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Content Marketing
Elementor Cloud Website: Build Your Elementor WordPress Site On This Fully Supported Dedicated Hosting
For the last few months, I’ve been assisting a client in optimizing their website built on WordPress and utilizing the Elementor Builder… which I believe is the best you can find. It’s listed as one of my recommended WordPress plugins. At one time, the Elementor Builder was a great add-on to any theme. Now, the builder has gotten so robust…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What is Interactive Marketing?
Interactive marketing, also known as engagement marketing, is a type of marketing that encourages two-way communication between a brand and its audience. It involves using various channels and strategies to engage customers in a conversation, rather than simply broadcasting a message to them. Interactive marketing can take many forms, such as social media campaigns, quizzes, surveys, contests, live chats, and…
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Customer Data Platforms
Zapier: Your Code-Free Workflow Automation for Business
Efficiency isn’t just an advantage; it’s a necessity. Businesses of all sizes constantly seek ways to streamline operations, integrate applications seamlessly, maximize productivity, and reduce downstream errors. Zapier, the online automation tool, is the solution that makes it all possible. Let’s explore what Zapier is, how it works, and why it’s a great alternative to writing code for API integrations.…
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Content Marketing
Why Your Business Should Make Use of Video in Marketing
We’ve ramped up our video efforts here on Martech and it’s been great… engaging deeper on YouTube and social media with 1 to 2-minute Marketing Clips. Unfortunately, there are still many myths out there with regard to the costs and effort required to produce your own videos for marketing efforts. Best of all, you need not work through all of…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Is Facebook Just Following AOL’s Demise?
In the evolving digital communication landscape, Facebook’s current role mirrors the prominence once held by AOL in the 1990s. Both platforms have served as primary gateways to the internet, creating controlled environments that shape user experiences. This article explores the parallels between Facebook and AOL, highlighting how Facebook has become the modern equivalent of AOL through several key aspects. Advertising…
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Marketing Tools
ActiveCollab: Leading A Digital Marketing Team – The Challenges And How To Meet Them
Leading an effective digital marketing team can be challenging in today’s changing technology. You are faced with the need for efficient and versatile technology, right skills, viable marketing processes, among other challenges. The challenges increase as the business grows. How you handle these concerns determines whether you will have an efficient team to meet your business’s online marketing goals. Digital…
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Email Marketing & Automation
To Entice Email Signups, Publishers Must Prove their Personalization Prowess with Contextual Signups
The publishing industry appears to be going all-in on the power of email newsletters to engage audiences and drive business. First, Axios announced back in September that it was expanding its local news coverage with the launch of eight new city-specific newsletters. Now, The Atlantic has announced the launch of five new email offerings, in addition to more than a dozen other specialty e-mail…
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E-commerce and Retail
Back to the Sizzle: How E-Commerce Marketers Can Use Creative To Maximize Returns
Apple’s privacy updates have fundamentally changed how e-commerce marketers do their jobs. In the months since the update was released, only a small percentage of iOS users have opted into ad tracking. According to the latest June update, some 26% of global app users allowed apps to track them on Apple devices. This figure was much lower in the US…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Voice Calls Are Critical To Your Customer’s Journey
I have to admit that I’m terrible about calls and I absolutely know that I’m leaving money on the table with my business. My phone often rings throughout the day and the people don’t bother to leave a message, they just move on. My guess is that they simply don’t wish to work with an unresponsive company and that answering…
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Advertising Technology
Three Models For Travel Industry Advertising: CPA, PPC, and CPM
If you want to succeed in a highly competitive industry like travel, you need to choose an advertising strategy that is aligned with your business’ goals and priorities. Fortunately, there are a lot of strategies on how to promote your brand online. We decided to compare the most popular of them and evaluate their pros and cons. To be honest,…
