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Re: 7 Ways to Increase Website Conversions with AddThis Marketing Tools

Justin Thorp — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:36:49 -0000

I'd recommend doing this with the Welcome Bar or the Marketing Overlay! https://www.addthis.com/get... https://www.addthis.com/get...

Re: 7 Ways to Increase Website Conversions with AddThis Marketing Tools

Justin Thorp — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:30:04 -0000

You can absolutely do that with AddThis!

Re: Don’t Bury the Lead When You Write! [Content Strategy]

Justin Thorp — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:23:52 -0000

The goal of the article was to educate my users to this problem. While i'd love to string people along and get them to read longer by burying the nugget down further, I'm realistic and realize that I'm not John Grisham or House of Cards and that in a world with unlimited options that they'll just bounce to the next thing.

Re: Stop Making Your Website Look like the Vegas Strip. Start Personalizing.

Justin Thorp — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:53:00 -0000

Feel free to email me directly - thorp@addthis.com

Re: Stop Making Your Website Look like the Vegas Strip. Start Personalizing.

Justin Thorp — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:44:29 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. We appreciate it and will be adding more instructional guides.

Re: Stop Making Your Website Look like the Vegas Strip. Start Personalizing.

Justin Thorp — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:22:12 -0000

Hey there, sooooo glad you dug the articles! Check out the bottom half of this article. See the section "How to Personalize Content Discovery." https://medium.com/the-addt...

And we appreciate the feedback. We'll be adding more tactical articles.

Re: Introducing the Overlay and MailChimp Integration

Justin Thorp — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:08:58 -0000

Karyeh, can you drop an email to help@addthis.com and they would love to help you figure out what's going on? Thanks!

Re: 2015 is the Year of Online Personalization

Justin Thorp — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:13:40 -0000

Well maybe "not important" isn't the right word. Let's say "not contextually relevant." Saying that, I don't think what you're saying and what we're saying are mutually exclusive. You can still challenge someone with something new but in order for it to be well received it has to be connected in someway to that person's situation or current context in order for it to be properly received.

I have a lot of friends that have been telling me about how electronic music is so amazing. I was always so fascinated by how into it they were. They'd suggest I'd try this swedish trance club dance whatever music. It gave me a headache. It was too far of a jump from what I knew and liked already.

Well, I recently stumbled upon artists like Calvin Harris or Tiesto. They're more electronic pop. It's similar to what i know but different. It's helped act as a gateway to more so fully appreciating the genre of electronic music. You can introduce something new to me but if you want me to be receptive to it you have to tailor it to what my current interests are.

Another example or situation... sometimes personalization can help you not see content that's just not appropriate. If I'm a university, my website has content that's for prospective students, students, faculty/staff, alumni, and sports fans. If I'm a current student, i don't care about campus tours. I know the campus. I don't care about when staff will be receiving their W2's. Those are relevant to other audiences but just noise to me if I'm a student that's standing in the way of me getting what I want. There's no benefit to pushing that on me in the "one-sized fits all" approach that websites use now.

Re: 2015 is the Year of Online Personalization

Justin Thorp — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:15:16 -0000

Well, as a consumer, you're always in control. If you feel uncomfortable, you can do things like opt out of targeted advertising, clear your cookies, or surf the web in incognito mode in your browser. Our belief though is that a personalized Web is a better Web. It'll show you the things you care about vs stuff that's not important to you.

As a publisher, you can choose to not use the tools but I think the ability to leverage the platform will give you a strategic advantage to more effectively further engage your customers.

Re: Don’t Bury the Lead When You Write! [Content Strategy]

Justin Thorp — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:42:53 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Countdown Giveaway: Win a $50 Gift Card to Apple’s App Store!

Justin Thorp — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:31:27 -0000

My tweet - https://twitter.com/thorpus...

Re: Sharing Trends in 2012 – Pinterest Sharing Explodes 379,559%

Justin Thorp — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:21:06 -0000

I remember when we did our first infographic. I was pitching it to reporters & bloggers from a Borders in St. Louis while Lauren was going wedding dress shopping with her mom & grandma. :)

Re: Writing The NEXT Chapter

Justin Thorp — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:35:03 -0000

Congrats Ken!

Re: Living outside of America

Justin Thorp — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:46:42 -0000

Hey man! Hope you're well. Miss not seeing ya at conferences every year. FOWA attendees & speakers became a bit of it's own tribe.

And... Great post. Curious... what aspects of Christianity crumbled for you under the scrutiny? I was raised in a Christian home like yourself but have stayed strong. My faith has played an integral role in my life.

Would be curious to hear where things broke down for ya.

Re: Clearspring NYC Office

Justin Thorp — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:33:36 -0000

Epic

Re: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/11070378101

Justin Thorp — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:54:38 -0000

Right on brotha!

Re: Photo of Ramsey McGrory

Justin Thorp — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:09:11 -0000

Looks good brother!

Re: If You've Never Heard of Pinterest, You're a Big Dork

Justin Thorp — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:14:40 -0000

My wife got into this startup EARLY and she's addicted to it. She used it to plan our wedding. It's really neat. I've been using it to organize books I wanna read and recipes I wanna try. One thing they've done well is get the viral loop down well. People can easily share and then re-share. They can drive a TON of traffic to content really quickly. I bet there'll be Pin It buttons on a lot of sites soon.

Re: Bump Shares What Its 10 Million Users Share (Infographic)

Justin Thorp — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:16:42 -0000

One of those marriages is mine. :)

Re: The New AddThis

Justin Thorp — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:31:44 -0000

Jeff, this is awesome! Great work!!!!!

Re: Google's +1 Button Now Works As Intended on Plus

Justin Thorp — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:24:49 -0000

Hmmm... yeah I still can't get it yet. It doesn't give me the option to comment and post to Google+ yet.

Re: Trailblazer Gary Vaynerchuk Retires From Daily Wine Videos

Justin Thorp — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:39:20 -0000

Sooooo bummed for no more Gary Vee in videos everyday. But thanks to Gary for all that he's done. He has changed not just the wine world but the whole world.

Re: Week 5 Progress Report

Justin Thorp — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:18:21 -0000

Excited for you bro.

Re: Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API

Justin Thorp — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:40:14 -0000

Great service with lots of great people. Excited to watch them succeed.

Re: Google Emails All U.S. Gmail Users About The Buzz Settlement — And To Say They’re Not Getting A Dime

Justin Thorp — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:40:35 -0000

The e-mail definitely caused a lot of confusion. All of my non-tech friends were like WTF.