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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Gated Content: Your Gateway to Good B2B Leads!
Gated content refers to the practice of requiring users to provide their contact information or complete a specific action (e.g., filling out a form) in exchange for access to valuable content, such as ebooks, whitepapers, webinars, or case studies. This is a popular tactic in B2B lead generation as it helps businesses gather potential customers’ information for future nurturing and…
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Advertising Technology
What Is An Ad Server? How Does Ad Serving Work?
An ad server is a technology platform that stores, manages, and delivers online advertisements to websites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms. It plays a crucial role in the ad ecosystem by facilitating the process of displaying ads to the right audience at the right time, based on various targeting criteria and campaign settings. Ad servers also provide tracking and…
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Artificial Intelligence
Everything You Need To Know About AI-Driven Auto-Tagging In 2023
Tagging is the process of assigning labels or keywords to items, such as images, articles, or videos, to categorize, organize, and retrieve them more efficiently. It is widely used in various fields, including social media, websites, and content management systems, to improve searchability and navigation. On Martech Zone, for example, tagging provides superior internal search results, improves the relevance of…
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Advertising Technology
How To Get The Most From META’s Special Ad Category
With social media platforms constantly adapting to privacy laws and regulations, keeping up with the latest changes and ensuring compliance can be a challenge for advertisers. One such platform, META, has faced its share of legal controversies but still offers some level of advertising through a special ad category. This article will discuss the limitations and benefits of using this…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Create a Culture of Recognition for Freelancers: Best Practices for Agency Owners
As an agency owner, you may find yourself recruiting new employees, if not today, soon when the potential employee asks more questions than ever before. What is it like to work here? What do your employees think of you as an employer? Do your employees feel appreciated? Is remote work available? These questions require employers to consider workplace culture an…
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Customer Data Platforms
Riddle: The Ultimate Quiz Maker for Marketers to Collect First-Party Data
In today’s competitive digital landscape, marketers are constantly searching for effective strategies to cut through the noise and engage their audience. Riddle, an online quiz-maker platform, has emerged as a popular solution for marketers to create engaging quizzes with integrated lead-generation features. One significant differentiator for Riddle.com is its use of first-party cookies (1P), ensuring accurate data collection while respecting…
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Content Marketing
Property Management Marketing: How Entrata Boosts Business Growth and Enhances Customer Experience
Americans are increasingly choosing rental housing as the number of married couples with children decreases dramatically and millennials choose to be renters for mobility, comfort, and financial reasons. With the uptick in millennials saturating the rental market, it’s no surprise that recent studies have found that 74 percent of prospective apartment renters are taking to the internet using their mobile…
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Advertising Technology
Why Affiliate Marketing Is The Most Failsafe Marketing Channel in the Current Economy
In volatile economic times, businesses worldwide are faced with tightening budgets— including within the marketing function. CMOs globally are grappling with strategic decisions around which channels to prioritize. Affiliate marketing in general has increasingly gained recognition as a sound investment, allowing businesses to work with partners on a cost-per-acquisition (CPA) basis rather than sinking huge upfront fees into other channels,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Small Businesses Can Go Viral Without a Social Media Team, Law By Mike Explains
Regardless of the industry, most companies understand that viral content provides a unique path to gaining new customers and making more money. The great secret, however, is figuring out how a business or solopreneur can create viral content — especially if they don’t have a dedicated social media team. When I first set out to draw attention to my law…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Properly Build A Survey With Any Email Platform
Building a webpage with a form is ideal if you’re trying to capture information like a survey. However, getting an email subscriber to click through to a form isn’t advisable. The best approach is to have your subscribers respond to the survey directly by interacting with the email. Unfortunately, email clients don’t support modern HTML standards, and several email clients…
