Paid Survey Guide Jun13

Paid Survey Guide

To be a successful survey panelist means that you know the ins and outs of paid survey context and moreover that you know how to foresee pitfalls, avoid scams, secure and increase your extra income. Find here 15 tips to this direction.

Social Media Relationships Value

People from Hubspot address with this nifty infographic the importance of meaningful social media relationships between brands and people to the direction of building trust and engagement and they offer some useful tips based on the core thinking of a “Love Story”.

Contests for Leads

According to recent research on giveaway contests’ effectiveness, conducted by IncentiVibe, crafting a well built contest landing page can bring in up to 700% increase in lead generation and amplify 5x the social media engagement. Read the facts.

Content Marketing Over Time

Since the infancy of marketing both as a process and art, brands have been seeking for effective ways to communicate with their audience, attract prospects, convert them to customers and keep them engaged. Content marketing in its various forms, has been the strongest tool to make this happen. See some representative examples of content marketing legacy.

App World Statistics

Apps have been around for almost 5 years. TopApps.net in collaboration with Graphs.net present an overview of the rapidly growing App industry featuring insights about App Stores’ popularity, ranking, size and revenue. Further insights regarding apps’ volume and popularity by type are also available.

Social Media Virality 101

There’s not a magic formula for success in social media communication. However, here you will find some generic yet tried and true guidelines for how to make your content shareable and better resonate with your audience.

10 Silicon Valley Stars

Meet 10 entrepreneurs who chased their dream and slammed Silicon Valley with their commitment to innovation. From social entrepreneurship to strictly tech and business projects, these are some of the most successful and disruptive online start-ups.

Middle East e-Commerce Market

Predictions are of the most optimistic regarding the growth of e-Commerce in the Middle East. It is expected that by 2015 the B2C e-Commerce market will turnover $15 billion resulting in about 70% increase from 2012. Find out more insights about online shopping in MENA.

Native Ads vs Banner Ads

Recent study with 4,770 people surveyed shows that native online ads (meaning text inline ads relative to the content), perform better than traditional banner ads. The study concludes to 3 key benefits regarding engagement, brand awareness, and content consumption.

How to Retain eMail Subscribers

Are you met with considerable churning of your newsletter subscribers lately? Aside a solid list building strategy, digital marketers have to regularly monitor subscription losses and make provisions about how to eliminate them. Check some dos and dont’s for retaining the value of a mailing list.

Privacy and Facebook Graph Search

The new facebook search engine is out, ready to crawl and record whatever it finds in its pass and committed to offer a unique, more personalized search experience. Will you grant access to all of your data or are you determined to take control of your privacy?

Digital Marketer Tomorrow

7 in 10 marketers believe that the role of marketing is going to dramatically change within the next 5 years as they feel and endorse the big turn to digital marketing. See how they plan to keep up with this shift.

Social Media and Natural Disasters

Social media is quickly becoming an efficient outlet for managing disaster response. See some interesting examples of their growing role in real incidents from the Japan Tsunami, Haiti Earthquake, Hurricane Sandy.

iOS vs Android App Development

This infographic examines the clash between the two tech giants from developers’ side. The big question is, Android or iOS platform brings in the most bucks?

SME Marketing in Practice

According to recent survey conducted by Pitney Bowes, only 39% of marketing plan is accomplished on average by today SME. It is estimated that SMEs are losing about £122 BN sales due to marketing inefficiency. That’s a big opportunity!

Mobile Apps Overview

About 6 years ago, that mobile app industry was hardly in its infancy, just a handful of tech savvies could foresee the spurt that was bound to come. Now that we’ve felt the heat, projections about the future off mobile app economy are of the most promising.

Digital Marketing 2013

See how online marketers play the game utilizing Mobile Marketing, Content Marketing, Social Media and Authorship to reach their leads and prospects in B2B and B2C markets for 2013.

Pinterest Rules Social Commerce

Pinterest thrives in the social commerce landscape, offering notable growing rates of referral traffic compared to Facebook and Twitter while it clearly trumps in terms of average consumer spending. See the numbers.

Make Extra Cash Online

While there are many ways to earn money on the Internet, most of them require you to spend money or as they say “invest” money to make any money. But what if you don’t have any money and are just looking to earn a few extra dollars in your spare time? Isn’t there any way to make extra money online without having to spend any money? Read on to find out.

Why Google Plus

Are you still looking for reasons to use Google+ for all your social networking requirements? This infographic highlights reasons why Google Plus is valuable and how it will get you to make the jump.