Marketing Day: Mobile-location data, Facebook app install ads & more

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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

The evolution of marketing platforms: From automation to journeys
Jul 18, 2016 by Barry Levine
The next generation of marketing automation is emerging, and it’s more focused on machine-informed journeys than rule-based campaigns.
4 reasons the world would end at the demise of local SEO
Jul 18, 2016 by Lydia Jorden
It’s hard to imagine a world without local search. Columnist Lydia Jorden delves into four different industries that must optimize for local search, paired with a specific strategy to help optimize for streamlined customer searches. Does your local search strategy encompass these techniques?
Mobile-location data predicted Sports Authority’s demise and reveals the retailers that may benefit from it
Jul 18, 2016 by Greg Sterling
NinthDecimal analysis of consumer store visits shows broader value of retail foot traffic data.
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[WATCH] Marketing Land Live #20: Amazon Prime Day recap
Jul 18, 2016 by Matt McGee
This week, two special guests join us to discuss what Amazon did better this year to make Prime Day even bigger, and its impact on the e-commerce industry as a whole.
Facebook to aim app install ads at people most likely to buy a product, complete a level
Jul 18, 2016 by Tim Peterson
Facebook will aim developers’ app install ads at the people who are likely to use it to purchase a product, complete a game level or view content.
Quiz: Are you ready to level up your social media marketing?
Jul 18, 2016 by Ben Cockerell
Columnist Ben Cockerell challenges readers to test their knowledge of social media marketing and the latest in consumer usage patterns.
How to drive real, measurable value with purchase intent analysis
Jul 18, 2016 by David Booth
Columnist David Booth explains why using purchase intent will help you understand what’s really important and where to prioritize your budgets.
Back to school 2016: A shopping season for the books
Jul 18, 2016 by Adam Grow
With summer already halfway over, it’s time to start prepping for the back-to-school shopping season. Columnist Adam Grow digs into new data that reveals what you should expect from consumers this year.
3 reasons why digital research is backwards
Jul 18, 2016 by Peter Minnium
As digital advertising has evolved, our processes for measuring its effectiveness have stayed relatively the same. Columnist Peter Minnium explains why it’s time to rethink our approach and adopt a new learning system.
Beco offers first battery-free beacon, which can run indefinitely on existing lighting
Jul 15, 2016 by Greg Sterling
We’re several years into the beacon and “Internet of Things” era, and only in the past year are we starting to move beyond pilot-stage implementations. Beacons have been most closely associated with retail in-store marketing (e.g., offers), but they have a much wider array of uses.

Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:

Google rolling out Price extensions for mobile text ads
Case study: 33% of local search business is from non-locals (and 7 tips for capturing that traffic)
The key to local SEO
Google My Business now offering some businesses email-based verification
Google Maps showing how long people typically spend at a store or venue

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Blogs & Blogging

4 Ways to Become a More Organized Blogger, www.blogherald.com
Google Wiping Out 14 year old blog illustrates why you need to control your content, www.thedomains.com

Business Issues

When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original ‘Surfers’, New York Times

Content Marketing

4 B2B Content Secrets You Fail to Use, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Driving Engagement through Content Marketing to Leverage Customer Loyalty, www.martechadvisor.com
Famous Content Marketers Tell How They Generate Ideas, www.searchenginepeople.com
For Compelling Content Marketing, Think Like a Journalist, www.cmswire.com
Learn How to Master Content Marketing Supply & Demand, www.toprankblog.com
Two months in: Bloomberg’s content marketing arm aims to make talking heads sexy, digiday.com

Conversion Optimization

15 Dead-Simple Hacks That Will Turn Your Site into a Revenue Machine, blog.crazyegg.com

Copywriting, Design & Usability

23 clever uses for colour in ecommerce UX, econsultancy.com
Big Insights from a Tiny House: Risk, Time, and Listening in Great Business Writing, www.convinceandconvert.com
Conversational Interfaces: Where Are We Today? Where Are We Heading?, www.smashingmagazine.com
How The Atlantic, Slate and others obsess about user experience, digiday.com
Why everyone hasn’t embraced user research – yet, www.usertesting.com
Why We All Need Design Thinking, www.cmswire.com

Display & Contextual Advertising

How Banners Can Trigger Interactions & Improve Conversions, blog.crazyegg.com

Domaining

My conversation with Matt Mullenweg about domain names, domainnamewire.com

E-Commerce

How CPGs Can Evolve Consumer Relationships by Selling Direct with Digital Commerce, www.martechadvisor.com
How to Boost E-commerce Conversions, www.searchenginejournal.com
How Your Online Store May Be Leaking Money, www.marketingprofs.com
Mcommerce to capture 49pc of online retail sales by 2020, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
My Amazon Dash button arrived, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Online shopping trends following the EU referendum, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Overstock.com president Stormy Simon resigns, www.internetretailer.com
Sell Like Amazon: 7 Examples of Triggered, Automated, and Personalized Marketing Campaigns, blog.kissmetrics.com
Signs point to record e-commerce gains in Q2, www.internetretailer.com
Understanding the New E.U. Privacy Shield, for Ecommerce, www.practicalecommerce.com

Email Marketing

3 Emails Every Automated Welcome Series Must Have, blogs.constantcontact.com
How NourishWise built a healthy email strategy from the ground up, myemma.com
Order Confirmation Emails Can Build Loyalty, Sell More, www.practicalecommerce.com
The Six Most Effective E-Commerce Email Tactics, www.marketingprofs.com

General Internet Marketing

4 Ways Going Digital Will Improve Your Business, smallbiztrends.com
Four ways brands are marketing through dating services, econsultancy.com
Legal Lessons on Social Influencer Marketing, adage.com
The 5 Fundamentals of Account-Based Marketing, blog.marketo.com

MarTech

MarTech Health Checkup: Think Evolution, Not Revolution, www.martechadvisor.com
The Benefits of Nurturing a Martech Culture, www.marketingprofs.com

Mobile/Local Marketing

Google is still working on a standalone headset, www.engadget.com
Grow your Business Beyond the App Install, www.facebook.com
Half of Connected Devices in US Homes Are Mobile, www.emarketer.com
Pokemon Go and Local: Why Now?, streetfightmag.com
Smartphones Have Become a Staple of the U.S. Media Diet, www.nielsen.com
The Missing Pieces Of Mobile Web Monetization, adexchanger.com
The Modern iMessage Metamorphosis, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
What the mobile world does online every 10 seconds, thenextweb.com

Other Items

The Playlist Professionals At Apple, Spotify, And Google, www.buzzfeed.com
10 Awesome Image Creation Tools, www.internetmarketingninjas.com

Social Media

8 Ways to Customize Slack for Social Media Marketers, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
95 Awesome Social Media Facts You Should Not Ignore, www.jeffbullas.com
Facebook, Instagram and Users’ Behavior and Emotions, www.adweek.com
Former Googler Aims To Create A New Hate-Free Social Media Site, www.fastcompany.com
How to Create Unpublished Facebook Posts, www.jonloomer.com
Learn how #hashtags can help you, adsense.googleblog.com
Medium aquamarine and palaces, not people, boost Instagram engagement, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Snapchat “Suggest” is the new way to get famous, techcrunch.com
Snapchat talks with Hollywood about bringing shows to the platform, digiday.com
Twitter May Be Liable for Sending Texts to Recycled Cellphone Numbers–Nunes v. Twitter, Eric Goldman
What’s an Appropriate Audience Size for LinkedIn Ads?, www.clixmarketing.com
Why Do Tweets Go Viral? The Psychology of the Most Successful Tweets, blog.bufferapp.com

Video

8 Salivating Tips For Video Marketing On Facebook, www.jeffbullas.com
CMO’s Guide to Live Video, adage.com
How Social Channels Teach Businesses the New Rules of Video, www.adweek.com
How to Create Sticky Content With 3 Livestreaming Apps, contentmarketinginstitute.com
How to Increase Your Facebook Live Video Reach, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Introducing Microsoft Stream: the secure destination to manage and share videos for businesses of all sizes, blogs.microsoft.com
Periscope Adds Editors’ Picks Channel for Viewing Curated Streams, www.adweek.com
Periscope, Facebook Live & YouTube Mobile Live Streaming, www.reelseo.com

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