10 awesome marketing infographics, content strategy + more online marketing links

10 awesome marketing infographics
Infographics are a great way to quickly catch the attention of customer and ideally get them to share your content – thereby promoting your business to their friends and other trusted contents. If you’re looking for ideas, here are 10 awesome marketing infographics from 2012 – read more here.

New Twitter update makes it easier to market your content
Thanks to recent changes (again!) to Google’s algorithm, content marketing – creating content such as blog posts, videos, how t0-guides and infographics that provide valuable information that help your customers solve problems – is establishing itself as a key tool for promoting your business. Social media such as Twitter plays an important role in getting that content out there, and in turn driving customers to your business’ website. Twitter has a new update that makes it easier to market your content. Learn more here.

Social media marketing predictions for the near future 
Over the past 18 months or so, businesses have had to adjust to the new reality of social media and content marketing. But change is constant in the world of online marketing – how can businesses be prepared to benefit from the social media marketing landscape of the next few years?

8 ways to get the biggest marketing bang out of Slideshare
Salesforce.com’s Jennifer Burnham calls it, “a library in the cloud.” JESS3 co-founder, Jesse Thomas describes it as, “Wikipedia mixed with Delicious and Vimeo.” However you want to characterize SlideShare, remember this: It’s big. More than nine million uploads big. Twenty-nine million monthly unique visitors big. And, according to LinkedIn, $119 million big. To find out more about how Slideshare can help your online marketing efforts, read more here.

How some Olympians use social media to overcome limited budgets
Despite limited budgets, little-known Olympians have to get the word out somehow in order to attract the sponsorships that can help advance their sports careers. Over the past few years, social media marketing has transformed how these athletes brand themselves and attracting funding. Read more here.

Nevin Thompson writes for JumpStartWeb, leaders in content marketing in Victoria BC.