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Event Marketing
Tech-Enhanced Event Marketing: Strategies for Success
Marketers can’t afford to fall behind on the latest experiential marketing trends — if anything, they should be setting them. In recent years, technological innovations like wearables and touch-screen devices have redefined how we plan, execute, and experience events. Additionally, tech tools like QR codes and near-field communication (NFC) technology have ushered in a new era of guest engagement and…
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Analytics & Testing
How To Track Subdomains In Google Analytics 4 Accounts
By default, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) tracks all subdomains of a domain in your account, even without cross-domain tracking enabled. That’s useful if you want to aggregate all of your company’s activities throughout your subdomains in a single Google Analytics account. Martech Zone, for example, publishes translated versions of our site utilizing subdomains for each language published. Within Google Analytics…
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Advertising Technology
Google Ads: Maximize Your PPC ROI With These 12 Google AdWords Bidding Strategies
When reaching your target audience and growing your business in a competitive digital landscape, Google AdWords is a powerful tool to achieve it. But there’s much more to Google AdWords than creating ads, engagement rate, and conversion ratio. Google Ads provides a variety of bid methods customised to various types of campaigns. You want to ensure that you’re targeting the…
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Artificial Intelligence
AskYourPDF: Elevate Your Document Interaction with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In a world where information is at our fingertips, how we engage with documents is changing. With the advent of AskYourPDF, your reading experience is no longer a passive one – it’s a dynamic conversation. Let’s dive into how this innovative tool can transform how you interact with your documents. A New Era of Document Interaction AskYourPDF brings your documents…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
What Does It Require To Achieve A Positive ROI on a Mobile App?
Developing, marketing, and ensuring the success of a mobile application is a multifaceted endeavor that presents unique challenges. Let’s explore what sets mobile app development apart and how companies can maximize their Return on Investment (ROI) on these applications. Unique Challenges of Mobile App Development Mobile app development presents a unique set of challenges, distinguishing it from other software projects.…
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Content Marketing
MarketSnare: The All-in-One Platform for Multi-Location Growth
For multi-location brands, marketing consistency, control, and performance often collapse under the weight of scale. Whether you manage dozens or thousands of locations, replicating successful strategies locally can feel impossible. Add in compliance requirements, outdated content, or disconnected tools—and your entire brand presence can quickly fall apart at the local level. MarketSnare MarketSnare was built to solve this exact challenge.…
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Public Relations
Generate More Links: How to Improve Your PR Strategy
With a new year approaching, you likely have a new PR plan full of targets and goals. But is that plan full of the same old tactics, or are you trying to shift your media relations to embrace the new? The continued rise of content marketing, brand journalism, and storytelling alongside new platforms means this year will change the PR…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Why It’s Time to Retire the Term “Affiliate Marketing”
The marketing industry is transforming. So much so that most marketers say the business has adapted to more change over the last few years than in the last five decades. Much of the change is driven by new technologies and a proliferation of data. Affiliate marketing, in particular, is undergoing such fundamental changes that it’s high time we retire the…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add a Featured Image Column To Your Posts List In Your Theme Using functions.php
A WordPress plugin involves additional overhead, requiring WordPress to load and manage the plugin. This includes reading the plugin directory, checking for updates, and maintaining plugin metadata. Whenever I’m working on optimizing Martech Zone or a client’s WordPress installation, I always analyze the plugins utilized, quality of the code, impact on the site, and how much functionality there is in…
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Marketing Tools
MacOS: Need to Verify DNS Locally Using Hosts on OSX?
One of my clients relocated their website to a bulk hosting account. They updated their domain’s DNS settings for the A and CNAME records but were having difficulty determining whether the site was resolving with the new hosting account (new IP Address). When troubleshooting DNS, keep in mind a few things: Understand how DNS works, understand how your domain registrar…
