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- Analytics & Testing
3-D Account-Based Marketing (ABM): How to Bring Your B2B Marketing to Life
As we increasingly run our work and personal lives online, B2B relationships and connections have entered a new hybrid dimension. Account-Based Marketing (ABM) can help deliver relevant messaging amidst changing conditions and locations — but only if companies match new workplace complexities with new dimensions of technology that harness quality data, predictive insights, and real-time synergies. Catalyzed by the COVID-19…
- Artificial Intelligence
How Taking a Mindful Approach to AI Cuts Down on Biased Data Sets
AI-powered solutions need data sets to be effective. And the creation of those data sets is fraught with an implicit bias problem at a systematic level. All people suffer from biases (both conscious and unconscious). The biases can take any number of forms: geographic, linguistic, socio-economic, sexist, and racist. And those systematic biases are baked into data, which can result…
- Analytics & Testing
MarTech Trends That Are Driving Digital Transformation
Many marketing specialists know: over the past ten years, marketing technologies (Martech) have exploded in growth. This growth process isn’t going to slow down. In fact, the latest 2020 study shows there are over 8000 marketing technology tools on the market. Most marketers use more than five tools on a given day, and more than 20 overall in the execution…
- Analytics & Testing
Campaignalyzer: Consistently Tag, Track, Execute, and Analyze your Analytics Campaigns
While we have a nice little UTM campaign builder on Martech Zone, it doesn’t offer the ability to store and consistently build your campaign URLs. Effectively managing and tracking your analytics campaigns can differentiate success and confusion. CampaignAlyzer is a versatile tagging solution designed to empower marketers and businesses with essential features. Let’s dive into how CampaignAlyzer can help you…
- E-commerce and Retail
Scary… The Average Halloween Fan Is Planning To Spend Over $100 This Year!
For the first time ever, per-person spending for Halloween will top $100. This year, each of the top spending categories – candy, decorations, costumes, and greeting cards will see significant increases, not just over last year’s numbers, but also over 2019 spending numbers.The Shelf, 021 Halloween Spending, Sales, Stats, and Trends Halloween Statistics Are UP! Last year, less than half…
- E-commerce and Retail
Why An Emotional Connection Will Be Key In This Holiday Season’s Sales Success
For well over a year, retailers have been dealing with the pandemic’s impact on sales and it looks like the marketplace is set to face yet another challenging holiday shopping season in 2021. Manufacturing and supply chain disruptions continue to wreak havoc on the ability to keep inventory reliably in stock. Safety protocols continue to inhibit customers from making in-store…
- E-commerce and Retail
13 Types of Triggered Email Campaigns You Should Implement
In working with several email vendors, I’ve always been surprised at the lack of pre-designed, effective triggered email campaigns within the accounts upon implementation. If you’re a platform reading this – you should have these campaigns ready to go in your system. If you’re an email marketer, you should be working to incorporate as many types of triggered emails as…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
5 Ways That Social Listening Builds The Brand Awareness You Really Want
Businesses should now be more aware than ever that simply monitoring social media while trying to improve a brand’s recognition is not enough anymore. You also have to keep an ear to the ground for what your customers really want (and don’t want), as well as keep abreast of the latest industry trends and competition. Enter social listening. Unlike mere…
- Content Marketing
OneUp: Automatically Post To Google Business Profile From Your RSS Feed
If you’re a local business, it’s critical that you maintain both a website that’s well-optimized as well as a Google Business Profile Account. The vast majority of search engine users never scroll or navigate to organic results that find your website… they interact with the map pack on the search engine results page (SERP). The map pack is the section…
- Marketing Tools
Agreedo: Maximize Your Meeting Efficiency with Streamlined Notes and Agendas
Are you struggling to keep your meetings organized? Are you tired of endless notetaking or forgotten follow-ups? Whether you’re managing a small team or collaborating with clients, keeping track of key decisions and tasks is crucial to your project’s success. AgreeDo offers a simple yet powerful solution to help you and your team stay on track, saving time and ensuring…
