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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Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Businesses
Artificial Intelligence is shining brightly in the software industry with its capabilities. Companies are capitalizing on artificial intelligence as it continues to scale and evolve. Over the past few years, we have heard many success stories regarding artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence has been excelling, from Amazon’s operational efficiencies to GE’s ability to keep its equipment running. In today’s world, not only large corporations…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Klear Connect: Influencer Marketing CRM and Campaign Tracking
Klear, an influencer marketing technology, has added Klear Connect, a complete solution for influencer campaign management. An important development for influencer marketing—for both brands and influencers. Klear answers the question: How do you keep track of everything? Connect streamlines communication between brands and influencers by automating manual processes throughout the influencer program life cycle with an integrated chat service and…
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Content Marketing
Important Web Design Techniques to Incorporate on your Law Firm Website
Today’s legal marketplace is increasingly competitive. As a result, this puts a lot of pressure to a lot of lawyers and law firms to stand out from the rest of the competition. It’s tough it is to strive for a professional presence online. If your site isn’t compelling enough, clients move on to your competitors. That’s why, your brand (and that…
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Content Marketing
Xara: Create Visually Engaging Marketing Documents in Minutes
There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not working in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and I’m constantly frustrated by the lack of consistency in each tool’s offerings. I received a note from the team at Xara a week ago to take their online publishing engine for a test drive. And I’m absolutely impressed! Xara Cloud is a new…
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E-commerce and Retail
SpotOn and Poynt: POS Integrated Marketing for Small Business
SpotOn has already installed more than 3,000 point of sales and payment processing devices in restaurants, retailers and salons nationwide. They’ve partnered with Poynt to provide flexible point of sales terminals that enable retailers and restaurant owners to collect customer contact information and accept payments at the counter, or wherever customers are. POS Marketing Tools SpotOn’s marketing tools make it…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Prospects Of Combining Blockchain Technology And Internet Of Things
The technology behind Bitcoin allows transactions to be carried out reliably and securely without the need for an intermediary. These technologies have gone from being practically ignored to becoming the focus of the innovation of the big banks. Experts estimate that using blockchain technologies can mean a 20,000 million-dollar saving for the sector by 2022. And some go further and…
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E-commerce and Retail
SafeTradeSpots: Making Online Transactions Safer, One Community at a Time
As I was checking Facebook this morning, a very cool story popped up from my local police department. They designated a spot downtown and adjacent to our municipal buildings as an e-commerce trading zone. There are parking spots and an automated call button in the event of an emergency. Need a place to make an exchange? The City of Greenwood…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Enterprises using Social Media To Predict Demand: PepsiCo
Consumer demand today changes faster than ever before. As a result, new product launches are failing at extremely high rates. After all, accurately assessing the market and predicting demand requires terabytes of data, which ranges from point-of-sale numbers, e-commerce transactions, out-of-stock histories, pricing averages, promotional planning, special events, weather patterns, and a many other factors. To add to that, most…
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Analytics & Testing
Full Circle Insights: Funnel Metrics and Attribution for Salesforce
At most companies, marketing and sales don’t operate on a level playing field. B2B sales operations have CRM systems like Salesforce to measure performance, including overall company metrics and the granular details of team and individual performance. Since the CRM system functions as the de facto system of record for revenue in most companies, the sales team has credible data…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How to Create a Successful Local Facebook Marketing Strategy
Facebook Marketing continues to be among the most effective marketing strategies today, especially with its 2.2 billion active users. Just that opens up a vast well of opportunities that businesses can tap. One of the most rewarding albeit challenging way to make use of Facebook is to go for a local marketing strategy. Localization is a strategy that can deliver great…
