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.
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why Keyword Ranking Should Never Be Your Primary Performance Metric
Not too long ago, SEO strategies majorly comprised of getting ranking on keywords. Keywords were the primary factor to gauge the performance of a campaign. Website builders would stuff the sites with keywords, and the clients would love to see the results. The results, however, showed a different picture. If your SEO tutorial for beginners included using Google tools to…
- Advertising Technology
LinkedIn Campaign Manager Releases Its Newest Campaign Reporting Experience
LinkedIn announces a redesigned reporting experience for LinkedIn Campaign Manager, making it easier to understand how your campaigns are performing. The new interface delivers a clean and intuitive experience that lets you more easily manage and optimize your campaigns. LinkedIn Campaign Manager Enhancements Include: Save time in campaign reporting – With this new reporting experience, you can quickly see…
- Content Marketing
How to Measure the ROI of Your Video Marketing Campaigns
Video production is one of those marketing strategies that’s often under-rated when it comes to ROI. A compelling video can provide the authority and sincerity that humanizes your brand and pushes your prospects to a purchase decision. Here are some incredible statistics associated with video: Videos embedded in your website can result in an 80% increase in conversion ratesEmails containing…
- Marketing Books
Building a StoryBrand: The 7 Desires Your Prospect Depends On
I participated in a marketing ideation meeting alongside a consultancy known for developing roadmaps for high-tech companies. As the roadmaps were created, I was impressed with the unique and differentiated paths the team came up with. However, I was also determined to keep the team focused on the target market. Innovation is a critical strategy in many industries today, but…
- Content Marketing
Pinegrow: A Stunning Desktop Editor with WordPress Integration
Creating modern websites has never been more demanding. Developers and designers face increasing complexity — from mastering responsive frameworks to navigating between visual mockups and production-ready code. While cloud-based website builders often prioritize ease over flexibility, professional web developers need tools that speed up their workflow without sacrificing control. Pinegrow Pinegrow is a powerful visual web editor designed for professional…
- E-commerce and Retail
Epson LightScene: Interactive Retail Experiences with Digital Projection
The retail experience will consistently outperform the online experience. Even with the addition of augmented and virtual reality, consumers may buy online… but still love to experience a product. It’s why retail establishments have transformed themselves over the last decade from rows of sky-high, high-inventory stores to being showcases for consumers to interact with the merchandise being sold. While digital…
- Event Marketing
BrightTALK Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Promoting Your Webinar
BrightTALK, which has been publishing webinar benchmark data since 2010, analyzed more than 14,000 webinars, 300 million emails, feed and social promotions, and a total of 1.2 million hours of engagement from the past year. This annual report helps B2B marketers compare their performance to those of their industries and see which practices lead to the greatest success. In 2017,…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
FindThatLead Prospector: Search and Find Targeted Lead Email Addresses
Are you searching for a certain target’s email but you don’t know how to reach them? FindThatLead has a comprehensive database of email addresses and an interface to query and download them for prospecting. Is it legal? Actually, yes. All the emails are generated with FindThatLead’s algorithm based on patterns, or found on public sites through the web. How FindThatLead…
- E-commerce and Retail
VisCircle: Advance Your E-commerce Product Pages with 3D Technology
Technology innovations have been a boon to our society and too many fields and industries in many ways. One e-commerce innovation has been the use of 3D technology. A limitation of the web (at this point) is the ability to fully experience a product like we do in-person at a retail outlet. Until AR and VR are widely adopted, the…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
BizChat: Team Communication and Collaboration
In the early, high-growth days of ExactTarget (now Salesforce), one tool the company couldn’t do without was Yahoo! Messenger. Aside from the all-to-often hilarious hacked message that sent an “I quit” notification from an employee who left their laptop open and logged in, the tool was indespensible to fast-track communications. Of course, once we got to several hundred employees, the…
