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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,…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google Authorship Was Discontinued, But rel=”author” Doesn’t Hurt
Google Authorship was a feature that allowed Google to identify the author of a piece of content and display their name and profile photo alongside the content in search engine result pages (SERPs). It also was included as a direct ranking factor for content. Authorship was designated by adding rel=”author” markup to the content, which linked it to the author’s…
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Advertising Technology
QR Code Builder: How To Design and Manage Beautiful QR Codes For Digital or Print
One of our clients has a list of over 100,000 customers that they’ve delivered to but don’t have an email address to communicate them with. We were able to to do an email append that successfully matched (by name and mailing address) and we started a welcome journey that has been quite successful. The other 60,000 customers we are sending…
