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.
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
RFP360: Emerging Technology To Take The Pain Out Of RFPs
I’ve spent my entire career in software sales and marketing. I have hustled to bring in hot leads, accelerate the sales cycle, and win deals — which means I’ve invested hundreds of hours of my life thinking about, working on, and responding to RFPs — a necessary evil when it comes to winning new business. RFPs have always felt like…
- Content Marketing
Kickstarting Your Video Marketing Campaign in 3 Ways
You’ve probably heard through the grapevine that videos are worthwhile investments for any business looking to improve their online presence. These clips are great at increasing conversion rates because they’re great at engaging in the audience and conveying complex messages in an efficient way — what’s not to love? So, you’re wondering how can you kickstart your video marketing campaign?…
- E-commerce and Retail
How to Win Back Customers
One of the most important things for a new or established business is ensuring they have consistent income. No matter what business you’re in, returning customers is an excellent way to establish a stable revenue. A natural part of this however, is that customers will be lost over time to churn. To offset a loss in churn, business can do…
- Analytics & Testing
Engagement Is a Lie: Why Your Marketing Metrics Are Leading You Astray
If a guy talks to his girlfriend 83% more this month than last month, is he engaged? What if he left a few comments on her social media posts? Does that make him engaged? No. The definitions of engagement are clear: (1) A formal agreement to get married.(2) An arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time.…
- Advertising Technology
Sidecar: Data-Driven Amazon Advertising Strategies
Amazon is not only the largest e-commerce destination on the web, it is also a leading advertising platform. While the Amazon audience is huge and visitors are primed to buy, navigating the channel proves to be more challenging. Launched last week, Sidecar for Amazon is a platform powered by advanced AI and natural language processing. The platform assists retailers apply data-driven…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How to Choose the Best Channels for Your Customer Support Strategy
With the advent of business ratings, online reviews, and social media, your company’s customer support efforts are now integral to your brand’s reputation and your customer experience online. It doesn’t matter how great your marketing efforts are if your support and expertise are lacking. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by…
- Artificial Intelligence
7 Ways Technology Could Destroy Your Brand
This week, I was on site doing a digital marketing workshop for a global brand. The workshop was and facilitated by me and co-developed in part with Butler University and the amazing educator that’s full-time within the organization. When we arrived at the Martech Stack section of the platform to educate employees on the technology resources within the organization, I…
- Content Marketing
How to Save a Struggling Content-Led Link Building Campaign
Google’s algorithm is changing with time and due to this companies are enforced to re-think on their SEO strategies. One of the crucial actions for increasing ranking is content-led link building campaign. You might have faced a situation where your SEO team works hard to send outreach emails to publishers. Then, your writers dedicatedly create content. But, after a few weeks of…
- Customer Data Platforms
ePR is Breaking Marketing… in Europe
GDPR was introduced in May 2018 and it was good. Well, that’s a stretch. The skies didn’t fall in and everybody went about their day. Some more uninterrupted than others. Why? Because it ensured freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent was now required from a European citizen before a company could email them. Okay… But let’s recap. Didn’t the marketing automation giants…
- Marketing Tools
Netpeak Checker: SEO Bulk Research on Root Domains and Pages
Yesterday, I met with a mentoring program that asked me to assist them in training their students in search engine optimization. The first question I asked was: What do you think SEO is? It’s an important question because the answer would direct whether or not I could be of assistance. Thankfully, they replied that they didn’t have the expertise to…
