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Customer Data Platforms
After the Deal: How to Treat Customers with a Customer Success Approach
You’re a salesperson, you do sales. You are sales. And that’s just it, you think your job’s done and you move on to the next one. Some salespeople don’t know when to stop selling and when to start managing the sales they’ve already made. The truth is, post-sale customer relationships are just as important as presale relationships. There are several…
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Analytics & Testing
What is Exit Intent? How Is It Used To Improve Conversion Rates?
As a business, you’ve invested a ton of time, effort, and money into designing a fantastic website or e-commerce site. Virtually every business and marketer alike work hard to acquire new visitors to their site… they produce beautiful product pages, landing pages, content, etc. Your visitor arrived because they thought you had the answers, the products, or the services that…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Subject Line Words That Trigger Spam Filters And Route You To The Junk Folder
Getting your emails routed to the junk folder sucks… especially when you’ve worked so hard to build a list of subscribers that fully opted in and wish to view your email. There are a few factors that impact your sender reputation that can impact your ability to make it to the inbox: Sending from a domain or IP address with…
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Content Marketing
How To Create A Temporary Login To WordPress Via A Direct Link
I’ve worked across hundreds of clients with WordPress, developing themes, plugins, integrations, etc. For the most part, a tried and tested theme or plugin that has a great rating and reputation operate seamlessly on a client site. But, every so often, a plugin or theme will throw a bug or may even take down the site altogether. This week, I…
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Advertising Technology
Understanding Programmatic Advertising, Its Trends, and The Ad Tech Leaders
For decades, advertising on the Internet has been rather disparate. Publishers chose to offer their own ad spots directly to advertisers or inserted ad real estate for ad marketplaces to bid and buy them. On Martech Zone, we utilize our ad real estate like this… utilizing Google Adsense to monetize the articles and pages with relevant ads as well as…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Past, Present, and Future of the Influencer Marketing Landscape
The past decade has served as one of immense growth for influencer marketing, establishing it as a must-have strategy for brands in their efforts to connect with their key audiences. And its appeal is set to last as more brands look to partner with influencers to demonstrate their authenticity. With the rise of social ecommerce, redistribution of advertising spend to…
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Advertising Technology
Google Web Stories: A Practical Guide To Providing Fully Immersive Experiences
In this day and age, we as consumers want to digest content as quickly as possible and preferably with very little effort. That’s why Google introduced their own version of short-form content called Google Web Stories. But what are Google web stories and how do they contribute to a more immersive and personalised experience? Why use Google web stories and…
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Content Marketing
What Are Meta Descriptions? Why Are They Critical to Organic Search Engine Strategies?
Sometimes marketers can’t see the forest for the trees. As search engine optimization has gained so much attention the past decade, I’ve noticed that many marketers focus so much on rank and subsequent organic traffic, they forget the step that actually occurs in between. Search engines are absolutely critical to every business’ ability to drive users with intent to the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Duplicate Content Penalty: The Myth, The Reality, and My Advice
For over a decade, Google has been fighting the myth of the duplicate content penalty. Since I still continue to field questions on it, I thought it would be worth discussing here. First, let’s discuss the verbiage: What Is Duplicate Content? Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely matches other content…
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Content Marketing
How to Optimize Your Title Tags (With Examples)
Did you know that your page can have multiple titles depending on where you want them displayed? It’s true… here are four different titles that you can have for a single page in your content management system. Title Tag – the HTML that is displayed in your browser tab and is indexed and displayed in search results.Page Title – the…
