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Is email marketing still relevant and useful for small businesses? According to this infographic it is; 67.8 billion dollars in sales will come from emails. Use this infographic to motivate and double check that your email marketing strategy is on point.
(Via Visual.ly)
Email Overload: 7 Ways to Hack Your Inbox by OPEN Forum
Email getting the best of you and draining your productivity? These 7 tips can help you get a handle on email once and for all.
1. Dedicate the time needed to find a solution.
2. Separate business from personal emails.
3. Have a backup plan in place.
4. Set up a company email policy.
5. Set personal rules to follow.
6. Set smartphone rules for reading emails.
7. Create folders.
If you struggle with effectively managing your inbox, read more here and take time now to do something about it. Follow the suggestions above and, before you know it, you’ll see measurable improvements in time management, efficiency and productivity … and who doesn’t want that?
(via Email Overload: 7 Ways to Hack Your Inbox | The New OPEN Forum)
Did you know you can save eight workdays a year using keyboard shortcuts? This infographic by OPEN Forum will teach you time saving computer tricks.
(Via OPEN Forum)
39 Unforgettable Moments in Tech Startup History
Mashable came out with their list of the most unbelievable milestones in tech startup history.
Here are a few of note:
1. Facebook acquires Instagram for $1 billion
2. Angry Birds becomes the #1 paid app of all time
3. Draw Something becomes a thing, Zynga buys it
4. Jack Dorsey sets up his “twttr”
5. Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion
Read more on these unforgettable moments at Mashable
5 Ways To Thrive During Marketing’s Seismic Shift To Mobile
During SXSW, major brands convened to discuss how to move forward with mobile. Urban Airship’s Scott Kveton outlines the key trends and strategies that emerged and provides examples of brands adding value via mobile.
What is increasingly clear is that mobile will confound the cookie-cutter campaign creator, bother the bulk emailer, and annoy broad-audience advertisers. Brands that rely on traditional, one-way mass media must completely re-engineer their approach for mobile, because when customers perceive marketing as an interruption, they take immediate action to tune you out.
- Find your value in your customers’ lives.
- Engage each customer in the key moments of their day.
- Deliver value based on location.
- Allow customers to personalize their experience to gain relevance.
- Don’t sell to your customers: entertain, engage, and delight them.
7 Essential Steps for SEO Success by OPEN Forum
Search engine optimization—SEO—s one of the top ways to attract visitors to your website. Think of SEO as PR for search engines—you boost the odds that your site will be found, and increase your product or service’s visibility. Ready to get started? Here are seven essential steps.
1. Keyword research
2. Good content
3. Accessibility
4. Health check
5. Build links
6. Be social
7. Be an author
(via 7 Essential Steps for SEO Success - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
Internet Week New York 2013, A Festival That Celebrates Internet Business & Culture in New York City
We’re looking forward to this year’s Internet Week, a festival that celebrates Internet business and digital culture. The focus this year is on “how technology has disrupted and revolutionized every section of business from food to fashion to healthcare to education.” (Via Internet Week NY)
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Here’s A Google Perk Any Company Can Imitate: Employee-To-Employee Learning
Google taps its own ranks to teach valuable career-building classes as well as “extracurriculars” like kickboxing and social skills for engineers.
“Googler to Googler” places employees from across departments into teaching roles that would otherwise be filled by the HR department (or rather, as Google calls it, “People Operations”). The Google core curriculum includes courses on management, orientation, and skills such as public speaking. Other classes taught Googler to Googler—everything from kickboxing to parenting—were initiated and designed by an employee.
It’s not about money. Google feeds 37,000 employees three gourmet meals a day. It can certainly afford to hire teachers. The company thinks it’s a good business idea to have employees teach employees.
Here’s why:
Promoting A Culture Of Learning
Putting Employees In Teaching Mode
In-House Teachers Get An “A”
Read the full story here.
[Pencils Image: Flickr user Bernard Walker]
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Here’s A Google Perk Any Company Can Imitate: Employee-To-Employee Learning
Google taps its own ranks to teach valuable career-building classes as well as “extracurriculars” like kickboxing and social skills for engineers.
“Googler to Googler” places employees from across departments into teaching roles that would otherwise be filled by the HR department (or rather, as Google calls it, “People Operations”). The Google core curriculum includes courses on management, orientation, and skills such as public speaking. Other classes taught Googler to Googler—everything from kickboxing to parenting—were initiated and designed by an employee.
It’s not about money. Google feeds 37,000 employees three gourmet meals a day. It can certainly afford to hire teachers. The company thinks it’s a good business idea to have employees teach employees.
Here’s why:
[Pencils Image: Flickr user Bernard Walker]
How do you foster your company culture and learning?
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Starting your own business is impressive as is, but making millions before 30? That’s hitting the big time. See what these young and startup savvy entrepreneurs have done with their businesses all before having a mid-life crisis.
(Via Masters-In-Marketing.org)
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