Martech Zone
Martech Zone provides daily articles for business, sales, and marketing professionals to research technology, discover new sales and marketing tools, and learn how to leverage platforms to drive greater business results.
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Advertising Technology
Publishers Are Letting AdTech Kill Their Advantages
The web is the most dynamic and inventive medium ever to exist. So, when it comes to digital advertising, creativity should be unbounded. A publisher should, in theory, be able to radically differentiate its media kit from other publishers to win direct sales and deliver unparalleled impact and performance to its partners. But they don’t — because they’ve been focused…
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Marketing Tools
Brightpod: The Ultimate Solution for Marketing Workflow Efficiency
Marketing teams face the daunting challenge of managing multiple projects simultaneously, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery. The complexity of coordinating tasks, maintaining clear communication, and meeting tight deadlines can overwhelm even the most organized teams. Finding a solution that can streamline these processes, enhance collaboration, and boost productivity is critical for success in today’s competitive environment. Overview of Brightpod…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Create Sidebars Automatically For Each Category
I’ve been simplifying this site to improve speed times and to attempt to monetize the site better without irritating my readers. There are multiple ways that I’ve monetized the site… here they are from most to least lucrative: Direct sponsorships from partner companies. We work on collective strategies that incorporate everything from webinars to social media shares to promote their…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Preference Center and Unsubscribe Pages: Using Roles vs. Publications
We’ve been working with a national non-profit on a complex Salesforce and Marketing Cloud migration and implementation. Early on in our discovery, we pointed out some key issues regarding their preferences, which were very operations-based. When the company designs a campaign, it creates a list of recipients outside its email marketing platform, uploads it as a new list, designs the…
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Customer Data Platforms
CSV Explorer: Work With Large CSV Files Online
CSV files are foundational and are typically the lowest common denominator of importing and exporting data from any system. We’re working with a client right now that has a very large database of contacts (over 5 million records) and we need to filter, query, and export a subsegment of the data. What is a CSV File? A comma-separated values file…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
SkAdNetwork? Privacy Sandbox? I stand with MD5s
Apple’s June 2020 announcement that the IDFA would be an opt-in feature for consumers by September’s iOS 14 release felt like the rug was pulled from under the 80 billion ad industry, sending marketers into a frenzy to find the next best thing. It’s been over two months, and we’re still scratching our heads. With the recent much-needed postponement until 2021, we as an…
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E-commerce and Retail
PartnerStack: Manage Your Affiliates, Resellers, and Partners
Our world is digital, and more relationships and engagements are happening online than ever before. Even traditional companies are moving their sales, service, and engagements online. It’s truly the new normal since the pandemic and lockdowns. Word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing is critical to every business. In the traditional sense, referrals can be inefficient—passing on a colleague’s phone number or email address…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Validation Versus Verification
We were discussing the state of the email list cleansing industry with the founder of an email cleansing platform. If you go to that link, you’ll find many players in the market—many of which we’ve tested and used for our clients. We struck up a relationship because their system did an extraordinary job verifying our newsletter and clients’ lists. There are some huge differentiators…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The New Marketing Mandate: Revenue, Or Else
Unemployment fell to 8.4 percent in August as America slowly recovered from the pandemic peak. However, employees, specifically sales and marketing professionals, are returning to a much different landscape—one that is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. When I joined Salesforce in 2009, we were just coming off the heels of the Great Recession. Our mentality as marketers was directly influenced by the…
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Content Marketing
New Domain Regular Expression (Regex) Redirects In WordPress
For the last few weeks, we’ve been helping a client with a complex WordPress migration. The client had two products, both of which have become popular, so they had to split out the businesses, the branding, and the content into separate domains. It’s quite the undertaking! Their existing domain is staying put, but the new domain will have all content…
