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When a girl becomes her school's designated slut, her friends stop talking to her. Pornographic rumors spread with dazzling efficiency, boys harass her openly in the hallways, girls beat her up. "WHORE," or sometimes "HORE," is written on her locker or bookbag. And there is usually a story about her having sex with the whole football team, a rumor whose plausibility no one ever seems to question.
Even those of us who weren't high school sluts and don't recall any such outcast from our own school days have become familiar with her plight--through media stories and the growing body of feminist-inspired literature on female adolescence, as well as the talk shows and teen magazine spreads that have made her their focus. What's harder to understand is how the label persists when the landscape of sexual morality that gives it meaning has so drastically changed--well within living memory. If the sexual revolution didn't obliterate the slut, wouldn't the successive waves of libidinous pop stars, explicit TV shows and countercultural movements to reclaim the label have drained it of its meaning? What kinds of lines can today's adolescents, or those of the 1990s or 1980s, for that matter, possibly draw between nice and not nice girls?
Emily White's Fast Girls sets out to look at the central dilemmas of the slut label. Two earlier books that have focused on the slut--Leora Tanenbaum's Slut! Growing Up Female With a Bad Reputation, a collection of oral histories, and Naomi Wolf's Promiscuities, a reflection on girls' sexual coming-of-age in the 1970s that combines memoir with a casual survey of the women Wolf grew up with--rely primarily on the subjective narratives of women and girls to explore the slut phenomenon. Paula Kamen's Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution surveys the sexual mores and activities of young women, but not specifically of teenagers. White is the first to combine different methodologies in an attempt to write specifically about the functions and significance of the teenage slut--in her words, "to shed some light on that space in the high school hallway where so many vital and troubling encounters occur."
White spoke to or corresponded with more than 150 women who had been the sluts of their school (whom she found largely by soliciting their stories through newspaper ads), and she spent "a couple of weeks" observing in a Seattle-area public high school. She also offers cultural criticism--of horror movies and the riot grrrls, for instance--as well as a digest of psychological, sociological and post-structuralist theory pertinent to the subject. White's evident ambition makes it all the more frustrating that the book's impressive breadth doesn't translate into thoroughness or rigor.
When White interviewed the women--most of them white, middle-class and from the suburbs--who responded to her ads, the stories she heard had certain similarities. There was a "type" of girl who tended to be singled out: She developed breasts earlier than other girls; she was a loud, vocal extrovert; she was self-destructive, tough or wild; often she had been sexually abused; and in one way or another she was usually an outsider, whether she had moved from a different town, had less money than most kids or belonged to some peripheral subculture. Some women described themselves as having been promiscuous, but more said they were not as sexually active as their (untainted) friends, and none of them had done the things that were later rumored. Often the first rumors were started by bitter ex-boyfriends or jealous friends. Once they caught on, the ritual torments and "football team" fantasies inevitably followed.
These similarities make up what White calls the "slut archetype," and for much of the book she riffs on the common factors of the stories, with chapters dedicated to subjects like the role of suburbia, the slut's social isolation and the preponderance of sexual abuse. Though sprinkled liberally throughout the book, the women's testimonies are only a launching point for White's meditations. She writes about these interviews in a way that at times both romanticizes and condescends to the women. "She walks so confidently in her boots," writes White of one 18-year-old, "causing tremors in the ground beneath her feet. She presents herself as a girl who has crawled up out of the underworld, who has found her way through the isolation and the drugged dreams.... It is a way of coping, this tough act. It's a start." Still, despite certain problems of credibility, this overwrought style is pretty effective at conveying the anguish of the ostracized adolescent girl (if only by echoing her earnest self-dramatization). It's much less suited to considering the girl in social and cultural context.
In editing and interpreting her interviews, White emphasizes their similarities at the expense of the kind of detail that makes a particular social universe come to life. Her time observing the Seattle-area high school students inspires mostly familiar observations. ("The cafeteria is high school's proving ground. It's one of the most unavoidable and important thresholds, the place where you find out if you have friends or if you don't.") Only about half the time do we get any real sense of the sort of community an interviewee grew up in or what the social scene was like at her school. There's even less detail about precisely how she fit into the hierarchy before the slut label took hold, whether she was perceived as threatening or flirtatious, what her past relationships were like with girls, boys and teachers. Even worse is that for all their lack of texture, the women's stories are by far the most interesting part of the book; when White pulls away to supply her own commentary, it's usually vague and predictable--precisely because she's not attuned to the details that would reveal how the slut really functions in the teenage universe. Although she acknowledges that the slut myth is much bigger than any individual girl behind it, she is also attached to the literal-minded notion that the girl being labeled has some kind of privileged relationship to the slut myth--that her individual story is the slut story, and the women's emotional recollections of abuses and scars collectively explain the slut myth. In fact, to understand the myth we need to know at least as much about what the rest of the school is thinking.
White suggests that "the slut becomes a way for the adolescent mind to draw a map. She's the place on the map marked by a danger sign...where a girl should never wander, for fear of becoming an outcast." But, given the arbitrary relationship White found between the slut label and a girl's actual sex life, does the slut myth really have any practical applications for girls? Do they limit sexual activity out of fear of these rumors? Are there particular sex acts that can bring censure in themselves? Can social status insulate some girls from slutdom, regardless of how much they fool around? White doesn't directly pose these questions, but one of her findings hints that, though they may fear the label, kids themselves interpret slutdom as primarily an expression of social status rather than a direct consequence of sexual activity: "Girls who at one time might have been friends with the slut recede as her reputation grows; they need to be careful how they associate with her or they will be thought of as sluts along with her."
The slut doesn't seem to point to an actual line that a nice girl can't cross; she commemorates the fact that there once was such a line, and suggests that the idea of a line still has currency, even if no one can figure out where it is anymore. It's no surprise that she is such a popular subject for third-wave feminists; her ostracism seems to have implications not only for residual sexism but for the way that we personally experience sex and desire.
Ididn't think I had a personal connection to the slut story. For most of my adolescent years, which were in the late 1980s and early '90s, I was very good, and too awkward to attract attention from boys. In the schools I attended there were whispers about who did what, and some girls were considered sluttier than others, but there was no single figure who captured the imagination of the whole class.
Then I remembered something about one of the girls I was closest to from age 10 to about 13 or 14. We didn't go to the same school, but for much of the time we both attended Saturday Russian classes held in her kitchen by an elderly neighbor. She was the only one of my friends who was, like me, born in Russia, though her family still lived in Philadelphia's immigrant neighborhood while mine had moved to a more prosperous, non-Russian suburb several years earlier. My family had a bigger house. We had, thanks to my American stepdad, more American ways of doing things. I was a better student. I think she was more popular at her school than I was at mine; at least, she was more easygoing and sociable. I never felt in awe of her, as I did of other friends. I was not always nice to her, though usually I was.
She knew more about sex in our early years than I did, but, like me, she didn't go out with anyone in the time we knew each other. She was pretty, in a round-faced, unfashionable way that made me think I had a discerning eye for appreciating it. She always seemed more developed than I was. (That may not have been true in any measurable sense.) At some point in those years, though it didn't particularly affect our friendship, and I don't remember thinking about it while I was actually with her, I began to spend nights casting her as my proxy in every kind of pornographic fantasy I could conjure.
It's always difficult to figure out the relationship between cultural fantasies and mores, on the one hand, and actual behavior and sexual self-image on the other. You could probably spend a long time listening to teenagers and still not get to the bottom of how the slut myth filters into their own lives. Still, the site of the slut's continuous re-creation, the high school hallways, deserves closer scrutiny, and the mysteries of her endurance await further exploration.
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It all began with a missing sheet of homework. "Contractions," my son had written very clearly in his assignment log. "What's this?" I asked when he announced he'd finished everything else, noting that there was no book or worksheet to which the reference logically applied. "Don't know," replied my son.
I was off to the races, astride my high horse, afroth with my mission of dutiful motherhood, my son sniveling that he had No Idea what it meant.
"The teacher made you write it down, n'est-ce pas?"
"Yes, but..."
"No buts--I am calling for reinforcements." So we called his best friend. No Idea. Aha, I thought, the two of them must be in league. We called his next best friend. No Idea. Three in league? Better try the girls, girls are sober, reliable, always bright as buttons. But girls were not home, out sick, at gymnastics, No Idea.
I called my mother: How will he ever get to college at this rate, I moaned. "Is this a joke or are you working out for the high blood pressure Olympics?" she asked quietly.
By 6 o'clock, I gave up, took two aspirin and went off to a school board meeting. Most unfortunate for my throbbing temples, gifted and talented programs were the topic of the evening, and the room was packed with parents, 100 percent of whom were banking on the hope that their children were in the ninety-ninth percentile. An expensive array of options was on the table, products and "packages," computer programs and reading lists. It was a veritable Tupperware party of the education industry, but what most people seemed to want most was A Separate Class.
One of the things I get to do in my profession is travel around to schools and talk about the benefits of equal access in all its forms. I find myself increasingly concerned that a kind of triage mentality has settled over schools, a vise of constraint that has led to a bottom-dollar hunt for top students. Triage is a theory that makes a certain sense in extremely dire settings where such a cruel cost-benefit analysis has the remote moral justification of salvage-under-fire. That educational opportunity should at all resemble such a configuration in this, the wealthiest and most technologically developed country on the planet, speaks of a deep and troubling class divide.
I cannot help thinking of this as I read headlines about libraries being shut, public universities shrinking, school music programs disappearing everywhere. I cannot help thinking about this as I sit in yet another roomful of parents desperately touting their children's special attributes, waving credentials about as though clawing their way up from the steerage deck of the Titanic.
The guest expert at this particular meeting defined "gifted" as the top 3 or 4 percent of the population, although that particular cutoff reflected a monetary limit, rather than any rational relation to the potential of a child "only" in the ninety-fifth percentile. In a different district there might be enough money to provide services for only the top 1 percent; in yet another, for the top tenth.
But I can't help believing that in a world of universally well-funded education, schools could provide for almost all their students much of the enrichment that is now reserved only for the most endowed. We seem to have forgotten that there are many successful models in which all levels are accommodated, in which neither gifted nor special education students are segregated but are given materials that both educate and engage; programs where individual differences in ability can be negotiated in small classes, by teachers who are well-educated and well-supported.
As I glanced around the room, I did the math that a lot of people seem to be ignoring: A Separate Class for the top 3 or 4 percent would mean that no more than one or two students in a given grade would have access to the truly wonderful materials being discussed--materials from which any child could profit. There will be a heap of hurt feelings if this plan comes to pass. But more important to the state of our union, it is wasteful of precious human resources. It is inconceivable to me why we Americans can't cough up enough money so that the "bottom" 95 percent are exposed to Shakespeare and calculus and music theory from as young an age as possible. If they can't all write a concerto by the time they're 7, at least a whole lot more of them will be able to enjoy one.
While I think programs and materials for the gifted are fine and good, I worry about meetings like this in which the dominant sentiment is that the only way to educate the gifted is to remove them from the company of mere mortal riff-raff. In a world where public schools are shuddering beneath hatcheted budget cuts, gifted programs have become a kind of status symbol, the equivalent of those new "designer" medical practices where doctors charge exorbitant fees to make themselves available to only a few patients for round-the-clock cell-phone access and midnight consultations.
The board meeting ended with a description of how a special class for the gifted had helped maximize the strengths of one particular child described as "brilliant but unmotivated"--a child of such genius that he was too preoccupied to get to school before the day was half over. His tardiness was so great that the teacher would actually go to his house in the morning and drag him to school herself. Hmm, I thought. What a wonderful world it would be if we put together the resources to push all children with such unyielding solicitude.
When I got home, I checked my e-mail to find a note from my son's teacher explaining that she had simply forgotten to give the children the worksheet on contractions. All the tension drained from me. Education has become such an awfully anxious rat race. I kissed my son--who in the meantime had come up with the inventive theory that contractions are the physical product of any given page of long division--on the tip of his nose. How lucky our worries. How perfect the children.
Ever since the 1954 Brown decision outlawing "separate but equal" schools, various popular movements have upheld a vision of public schools as essential to democracy and have demanded legal protections for those previously marginalized--from Title IX prohibitions against gender-based discrimination, to the right to a bilingual education, to the inclusion of students with disabilities in public school classrooms, to the demand that public schools respect the rights of gay and lesbian students. On February 20 the Supreme Court took up a case that could lead to an about-face on this half-century of struggle.
The Justices heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of a school voucher program in Cleveland in which tax dollars pay for tuition at private schools. Roughly 4,300 Cleveland students currently receive vouchers, and 99.4 percent of them attend religious schools. The case's significance goes beyond vouchers to whether public education will be replaced by a marketplace system in which the role of the public is limited to making an individual "choice" to attend a particular school. The case also holds enormous potential to further George W. Bush's "faith based" initiatives promoting religious groups in the redefinition and privatization of the public sector.
The legal heart of the Cleveland case is whether the voucher program violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits government endorsement of religion. The Justices are sharply divided, and many observers expect the Court to issue a narrow ruling on the specifics of the Cleveland case. But even a narrow holding would have broad ramifications.
Vouchers have been a bedrock of the conservative agenda to privatize education and provide public dollars for private religious education. The ability to move that agenda forward, however, has been hampered by the legal cloud over vouchers. To gain support, voucher supporters have fostered the image that vouchers are merely a way to provide options to low-income minority parents whose children are trapped in failing urban schools. But if the Court accepts the pro-voucher argument that there is no government endorsement of religion because the voucher goes to parents, that reasoning can extend to all parents regardless of income. It can also extend to social services other than education.
Should the Cleveland case pass constitutional muster, one of the immediate issues facing the voucher movement is how to make the move to universal vouchers without jeopardizing the political capital it's gained by seeming to befriend low-income minorities. The perception is that the Cleveland voucher program is aimed at African-Americans, but that's wrong. African-Americans constitute 71 percent of the students in the Cleveland public schools, yet they account for only 53 percent of voucher students. Whites, meanwhile, make up 19 percent of Cleveland's public school students but 29 percent of voucher students.
For voucher opponents, a Supreme Court decision upholding the Cleveland program will move the battle from the courts to the policy arena. Two issues will immediately come to the fore--money and accountability. The money issue is simple. Taxpayer support for education is limited, particularly during recessionary times, and the money that goes to private schools will reduce taxpayer willingness to fund public schools. This will undercut the movement for funding equity for urban public schools and diminish funds for such important reforms as smaller classes, improved teacher quality and reducing the achievement gap between whites and African-Americans and Latinos. Vouchers also undermine the calls for greater accountability. If the government tries to impose the same accountability on voucher schools as on public schools, it runs the risk of excessive "entanglement" in religion, violating church/state separation.
As voucher attorney Clint Bolick has argued, regulation of voucher schools "should be limited. It should not include any state oversight of curriculum, personnel or administration. Any program that creates extensive involvement by the state in the schools' internal affairs is likely to be found an unconstitutional excessive entanglement." In Milwaukee, home to the country's oldest and largest voucher program, accountability is so lax that no academic data have been collected from voucher schools for more than six years. As a result, no one knows how students in voucher schools are performing academically. Furthermore, the voucher schools don't have to provide the same level of services for special education students or students who don't speak English. Because constitutional rights like due process are not applicable in private schools, voucher schools can suspend or expel students at will.
Many people don't appreciate the threat vouchers pose. Who can disagree that public schools, particularly in urban areas, fail too many students? But it would be shortsighted to abandon public education and accept the myth that vouchers and privatization are the answer. Public education tries to fulfill our vision of a more democratic America, with public institutions responsible to, and controlled by, the public. The voucher movement betrays that vision. It treats education as a mere consumer item and asks us to settle for the "choice" to apply to a private school that itself does the choosing.
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As the chairman of Artemis Records, the company that released Cornel West's CD, Sketches of My Culture, I considered criticizing Cornel for his association with Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard. Without ever listening to it, Summers attacked West merely for having released a CD, dismissing the entire universe of recorded music as being "unworthy of a Harvard professor." But like most record executives, I'm more tolerant of unorthodox associations than Summers, so I'll continue to judge West by his work and the inspiration it provides.
Among the flurry of press reports sparked by the controversy--most of which alluded to the alleged "rap CD"--quite a few couldn't get the facts straight. The New Republic claimed that West "has spent more time recording a rap CD and stumping for Al Sharpton than doing academic work." In fact, West has canceled only one class in twenty-six years of teaching, and that was several years ago, to deliver a lecture in Ethiopia. West recorded the CD during a leave--a long-established privilege in academia. (Summers himself took a leave from a professorship at Harvard to work for the World Bank.)
A Summers aide has said that the confrontation with West was a "terrible misunderstanding," but it's possible that Summers knew exactly what he was doing, using West the way Bill Clinton used Sister Souljah: to placate conservative elements of his constituency. Not only did Summers harshly criticize West's published work, he acknowledged that he had not read any of it or listened to the CD. Moreover, it's obvious that what disturbs Summers is not the notion of a Harvard professor engaging in political activity but West's particular beliefs: He criticized West's involvement with Bill Bradley, Ralph Nader and Al Sharpton, but Summers himself supported Al Gore (as did West's friend and supporter Henry Louis Gates Jr., head of the Afro-American studies department). Summers has been silent as his supporters have misrepresented West's record and called him names. Two examples: The National Review's Rod Dreher referred to West as a "clownish minstrel" and the New York Daily News's Zev Chafetz called him "a self-promoting lightweight with a militant head of hair."
West's decision to record a CD is in keeping with a commitment to spread his ideals and ideas as far and wide as possible. His book Race Matters has sold more than 350,000 copies and is one of the most influential books on race of the past couple of decades. His other works are used as texts in college classes around the world. There is no other public figure who is welcome in academia, in the media, in both conventional and activist politics and in the religious world.
By the way, Sketches of My Culture is not a "rap" CD. West, like most contemporary music critics, acknowledges that hip-hop is a vital cultural language. But Sketches itself is a concept album that is predominantly spoken word surrounded by r&b music, a montage that includes limited and focused uses of hip-hop language. Like any work of art, it's open to legitimate criticism, but it is clearly a serious attempt to use a modern art form to grapple with the themes that have animated West's career: black history, spirituality and political morality. There is not a word of profanity on it.
The indefatigable West has reached out to poor communities, moderating the crucial final panel at a recent "Rap Summit" and appearing on urban radio shows that had never been graced by the presence of an academic. I have seen the faces of young people inspired by West's linking of their own aspirations to the civil rights struggle and to the great philosophical and religious traditions. He urges them to live up to those examples. It has said something to the broader American community about Harvard that Cornel West is a professor there, and it will say something about Harvard if he is not.
With the "family cap," the state says to welfare moms: no more babies!
December 18, 2001
The new education law is a victory for Bush--and for his corporate allies.
Critics of the war on terror—or even those who slightly question the Bush administration—may now find themselves on a list of members of a fifth column.


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The DEagle 50 is a secondary weapon featured in Battlefield Play4Free. It has high stopping power, and a moderate rate of fire. Unfortunately, it also has a high damage drop-off and difficult recoil to manage at longer ranges.
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The DEagle 44 is a weapon featured in the Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth expansion. It is unlocked upon the completion of the Recoil Kinetics assignment.
The DEagle 44 shares the same damage and range as the .44 Magnum, but has a higher rate of fire, quicker reload, and larger capacity.
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The Bald Eagle is a weapon set to be featured in Battlefield Hardline.
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- The DEagle is also the only handgun in Play4Free that has a different reloading sequence than the usual mag drop and also required the player to go through another animation when switching to the weapon, making the player pull back the slide to arm it before being able to fire it.
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- It was first discovered in the game files after a patch was released for the Community Test Environment on PC.[1]
- The pistol's slide reads "© HIGH CALIBER PISTOL KONO RESEARCH INC. LOS ANGELES, CA USA". Los Angeles refers to DICE LA, who developed Dragon's Teeth.
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East Coast Warehouse & Distribution Corp., headquartered in Elizabeth, has announced the opening of its expanded Non-Intrusive (NII) inspection facility located at 141 North Ave., enhancing the capabilities of its Comprehensive Examination Station (CES) as a reliable, one-stop resource for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at the Ports of New York and New Jersey.The 14-acre facility, operated through a division known as East Coast CES, will ensure that East Coast remains the CES market leader for the Ports of New York and New Jersey. The new location adjacent to the Port allows for the effective and expeditious handling of containers targeted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for exams.
"We are committed to further cultivating our 18-year relationship with the U.S. government as a CES, as well as with the ocean carriers and custom house brokers, with the opening of this well-engineered and highly-efficient facility," said James G Overley, CEO, East Coast CES. "The new facility coupled with our online technology and customer call center will provide our customers with state-of-the-art facilities and technology to assist in minimizing cost and improving service."
With the largest port on the East Coast, increasing resources to improve security in Elizabeth is one of our top priorities, said Mayor J. Christian Bollwage. "This expanded facility enhances employment opportunities and effective services while providing additional quality control and protection for our city," the mayor said.
In addition to the NII exams performed at this new yard, East Coast CES continues to provide Contraband Enforcement (CET), Agriculture (AQI) and Manifest (MET/Trade) exams for imports through the port, and has also made significant enhancements for CBP at its warehouse facility.
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21 Vital Mobile Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2014Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Gone are the days when a mobile-enabled web presence was an afterthought. According to CNN, "Americans used smartphone and tablet apps more than PCs to access the Internet (in January 2014) — the first time that has ever happened."
Also, consider these stats from the compilation below: about half of all U.S. adults now own smartphones; that figure rises to 76% for millennials. Nearly half of consumers say they won't return to a website if it doesn't load properly on their mobile devices. And mobile payments aren't just for buying lattes—three-quarters of B2B vendors say they plan to offer mobile commerce by the end of 2014.
What do advertisers need to know about mobile access? How large is the mobile share of social network traffic? How does the online use of tablet owners differ from PC users? What the key differences between mobile and desktop search?
Find the answers to these questions and more here in almost two dozen facts, statistics and research findings about mobile marketing and web use from the past several months.
1. There are now 143 million smart phones in use in the U.S., and 71 million tablets. (Heidi Cohen)
2. Mobile internet access enabled by smartphones and tablets has nearly doubled the amount of time spent online since 2010. (Heidi Cohen)
3. 91% of U.S. adults now own a mobile phone. 61% of those are smartphones. (Heidi Cohen)
4. Though according to another source, 18% of adults do not own a cellphone. (iMedia Connection)
5. Smart phone use varies by age group. 81% of U.S. adults age 25-34 own a smartphone, as do 70% of teens and half of adults age 55 and over. (Heidi Cohen)
6. The leading platforms for U.S. smartphone use are Android (53%) and iPhone (40%)). Blackberry now accounts for just 3% of the market. (Heidi Cohen)
7. 189 million Facebook users (almost one out of five) are mobile-only, and mobile use accounts for 30% of Facebook ad revenue. (Fast Company)
8. And 751 million (nearly three-quarters of the total) Facebook users access the network from mobile devices at least some of the time. (Digital Buzz Blog)
9. Twitter has more than 500 million total users. 288 million users are active monthly, collectively sending out over 400 million tweets each day. (Digital Buzz Blog)
10. 25% of smartphone owners ages 18–44 say they "can't recall the last time their smartphone wasn't next to them." (Fast Company)
11. 76% of millennials own a smartphone. 73% own a laptop. (The Social Media Hat)
12. Marketers spent $4.4 billion on mobile advertising in the U.S. in 2012. That figure doubled to $8.5 million in 2013; and that figure is projected to quadruple to $31.1 billion by 2017. Search advertising accounts for about half of the total. (Heidi Cohen)
13. Mobile ads perform 4-5 times better than online ads. (iMedia Connection)
14. 25% of Americans use mobile devices (primarily tablets) only to access the Internet. And there are five times as many cellphones in the world as there are PCs. (iMedia Connection)
15. Forget branded apps though. 93% of consumers say branded apps don't contribute to their brand loyalty. (iMedia Connection)
16. And there's this: "99% of apps only get used once. Unless your app does something amazing that no one else's does, then the reality is that it will get downloaded, opened and forgotten about." (The Social Media Hat)
17. 60% of Twitter users access the network from mobile devices at least some of the time. (Digital Buzz Blog)
18. Tablet users spend, on average, 50% more online than do PC users. (The Social Media Hat)
19. Nearly half of consumers say they won't return to a website if it doesn't load properly on their mobile devices. (The Social Media Hat)
20. On desktop searches, roughly one-third of clicks go to the top organic result. Average CTR on mobile devices tends to skew even more towards the first position, as smaller screens offers fewer listings at any one time. (Brent Carnduff)
21. Currently, about half of B2B vendors sell through mobile (including stores and applications), while 3 in 4 respondents plan to offer mobile commerce by the end of 2014. (MarketingCharts)
83 Exceptional Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014Monday, April 14th, 2014
"Big data" is one of the trendiest buzzwordy terms in marketing/technology/business today.
So before it gets replaced by the next trendy buzzwordy term, here's some marketing-related big data for you: 83 valuable facts, stats, and research findings covering strategy, social media, SEO, online advertising, email marketing, content, blogging, social networking, video and more.
What do 40% of B2B buyers say about LinkedIn, that only 19% say about Twitter? Which "social" brands aren't really social at all? What do only 48% of searches result in? What do 91% of B2B marketers do, but only 36% do well? (No, not that.) What do 73% of reporters say press releases should contain?
Find the answers to those questions and many, many more here in more than 80 social, content, search, and email marketing facts and statistics from the past few months.
4 Marketing Management and Measurement Stats
1. Just 35% of B2B marketing executives say they can calculate the ROI of their marketing spend most or all of the time. 42% say they can calculate ROI only some of the time, rarely or not at all. (B2B Marketing)
2. While two out of three U.S. CMOs say they feel pressure from the top to prove the value of marketing, just 51% of CEOs agree "that marketing's financial value is clear to the business." (MarketingCharts)
3. That's likely because only 45% of CMOs are confident "that they know which metrics or business outcomes their key stakeholders care about." (MarketingCharts)
4. "Data analytics are currently most commonly used by B2B marketing leaders to measure and report marketing's performance (64%), as well as to justify (55%) and allocate (52%) the marketing budget. Analytics are least commonly used to fine-tune the marketing mix (14%)." (MarketingCharts)
4 B2B Marketing Stats
5. Consumerization of B2B marketing? 57% of B2B vendors say they are shifting their B2B commerce transactions from offline to online and self-service, and 44% agree "that B2B commerce is adopting B2C best practices in order to optimize the purchasing experience." (MarketingCharts)
6. Online sales currently account for about 35% of total revenue for B2B vendors, though that's higher (41%) among US companies. (MarketingCharts)
7. 40% of B2B buyers say LinkedIn is important when researching technologies and services to purchase; 19% say the same for Twitter. (Social Media Today)
8. B2B buyers today are 70%-90% of the way through their "buying journey" before they reach out to a vendor. (B2B Marketing)
6 Social Media Marketing Stats
9. Social media marketing budgets are projected to double in the next five years. (SocialTimes)
10. The top three social networks used by B2B marketers are LinkedIn (91%); Twitter (85%); and Facebook (81%). However, just 62% of marketers say that LinkedIn is effective, while 50% say the same for Twitter and only 30% of B2B marketers view Facebook as effective. (FlipCreator)
11. This one may surprise you: Google+ actually averages more visits per month than Facebook. Google+ receives 1.2 billion visits per month compared to Facebook's 809 million. (iMedia Connection)
12. 83% of B2B marketers invest in social media to increase brand exposure; 69% to increase web traffic; and 65% to gain market insights. (Social Media Today)
13. Some brands perceived as social aren't—at all. As of 2013, Apple had yet to claim a Twitter account, Facebook page, or any other type of social media presence. Ditto for Trader Joe's. (iMedia Connection)
14. People spend, on average, 4X more time on Tumblr and Pinterest than they do on Twitter. (iMedia Connection)
7 SEO and Search Stats
15. Every month there are more than 10.3 billion Google searches, with 78% of U.S. internet users researching products and services online. (B2B Marketing)
16. 54% of B2B buyers begin their buying process with informal research about business problems; nearly 80% of the time spent researching is done line. (B2B Marketing)
17. 33% of organic search clicks go to the first result. (SocialTimes)
18. The top 4 positions, generally those considered to be "above the fold", receive 83% of first page organic clicks. (Brent Carnduff)
(However, as noted here previously, "a lower position isn't always bad. If the searcher clicks the 'back' button because the top result didn't meet expectations, then he or she is 5-8 times more likely to click on a lower result than on the initial search.")
19. It's also important to consider that only 48% of searches result in an organic click. The remaining 52% result in either a click on a paid ad, leaving the search engine results page without clicking on any listing, or starting a new search. (Brent Carnduff)
20. In addition, as search intent becomes more detailed or specific (long-tail search phrases), the click distribution across the first page organic listings begins to even out, as searchers look for the best match or answer to their query. (Brent Carnduff)
21. And furthermore, long-tail searches have higher overall organic click-through rates. 56% of searches for phrases of four words or more result in a click on an organic result, compared to just 30% for single-word search queries. (Brent Carnduff)
7 Online Advertising Stats
22. Of the three major types of online advertising (search, display, and social), search is viewed as the best channel for driving direct sales, cited by 40% of marketers (vs. 26% who use display to drive sales and 18% using social). However, just over a third of marketers view each channel as valuable for lead generation. (eMarketer)
23. Landing page optimization is viewed as the most important tactic for optimizing the performance of paid search advertising, while targeting by segment is most important in optimizing display ad performance. (eMarketer)
24. 8% of Internet users account for 85% of online display ad clicks. (iMedia Connection)
25. In 2013, Internet advertising expenditures surpassed newspaper ad spending for the first time. Internet ads now account for 21% of all advertising dollars, second only to television at 40%. (Ad Age)
26. Of the 100 largest global advertisers, 41 are headquartered in the U.S., 36 in Europe, and 23 in Asia. Consumer electronics and technology is the fastest-growing ad category among the Global 100. (Ad Age)
27. The average click-through rate (CTR) for online display ads is 0.11% (roughly one click per one thousand views). CTRs aer highest in Malasia (0.30%) and Singapore (0.19%), and lowest in Australia and the U.K. (both at 0.07%). (Smart Insights)
28. Among different display ad formats, large rectangle ads (336 x 280 pixels) generate the highest CTRs on average at 0.21-0.33%, while full banners (468 x 6) generate the lowest at 0.04%. (Smart Insights)
3 Email Marketing Stats
29. Mobile matters. A lot. In 2013, 62% of emails were opened on a mobile device (48% on smartphones and 14% on tablets). (Heidi Cohen)
30. Adding social sharing buttons to email messages an increase click-through rates by more than 150%. (SocialTimes)
31. 48% of consumers say email is their preferred form of communication with brands. (iMedia Connection)
14 Content Marketing Facts and Stats
32. Though more than 90% of marketers now use content marketing, just 42% of B2B marketers and 34% of B2C marketers believe they are effective at this. (e-Strategy Trends)
33. Still, more than 70% of both B2B and B2C marketers plan to produce more content in 2014 than they did in 2013, and six out of ten plan to increase their content marketing budgets. (e-Strategy Trends)
34. 78% of CMOs believe custom content is the future of marketing. It's not clear what the other 22% are thinking. (SocialTimes)
35. Customer testimonials are the most effective form of content marketing. (SocialTimes)
36. The top challenge for content marketers is "lack of time,' according to 57% of B2C and 69% of B2B marketers (multiple responses permitted). (e-Strategy Trends)
37. When forced to choose only one "top challenge" in content marketing, 30% of marketers said "not enough time"; 11% said "producing enough content"; and another 11% said it was "producing engaging content." (@Robert_Rose on SlideShare)
38. Content creation is taking an increasing share of marketing budgets. Nearly half of marketers devote at least 10% of their total budgets to content development. One in five spend 25% or more. (eMarketer)
39. The two most popular formats for marketing content are articles (including internal and guest blog posts), used by 76% of marketers, and video, used by 60%. (eMarketer)
40. 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing. But just 36% say they are effective at it. (FlipCreator)
41. The most effective B2B content marketers 1) have a documented strategy; 2) use more than a dozen different tactics; 3) use an average of seven different social media platforms; and 4) devote nearly 40% of their budgets to content marketing, as shown below. (FlipCreator)
42. The top three content marketing tactics used by B2B marketers are social media other than blogs (87%); articles on their own websites (83%); and e-newsletters (80%). (FlipCreator)
43. B2B marketers rate in-person events and case studies as the most effective content marketing tactics (see full list below). (FlipCreator)
44. The top three organizational goals for B2B content marketing are brand awareness (82% of companies); lead generation (74%); and customer acquisition (73%). The top three metrics used to measure success are website traffic (63%); sales lead quality (54%); and social media sharing (50%). (FlipCreator)
45. 60% of consumers feel more positive about a brand after consuming content from it. (iMedia Connection)
9 Social Networking Demographics Figures and Statistics
46. Pinterest is from Venus, Google+ is from Mars. Two-thirds of Google+ users are male. 69% of Pinterest users are female. (Digital Buzz Blog)
47. Women are more social than men. (Shocking, I know.) One-half (49.0%) of U.S. adult women visit social media sites at least a few times per day, versus one-third (34.0%) of men. (New Media and Marketing)
48. About three-quarters of all Internet users are members of at least one social network. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
49. Grandma and grandpa are crashing teenagers' social media party. The fastest-growing age cohort on Twitter is 55-to-64 year-olds, up 79% since 2012. And the 45-54 age bracket is the fastest-growing group on both Facebook and Google+. (Fast Company)
50. But social media use is still much more common among the young. 89% of Internet users aged 18-29 are active on social networks, versus 43% of those 65 and older. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
51. Millennials, aka Gen Y, will account for 27% of the total U.S. population in 2014 (vs. 26% Baby Boomers), and 25% of the labor force (vs. 38% Boomers). (AllTwitter)
52. 56% of millennials won't accept jobs from firms that prohibit the use of social media in the office, and more than eight in ten say that user generated content on company websites at least somewhat influences what they buy. (AllTwitter)
53. The collective spending power of millennials will surpass that of Baby Boomers by 2018, and millennials will comprise 75% of the global labor force by 2025. (AllTwitter)
54. Millennials are, in general, not loyal to employers (91% expect to stay in a job for less than three years) but are loyal to brands (95% want brands to court them actively).(AllTwitter)
7 Business Blogging Stats and Facts
55. 76% of B2B companies maintain blogs. (FlipCreator)
56. 52% of marketers say their company blog is an important channel for content marketing. (eMarketer)
57. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those that don't. (SocialTimes)
58. 62% of B2B marketers rate blogging as an effective content marketing tactic. However, 79% of best-in-class marketers rank blogs as the most effective tactic, while just 29% of their least effective peers concur. (FlipCreator)
59. 57% of U.S. online adults read blogs. And of that group, two-thirds "say a brand mention or promotion within context of the blog influences their purchasing decisions." (New Media and Marketing)
60. Among U.S. adults aged 18-34, four-fiths say bloggers "can be very or somewhat influential in shaping product or service purchasing decisions. (New Media and Marketing)
61. Though 62% of marketers blog or plan to blog in 2013, only 9% of US marketing companies employ a full-time blogger. (Fast Company)
3 Facebook Marketing Stats
62. Facebook now has nearly 1.2 billion total users. (Digital Buzz Blog)
63. 23% of Facebook users check their account more than five times per day. (Digital Buzz Blog)
64. 47% of marketers say Facebook is overrated as a marketing platform. (iMedia Connection)
3 LinkedIn Marketing Stats
65. 45% of B2B marketers have gained a customer through LinkedIn. (Social Media Today)
66. LinkedIn is adding, on average, two members per second. However – LinkedIn has a lower percentage of active users than Pinterest, Google+ (?), Twitter or Facebook, which means "you're probably not going to have as good a response with participatory content on LinkedIn, like contests or polls, as you might on Facebook or Twitter…(though) passive content like blog posts or slide decks might be just right for your LinkedIn audience." (Fast Company)
67. Only 20% of LinkedIn users are under the age of 30. (iMedia Connection)
3 Twitter Marketing Stats
68. B2B marketers who use Twitter generate, on average, twice as many leads as those who don't. (Social Media Today)
69. 71% of tweets are ignored. Only 23% generate a reply. (iMedia Connection)
70. Advertising on Twitter costs nearly six times as much as Facebook ads on a CPM basis; however, the CTR for Twitter ads is 8-24 times higher. (Smart Insights)
3 Google+ Marketing Stats
71. Google+ has more than one billion total users, though only about a third (359 million) are active. (eConsultancy)
72. Users spend an average of three minutes per month on Google+. (iMedia Connection)
73. 70% of brands have a presence on Google+. (WordPress Hosting SEO)
6 Visual Content (Image and Video) Marketing Stats
74. Nearly two-thirds of people are visual learners, and visual data is processed much faster by the brain than is text. (SocialTimes)
75. Adding videos to landing pages can increase conversions by nearly 90%. (SocialTimes)
76. YouTube reaches more U.S. adults aged 18-34 than any cable network. (Fast Company)
77. More than three-quarters (77%) of brand posts shared on Facebook are photos. (iMedia Connection)
78. 73% of reporters say that press releases should contain images. (SocialTimes)
79. There are five million new businesses started each year. One out of 500 get funded and achieve a successful exit. (@Robert_Rose on SlideShare)
3 Marketing Career-Related Stats
80. 79% of B2B marketing executives report noticable skills gaps in the teams they manage. The top areas for skills gaps are in data analysis, customer insight, and digital marketing techniques. (B2B Marketing)
81. Social media experts are in demand. Job postings on LinkedIn for social media positions have grown 1,300% since 2010. (The Strategy Web)
82. Looking for a job in social media? The top five cities for job openings with "social media" in the title are:
- • New York
- • Los Angeles
- • San Francisco
- • London
- • Chicago
(That social media job had better pay well though. NY, SF and LA are all among the top 10 most expensive US cities to live in and London is the 15th-most expensive city globally.)
And One Final Statistic that Simply Cannot be Categorized
83. Food is the top category on Pinterest; 57% of users discuss food-related content. Garlic Cheesy Bread is the most repinned Pinterest Pin. (Digital Buzz Blog)
How to Promote Blog Posts: 200+ Ideas from Eight ExpertsMonday, February 17th, 2014
Company blogs have become virtually essential, and very powerful, component of digital marketing. In addition to their SEO benefits and role in maximizing web presence for brands, blogs produce sales and leads. According to recent research, more than half (52%) of consumers say blogs have impacted their purchase decisions; and 57% of marketers say they've acquired new customers with their blogs.
But creating and maintaining a successful blog takes more than just producing helpful and original content; as social media expert Heidi Cohen recently wrote, "The most epic content will FAIL without content distribution. If no one sees your content, what good is it?"
So, once you've created great content, how do you get it "out there"? Which content promotion tools are most useful? Which blog post promotion tactics are most effective? Is it still worthwhile to get listed in blog directories, and if so, which ones?
Find the answers to these questions and more here among hundreds of recommendations about tools, tactics and techniques to promote blog posts.
25 Easy Ways to Promote Your Blog by Kim Garst
Kim Garst shares a list she's compiled of "strategies that will help you promote your blog and drive traffic to your website," such as promoting posts to your email list, commenting on other blogs, participating in industry forums, creating a Slideshare based on a post, and buying "cheap banner ads on niche sites."
50 Experts Reveal How to Promote Your Blog with Just 3 Tools by clambr
Richard Marriott curates answers from 50 (actually 53) experts on which tools they would use to promote their blog content if they could only use three. Among the tools mentioned are Buffer, Triberr, Wistia, Facebook, and several others; but according to this group of experts, the three most helpful tools are…(read the post).
120 Marketing Tactics for Blogs [Infographic] by Customer Think
Pam Dyer outlines five steps for creating a successful blog—from understanding your goals to using marketing tactics to create visibility—then showcases an infographic illustrating 120 blog marketing tactics, from social networks to eBooks to PR to video, contests, "egobait" and forum posting.
How I promote my new blog posts by The Social Media Hat
Mike Alton updates a detailed post about post promotion, helpfully advising readers not only how to promote their blog posts but also which tactics to avoid or drop, as they are no longer effective; for example, regarding social sharing sites, "The New MySpace no longer allows link sharing. And I have dropped Bebo and Diigo and Viadeo."
25 Smart Ways to Promote Your Latest Blog Post by Rebekah Radice
Pinterest diva Rebekah Radice here outlines more than two dozen tactics for promoting posts, from social networks to blogger communities like Triberr, Social Buzz Club and Viral Content Buzz, to manual and automated social bookmarking sites.
25 Tactics to Promote Your Blog via Facebook and Twitter by Heidi Cohen
Heidi Cohen serves up more than two dozen tips for promoting your blog through social media, among them: writing "regular features responding to your audience's needs and interests;" including sidebar links that make it easy for readers to follow you on Facebook and Twitter (and other social networks, as applicable): and thanking people for sharing your posts.
50 Ways to Promote and Market your Blog Posts by jeffbullas.com
Guest author Samuel Pustea suggests more than four dozen ways to promote blog posts, from the big social networks to newer tools like Pinterest, Triberr, Pligg and Scoop.it to RSS directory posting, infographics and guest blogging.
Active RSS and Blog Directories List by Buzzkeep
As Arvid Linde notes here, there were once hundreds of blog directories across the web—but most existed solely for "spam purposes." This post provides a short list of 43 still-active, reasonably high-quality directories that can actually drive traffic, even if the links no longer have much SEO benefit.
12 (of the) Best Guides to Marketing on Pinterest of 2013Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Which social network was fastest to reach 10 million users, and now has 70 million members worldwide? Which social network saw its membership outside the U.S. grow 125% in 2013? Which social network hosts 69 of the Interbrand Top 100 Brands, and grabs more ecommerce traffic than Facebook?
If you said Pinterest, you've been doing your homework! (Or perhaps guessed it from the title of this post.)
Pinterest still isn't the right social network for everyone. It's a virtually essential channel for consumer brands, particularly those in fashion, food, interior design, crafts, and travel. But it's value is significantly less for industrial products, tech, finance, or trucks, for example.
But it's popularity—particularly among women (most sources put membership in the range of 87%-93% female) with money (the average Pinterest user has a household income of over $100,000 per year)—and its ability to drive revenue (47% of online shoppers in the U.S. have made a purchase based on a Pinterest recommendation) make it an imperative platform for brands targeting it demographic to get right.
So, if Pinterest makes sense for your brand, product or blog, how can you use the platform most effectively to drive more traffic to your site? Foster engagement? Generate leads and sales?
Find the answers to those questions and many more here in a dozen of the best Pinterest marketing guides of the past year.
7 Creative Ways To Use Pinterest To Cross-Promote Your Business by Rebekah Radice
Rebekah Radice details "7 ways to use Pinterest to cross-promote your business and support your additional online and social media marketing efforts," among them offering coupons, promoting contests or sweepstakes, and showcasing videos: create "specialty Pinterest boards designed to provide an easy way to categorize and sort your videos so clients can easily locate what they are looking for."
50 Things You Need To Know About Pinterest by Search Engine Journal
Albert Costill presents more than four dozen points to "convince you of the power of Pinterest" for marketing. For example:
- • Pinterest is the 16th most visited website in the United States.
- • Users will spend 4.5 more time on Pinterest than Linkedin.
- • 90% of US online specialty retailers use Pinterest; that's an 81% increase since 2012.
- • 93% of Pinterest users are women. (But the site was founded by three men.)
Pinterest: 3 Tips (and The 1 Secret They Share) by Heidi Cohen
Heidi Cohen shares three key facts about Pinterest (such as that it dominates tablets; Pinterest "gets almost half of the shares on iPads, almost 3x the rate of Facebook and Twitter") and three Pinterest marketing tips, like focusing on the topics that drive Twitter engagement ("it helps to at least tangentially concentrate on core topics such as DIY, clothes, interior design and food").
26 Very Pinteresting Stats You Need to Know [Infographic] by Google+
Rebekah Radice (again) showcases an infographic that illustrates more than two dozen Pinterest facts and stats, such as that Pinterest now hosts more than half a million business accounts; visitors spend. on average, more than 14 minutes per session; the typical user spends 98 minutes on the site each month; and than nine million users have connected their Pinterest accounts to their Facebook pages.
Pinterest Lead Generation 101: Best Practices and Hacks That'll Make You a Pro by HubSpot
Contending that "Pinterest…offer(s) a huge opportunity for most (industries, with) more than 70 million users and a growing international population. Plus, Pinterest users spend the most money of users on popular social networks — nearly double the amount of money spent from Facebook users and triple the amount from Twitter users," Ginny Soskey proceeds to explain what types of leads can be generated on Pinterest, followed by eight steps for generating those kinds of leads.
Pinterest Pins Last Much Longer Than Tweets or Other Posts by Inspire to Thrive
Lisa Buben makes the case that "Pinterest pins really last longer than any other social share," in some cases, in some cases, still driving blog traffic a month after posting. Compare that to the longevity of StumbleUpon (up to 17 days—but with a high bounce rate), Facebook (three hours) or Twitter (18 minutes, on average) updates.
15 "Dos" for Pinterest by Pinterest
Pressed for time? Short attention span? Stephanie Ford serves up 15 helpful tips for success on Pinterest in a quick, visual presentation here. Among her tips: collaborate ("Connect. Share. Inspire. Crowdsource.") and check sources ("Find originals. Don't repin spam links").
8 Pinterest Tips and Tricks: A Cheat Sheet for Newbies by SteamFeed
Rebekah Radice (yet again) offers eight "Pinterest tips and tricks to help you make the most out of this visual marketing tool," starting with "learn the language," followed by definitions for terms like board, pin, repin, comments and likes, and the Pin it button ("this can be added to your browser allowing you to easily pin anything you want to share").
The Most Powerful Branding Tool You're Not Using: Pinterest by digitaria
Charles Crawford makes an interesting case for guys to use Pinterest, even though, as the post below notes, its users are 87% female. He suggests several ways brands can (more productively, in most cases) use Pinterest, including having a vision ("Your boards should reflect a consistent, unique visual identity") and posting content from outside of Pinterest ("The site tends to become an echo chamber, with most users finding everything on their boards from other boards. Be a source of fresh content to those people").
How Small Businesses Can Use Pinterest To Boost Traffic by Assist Social Media
Noting that "Pinterest is the fastest growing social network EVER and drives more traffic to sites than LinkedIn, Google+, and YouTube combined," Elizabeth Maness shares an infographic filled with Pinterest stats and facts, such as that 80% of pins are "repins" of previously submitted content; 55% of members are between the ages of 25 and 44; and that crafts, gifts and hobbies are the top interests.
5 Ways to Use Pinterest to Build Links & Blogger Relationships by Vertical Measures
Brynna Baldauf provides a handful of helpful tips to "find links and build relationships using Pinterest," among them identifying which users have blogs: while "There is no magic search operator for finding only pinners with blogs, unfortunately, she notes, "If you look at a user's profile, you may see a URL to the immediate right of his or her picture. This is a website that they have chosen to link to and it is usually a personal blog or website."
6 Quick and Easy Ways to Boost SEO With Pinterest by Rebekah Radice
Writing that "Pinterest can…have a substantial effect on driving traffic to a website, raising brand awareness, and an eventual increase in sales," Rebekah Radice (notice a pattern here?) outlines half a dozen ways it can also be used to boost search results, such as using keywords to your advantage: "Using keywords will increase your standings within a specific search and just like other search engines, the higher up you appear, the more likely you are to be found."
28 (of the) Best Business Blogging Guides and Tips of 2013Monday, January 27th, 2014
Maintaining a company blog has numerous benefits for businesses of almost all shapes and sizes: blogging is an SEO best practice; it drives more website visitors lead conversions; it draws new visitors, expanding the reach of the company website; and it's core element of a content marketing and online presence optimization strategy.
So it's not surprising that 76% of b2b companies and 72% of b2c enterprises now have corporate blogs.
Still—not every company that blogs realizes the medium's full potential. And blogs require significant effort and resources, so even companies that have effective blogs want to assure they are maximizing results.
How can you attract more sales prospects to your blog? Get visitors to engage with your content? Become recognized as an industry thought leader? Optimize your blog for search? What common mistakes should you avoid? Which tools and plugins should you be using?
Find the answers to those questions and many others here in more than two dozen of the best business blogging guides of the past year.
Best Business Blogging Guides and Tips
7 Steps To Make Your Blog A Marketing Machine by Heidi Cohen
To make your blog a marketing machine rather than a me-me-me (or me-too) blog, Heidi Cohen advises focusing on your audience's hot buttons, outlining a series of ongoing columns, branding your blog, and incorporating clear calls to action, among other tactics.
9 Ways To Get More Prospects To Discover Your B2B Blog by Business2Community
Douglas Burdett recommends "nine tactics (that) will get your blog discovered by more readers," from looking for and capitalizing on trends in your blog analytics and publishing original data to being controversial by "taking a stand and backing it up with data."
An Almost Effortless Way to "Get Your Name Out There" by The Un-Self-Help Blog
Stephan Wiedner shares six reasons to write guest posts for other blogs, among them: "It builds relationships. If you write for someone else's blog and their readers like what you share, they will be grateful, potentially ask you to write again, and who knows, maybe scratch your back in other ways some time in the future." And despite some recent, widely misinterpreted comments by Google's Matt Cutts, guest blogging is not dead.
30+ powerful adjectives and verbs for eye-catching headlines by Econsultancy
Quoting advertising legend David Ogilvy that "On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar," Chris Lake offers guidance on choosing compelling blog post topics then grabbing attention by using key adjectives and verbs in the headline. Based on research over millions of page impressions, these adjectives include "best," "brilliant," "kickass," "mindblowing" and "ultimate" among others.
5 Ways to Create a Deliciously Irresistible Blog Post Title by SteamFeed
Rebekah Radice explains why post titles are so important, the four objectives a post title should achieve, and a handful of tips to help craft compelling titles, such as keeping them concise: "It has been found that titles with eight words or less perform best."
6 Ways To Go From Anonymous Hermit To Thought Leader by Fast Company
Contending that "Becoming a thought leader in your industry doesn't mean that you're necessarily the smartest kid on the block. It does mean that you're the most receptive and understanding of your customers' needs," the brilliant Wendy Marx offers half a dozen tips for making the transition, including writing for trade publications and speaking at industry events.
How to Optimize Your Blog Content for Social Media by Maximize Social Business
Kristi Hines shares a handful of helpful tips for optimizing blog posts for social sharing, from adding social sharing buttons (a task done easily with tools like AddThis or ShareThis]) to including a social call to action ("let readers know that you want them to share your posts by adding a call to action at the end such as 'If you've enjoyed this post, please share it with your friends'").
33 Experts Share Their Secrets For Improving Reader Engagement by Blogging Wizard
Adam Connell compiles advice from nearly three dozen seasoned bloggers on increasing reader engagement, including tips from Seth Godin ("The only thing I do to increase reader engagement is to write things worth sharing"), frequent Webbiquity best-of contributor Neil Patel, Dino Dogan, Anita Campbell, Ted Rubin, Lisa Buben, Joel Comm and more.
7 company blogs that build community by Ragan.com
Emma Siemasko looks at "seven company blogs that do it right, along with some practical tips for getting the same success with your blog," among them 37Signals: "Signal vs. Noise, 37 Signals' blog, does a lot more than promote the company…The blog provides thoughtful, inquisitive, and truth-seeking articles about working from home, whether an iPhone camera is enough of a camera, and more."
How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog: 5 Tips by Social Media Examiner
Kristi Hines (again) supplies a handful of helpful tips for generating leads via a blog, like placing opt-in forms around your blog content with "calls to action such as free trials, free consultations or a simple mailing list opt-in form."
How to Contribute to a Blog and be Seen by Geekless Tech
Noting that contributing to other blogs "helps with reach, and exposes you to an audience you just don't have with your own blog," Steven Hughes shares a handful of tips for constructively contributing such as following directions: "Some sites will spell out exactly what they're looking for and what you need to do to be considered," and creating solid, original content.
20 ideas for content that people love to share on social media by Firebrand Ideas Ignition
Jeff Bullas provides 20 tips to help bloggers create a steady stream of fresh content, including creating lists, republishing infographics, curating content (kind of like this post), reporting news, analyzing research results, and reviewing tools or applications.
How to Make Your WordPress Blog to Stand Out by Themefuse
Karol Król presents five ideas to make your blog stand out from the crowd, from picking a new publication schedule ("you won't know which posting frequency is the best for your blog until you try at least a couple of them") to launching a contest ("Create a genuine task, or ask a genuine question…Then gather the entries and pick the winner").
Best Tips for Beginning Bloggers
7 Content Writing Secrets Every Blogger Should Know by Basic Blog Tips
Glen Andrews details basic but helpful strategies for writing compelling blog posts, from crafting an attention-grabbing headline and opening through "giving it a rest"–"Before you publish that post – give it a rest. Why? Because, no matter how good we think our post is today, tomorrow never lies…Our posts will be more powerful and professional if we 'let it rest' and review it tomorrow with fresh eyes."
5 Steps To A Successful Blog – A First-Time Blogger's Business Plan by Viral Mom
Bernard Zarifovic diagrams a first-time blogger's business plan, starting with selecting a topic or niche and writing the first set of posts and progressing through social sharing, social engagement, and guest blogging.
7 reasons why a blog is vital to your social media strategy by Memeburn
While most of the points here will be familiar to experienced bloggers, Megan Bernstein offers some interesting insights for corporate blog strategy, such as understanding the competitive landscape: "Your competitors in the online space are not always the same as those in 'real life'."
Top 10 Strategies to Successful B2B Blogging by TopTenWholesale.com
Naomi Ruth Ganhinhin offers 10 tips for blogging success, from setting clear objectives ("A clear set of objectives makes it easier to organize the type of content you publish. It also dictates the tone you are going to use and determine the right people to write your blog posts") to including calls to action.
Best Guides to Blogging Mistakes and Pitfalls to Avoid
Are You Making These 20 Mistakes on Your Blog? by jeffbullas.com
Jeff Bullas (again) steps through 20 "common mistakes that a lot of 'newbie' and other bloggers slip into," such as not providing additional reading sources with each post, writing posts that are too long or too short (he recommends aiming for 500-800 words), and not using post categories to help readers find posts of interest.
Still Using Google Images for Your Blog Posts? Stop It! by She Owns It
Writing that she has "seen too many people served with unexpected 'bills' and/or lawsuits for using images that held copyrights," guest author Shelley Webb explains what types of actions and sources can get bloggers into trouble, and lists alternative / free image sources like Stock.XCHNG.
Blogging: 34 Things You're Doing Wrong by Social Media Today
Yvonne Lyons reveals "34 things that could be keeping your posts from getting traction and making the jump from good to remarkable," such as errors / lack of editing, choosing a topic that's been "done to death," and having no links within the post to your own site—and how to fix each problem.
Why Your Company Blog is Striking Out by Marketo Blog
Guest blogger K'Lee Banks offers advice on what to do "if you are spending time writing posts, but no one is listening," for example: use interesting images (not just stock photos), always include social sharing buttons; and "Invite other professionals in your industry to guest post and connect with their readers."
Best Blog SEO Guides and Tips
How To Move Your Blog Post Up In Search Results by V3 Integrated Marketing
Guest author Ian Cleary outlines a half-dozen tactics to improve a blog's search rankings, including the strategic use of internal and external links: "You don't want to include a ton of internal links, as that looks spammy. Instead, make sure you're directing your readers to the resources that they need (internal or external)."
How to Optimize Your Business Blog [Checklist] by Unbounce
In this highly bookmark-worthy post, Lindsey Kirchoff lays out a simple four-quadrant checklist for optimizing all aspects of a business blog: structure (e.g., navigation, search, categories); SEO (attributes like keyword use, internal links and Google authorship); CTAs; and social elements.
15 SEO Experts Give Their Best Tips For Blogging by Heidi Cohen
Heidi Cohen (again) shares blog SEO trips from experts like Kipp Bodnar and Jeffery L. Cohen ("The single biggest factor in SEO success for bloggers comes down to consistent publishing. Those who publish regularly receive more search traffic"), Eric Enge, Ron Jones, Rebecca Lieb and Charlie White.
Best Business Blogging Tools, WordPress Tips and Plugins
4 Useful Creative Commons Browser Plugins by Internet Marketing Ninjas
Online tools maven Ann Smarty reviews four browser plugins to help find free (creative commons) images for use in blog posts, including CC Search, a search plugin that provides "quick access to about 10 Creative Commons search engines (including flickr, spinxpress, wikimedia, fotopedia, etc). It's a good search plugin when you need more options that just Flickr."
How to Make WordPress Sites Load 72.7% Faster by CopyBlogger
In an attempt to "cut the crap and turn down the hype" regarding how to create a faster WordPress site, Jerod Morris recommends staring by examining and optimizing the "core" of every WordPress site, which includes "hosting, theme, and plugins," then offers a series of speed optimization tips. Not all are simple, but most bloggers should at least be able to find some helpful site speed-related takeaways here.
7 Emerging and Free WordPress Plugins of Fall 2013 by SteamFeed
Jesse Aaron reviews seven newer WordPress plugins, including WooSidebars (for creating custom sidebars by page), All In One Schema.org Rich Snippets (self-explanatory) and his favorite: the WordPress Calls to Action Plugin, which makes it "insanely easy" to do things like "create an effective call to action button, direct the call to action to a landing page, and direct the landing page to a conversion form."
Easily Move Your WordPress Website to a New Host by Masterful Marketing
This is an instance where "easily" may be in the eyes of the reader, but nonetheless Debra Murphy does an exemplary job here of detailing the non-trivial process of moving an existing blog to a new web host as simple and understandable as possible.


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Researchers achieve long-distance light to matter quantum teleportation
A successful test in passing information from light into matter – using the teleportation of the quantum state of a photon via optical fiber cable to a receiving crystal located over 25 km (15 mi) away – has been claimed by physicists at the University of Geneva. This test shattered the same team's previous record and may herald the development of greater, long-distance teleportation techniques and qubit communications and computing capabilities. Read More
Researchers working at TU Delft's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands claim to have successfully transferred data via teleportation. By exploiting the quantum phenomenon known as particle entanglement, the team says it transferred information across a 3 m (10 ft) distance, without the information actually traveling through the intervening space. Read More
Quantum entanglement is the key to quantum computing, cryptography, and numerous other real-world applications of quantum mechanics. It is also one of the strangest phenomena in the Universe, overcoming barriers of space and time and knitting the entire cosmos into an integrated whole. Scientists have long thought that entanglement between two particles was a rare and fleeting phenomenon, so delicate that exposure of the particles to their surroundings would quickly destroy this linkage. Now mathematicians at Case Western University have shown that entanglement between parts of large systems is the norm, rather than being a rare and short-lived relationship. Read More
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In seven words, how would describe Eric Cantona?
I only need one: iconic. There will never be another and I don't want there to be because he is a top man. He helped others, and when he was banned he was absolutely fantastic with the young lads at The Cliff. I'd like to meet up with a few of those kids that he coached and see what kind of impact he had on their lives.
How about Cristiano Ronaldo?
Ronny was Ronny, another great lad who I think a lot of. I had some good times with Ronny, he scored some fantastic goals for the club and he hasn't slowed down since he's gone to Spain. I'd love to see him come back here. If there's one player you'd want to pull you out of trouble, Ronny's the man. He did that many times for us and scored some great, great goals while he was at it.
If Cantona's "iconic", what word would you use for Ronaldo?
Last but not least, George Best. He played before your time as a kit man, but from your memories as a United fan, how would you describe him?
The game has changed a lot since George played but I still think he could do the business today. I idolised him and I, like thousands of others, tried to copy him when I was a kid – the haircuts, the teddy boy style and, of course, he was a fabulous player.
One word for Best?
Was he the one who started the no.7 movement?
Not for me. That was Cantona.
What's your favourite goal you've seen from a no.7?
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I was taken aback by Adriana's confrontation. I didn't want to engage in such ridiculous banter at an amazing foodie event since I live for that stuff. But alas, she was not going to let it go.
So what did we learn from the silly confrontation? Only that Rodolfo is a player who is receiving texts from someone (not me) who misses him, and that Karent is directing her misguided, smile-encased anger towards me. As a lawyer, I am a stickler for evidence and the only thing the evidence has shown thus far is that Karent needs more evidence.
Here's what we've seen so far:
Episode One:
-A reluctant Rodolfo barely responding to overt acts of affection by Karent.
-A quiet Rodolfo during one of Karent's rants about me.
-Karent's parents obvious disapproval of the telenovela, ahem, "star."
-Rodolfo making poorly timed jokes about sleeping with a blonde. Wait, Rodolfo likes blondes? Who knew!
Episode Two:
-That the wording of the infamous text is inconsistent with the way Cubans speak Spanish.
-That Rodolfo lives unsupervised in another country, where people say things like "te echo de menos."
-Lea admits to both witnessing Rodolfo texting me all night and not being able to pick this "huge celebrity" out of a lineup.
-A very annoyed Rodolfo via Skype. (Even he is sick of hearing about this nonsense.)
-Finally, we discover that Rodolfo left me a Facebook post at 10:15 pm on Valentine's Day at or around the same time their supposed "romantic Skype dinner" was taking place. Talk about multi-tasking.


text: PETA to Dale, Jr.: Can We Advertise on Your Car? Print article Send a Tip by Tony Lee 1 Feb 2013 post a comment PETA, the radical animal rights organization, has asked NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., the sports most popular driver and son of the legendary Dale Earnardt, to allow them to advertise on his NASCAR car. The organization wrote a letter to Earnhardt asking him to "consider using the available space on your beautiful car as an opportunity to spread a lifesaving spay-and-neuter message." "By placing a message on your car that encourages people to have their animals spayed or neutered, you would be reaching countless NASCAR fans with the lifesaving message that fixing animals helps curb the overpopulation of dogs and cats and drastically reduces suffering," PETA Associate Director Michelle Cho wrote in a letter. Earnhardt drives for owner Rick Hendrick of Hendrick Motorsports. Hendrick announced this week that they were still looking to find the right deal to fill out the sponsorships for Earnhardt's car for the upcoming NASCAR season. Hendrick said he was looking for the "right deal" instead of just "any deal," and it is fair to say PETA's offer will probably not be seriously considered.


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One of the best seats in any "house" has to be the one occupied
by one of the best airshow and stunt pilots the industry has ever
known... a rather jovial guy by the name of Corky Fornof.
You've seen him fly at airshows, even seen him play James Bond,
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been slowly battling its way to a hoped-for production start and
deliveries in the next few years.
Fornof is more than James Bond's 'stand-in pilot.' Corkey is a
living/flying legend... for all the right reasons. Corkey flew with
his father, J.W. "Bill" Fornof, in a world famous two ship air show
with matching bronze Bearcats for a number of years (until Bill's
tragic loss in 1971).
Their airshow business was based in Houma and involved routines
built around the flying of the T6, Mustang and his favorite
warbird, the rotund but formidable Bearcat. He has over 17,000
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Brown Rice & Corn Cereal, Gluten Free, Strawberry Crisp
2 people found the following review helpful
Posted by SugarQueen on Mar 16, 2012
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just right! will order again.
low sugar cereal
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it's really delightful, great taste
new favorite
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Our new favorite cereal. The flakes have a nice even flavor, and the strawberries actually taste like strawberries instead of cardboard.
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The dried strawberries taste great with the cereal.. My son likes it.
Weekend breakfast..?
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Tastes pretty good, though a little too sweet for my taste... The dried strawberry pieces were actually slices though and not just microscopic pieces like in some cereals, and they're not too dry, the flavour is nice. I don't feel the need to add jam (would be way too sweet, anyway) since the dried strawberries gives flavour to the milk when you add it, and the cereal flakes themselves have a subtle taste of rice which is really nice.


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Linclon Nebraska has the FSSP Seminary there.Very scenic,nice Country.Plenty of Latin Masses.Even some Latin Mass Carmelite Nuns( to visit) in Valpraiso,Nebraska!
I used to live in the Midwest. Can't tolerate the climate. If I could, I would live in Chicago. Love the city, love the churches. I don't actually go to the TLM on a regular basis - just once in a while. Most of the time we go to the NO Mass here.


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