US: Youth Exodus From Facebook Accelerates

Facebook is bound to someday be the next MySpace because young people aren’t as likely to use it. Seems like each generation wants to have its own social media network. Don’t think Facebook is in danger of going out of business, since they can just buy all the social media networks that spring up like Instagram. If only the kids knew who owned Instagram.

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http://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/facebook-losing-younger-users-faster-pace/

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Led by TapCommerce founders, startup Attentive launches SMS/MMS marketing platform

Led by TapCommerce founders, startup Attentive launches SMS/MMS marketing platform

Text marketing is going to start to become a bigger deal. Especially for ecommerce with platforms like this.

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https://martechtoday.com/led-tapcommerce-founders-startup-attentive-launches-smsmms-marketing-platform-210877?utm_src=ml&utm_medium=textlink&utm_campaign=mlxpost

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Podcasting Is the New Soft Diplomacy

Podcasting Is the New Soft Diplomacy

Podcasts = The New Radio. In 3, 5, 10 years from now, I predict AM/FM radio will struggle to stay in business. I predict instead of radio, or Sirius satellite radio, people will instead listen to podcasts. In the car through their phone and bluetooth. I predict Google is going to either create or buy a network similar to YouTube for podcasts (as opposed to iTunes and Google Play). When most people listen to podcasts, their attention is on the podcast. And a 15 second commercial of a single advertisement will have a ton of value. This is going to become a really big deal because I predict advertisers will be able to make more money off podcast ads then YouTube ads. Youtube ads can be easily skipped. Podcast ads, not so much.

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https://www.theringer.com/2018/2/9/16994210/podcasts-soft-diplomacy-donald-trump-america

 

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Online Audio Ads Will Be Better Than Banner Ads

People that do YouTube videos get paid. Now it’s the podcasts’ turn. And businesses would be smart to get on board advertising there. Especially in the first couple years when its DIRT cheap. In my latest video I go into detail on the next big form of internet marketing.

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Podcast Advertising?

Podcast Advertising?

My prediction, people who make podcasts are going to start making money. How? Google’s going to create an audio ad network. Spotify is already creating their own platform, but we all know Google would be the best to do it. Similar to their banner ad network. Where you have a website and get it connected to adsense. And get paid off banner ads. And I actually think audio ads will be more effective than banner ads because there’s a bigger chance audio catches a person’s attention than a banner ad. So if you make podcasts, Google’s going to help you get paid. Coming soon. Watch

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More Than 75% of Worldwide Video Viewing is Mobile

75% of online video consumption is by cell phone. Shows how dominant mobile is becoming.

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http://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/threequarters-video-viewing-mobile/

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CallRail adds a keyword recommendation tool to its phone call listening platform

CallRail adds a keyword recommendation tool to its phone call listening platform

About 95% of the internet marketing headlines and articles that I read either promote junk, stuff that’s obsolete, stuff that doesn’t work, or stuff that does work and there’s 100s of articles on that topic already. Very rarely do I come across something that could be a game changer in the industry. But today I’ve read that, finally, a call tracking vendor has figured out how to take an audio file and translate it to text. So when a client gets a phone call from advertising, they can figure out what the call was about without taking the time to listen to it. Huge!

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https://martechtoday.com/callrail-adds-keyword-recommendation-tool-phone-call-listening-platform-210243?utm_src=sel&utm_medium=textlink&utm_campaign=selxpost

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Educators, doctors and kid advocates call on Facebook to end ‘Messenger Kids’

Educators, doctors and kid advocates call on Facebook to end ‘Messenger Kids’

Having kids myself, i agree with this. No reason for elementary school kids to be on social media. I think there’s more bad than good.

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https://marketingland.com/educators-doctors-kid-advocates-call-facebook-end-messenger-kids-233302

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How to Find & Eliminate 90%+ of Click Fraud in the Google Display Network

How to Find & Eliminate 90%+ of Click Fraud in the Google Display Network

Most people know about the problems with fake news and click bait. But it’s 2018 and we have new issues. Such as fake websites with bots with the sole purpose of draining the banner ad budgets of businesses. And there’s tons of fake websites. Guru Larry Kim wrote a good article and how to combat it. That because there’s so many fake sites with new ones popping up everyday, the best thing to do is cherry pick a custom placement list with legit websites. Takes more work. But otherwise, you risk paying money for robots looking and clicking on your banner ads.

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https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/01/03/display-network-click-fraud

 

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SEO in 2018

SEO in 2018

This is how to do SEO in 2018. Focus on lots of specific, quality keywords. Check out one of our clients. A King’s Car Service in Minneapolis. They wanted to show up for Super Bowl keywords. And what makes them unique is they have a fleet of Teslas. So now they pop up #2 on Google for “tesla chauffeur super bowl”. As well as other specific keywords.

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