your Facebook Page to offer your visitors tailored experiences. They let you do all sorts of things on your Facebook Page like import a blog, offer a contest, collect user information, include ecommerce shopping and...
by Rachel Greene Although we have plenty of documentation (and even a movie!) that tells the tale of Facebook’s relatively small beginnings, it’s hard to imagine the social network behemoth as anything less than what it is today. With more and more people signing in every day, it only makes sense...
Twitter is a hybrid between a blog and a social network. This "micro-blogging" website offers an API enabling web designers and developers to extend Twitter's services into an array of mobile apps, web apps and websites. This micro-blogging service allows users to publish and explore text-based...
B2B marketers need to grapple with a variety of channels, devices and options when building a B2B marketing strategy for their organization. The emergence of new touchpoints and channels has only increased the complexity of a marketer's task. Marketers strive to simplify this task, but the wrong...
When designing a marketing plan, defining your target user profiles is key. An audience can be comprised of unique and definable segments based on their online behavior. One example of a tool for audience segmentation analysis is Forrester's Social Technographics data that classifies consumers into...
Alerts are essentially a reverse search engine retrieval process. A web user creates an alert focusing on a keyword or keyphrase, and as the web crawler finds instances of that keyword, a notification is sent. Most alert systems only create a notification if the finding is new or matches a preset...
As an analyst spends time with data for a particular website, new and more complex insights will "jump out." If you care about web performance, spend time with the data to better understand potential trends and opportunities. Web performance insights can be vital for website owners, managers or a...
Both B2B and B2C marketing can benefit from audience segmentation for analytics reporting. Market segmentation is exactly the opposite mentality from mass marketing. In mass marketing, an agency would send the same email or message to a large group, and segmentation allows for targeting smaller...