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Analytics & Testing
Clearbit’s Weekly Visitor Report: Know Who’s Visiting Your Website, Convert The Ones That Matter
Having a detailed, qualitative understanding of your website traffic is essential to building effective, data-driven B2B marketing campaigns. Knowing who your visitors are, where they are on the campaign journey, and how likely they are to buy makes it possible to provide more personalized experiences — and ultimately increase conversions. Potential customers won’t always raise their hands when they visit…
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Advertising Technology
Placeit: Build Your Product Mockup With The Largest Photo and Video Library Online For Digital Mockups
Not every marketing department can afford a photoshoot of users holding a mobile phone with their app or at a desk navigating their SaaS platform. The answer, of course, is to download a mockup and then superimpose a screenshot from your mobile or desktop app on top of it. If you’re not a seasoned Photoshop designer, mocking up a beautiful…
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Artificial Intelligence
Netra: AI-Powered Video Content Intelligence and Comprehension APIs
Netra is an AI-powered content classification company that is on a mission to revolutionize the way we perceive and interact with visual content. It harnesses the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to illuminate the world’s content. The Challenge of Visual Content The internet has evolved to host an ever-increasing amount of visual content. It’s estimated that by 2022,…
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Analytics & Testing
BuzzSumo: Research Content Engagement and Performance by Topic, Domain, And Influencer
If you’re a long-time reader of Martech Zone, you know that I’m a huge advocate of building a high-quality content library of articles. The tired and old strategy of mass producing tons of average content isn’t worth the investment. I believe frequent and plentiful average content publishing will hurt your site’s overall performance. As a consultant, I see it every…
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Advertising Technology
AdButler: Manage Your Site’s Advertising Packages and Ad Serving Within WordPress
If you’ve got a WordPress site and want to manage ad offering, packages, payments, and ad serving, AdButler may be the best option on the market. The WordPress integration via widgets makes building and deploying ad zones a piece of cake, and the AdButler system is highly customizable, flexible, scalable, and even offers whitelabeling. AdButler Platform Features Include: Scalability –…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Protect Your Business from the Growing Threat of Invoice Fraud in the Martech Era
The average enterprise uses well over 100 tools across its stack—each one potentially requiring a license, subscription, or recurring service contract. Combine this sprawling martech ecosystem with decentralized teams, automated accounting systems, and often fragmented procurement workflows, and you have the perfect breeding ground for a growing threat: fraudulent invoicing scams. These scams are no longer limited to crude phishing…
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Content Marketing
YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Google Workspace and Two-Factor Authentication
I’m a huge proponent of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on every platform that I’m running. As a marketer that works with clients and client data, I simply can’t be too careful about security so the combination of different passwords for every site, using Apple Keychain as a password repository, and enabling 2FA on every service is a must. If you’re running…
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Content Marketing
YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Microsoft 365, Live, Outlook, or Hotmail
If you’re running WordPress as your content management system, the system is typically configured to push email messages (like system messages, password reminders, etc.) through your host. However, this isn’t an advisable solution for a couple of reasons: Some hosts actually block the ability to send outbound emails from the server so that they’re not a target for hackers to…
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Customer Data Platforms
How To Merge Purge Large Databases
An average enterprise uses 464 custom applications to digitize its business processes. But when it comes to generating useful insights, the data residing at disparate sources must be combined and merged together. Depending on the number of sources involved and the structure of data stored in these databases, this can be quite a complex task. For this reason, it is…
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Content Marketing
Five Questions You Need To Answer When Optimizing Your Content Marketing Strategies
Off and on I notice that some social media pundits tell companies it doesn’t matter where they participate in social media, only that they actually do. Others argue the development of a social media strategy before ever starting. There are five questions you need to ask yourself when creating content on the web: Where should the content be placed? –…
