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- Content Marketing
5 Ways To Use Social Listening To Improve Your Content Marketing Strategy
Content is king — every marketer knows that. However, oftentimes, content marketers cannot just rely on their skills and talent — they need to incorporate other tactics in their content marketing strategy to make it more powerful. Social listening improves your strategy and helps you speak directly to consumers in their language. As a content marketer, you probably know that…
- Marketing Infographics
Why Are Infographics So Popular? Hint: Content, Search, Social, and Conversions!
Many of you visit our blog because of my consistent effort to share marketing infographics. There are several reasons why infographics work so well for businesses’ digital marketing strategies: Visual: Half of our brains are devoted to vision, and 90% of the information we retain is visual. Illustrations, graphs, and photos are all critical mediums for communicating with your buyer.…
- Marketing Tools
Is Visual Studio Code The Best OSX Code Editor On The Market?
Every week I spend time with a good friend of mine, Adam Small. Adam is a great developer… he’s developed an entire real estate marketing platform that has incredible features – even just adding direct-to-mail options for his agents to send postcards without even having to design them! Like me, Adam has developed across the spectrum of programming languages and…
- Advertising Technology
DanAds: Self-Service Advertising Technology For Publishers
Programmatic advertising (the automation of buying and selling online advertising) has been a staple for modern marketers for many years and it’s easy to see why. The ability for media buyers to use software to purchase advertising has revolutionized the digital advertising space, removing the need for traditional manual processes such as requests for proposals, tenders, quotes, and, most notably,…
- Content Marketing
SEO Myth: Should You Ever Update A Page That’s Highly Ranked?
A colleague of mine contacted me who was deploying a new site for their client and asked my advice. He stated that an SEO consultant that was working with the company advised them to ensure that the pages that they were ranking for not be changed otherwise they might lose their ranking. This is nonsense. For the last decade I’ve…
- Content Marketing
Recording for iMovie with a Web Camera and Different Microphone
This is one of the most popular posts on Martech Zone as businesses and individuals are deploying video content strategies to build authority online and drive leads to their business. While iMovie may be one of the most popular platforms for editing videos because of its ease of use, it’s not one of the most robust video editing platforms. And,…
- Content Marketing
How To Start A Podcast For Your Business (With Lessons Learned From Me!)
When I started my podcast years ago, I had three distinct goals: Authority – by interviewing leaders in my industry, I wanted to get my name known. It definitely worked and has led to some incredible opportunities – like helping co-host Dell’s Luminaries podcast which resulted in the top 1% of most-listened podcasts during its running.Prospects – I’m not shy…
- E-commerce and Retail
Retail and Consumer Buying Trends for 2021
If there was one industry that we saw that dramatically changed this last year it was retail. Businesses without the vision or resources to digitally adopt found themselves in ruins due to lockdowns and the pandemic. According to reports retail store closures topped 11,000 in 2020 with only 3,368 new outlets opening.Talk Business & Politics That hasn’t necessarily changed the…
- Analytics & Testing
Drive More Leads With Landingi’s Landing Page Builder for WordPress
While most marketers simply insert a form on a WordPress page, that’s not necessarily a well-optimized, highly converting landing page. Landing pages typically have several features and associated benefits: Minimal Distractions – Think of your landing pages as the end of the road with minimal distractions. Navigation, sidebars, footers, and other elements can distract your visitor. A landing page builder…
- Analytics & Testing
Conversion Rate Optimization: A 9-Step Guide To Increased Conversion Rates
As marketers, we’re often spending time producing new campaigns, but we don’t always do a good job looking in the mirror attempting to optimize our current campaigns and processes online. Some of this may just be that it’s overwhelming… where do you start? Is there a methodology for conversion rate optimization (CRO)? Well yes… there is. The team at Conversion…
