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What is CASL (Canadian anti-spam law)?

SendX

Due to spam being a severe economic and social burden in Canada and throughout the world, many organizations are finding it necessary to use spam control technologies. CASL was developed in 2014 to help prevent spam and enforce acceptable practices in email marketing. What is CASL? A significant impact has been made.

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21 Vital Mobile Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2014

Webbiquity

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.” 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. Heidi Cohen ).

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Organic vs paid social media: 12 myths vs realities

Biznology

Organic social media is the use of social networks like Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , Pinterest , Instagram , and Snapchat along with the use of free publishing tools like Hootsuite and Buffer to build a social community and interact with it—publishing posts, sharing others’ posts, and engaging in conversations and comments.

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The Difference Between Direct and Organic Website Traffic Sources

SmartBug Media

For a long time, digital marketers summed up the properties of direct and organic traffic pretty simply. To most, organic traffic consists of visits from search engines, while direct traffic is made up of visits from people entering your company URL into their browser. Traffic Sources.

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10 Things I’ve Learned About SEO in 2014

KoMarketing Associates

So, as 2014 comes to a close and I look back on the year, here are a few things I learned about search, the industry, our business, and more. It’s not simply adding 100 pieces of content to the site and it can’t be a tiny compartment of your marketing department. Content Marketing Must Have Marketing . Yeah…me too.

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6 studies show why Facebook organic reach is declining so quickly

Biznology

2% is their Facebook organic reach and it’s declining (source: DMR ). Why is Facebook organic reach declining so fast? From 2012 to 2014, it went from 16.00% to 6.51%, a 60% decline. For large brand pages with more than 500,000 Likes, organic reach hit 2%. 50,000,000+ businesses have a Facebook page. What can business do?

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How Companies Like Bored Panda, REI, and Vox Are Growing Their Organic Reach on Social Media

Buffer

Just a year later, in 2014, it would reach only about six percent of its fans. That means for every 100 fans of a Page, an organic post will reach, on average, only five or fewer people 1 These data are from a research by Social@Ogilvy. Is it the end of organic reach on social media? Let’s find out. Instagram algorithm.