Month: February 2014

5 Ways to Improve Your Privacy Online

5 Ways to Improve Your Privacy Online

This article discusses the issues with online privacy and provides five basic ways to improve your privacy online. These tips are:

  1. Browser Settings
  2. Cloud Storage Encryption
  3. Two-Factor Authentication
  4. Encryption for Chat and Email
  5. Surf the Internet Anonymously

These tips were quite helpful and I give this article a 3.5/5.

How to Keep Your Internet Usage Private [INFOGRAPHIC]

How to Keep Your Internet Usage Private [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic provides useful tips and information on how to keep your internet usage private. The article also provides nine great tips on how to keep your data private. The nine tips are: 

  1. Search Smarter
  2. Surf Safer
  3. Surf Using HTTPS
  4. Email More Securely
  5. Try Alternative Services
  6. Become Antisocial
  7. Ditch Your Smartphone
  8. Watch Out For Hotspots
  9. Encrypt Your Files

This article and infographic provides a lot of great tips and information and I give it a 4/5.

Top 5 online privacy tips

Top 5 online privacy tips

This article discusses five online privacy tips. These tips are:

  1. Be judicious with whom you share your personal data.
  2. Keep kids safe with another layer of protection.
  3. Install software updates.
  4. Secure your home network.
  5. Friends don’t send friends chain email.

This article provides some useful tips and I give it a 3.5/5.

Users More Savvy About Social Media Privacy Than Thought, Poll Finds

Users More Savvy About Social Media Privacy Than Thought, Poll Finds

This Forbes article discusses the rise of individuals concerns for social media privacy. It provides interesting stats on who is most concerned with social media privacy and it informs us that it is actually those aged 44 or younger. 

This article has some interesting stats and I give it a 3/5. 

3 Quick Ways to Perk Up Your Email Marketing Efforts

3 Quick Ways to Perk Up Your Email Marketing Efforts

This article discusses three tips for email marketing. These tips were:

  1. Create a dedicated subscriber page. 
  2. Send a simple newsletter that features great, useful content
  3. Email your list more often

The article also has internal and external links to informative articles. If you have some time, read the comments too. Some people shared great opinions and their own experiences regarding emails. 

This was a great read and I give it 4.5/5.

8 effective email marketing strategies, backed by science

8 effective email marketing strategies, backed by science

This article gives eight tips on how to effectively execute an email marketing campaign.These tips are:

  1. Personalize your email without using the recipient’s name

  2. The long and short of subject lines

  3. 8:00 p.m. to midnight is the prime time to send your email

  4. The best content is free content: Give something away

  5. Mobile opens accounts for 47 percent of all email opens

  6. Email still reigns over Facebook and Twitter

  7. Send email on the weekends

  8. Re-engage an inactive group of subscribers

This article provides a lot of great information and I give it 4.5/5.

Top Five E-Mail Marketing Services

Top Five E-Mail Marketing Services

This article discusses top five email marketing service providers. These services are

  1.  MailChimp
  2. Campaign Monitor
  3. Constant Contact
  4. iContact 
  5. AWeber

It’s great to know that each service has different features, focuses and targets. I personally found it interesting Constant Contact has social media integration and online survey/event management capabilities. These are very unique features and target niche markets.

This article is a must-read when choosing the right email marketing service provider. I give it a 4.5/5.

How to unlock the roi of your marketing with analytics

How to unlock the roi of your marketing with analytics

This (long) article is a thorough resource by HubSpot dedicated to learning how to improve certain areas of Online Marketing such as SEO, Landing Pages, Email Marketing, Blogging by understanding how to use the metrics to see what people when they come across your material – and what it means.

Although I did not read the whole thing, I think it would be extremely useful and I give it a 4.5/5.