Martech Zone
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.
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Sales Technology: Past, Present, and Future
While the overarching focus of the content on Martech Zone is MarTech-related, sales technology is often overlooked. However, having a robust MarTech stack without sales technology leaves a huge opportunity gap within an organization. It’s why we are constantly introducing and discussing sales as part of the overall strategy when it comes to an organization’s digital transformation. It’s important to…
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VaultPress: Offsite WordPress Backups & Restores, Malware Scanning & Removal, and Spam Blocking
Some of our clients choose to host their WordPress instances in the cloud on their own hosting platform. DK New Media had been recently hired to help a company whose site had been hacked and malware injected throughout their core WordPress files. The site was subsequently delisted by search engines and the owner was notified via a Google Search Console…
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12 Factors that Impact Your International Email Strategy
We’ve assisted clients with internationalization (I18N); it’s not fun. The nuances of encoding, translation, and localization make it a complex process. If internationalization is done wrong, it can be incredibly embarrassing… not to mention ineffective. But 70% of the world’s 2.3 billion online users aren’t native English speakers. Every $1 spent on localization has been found to have an ROI…
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Bitskout: Build AI-Driven Automations To Read and Record Messages, Documents, Emails, and More
Decades ago, I worked as an analyst at a newspaper where we used to have old terminals that generated reports (via dot matrix printers) that had thousands of records that required entry in another system. Because the reports were generated, the pages were structured so that we could templatize and automate the reading of the reports and the insertion of…
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VideoPeel: Request, Capture, and Share Your Customer Video Testimonials Easily
A critical stage in every buyer’s journey is researching the business, the product, or the services offered to validate the business. Trust may be even more critical than other factors like price and refund policies when a business or consumer is deciding whether or not to make a purchase, so customer testimonials are critical in helping ease the buyer through…
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What Are The Six Stages Of The Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Sales Funnel?
Terminus has produced this detailed infographic that defines the stages of the ABM sales funnel as well as what to measure in order to optimize each stage’s success. If you’re new to ABM, we’ve written about what Account-Based Marketing is and why it has so many advantages over traditional marketing strategies… but this gets into the finer details of segmenting…
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5 Tools That Will Improve Your Results from Blogging
A blog can be a great source of traffic to your website, but creating blog posts is time-consuming, and we don’t always get the results we want. When you blog, you want to ensure you get maximum value from it. In this article, we’ve outlined 5 tools that will help improve your results from blogging, leading to more traffic and,…
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Pabbly Plus: Form Creation, Email Marketing, Payments, And Workflow Automation In One Bundle
With so many companies forced to reduce marketing headcount and looking for ways to automate data processes as well as reduce technology expenses, bundles like Pabbly are worth evaluating. While there are many workflow and automation platforms out there, I’m not sure of any platform that includes a form builder, payment processing for subscriptions, an affiliate program, and email verification.…
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GrowSurf: Effortlessly Launch A Fully Automated Referral Marketing Program
No matter how much sales, marketing, and advertising we do, our primary lead generation source continues to be our own customers. Sometimes it’s a peer that’s moved on to a new company and brings us along, other times it’s a client that introduces us to another business that has similar needs. Either way, these continue to be our highest closing…
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Validity Everest: The Email Success Platform For Managing Reputation, Deliverability, and Increasing Email Marketing Engagement
Congested inboxes and tighter filtering algorithms make it more difficult to attract the attention of your email recipients. Everest is the email deliverability platform developed by Validity that merged their acquisition of 250ok and Return Path into one central platform. The platform is a complete solution for designing, executing, and optimizing email marketing for improved inbox deliverability and engagement. To…
