Proficiency in marketing comes from knowledge and application. One way to improve the learning side of the equation is to take some free online marketing courses from Google. It's especially useful for Google Analytics. Courses are available in these locations:
Just came across a site that offers super high quality PowerPoint templates. The site, Showeet has many free options and remember that the graphics can be used to enhance websites and other materials in addition to PowerPoint.
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Anyone that needs to record and transcribe any audio, calls, focus groups, etc. should try Cogi. The platform goes beyond trascribing audio to offering features such as browse search and review, and the ability to share recordings as MP3 file.
Any marketer or market researcher that has ever attempted to transcribe a focus group into text will find Cogi indispensable.
One of the challenges of branding is determining if the name is available on the multitude of social networks available. KnowEm helps solve the problem by providing a free search engine that allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or user name instantly on over 575 popular and emerging social media websites. The brand name search engine also checks the entire USPTO Trademark Database.
If you do find that the brand name you want is taken, the staff at KnowEm will help you negotiate with the owner for a possible purchase.
Great demo of video where viewer can control view of what they are watching. This Yellowbird technology uses 5 cameras to record the entire experience. This 360 view of media can change the way we watch and interact with video.
Click and drag your mouse to experience:
Here's a few tools I picked up at the Affiliate Summit New York Meetup. Thanks to Vinny O'Hare. I'm still trying to understand how to read results, so feel free to leave a helpful comment.
As an aside, the benchmark Google standard is believed to be 4 seconds for page loading. As a suggestion stack rank pages and bring time load times of worst performers. By fixing the outliers, you'll bring the average load time for the entire site. Of course look at your server, size or compression of picture.
Online Page Speed Tools
Smush.it from Yahoo
PageSpeed – an open source browser add-on
Some tools suggested by Reel SEO