Online Trends In 2014 (Infographic)

The first quarter of 2014 is almost ending soon, let's recap some of the 2014 online trends and

predictions from the marketing thought leaders.

 

Compiled by ReferralCandy, basing on the list of thought-provoking trends and predictions compiled by Forbes.

 

Following are the gist of it:

 

1. More mobile than ever

2. Community, community, community

3. Brands will be the new media producers

4. Social Media is no longer a choice

5. Changing attitude about social

6. Computerised future is NOW!

 

Now, enjoy the infographic below:

 

Top 25 Most Influential Performance Marketers (Infographic)

Let's faced it, the big guys in Internet Marketing arena are mostly focusing on Performance Marketing (comprising of Affiliate Marketing [get paid when your customer buy the seller's products/services as well as CPA Marketing [get paid when your customer take an action specified by the sellers e.g. filling-up registration form etc..]).

 

Recently, Impact Radius has released an Infographic featuring the most influential performance marketers in 2014 : “Top 25 Performance Marketing Influencers”. Happy to see quite a number of familiar faces there, I guess that's why they are influential! ;-)

 

The names that strike a chord to me personally are : John Chow, Pat Flynn and Jac Johnson as I followed their blogs/podcasts quite religiously. 

Keep reading for the infographic...

Bubblews - The New Force Of Online Earning Through Writing (Revenue-Sharing Site)

Earning online is no longer a myth and everyone can do it. As long as you find a legit platform, creating lucrative passive online income streams is not that hard. 

Of course, one of the easiest way is to provide your service/skills via the online platform like Elance or Freelancer. The other way is online writing, either through your own blog/site or writing for revenue-sharing online writing platform. 

Talking about revenue-sharing online writing platforms, the most noticeable ones are Hubpages and Squidoo but they are so passe! The new force now is BUBBLEWS!  

It was created as a social networking site which earn you money, yes cold hard cash into your Paypal account. It has the simplest and most lenient rules among the similar platform. I am currently writing in Bubblews and throughout my 3 months plus venture, I've earned USD659.92 in total there. Yes, it is not a lot of money but I think this is one of the easiest way to earn residual money. 

If you are interested to explore further, do check out the simple guide that I've compiled for you folks below and click here to join the community free (and earn money along the way).

Bubblews Your Friendly Guide! from Richard Ng

Happy earning money online ;-)

Cheers!

P/S : I do aware that Bubblews might not have a positive online reputable but trust me, as long as you follow the rules and guides (as per the slides above), you will get paid. Seeing is believing, following are the image of my Paypal Account's Payment Received History:

Also, if you have any clarification or questions required pertaining to the Bubblews community, do leave a comment below or connect with me there by searching for the tag : #huasang.

Search Engine Optimization Clue (Infographic)

To put it simply, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of the most important knowledge/skills that all internet marketers should be aware of. Having said that, since time is money (correct in both online and offline space), many internet marketers would preferred outsource their SEO needs to specialists.

 

This is especially true since global search is still on the upwards trend even with the "invasion" of social networking sites (like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest etc..) and there is no sign of slowing down. Thus, if you do not want to spend too much time and money on the paid search result, do spend sometime on the on-page and off-page SEO (of your site/blog) either by yourself or through SEO service provider. One of such prominent play is MOZ.     

 

Lastly, check out the following relevant Infographic:  

outsourceseonow.com

Cheers!

Can You Imagine If There Is No Blog From Tomorrow Onwards? (Infographic)

Blog was been here for since 1997 and it will continue to be in existence in the foreseeable future. In fact, some of the authoritative blogs (like Mashable, TechCrunch etc.) have over-shadowed the mainstream media for many years.

 

So, can you imagine one day if all the blogs gone holidays and MIA (Missing-In-Action)? I can't either.

 

In fact, there is a whole Blogconomy currently brewing "silently" in the online space and many of the professional bloggers are living out of it, comfortably. Recently, Ignite Spot produced a brilliant infographic that will answer all your doubts and queries about Blogconomy.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Cheers!  

Why Is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Still Important? (Infographic)

For those who tell you that internet marketing has switched its gear from SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to Social Media. The truth is, it is far from truth. In fact, both SEO and Social Media can complement each other to create a more powerful online presence.

 

To quote you two examples:
 

1. Do you know that the big G in the search engine (I am sure you know who) is receiving more than 1 billion searches each day?

2. There are about 36% of the small businesses paying for the publishing and analytics tools to enhance their SEO?

 

With the launch of its own Social Networking site, Google+, Google has integrated the Google Search with it seamlessly and doing pretty well in terms of consolidating results the with more social proof.  In fact, the other big player in Search Engines, Yahoo! is doing so too with the integration with Facebook and their site has gone much more than search alone!

Thus, it is not a zero-sum game, both SEO and Social Media still have an important role to play in the online space.      

 

Reference Site

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Content Marketing Is Here To Stay (Infographic)

Most gurus will tell you this: "Content Is King" as for as internet marketing is concern and personally I am 100% agreeable with to it. Also, it will be forever true as long as we continue to consume media through the online channel especially internet. 

Of course, what would probably evolved is the format of the content as well as how we consume them. For example, with the ever increasing world-wide adoption of smartphone/tablets, more content will be customised to fit into the mobile devices like there (in the form of phone apps) for a better user experience. 

Thus, content marketing is here to stay. Having said that, for content marketing to work well, we need to ensure that the content is valuable, up-to-date and relevant to the targeted audience. As illustrated by the following infographic, content marketing starts with sufficient research followed by identification of the appropriate formats and finally choose the proper channels to release/promote them.         

hubshout.com

Cheers!