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The History of Email and Email Design
years ago, on October 29, 1971, Raymond Tomlinson was working on ARPANET (the U.S. Government’s precursor to the publicly available Internet) and invented email. It was a pretty big deal because, up until that point, messages could only be sent…
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WordPress: How To Sort Your Custom Post Type Posts Alphabetically
With the new theme (and child theme) I’ve implemented on Martech Zone, I had to rebuild and recode the custom post type I built for Acronyms. I optimized the code to insert some additional custom fields and I’m having to…
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Play.ht: Enable Audio AI-Powered Playback Of Your Content With Realistic Voices So Visitors Can Listen
One feature that I wanted to implement for some time on Martech Zone was the ability to listen to the content rather than read it. I find that people are often multi-tasking and may have multiple windows open… working on…
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What is Mobile Marketing Automation?
Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA) has emerged as a transformative force for businesses seeking to bridge the gap between marketing and sales, while delivering timely and personalized messaging to their prospects. By enabling marketers to deliver content and offers based on…
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How AI Can Improve Customer-Brand Relationships
As a design strategist and user experience (UX) researcher working in tech, I’m always trying to learn from people to design the most engaging digital experiences. I want to understand how they think, feel, act, and, most importantly, why they…
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App: Google Analytics Campaign UTM Querystring Builder
Utilize this tool to build your Google Analytics Campaign URL. The form validates your URL, includes logic on whether it already has a querystring within it, and adds all of the appropriate UTM variables: utm_id, utm_campaign, utm_source, utm_medium, and optional…
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Cognito Forms: Securely Collect Data, Accept Payments, and Create Workflows to Automate Your Business
Cognito Forms’ platform is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, with drag-and-drop functionality and real-time previews that make it easy to create professional-looking forms. But it’s not just our platform that makes us stand out – it’s the level of…
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URL Shorteners: How They Work And Why Marketers Should Use Them
URL shorteners are web services that transform long Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) into shorter, more manageable versions. They generate a unique, shortened URL that redirects the user to the original, longer URL when clicked or entered into a web browser.…
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Reddiquette Tips To Ensure Your Reddit Marketing Is Effective
Reddit is a social community that’s quite different from other social media. Reddit has its own Reddiquette… its own culture, language, and etiquette that can make marketing and advertising challenging. Many businesses bypass Reddit as an advertising channel because the…
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Learning Pay-Per-Click Advertising: Topics, Resources, and Certifications
A friend of mine hired a pay-per-click (PPC) firm and invested quite a sum of money over several months, only to have almost no conversions and very few sign-ups on his site. As each month went by and his team…
