Posts Tagged ‘Web Writing’

Writers and Online Marketers: TEST Your Email Marketing Campaigns

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

One of the most important things for Web writers and online marketers to do is (shocker) TEST their email marketing campaigns. With the free tools that come along with today’s email marketing tools, there’s no excuse for not testing email marketing campaigns.

Folks running email marketing campaigns should know:

  • How many people are opening their emails.
  • What links people click on when they open emails.
  • What links people DON’T click on when they open emails.
  • Who is opening emails (it’s great if you have demographic information about your email newsletter subscribers, too). (more…)

Should You be Able to Google Social Media Conversations and Posts?

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Google has been changing the way people search for information online since the search engine was first released. Now, however, Google has added Google Social Search - a controversial new experimental search feature that allows users to use the search engine to search social media posts. Google Social Search allows users to find information using friends’ blogs, their Gmail accounts, Google Reader accounts, and more.

Here’s what Google has to say about the new tool:

“Google Social Search is an experimental feature that helps you find relevant public web content from people in your social circle, when you’re signed in to your Google Account. For example, search for [ restaurants ], and restaurant reviews by your friends and other contacts may appear more prominently in your results.”

Check out Google’s blog about Google Social Search.