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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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Content Marketing
Adapting and Responding to Feedback Drives Content Marketing Results
How quickly and effectively marketers respond and adapt to ongoing consumer feedback has become a new determinant of brand performance. According to 90% of the 150 brand marketers surveyed, responsiveness—or the ability to source, understand and then quickly react to feedback, preferences, and needs—is important, if not critical, to the delivery of an exceptional customer experience. Only 16 percent of…
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Content Marketing
Insights: Ad Creative that Drives ROI on Facebook and Instagram
Running effective Facebook and Instagram advertising campaigns requires excellent marketing choices and ad creative. Choosing the right visuals, ad copy, and calls-to-action will offer you the best shot at achieving campaign performance goals. In the market, there’s a lot of hype out there about quick, easy success on Facebook – first off, don’t buy it. Facebook marketing works extremely well,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Influencer Marketing: History, Evolution, and the Future
Influencer marketing has transformed how brands engage their audiences. By leveraging the voices of individuals with trust and influence, companies can authentically connect with consumers and drive action. But how did we get here? Influencer marketing isn’t as new as you might think — it’s a strategy that’s been evolving for centuries, shaped by culture, technology, and consumer behavior. What…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
How to Polish Mobile App Store Product Pages in Pre-launch
Pre-launch phase is one of the most critical periods in the lifecycle of an app. Publishers have to deal with myriads of tasks which put their time management and priority setting skills to the test. However, an overwhelming majority of app marketers fail to realize that skillful A/B testing can smooth things down for them and assist in various pre-launch…
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Marketing Tools
InsideView Fuels Go-to-Market Success with Targeting Intelligence
Pressure on CMOs is quickly mounting as they’re given more direct responsibility for revenue growth, including more budget and systems resources to make it happen. “Great,” you say! Finally some respect for marketers. But the challenge is now they’re being held more accountable for delivering measurable results – and fast. A major barrier to success is marketing teams lack key…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Eight Tips For Recent Grads Who Want To Get Jobs In Marketing
Congratulations, college graduate! You’ve successfully completed a life goal that has provided you a foundation in marketing communications, taught you critical thinking, and provided you with the confidence you need to go out and build that career you always wanted. However, it’s imperative you realize that acquiring your degree was only the first step up the mountain to success. Our…
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Public Relations
This is not an Influencer Marketing Strategy, Stop It!
There’s so much noise on social media that it’s sometimes tough to keep up. I love the fact that I have a large following online and I try to engage and respond to everyone who makes a request. When it’s a company that I have previously communicated with, I especially make time and respond accordingly. That said, there’s a nefarious…
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Advertising Technology
LegalZoom Implements Artificial Intelligence Using Veritone One
In an instantaneous world of online media, brand reputation should be seen as a matter of life and death. But, when it comes to broadcast media, managing everything people say about a brand can feel next to impossible. The FCC documented more than 32,000 television and radio stations broadcasting daily, leaving branding and marketing experts scrambling to review and stay…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Does an Emoji in Your Subject Line Impact Email Open Rates?
We’ve shared some details on how some marketers incorporate emojis into their marketing communications. In celebration of World Emoji Day – yes… there’s such a thing – Mailjet performed some testing using emojis in email subject lines to see how different emojis might impact the email open rate. Guess what? It worked! Methodology: Mailjet offers an experimentation feature known as a/x testing.…
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E-commerce and Retail
5 Design Elements that Work Well for Mobile Conversion
Despite a rise in mobile usage, many websites deliver a poor mobile experience, forcing potential customers off-site. Business owners who have only just learned to navigate the desktop space are finding it difficult to make the transition to mobile. Finding the right aesthetic alone can be problematic. Business owners have to work hard to understand their target audience and build…
