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Content Marketing
What Publication Editors Want From Guest Contributors in 2023
Consumers expect to be engaged and educated with steady streams of fresh content. In response to this need, publication editors are ensuring they serve up fresh content regularly. But just what are their collective content goals for this year? That’s what our exclusive report, The State of Contributed Content 2023, sought to answer. For this survey, we focused our efforts…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Three Reasons To Think About SEO In Terms of Topics, Not Keywords
In search engine optimization (SEO), it’s common knowledge that keywords are essential. However, topics can often be even more critical in driving traffic and achieving SEO goals. To understand this better, we must first define both keywords and topics. Keywords are the words that people use when searching for something online. They can be exact matches, broad matches, or phrases that match, and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Top Social Media Trends for 2023
The growth of social media sales and marketing within organizations has been on an upward trajectory over the past few years and is expected to continue growing. As social media platforms evolve and user behavior shifts, businesses are recognizing the value of incorporating social media into their sales and marketing strategies. There are 4.76 billion social media users in the…
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Artificial Intelligence
Alli AI: AI-driven SEO is More Effective and Less Expensive than Traditional SEO
Back in 2012, I had written that SEO was dead. I fully admit that I was posting it as linkbait to get people to read the article. At that time, I was pushing hard for SEO consultants to stop wasting all of their time backlinking and scheming and… instead… focus on the quality of the content and optimizing conversion rates.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is MarTech? Marketing Stacks, Marketing Technology Landscape, And Martech Resources
You may get a chuckle out of me writing an article on MarTech after publishing over 6,000 articles on marketing technology for over 16 years (beyond this blog’s age… I was on blogger previously). I do believe it’s worth publishing and helping business professionals better realize what MarTech was, is, and the future of what it will be. First, of…
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Email Marketing & Automation
HighLevel: The Ultimate All-In-One Platform for Marketing, Sales, and CRM (Available for White-Labeling by Agencies)
HighLevel is a cloud-based platform that offers a variety of marketing, sales, and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. The platform is designed to help businesses centralize their sales and marketing workflows, manage and scale their operations efficiently, and improve their overall business performance. Some of the benefits of using HighLevel include: Simplified Lead Management: Easily capture leads from multiple sources…
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Artificial Intelligence
Recollective: Uncover Actionable, Qualitative Insights Through AI-Powered Communities
Understanding customer behavior has never been more critical or more difficult. Traditional market research methods can be slow, expensive, and disconnected from the real-time feedback loop brands and agencies now require. Researchers and marketers need more innovative ways to gather meaningful insights from their audience without compromising speed, scale, or depth. Recollective Recollective is a Guided Discovery Platform that transforms…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Are Nofollow, Dofollow, UGC, Or Sponsored Links? Why Do Backlinks Matter for Search Rankings?
Every day my inbox is inundated with spamming SEO companies begging to place links in my content. It’s an endless stream of requests, and it irritates me. Here’s how the email usually goes… Dear Martech Zone, I noticed that you wrote this amazing article on [keyword]. We wrote a detailed article on this as well. I think it would make…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Excel: Formulas for Scheduling Social Media Updates by Day of the Week And Random Times
One of the clients that we work with has a fairly consistent seasonality to their business. Because of this, we like to schedule social media updates far ahead of time. Most social media publishing platforms offer a bulk upload capability to schedule out your social media calendar. Since Agorapulse is a partner of Martech Zone, I’ll walk you through their…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Agorapulse Academy: Get Certified in Social Media For Free!
For over a decade, I’ve been a power user and ambassador for Agorapulse. You can click through to the full article, but I’ll just reiterate that it’s the easiest social media management platform on the market. Agorapulse is integrated with Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Pages, Instagram, and even YouTube. The company is amazing, too, providing a constant flow of tips, strategies,…
