Pandora. The Internets Answer To Radio.


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Pandora is the latest online music platform to land on Australian shores. Similar to Spotify it gives listeners the chance to listen to the music they want for free, Pandora however takes on more of a radio feel. One of Pandora’s exclusive features is its Music Genome Project. The MGP is considered the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected. But what does that mean for you? Pandora boasts that it will deliver a “great radio experience to each and every listener”. Pandora achieves this by having each and every song categorised by not only genre but also the beats, instruments, melody rhythm and vocals so when you type

Using LinkedIn for Effective Lead Generation


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Lead Generation with LinkedIn Did you know that when it comes to generating tons of precious leads, LinkedIn is almost three times more effective than Facebook and Twitter? This begs the question though – how exactly is this so? The great thing about Linked is that there are a number of possible ways to generate leads with it using features like LinkedIn Answers, LinkedIn Today, LinkedIn Company page and many more. LinkedIn Groups is considered the most effective of these features and offers tons of benefits particularly when it comes to lead generation thanks to another valuable feature called “LinkedIn Announcements”. If all of these are fairly new, you can

Video Marketing- How its Content is Shaping Power and Reach


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Video marketing – changing for the better If you’re going to ask experts in the video marketing business for advice on creating video content for your web marketing campaign, they’ll often tell you one thing – keep it short. This is because most people are believed to have fairly short attentions spans which mean that when you are marketing with videos, you’ll have to get your marketing message across as quickly as possible. But what if all that talk about short attention spans is just a myth although many would certainly disagree – various studies show that abandonment rates in video online marketing can be very high (as much as

A Straightforward and Effective Approach to Market Research


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Approaching market research Market Research is where all successful sales and marketing strategies are born.  It enables businesses to set the direction for their web marketing campaign, draft prospect personas, prepare their sales playbook and draft a clear marketing message just to mention a few.  Needless to say, it is crucial to take the time and actually get it done right – trouble is that this is where a lot of web marketers often black out.  Are we to approach marketing research with costly focus groups with online marketing experts and isn’t that how the top guns do it? Now focus groups behind two-way mirrors may indeed be the approach

Website Design and Several Things that People Can Possibly Hate about it


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Website Design Quirks  The last thing that you want to do in website design is to annoy people and yet why is it that you’ll still find a lot of websites out there packed with elements that users can’t help but hate? Maybe it has something to do with the demands and strain of having to design your own website (or the excitement of it depending on how you look at it), its easy to overlook the quirks that you’ve actually experienced as a website user.  Unfortunately the poor user experience that such web design quirks provide can lead to poor lead conversions, high web page abandonment, poor reputations and

Social Proof and Social Media Marketing


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Social Proof – What is it all about and how it relates to social media marketing? A person’s decision to buy or invest in a particular product or service online can be influenced by various factors – among the most significant of which is social proof and how you can leverage your social media marketing efforts with it.  Statistics from Google shows that approximately 70 percent of online consumers check out product reviews prior to actually buying something online.  More than 60 percent of these people purchase products or services from websites that have reviews or ratings by previous consumers or clients. Online reviews and ratings are just one kind