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The Marketer’s Guide To Annual Reporting For Fun and Profit 

The Marketer’s Guide To Annual Reporting For Fun and Profit  | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
It’s essential to take some time at the end of every year to assess what’s worked well, what hasn’t, and where you can improve in the new year ahead.
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Jeff's stuff is always helpful and his year-end reporting guide is no exception to that rule. 

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How to Sell Online Without A Huge Following

How to Sell Online Without A Huge Following | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Everything you need to know before you can start to sell digital products online even without a large following.
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Selling Stuff Online
This Jurij Burchenya post includes excellent tips and demonstrates one very cool content marketing idea. We love the big green "click this button to get a list" riff in this post.

Your content needs to appeal to readers and scanners. Jurij's big green button will encourage scanners to quickly get and use the essence of his article. Well done. 

 In addition to Jurij's tips we would add:

* Magazine Your Content - create expectations about what will happen each week, month or quarter and then exceed those.
* Create stores on scaled sites like Amazon, eBay and Etsy.
* Use PPC to teach you how to form offers and what content is gold. 
* Gamify your content (see our Haiku Deck on the topic here: https://shar.es/1vgyKm ) with contests and games.

Do any two of those ideas plus the ditch digging Jurij's post describes and you will build a following, sell things and have fun. How do I know? I'm a former Director of Ecommerce who managed teams who made more than $30M online during my tenure :). Marty 

 

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Aboard The Good Ship ROI Discovering Ecommerce Blue Oceans via @HaikuDeck

Aboard The Good Ship ROI Discovering Ecommerce Blue Oceans via @HaikuDeck | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Asking the right questions in the right way is key to online marketing success. How SMBs can compete with Amazon isn't as important as what is their why and how are they learning from Amazon's web marketing power.

Surf These Waves To FIND Your Blue Oceans:

* Appification & Gamification
* Wiki-ization.

* Social Shopping Nowists.
* FofF Proxy Marketing

& Find other surfable marketing trends on our Discover Blue Oceans Haiku Deck: http://shar.es/1gQgRb

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How Links Can Kill Your Website via @Curagami

How Links Can Kill Your Website via @Curagami | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Bad links can kill your website's hard-won authority, reputation & traffic. Use Google's disavow tool to protect your site's traffic from SEO bandits.
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This post shares two harrowing tales of "spam link attacks". One I experienced and, with my great team, fought our way out of one October several years ago. The other SproutContent.com share happened recently (so still an issue). Learn how to protect your hard-won digital assets from spam link attacks.

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Moon Audio Silver Dragon V2 Interconnect SCORES With Absolute Sound Review

Moon Audio Silver Dragon V2 Interconnect SCORES With Absolute Sound Review | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Winning Ecommerce
When the BIBLE of your industry writes as laudatory review as The Absolute Sound, the bible of audiophies, just did for Curagami beta partner Moon Audio a watershed moment just happened.

The Absolute Sound is known for its editorial honesty and TOUGH reviews. Here they are as accurate as ever describing the sound I hear from my Silver Dragon headphone cables better and more concisely than my efforts.

This amazing review got me to write the 5 Ecommerce Secrets post I've been meaning to write for a month. Here are 5 tips every ecommerce team should steal from Moon Audio:

  • Passion To Be Great.
  • Focus, Focus, Focus.
  • Create Community.
  • Listen and HELP.
  • 10% Play Money.


Find 5 Moon Audio Ecommerce Secrets here
http://www.curagami.com/featured/winning-ecommerce-5-moon-audio-secrets/

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Storytelling Is The New SEO via @CrowdFunde

Storytelling Is The New SEO via @CrowdFunde | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Storytelling is the new SEO shares examples of how your website and online marketing can tell engaging stories to win the NEW SEO.
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New Experian Deal Seeking Study Says Stop Never Ending Sales - via @ScentTrail

New Experian Deal Seeking Study Says Stop Never Ending Sales - via @ScentTrail | BI Revolution | Scoop.it


Thank You Experian! Experian’s new Deal Seekers Report says what every Internet marketer sensed – refusing to segment customers online is goofystupid. Why would any online retailer treat all customers the same?


2014 will be the year segments and personas are a MUST and that includes shouting DEAL, SALE and 50% Off 50% Off all the time. Experian's new study shows such behavior is beyond stupid since it actively turns off 40% of your website's visitors.

Are deals important? Yes for 18% of your visitors (Deal-Seeking Influentials), so figure out programs to support your "influentials" so they can do the heavy lifting for you and you don't sound like a fool to everyone else (lol).


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Email Still Trumps Social Media for Online Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]

Email Still Trumps Social Media for Online Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC] | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
The customer acquisition landscape is constantly in flux. The introduction of disruptive technologies and tools over the last few years has spawned enormous changes in online marketing.

Via Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com
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Despite BIG changes in email such as MOBILE email remains #1 customer acquistion and converison tool for most online marketers.

Brien Shanahan's curator insight, October 23, 2013 1:11 PM

SEO still the best way to get customers.

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MCommerce Is All About The Pad [infographic]

MCommerce Is All About The Pad [infographic] | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Infographic on Mobile eCommerce Platform driving sales from iPad, iPhone and Android Mobile with business marketing tactics for eCommerce sales from mobile
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:

Don't be turned off because this data is for the UK. The UK is a bell weather for USA because their penetration of ecommerce is higher (16% of total retail) probably because their gas is much more expensive (is one thought).

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Holiday Ecommerce Tips Magazine - 35 Secret Tips (5 Per Day for 7 Days)

Holiday Ecommerce Tips Magazine - 35 Secret Tips (5 Per Day for 7 Days) | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Holiday Ecommerce Tips Magazine shares our secret trends, ideas and tips so you can have a record-setting holiday sales online this holiday season.

Monday - 5 Ecommerce Storytelling Tips
http://www.curagami.com/ecommerce-holiday-5-storytelling-tips/?v=7516fd43adaa  

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http://www.curagami.com/ecommerce-holiday-5-storytelling-tips/?v=7516fd43adaa

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Best Online Store Game VOTE NOW - Curagami

Best Online Store Game VOTE NOW - Curagami | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Vote For Your Favorite Stores
There is a good chance we MISSED your favorite online store as someone just pointed out (we missed WaNeLo.com). Point out stores we missed and vote for your favorites. 

Play the Best Online Stores Game!
http://www.curagami.com/magical-thinking/news/best-online-store-game/ ;

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SMB Ecommerce: Fighting The Ama-Khan via @HaikuDeck

SMB Ecommerce: Fighting The Ama-Khan via @HaikuDeck | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Asking the right questions in the right way is key to online marketing success. How SMBs can compete with Amazon isn't as important as what is their why and how are they learning from Amazon's web marketing power.

Fight the power. Fight the Ama-Khan like OpenSky, WaNeLo and Etsy.

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Ecommerce: 5 Easy To Fix Blunders - via @Curagami

Ecommerce: 5 Easy To Fix Blunders - via @Curagami | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Common Easy To Fix Ecommerce Blunders
* Hiding Free Shipping.
* No Fast Free Shipping.
* No Branded Free Shipping.

* No Social Curation.
* No Deal of the Day.

Easy to fix these costly blunders, but trick. This Curagami blog post and Haiku Deck can help your online store stop tripping over the thousand dollar bills to pick up nickels and dimes.

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Story Is The New Ecommerce

Story Is The New Ecommerce | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Selling without story and social is over. We by from those we love who share the best stories.

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Drive Better Ecommerce Conversion With Big Data Thanks TO Granify

Drive Better Ecommerce Conversion With Big Data Thanks TO Granify | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Granify uses big data & machine learning w/ artificial intelligence for ecommerce stores when customers are leaving and sends a message to keep them.
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Cool way to see inside your ecommerce website's metrics and find keys to convert better. Finding LEAKS and putting out fires these days isn't easy. If this app has half the Big Data strength they say the tool could help increase conversions, lower acquisition costs and plug leaks.

All websites leak. I'm skeptical about the claim to fill 95% of the leaks, but who cares. When I was a Director of Ecommerce tiny improvements in things like cart abandonment could have made a huge different.

A half a point improvement in cart abandonment would have been worth a million bucks to my old site. You don't have to create sweeping improvements to make much ore money and that is why every ecommerce website should be a testing culture constantly trying to "beat control".

Sounds like Granify can help with all of the testing, analysis and constant iteration of an ecommerce website.  

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2014 Internet Marketing Trends Mashup - New Pinterest Board

2014 Internet Marketing Trends Mashup - New Pinterest Board | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

Writing a new Curatti.com piece about what is trending in 2014 and created a new ScentTrail Pinterest board to help pin the "trending elephants".

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E-Commerce Secret: Build Vs. OPP (Other People's Platforms) [Infographic + Marty Note]

E-Commerce Secret: Build Vs. OPP (Other People's Platforms) [Infographic + Marty Note] | BI Revolution | Scoop.it
Web Sites - E-commerce is booming again! Now, online merchants have a lot of choices when selecting shopping carts and hosting platforms. Lexity has put together an infographic after studying the e-commerce ...
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Pinterest: What Early Adopters Need to Know

Pinterest: What Early Adopters Need to Know | BI Revolution | Scoop.it

This piece was written by Jeff Turner, it makes you STOP and think. Pinterest is the latest new shiny thing but as Jeff says, buyer beware. His insights are right on the money.

 

 


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