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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.
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E-commerce and Retail
Fastr Publicator: Unleash Interactive Digital Publications and Revolutionize Your PDF Catalogs
Staying ahead of the competition requires innovation and adaptability. One key aspect of this adaptation is how businesses present their products and services to customers. Traditional print materials are becoming obsolete, and the need for dynamic, interactive digital publications is more critical than ever. Enter Fastr Publicator, the premiere catalog solution that transforms static PDFs into engaging, shoppable, and fully…
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Analytics & Testing
Checklist: A Comprehensive List Of 40+ Steps To Successfully Launch A New Website, Online Store, or Do A Site Refresh
Whether I’m launching a website on a new domain or relaunching a client website, there are a number of steps that I take to ensure that the site is properly launched and fully accessible to users and search engines. I will mention some examples of plugins or applications in the following article, but this is not a platform-specific article. This…
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Analytics & Testing
Seven Steps to Meet the Customer Experience Imperative and Cultivate Customers for Life
Customers will leave after a single bad experience with your company, which means customer experience (CX) is the difference between red and black in your business ledger. If you can’t differentiate by consistently delivering an amazing and effortless experience, your customers will move on to your competition. Our study, based on a survey of 1,600 global sales and marketing professionals…
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Content Marketing
Virtual Events Don’t Have to Suck: Marketing Departments Can Make Them Dazzle
We all participated in a lot of virtual events during the pandemic — every human interaction became a Zoom or Meets meeting. After two years of staring at screens, it’s hard to get people to tune into another boring virtual event or webinar. So, why are the best marketing teams investing in virtual events and webinars? When well executed, virtual…
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Customer Data Platforms
Data Standardization: Define, Test, and Transform
While organizations shift towards establishing a data culture across the enterprise, many are still struggling to get their data right. Pulling data from disparate sources and getting varying formats and representations of what is supposed to be the same information – causes serious roadblocks in your data journey. Teams experience delays and mistakes while carrying out their routine operations or…
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Customer Data Platforms
Understanding Address Parsing, Standardization, and Delivery Verification APIs
A key offering that many of our clients appreciate is our trackable direct mail. With a dynamic QR code, we can identify every direct mail recipient that uses their smartphone to open a call-to-action… from dialing a phone number or scheduling an appointment. We can even push an event record for the specific recipient to their customer relationship management system……
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Content Marketing
Camtasia: The Easiest Screen Recording and Video Editing Software For Your Business
Whether you’re looking to create interactive software demos, training videos, or tutorials, utilizing desktop software is almost a must. Editing, publishing, and converting video files requires plenty of hardware and memory… so online platforms aren’t typically an option. Some video editing mobile applications are pretty good, but they lack the desktop real estate that your large monitor has to comfortably…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Do Companies Benefit From Internal Social Platforms?
There’s a growing movement to bring the advantages of social networks to corporations. I recently researched this topic during a social networking session with the IABC, and the findings are worth exploring further. Business Cases for Internal Social Platforms Monitor and Drive Corporate Strategies: Internal social networks help ensure that employees, teams, and projects align with the corporate vision. Flatten…
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Email Marketing & Automation
7 Vital Email Marketing Tips For Engaging and Converting Millennials
With over 72.1 million millennials in the United States alone, they’re the largest living generation. And they’re willing to invest in brands that care about building lasting relationships and spend money on the brands they love. In 2020 in the United States, the spending power of millennials was sitting at approximately $2.5 trillion per annum. Who Are Millennials? Millennials are…
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Content Marketing
What Are Single Opt-In, Confirmed Opt-In, And Double Opt-In?
When building an email list, how you collect consent isn’t just a technical detail—it shapes your entire subscriber relationship, affects email deliverability, and determines compliance with privacy regulations. The three primary types of opt-in mechanisms (single, confirmed, and double) each offer a different balance of convenience, quality control, and legal protection. Understanding their differences can help you match the right…
