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Martech Zone provides daily articles for business, sales, and marketing professionals to research technology, discover new sales and marketing tools, and learn how to leverage platforms to drive greater business results.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
25 Proven Strategies To Increase Relevant Traffic To Your Site, Blog, Store, or Landing Page
Increase traffic… it’s a term that I hear over and over and over again. It’s not that I don’t believe in increasing traffic; it’s that often marketers are trying so hard to increase traffic that they forget to try to increase retention or conversions with the traffic they already have. Relevance is critical for every visitor to realize that their…
- Content Marketing
Grammarly: The Best Spelling and Grammar Checker for Blogs, Articles, Emails, Mobile, and Social Media
If you’ve been a reader of Martech Zone for a while, you know I could use a lot of help in the editorial department. It’s not that I don’t care about spelling and grammar; I do. The problem is more of a chronic one. I’ve been writing and publishing our articles on the fly for years. They don’t go through…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Four Strategies For Finding Influencer Monetization Opportunities in 2023
Influencer marketing continues to be incredibly popular among brands. From 2016-2020, the market grew from $1.7 billion to $9.7 billion, and it is expected to see explosive growth to at least $16.4 billion by the end of 2022. Influencer Marketing Benchmark Report 2023 In addition to this steady and impressive market growth, the number of influencer marketing service providers is…
- Customer Data Platforms
Omnichannel Marketing: A Tale of Two Perspectives
Omnichannel marketing has two different perspectives: the brand and the consumer. For a consumer, it refers to all the diverse ways you can interact with a brand and desire the same experience in all of them. For brands, it’s about understanding the journeys, capturing the right information, and ensuring that the channels that perform best are getting the most attention.…
- E-commerce and Retail
Amazon Tech Can Help Your Wellness Brand Grow
In a saturated, competitive marketplace like Amazon, it is imperative that wellness brands stand out in order to succeed. Whether they are a start-up, in their growth stage, or reaching maturity, all brands are looking for ways to grow their customer base on Amazon no matter what stage they are at in their business journey. It is a highly competitive…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
PostReminder: Transforming How Brands Connect With Customers When Timing Matters
We know how busy people are – especially when they’re walking in the door and looking through their mail. Even if people are interested in a piece of direct mail, they usually set it aside and intend to get back to it at some point. But before they know it, too much time has gone by. The offer expired or the event ended, and…
- Analytics & Testing
Product Consumption Intelligence is the Future of Behavioral Insights
Capturing the attention of today’s consumers requires knowing exactly what they want. And the creation of the new pink doesn’t happen without getting an audience pulse-check to ensure it’s effective out in the wild. Although how brands measure data has significantly changed in recent history, there has always been one missing piece to the insights puzzle—real-time, post-purchase consumption metrics. Strolling…
