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Does your web site help you meet your marketing goals, such as attracting more traffic, generating better leads and converting your visitors into paying customers? If not, you should learn more about inbound marketing.

How your web site looks is important, but how it works is even more important! When the two work hand in hand, it's a recipe for success.

Our new "10 Steps to Turn Your Web Site into an Inbound Marketing Machine" white paper will show you ten simple steps that you can take to make sure that your web site PERFORMS. Don't skip these steps during your next redesign or web site development project.

Twitter recently announcing a test of a Buy button that will enable users to make purchases from within tweets on their iOS and Android devices.

Managers are busy people and the to-do list tends to keep growing. The problem is that you only have so many hours in the day to accomplish these tasks. If you want to become more productive, you need to shrink your to-do list. 

Last week, Google updated their Chrome browser to version 37.0.2062.94 on Windows, OS X, and Linux. This is a highly anticipated release for users on Windows specifically, as it marks the move from Microsoft's Graphics Device Interface rendering method to Microsoft's DirectWrite text rendering API.

Version 4.0 of WordPress, named “Benny” in honor of jazz clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, is available for download or update in your WordPress dashboard. This release brings a smoother writing and management experience.

Think you know everything about email deliverability? You may be surprised at what you don’t know!

Deliverability is constantly changing and what you learned yesterday may not be enough to reach your customers today. Join the American Marketing Association on September 23rd at 12:00 PM for their webcast to learn more.

Pinterest recently launched an updated version of Pinterest Analytics, making it available globally in all 31 of the languages Pinterest supports. The service is free and available to anyone who has a Pinterest for Business account.

Join 20,000+ marketers along with Zappos, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and more for what's being called marketing's online event of the year! This is a free online event all at the convenience of your own desk.

Joomla! has formed a partnership with SiteGround web hosting company for its official demo hosting and its new Free Joomla! Hosting option. The partnership is expected to increase the number of new users to Joomla! by making it easier to get started. 

Twitter has unveiled new changes! In a two-part tweet posted September 3rd, 2014, Twitter announced an updated web font intended to improve speed and readability, new color options on user profiles, and new buttons on profile pages to send tweets or direct messages to another user.