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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
The History of Advertising
Advertising, a cornerstone of sales and marketing, has a rich and intriguing history that dates back thousands of years. As we explore the evolution of advertising, we will uncover its earliest origins, its growth through different societies, its etymology, when it became mainstream, and how it continues to evolve in the modern world. The word advertising originates from the Latin…
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Content Marketing
How to Enable and Optimize WordPress for Featured Images
When I set up WordPress for many of my clients, I am always sure to push them to incorporate featured images throughout their site. Here’s an example from a Salesforce Consultant site that’s launching… I designed a featured image that is aesthetically pleasing, matches the overall branding, and provides some information about the page itself: While the other social media…
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Event Marketing
Why You Should Ditch Your Elevator Pitch
As we ramp up for events this year, I’ve been thinking deeply about what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to networking. One thing is abundantly clear: traditional networking tactics, like elevator pitches and forced small talk, are increasingly ineffective in today’s business climate. At too many networking events, it feels like someone rang a bell and out come the pitches—fast,…
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Marketing Tools
How to Run a Facebook Contest (Step-By-Step)
Facebook contests are an underrated marketing tool. They can raise brand awareness, become a fountain of user-generated content, increase audience engagement, and make a noticeable difference in your conversions.Running a successful social media contest isn’t a complex undertaking. But it does require understanding the platform, the rules, your audience and making a concrete plan. Sound like too much effort for the reward? …
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Advertising Technology
Everything You Needed to Know About Retargeting and Remarketing!
Did you know that only 2% of visitors make a purchase when they visit an online store for the first time? 92% of consumers don’t even plan to purchase when visiting an online store for the first time. And one-third of consumers who intend to purchase abandon the shopping cart. Look back at your buying behavior online, and you’ll often…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Field Sales and Marketing Should Look Beyond the Traditional CRM
As the world becomes increasingly impersonal with the emergence of technology – social media, video chatting, etc. An opportunity has presented itself in a very real way. A concept that once came naturally, intuitive, and existed pretty much as an afterthought has been relegated to an inconvenient, more expensive time-consuming adaptation. Physically getting in front of the people you want…
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Content Marketing
BlogVault: How to Transfer Your WordPress Site to a New Domain
When you operate your WordPress site on one host and need to move it to another, it’s not as simple as you might think. Every instance of WordPress has four elements: the infrastructure and IP address it’s hosted at, the MySQL database that contains your content, the uploaded files, themes and plugins, and WordPress itself. WordPress has an import and…
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E-commerce and Retail
A Procrastinator’s Guide to Holiday Marketing
The holiday season is officially here, and it’s shaping up to be one of the biggest on record. With eMarketer predicting retail e-commerce spending to surpass $142 billion this season, there’s plenty of good to go around, even for smaller retailers. The trick to staying competitive is to get smart about preparation. Ideally you will have already begun this process,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media: 3 Tips To Better Connect With Your Customers
In essence, social media is a two-way street where brands can go beyond traditional push marketing and truly engage with their customers to develop loyalty over time. Here are three tips your company can use to better connect with your customers on social media. Tip 1: Set Up A System To Never Miss A Notification If you are publishing high-quality…
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Content Marketing
Writing Engaging Content that Converts for Business
I’m often surprised when I read an amazing article on someone’s business site or blog, but then I have no clue who they are, why I’d want to work with them, who they serve, or what they expect me to do next on the site. As you invest Content that’s done well requires a significant investment in research, article design,…
