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- Email Marketing & Automation
Common Mistakes Businesses Make When Choosing A Marketing Automation Platform
A marketing automation platform (MAP) is any software that automates marketing activities. The platforms normally provide automation features across email, social media, lead gen, direct mail, digital advertising channels and their mediums. The tools provide a central marketing database for marketing information so communication can be targeted using segmentation and personalization. There is a great return on investment when marketing…
- Sales and Marketing Training
How to Boost Your Sales Post Purchase With An Effective Customer Retention Strategy
In order to thrive and survive in business, business owners must embrace a lot of techniques and tactics. A customer retention strategy is critical because it’s far more effective than any other marketing strategy when it comes to increasing revenues and driving a return on your marketing investment. Acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. Increasing customer retention…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
UZE Ads: The Marketplace Platform For Mobile Digital Out-Of-Home Advertising
During the pandemic, the advertising market took a hit. Expected, of course, but a 19.1% drop in H1 220 is a serious impact on businesses. COVID-19 has reshaped the consumer landscape, as it has so many other aspects of daily life. People are traveling less and spending less. The pandemic will hopefully be over in the next few months, but…
- E-commerce and Retail
Multichannel E-commerce Strategies for a Changing Holiday Season
The idea of Black Friday and Cyber Monday as a one-off blitz day has shifted this year, as large retailers advertised Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals across the entire month of November. As a result, it has become less about cramming a one-off, single-day deal into an already crowded inbox, and more about building a longer-term strategy and relationship with…
- Content Marketing
WPML: Translate Your WordPress Site With This Multilanguage Plugin and Optional Translation Services
WPML is the standard in the industry for developing and translating your content on a multilingual WordPress site. I am currently running the GTranslate plugin on Martech Zone in order to do simple, multilingual machine translation. This has expanded our reach globally as well as driven search engine traffic to my site. We’re working on deploying a site for a…
- Content Marketing
How to Pass and Store a Salesforce Contact ID with Gravity Forms and WordPress
My Salesforce Partner agency is working with an enterprise organization right now to implement Salesforce, Marketing Cloud, Mobile Cloud, and Ad Studio. Their websites are all built on WordPress with Gravity Forms, a fantastic form and data management tool that has a ton of capabilities. As they deploy campaigns via Marketing Cloud in email and Mobile Cloud in SMS, we’re…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Chili Piper: Reinventing Your Sales Team’s Scheduling, Calendar, And Inbox
Chili Piper is an automated scheduling solution that lets you instantly qualify, route, and book sales meetings with inbound leads the moment they convert on your website. How Chili Piper Helps Sales Teams No more confusing lead distribution spreadsheets, no more back-and-forth emails and voicemails just to book a meeting, and no more lost opportunities due to slow follow up.…
- Advertising Technology
Channable: Feed Your Products To Price Comparison Websites, Affiliates, Marketplaces, and Ad Networks
Reaching audiences where they are is one of the greatest opportunities of any digital marketing strategy. Whether you’re selling a product or service, publishing an article, syndicating a podcast, or sharing a video – placement of those objects where there’s an engaged, the relevant audience is critical to your business’ success. It’s why virtually every platform has both a user…
- Marketing Infographics
The 5 Most Common Marketing Technology Failures
When working with clients, we often inform them that we’re still in the wild west of online marketing… these are still the young days, and not everything has been attempted yet. But that doesn’t mean we still can’t learn from the mistakes of others. With new technologies emerging almost every day, it takes an experienced and educated marketing professional to…
- Content Marketing
WordPress: WLWManifest Is A Legacy Feature With Security Implications. Here’s How To Disable It
In the evolving landscape of content management systems, certain features persist long after their original purpose has faded into obscurity. The Windows Live Writer Manifest (WLWManifest) in WordPress is one such artifact, representing a bygone era of desktop blogging tools while potentially introducing unnecessary security risks to modern WordPress installations. WLWManifest Origins and Purpose The WLWManifest feature was introduced to…
