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Content Marketing
How To Apply Monroe’s Motivated Sequence In Your Sales Content
My son was taking a speech class at IUPUI and shared with me a technique taught for persuasive speeches, Monroe’s motivated sequence. I’m sure it’s one of those lessons I took but eventually forgot since I’ve not been in class for a very, very long time. Alan H. Monroe was an American psychologist, author, and expert in communication strategies. He is…
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Analytics & Testing
Enterprise Social Media Marketing Platform Features
If you’re a large organization, there are typically six critical aspects of enterprise software that you always need: Account Hierarchies – perhaps the most requested feature of any enterprise platform is the ability to build account hierarchies within the solution. So, a parent company can publish on behalf of a brand or franchise beneath them, access their data, assist in…
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Analytics & Testing
Semrush: Research, Plan, Write, and Analyze Your Content For Improved Search Engine Visibility
There’s not a single client that we work on that we’re not continuously working to optimize their content marketing as part of their overall digital marketing strategy. At its core, content provides the breadcrumbs that lead the prospect to do business with you. While engaging content requires a ton of creativity to differentiate itself, it also should be based on…
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Content Marketing
String Locator: How To Locate Code In A WordPress Theme or Plugin
The theme Martech Zone is using is no longer supported and the developers have disappeared, so I’ve been managing development myself. It’s been quite a challenge but the theme was pretty well-developed so I’ve been able to make a ton of customizations as well as retire some of the features that I’d never be using. Most recently, my host offered…
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Content Marketing
Strikingly: Build A Personal Website, Small Business Site, or Online Store in Minutes
There are many people in the digital marketing industry that promote content management or e-commerce platforms simply because they have experience in deploying them. I’m definitely not knocking those agencies, designers, or consultants for executing what they do well and with the tools, they have experience with. However, I do wish more folks with expertise in developing a digital presence…
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Content Marketing
Formidable: Build Forms, Calculators, Surveys, Payment Forms, Event Registrations, And More For WordPress
At Martech Zone and with our agency, we’ve deployed a WordPress Form Plugin that’s easy to use and has extensive integration capabilities. While we’ve used the plugin for over a decade, we’ve noticed that it is quite bloated with script and styling… to the point that it’s adversely impacting our site’s performance. Four stylesheets and two javascript files are loaded…
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Customer Data Platforms
Snov.io: A Complete Platform For Email Prospecting And Cold Outreach
There’s not a day that goes by that I do not receive an email about a product, service, or other company interested in somehow doing business with mine. It’s a strategy that clearly works – or else companies wouldn’t invest heavily in prospect data, tracking systems, and sales teams to reach out to prospective customers. While it may be classified…
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Customer Data Platforms
LinkedCamp: Leverage B2B Sales Automation To Prospect On LinkedIn
If you haven’t followed Martech Zone on LinkedIn, I will encourage you to. We’ve expanded to sharing our posts on our LinkedIn company page so that people can follow and discuss them in a professional environment. LinkedIn continues to dominate as the primary network and connection tool I utilize daily to connect with customers, prospects, employees, job candidates, and partners.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Digital Transformation: Old Marketer vs. New Marketer
As I researched the Alterian site, I found this excellent diagram on their customer engagement page. The diagram effectively portrays how marketing has changed. It truly makes it clear as to whether or not your marketing has evolved. The strategies and tools marketers employ have dramatically transformed over the years. Technological advancements and data analytics have driven the shift from…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
How To Monetize Your TikTok Videos And Account
In the early days, there was no monetization of TikTok. Now, TikTok creators can make anywhere from a few hundred to half a million dollars through brand partnerships, influencer collaborations, influencer marketing, sponsored posts, and growing and selling TikTok accounts. TikTok reported 1 billion monthly active users worldwide. This represents a 45 percent growth over its July 2020 number of…
