My Email Marketing Services Series continues with a comparison between two veterans: AWeber (founded 1998) and GetResponse (founded 1999). (more…)
How Many Fields Should Your Opt-in Form Have?
Seth Godin uses only one field.
GetResponse and Aweber use two.
Try to get a free ebook from Hubspot and you’ll see more than ten fields.
Huge difference between one or two fields and ten.
So what’s the magic number of fields you should use? Any number? :) (more…)
Unfollowing Active Twitter Followers? Usually Bad Marketing!
You follow me, I follow you back. Or vice versa. After a while you unfollow me.
Not because I spammed you or annoyed you. For other reasons.
I will unfollow you. No matter who you are.
Irrespective whether my reaction is right or wrong, what did you get? I was your potential customer. But you turned your back on me, so I did the same. How did your action help your Twitter marketing? (more…)
How to Switch WP Blogs to Https Without Losing Social Proof
Switching your blog to https has a significant impact on the social proof related to all published posts.
While the share count buttons for Twitter and LinkedIn will preserve the figures they previously displayed, the buttons for Facebook, Google+, Pinterest and Stumbleupon will reset to zero.
That’s because the latter social media networks don’t consider https pages as being the same thing as their relevant http versions. (more…)
CommentLuv: How to Fix the Errors Caused by Https Links
CommentLuv is a popular WordPress plugin that unfortunately hasn’t been updated lately.
More and more bloggers switch their blogs to https. But CommentLuv doesn’t like these links. And it displays errors in some specific cases.
I can hear you saying that you didn’t switch to https yet, so CommentLuv works fine for you.
No, it doesn’t. So keep reading, this article is useful also for you. (more…)