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- 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…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Please Test Your Lead Generation Forms
Years ago, we worked with a client who invested a significant budget with a branding agency to build a beautiful new web presence. The client came to us because they weren’t seeing any leads coming through the site and asked us to help them out. We did the first thing we usually do: submit a request through their contact page…
- Marketing Tools
Why Should Your Company Pay for Managed DNS?
While you manage the registration of a domain at a domain registrar, it’s not always a great idea to manage where and how your domain resolves all of its other DNS entries to resolve your email, subdomains, host, etc. Your domain registrars’ primary business is selling domains, not ensuring that your domain can resolve quickly, managed easily, and has redundancy…
