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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Improvely: Detect, Block and Deter Click Fraud
Click fraud continues to be prevalent in the pay-per-click industry. Estimates from Click Forensics and Anchor Intelligence say 17-29% of clicks on paid ads are fraudulent. These clicks from scammers and competitors are costing you money while producing no sales,…
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How Small Businesses Are Using And Benefitting From Social Media
Our small business prospects and clients often ask us about our expertise and use of social media to drive business results. I am a firm believer that businesses should have a strong social media presence, but I’d argue that it’s…
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Snappy: An Enterprise Gifting Platform To Reward Your Customers or Employees
Meeting the expectations of your customers is the baseline in a B2C or B2B relationship. If I were to quantify meeting expectations, I’d provide a letter grade of a C+. Creating a memorable or delightful experience requires a different approach.…
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App: Cost Per Action Calculator
Cost Per Action Calculator Campaign Results Direct Campaign Expenses * $ Expenses specifically for campaign. Total Actions * Number of actions (sale, lead, download, conversions) generated by the campaign. Traditional CPA $ This is the traditional Cost Per Action (Campaign…
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CallRail: Attribute Your Inbound Calls To The Campaigns That Drive Them
If you’re utilizing the same phone number throughout your site, advertising campaigns, and marketing material, it’s impossible to know what effort was attributed to that phone call. Understanding what makes your phones ring (and texts ping) helps businesses focus their…
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Mac OSX: How To Customize your Terminal Window With Profiles
One of the things I enjoy about OSX is the flexibility of the look and feel of the operating system. If you do any development on OSX, I’m sure you’ve opened Terminal to do some work. The default, small, black…
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How to Generate Sales Leads and Boost Growth with Your Next Public Relations Campaign
Every business needs sales leads to survive and many of them turn to public relations as a way to help fill the sales pipeline. However, for many sales teams, there is often a great deal of misunderstanding about how PR…
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Why AI Is Never Going to Replace Subject Matter Experts and How to Choose the Right SMEs
If you haven’t heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool, you might be living under a rock. Here’s a little explainer: GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, and it’s a kind of language model that generates a prediction based on previous text,…
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3 Strategies to Avoid Getting Sucked Into the Next New Tech Trend
When a new technology arises, brands are quick to jump on the bandwagon without fully understanding how they might see or measure results. A few years ago, it was AI and chatbots. Today, it’s NFTs, cryptocurrency, and the metaverse. Numerous brands…
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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…
