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Content Marketing
What Is A Content Library? Your Content Marketing Strategy Is Failing Without Building Yours
Years ago, we worked with a company that had several million articles published on their site. The problem was that very few articles were read, even fewer ranked in search engines, and less than one percent had revenue attributed to them. They hired us for search engine optimization (SEO) but it quickly grew into a far more complex engagement where…
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E-commerce and Retail
From Clicks to Bricks: How to Capture Market Share with In-Person and Online Shopping Experiences
When the recent pandemic closed stores and restricted in-store experience, many consumers didn’t stop shopping. Instead, they brought their business online. Online sales eclipsed $815 billion in 2020, an eye-popping $244 billion or 30 percent year-over-year increase. U.S. Census Bureau However, don’t write the obituary for in-store experiences just yet. As pandemic restrictions resolved and people resumed their day-to-day activities, many…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Mastering the Digital Landscape: Three Ways to Enhance Your Online Brand Presence for Today’s Marketing Demands
People are online a lot. More than 30 percent of U.S. adults say they are online almost constantly, a number that continues to climb. Whether we are logging in for work or scrolling through our feeds in the supermarket checkout line, it’s clear that we are digital-first and online-oriented. Pew Research Center We are also navigating an increasingly crowded online…
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Content Marketing
Format: The End-To-End Platform For Creative Professionals to Showcase, Sell, and Manage Their Business
If you’re a photographer, videographer, graphic designer, or other creative professional, the marriage of creativity and business can be quite frustrating. With an expansive array of tasks to manage, from showcasing your work to managing client relations and sales, finding the right tools to balance your artistry with practical business management can be overwhelming. This is where Format steps in,…
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Artificial Intelligence
TextBuilder: Use GPT and AI To Find Ideas, Write, and Publish Your Content At Scale
Consumers and businesses research online to get assistance with problems or to find resources to help them solve their problems. Building a comprehensive content library is the lifeblood of being found as that resource. Bloggers, affiliate marketers, copywriters, ad experts, and startup founders need constant high-quality content to maintain their online presence. However, the demand for content often outweighs the…
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Content Marketing
iThemes Security Pro: The Essential WordPress Security Plugin for Self-Hosted Websites
WordPress is a popular and widely used platform for building websites, but its popularity also makes it a prime target for hackers. A colleague of mine recently told me how a client on his server installed a malicious plugin that infected every WordPress instance on his server. After he spent hours cleaning out the malware, he launched the sites and…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How To Avoid Getting Held Hostage by Marketing and Advertising Agencies
Starting my agency was an eye-opener into how business is done… and it’s often not very pretty. I don’t want this post to be an agency-bashing post since I empathize with many agencies and the difficult decisions they have to make. When I started, I was idealistic that I didn’t want to be that agency – one of those agencies…
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E-commerce and Retail
Octane AI: Launch Quizzes That Drive AI-Driven Personalized Product Recommendations on Shopify
Zero-party (0p) data marketing transforms how e-commerce brands engage with customers. By collecting data directly from consumers, brands can provide personalized experiences and tailor their marketing efforts accordingly. Octane AI, a platform for interactive quizzes and data collection, is leveraging this approach to drive higher engagement and boost conversions for Shopify stores. Understanding Zero-Party Data Marketing Zero-party data marketing involves…
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Analytics & Testing
Keep Track Of Your Campaigns and Build Your UTM Querystring in Google Sheets (Free Copy)
We’ve been assisting a large e-commerce client with migrating to Google Analytics 4 from Universal Analytics and improving their campaign attribution to ensure they have accurate reporting on each of the mediums and channels they’re putting to use, including influencers. The best means of doing this is to ensure every distributed link to their online store has a UTM querystring…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Fight Registration Bot Spam On Your Site With hCaptcha
As with many WordPress sites, Martech Zone is open to anyone registering. I don’t want to shut down open registration, as I’ve welcomed hundreds of contributors and partners to the site. However, having an open registration form on the site has invited thousands (I’m not kidding) of bots to register accounts to publish malware and spam articles. A bot that…
