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Analytics & Testing
Microsoft Clarity: Free Heatmaps and Session Recordings for Website Optimization
As we designed and developed a custom Shopify theme for a fashion customer, we wanted to ensure that we designed an elegant and simple e-commerce site that didn’t confuse or overwhelm their customers. One example of our design testing was a more information block that had additional details about the products. If we published the section in the default region,…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Are You Really Mobile Friendly? Tools And What To Test For Mobile Speed, Mobile SEO, And Mobile User Behavior
While most marketing industry professionals design and publish sites from the comfort of their desktop and a nice large display, the majority of visitors to your website may be arriving (or could be arriving) from mobile devices. Not taking the time to ensure that your websites and landing pages are mobile-friendly can leave a huge gap in your inbound marketing…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Healthy Competition Is Good, but It’s Time to End the Sales and Marketing Feud
Although you might not admit it to HR, sometimes a tiny bit of rivalry crops up between sales and marketing. These two teams share close quarters, but at times, they seem to come from different planets, speaking different languages and with different goals and expectations. It can be challenging to uncover this rivalry, even more so to acknowledge and admit…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Seobility: Analyze Your Web Page’s Search Engine Optimization With This Simple SEO Checker
As someone who works to assist our clients with their search engine optimization (SEO) as well as runs a marketing technology publication, you can only imagine how many organic search engine platforms that I’ve experimented with and purchased subscriptions for over the years. In all honesty, I’m growing quite frustrated with the bells and whistles that every SEO platform continues…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Optimize a Landing Page for SEO
A landing page is a destination page on your website where you want to convert visitors. While other pages may provide information and detail about products and services, a landing page should be designed as a destination. It’s the last page before a visitor calls, sets an appointment, adds a product to a cart, or fills out an information form.…
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Content Marketing
The Ultimate Guide to Building a B2B Content Marketing Strategy
The business world has undergone a massive transformation in recent years, and B2B content marketing has become an essential tool for companies looking to stand out in the crowded digital marketplace. B2B content marketing is more critical as companies aim to connect with their target audience and establish themselves as thought leaders. This comprehensive guide to B2B content marketing provides…
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Content Marketing
Exit Intent Popup Code Snippet in JavaScript And jQuery
One of the projects that I’m working on for this site is having a popup div with a CTA that encourages new visitors to subscribe to Martech Zone by email. There’s additional development I’m working on so that I can widgetize this method for WordPress and have the exit intent section be an actual sidebar… but I did want to…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Is Your Business Violating State-Level Do Not Call Regulations with Voice and Text Messages (SMS)?
Seldom a day goes by that I’m not getting a text message or phone call from a business that purchased my data and acquired my phone number. As a marketer, it’s quite infuriating. I didn’t provide my phone number to any organization with the knowledge that my number would be sold and used for prospecting. Do Not Call Legislation The…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
What Are The Top Organic Ranking Factors For Google in 2023?
Google continues to enhance its algorithms for organic search ranking with major updates over the years. Thankfully, the latest algorithm change, the helpful content update, is hyper-focused on ranking content that’s written for and by people rather than content made primarily for search engine traffic. Unfortunately, many businesses aren’t aware of the continued updates and are hiring SEO professionals that…
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Analytics & Testing
6 Steps to Find the Right Acquisition Channels for Scalable Growth
Marketing is essential to building brand awareness, driving sales, and fostering a sense of loyalty within a customer base. Even when leveraging self-serve and product-led growth strategies, you must first make people aware of your product before you can convert the average consumer into a loyal customer. That much hasn’t changed. What has changed, however, is the number of acquisition…
