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Martech Zone provides daily articles for business, sales, and marketing professionals to research technology, discover new sales and marketing tools, and learn how to leverage platforms to drive greater business results.
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Reply: Automate Your Sales Engagement With LinkedIn Email Search and Outreach
No one would argue that LinkedIn is the most complete business-based social networking platform. I haven’t looked at an attached resume for a candidate nor updated my resume in a decade since using LinkedIn. LinkedIn allows me to see everything a resume does, and I can also research the candidate’s network and see who they worked with and for –…
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Artificial Intelligence
Landbot: A Guide to Conversational Design For Your Chatbot
Chatbots continue to get increasingly sophisticated and provide a much more seamless experience for site visitors than they did a year ago. Conversational design is at the heart of every successful chatbot deployment… and every failure. Chatbots are being deployed for automating lead capture and qualification, customer support and frequently asked questions (FAQs), onboarding automation, product recommendations, human resource management…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: If You Don’t Know What a Child Theme is…
You’re modifying WordPress themes incorrectly. We’ve worked with dozens of clients and built hundreds of WordPress sites. It’s not that our job is to create WordPress sites, but we wind up doing it for many clients. Clients don’t come to use WordPress sites very often. They typically come to us to help optimize their sites for search, social, and conversions.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How Has Marketing To Teenagers Changed In A Generation?
As a single father who raised two teenagers, I’m under no illusion about the influence that a child can have on the purchase decisions of parents. While money was often tight, I always seemed to find funds for the next purchase – albeit a constructive hobby, some latest fashion, or the next smartphone. My children didn’t abuse this… but there…
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Content Marketing
Do Browser Notifications Work?
If you’ve been a long-time reader, you know this site isn’t just a publication; it’s also my test playground. I love to try different methods and solutions to see what works and if I can realize a return on investment (ROI) on the platforms or integrations I implement. One service that I thought showed a lot of promise was integrating…
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Content Marketing
Mastering the 10 R’s To Maximize Your Corporate Blogging Strategy
Companies blog for several strategic reasons, which can play a pivotal role in their broader sales and marketing efforts: To Drive Traffic: Blogging increases a company’s visibility on search engines. Regularly updated content indexed by search engines drives new visitors to the company’s website, which can be converted into leads. To Establish Authority: By publishing informative and expert content, a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
TinyLetter: A Free, No Frills Email Newsletter Service
Log into any major email service provider (ESP) nowadays, and if you’re not technically savvy, you’ll probably pass out at the menus, features, functionality, jargon, and reporting. Sometimes, the magic of technology is when someone smart rethinks the process and boils down the application to only the necessities. TinyLetter is a refreshingly simple platform for newsletters, drawing in a diverse…
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Content Marketing
How To Plan, Write, Edit, and Publish A Successful Tutorial Video
A successful tutorial video involves engaging content, clear instructions, and high-quality production. Here’s an article that outlines the standard ingredients and script sections for creating a compelling tutorial video. Tutorial videos stand out as a go-to resource for knowledge seekers. With the rise in online education and DIY culture, creating a compelling tutorial video can be a lucrative skill. A…
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Content Marketing
How To Increase Search Ranking By Finding, Monitoring, and Redirecting 404 Errors In WordPress
We’re currently helping an enterprise client implement a new WordPress site. They’re a multi-location, multi-language business and have had some poor results in organic and local search over recent years. When we were planning their new site, we identified a few issues: Archives – they had several sites in the last decade with a demonstrable difference in their site’s URL…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Update Admin Menu Links with jQuery to Sort Results Automatically (with Rank Math Example)
One of the WordPress plugins that I install on every one of my sites or my clients’ sites is Rank Math. When launching a site, one critical step is monitoring and correcting any visits to pages not found (404 errors). The plugin’s 404 monitor is a fantastic tool that needs to be enabled in the plugin settings. If your SEO…
