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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How to Make the Most of Your Desktop to Mobile Migration
In the rush to embrace mobile, it’s easy for businesses to neglect their desktop sites, but most conversions still happen via this method, so it is not advisable to disregard your desktop site completely. The best scenario is to have…
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5 Hints on How to Leverage Social Media Customer Reviews
The marketplace’s a tough experience, not just for the big brands but also for the average. Whether you own a huge business, a small local store, or an internet platform, your chances of climbing the niche ladder are slim unless…
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What is Direct Response Copywriting? How to Write Copy that Converts
Direct response copywriting is a powerful marketing technique designed to elicit immediate action from the reader. Unlike general advertising, which aims to build brand awareness, direct response copy focuses on driving a specific, measurable response—whether purchasing, signing up for a…
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A Tiny Bit of Research Can Dramatically Impact Social Shares and Drive Sales
While many small businesses are abandoning Facebook, I’m always intrigued when I see something unexpected happen there for a client. Believe me, unless they’re paying to promote posts… I don’t set expectations too high. One of my clients is a…
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How Your Martech Stack Fails to Serve the Customer
In the older days of marketing, back in the early 2000s, a few brave CMOs invested in some rudimentary tools designed to help better manage their campaigns and audiences. These hardy pioneers sought to organize, analyze and improve performance, and…
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The Strategies That Are Killing Your Content Marketing #CONEX
Yesterday I shared how much I learned about building ABM strategies at CONEX, a conference in Toronto with Uberflip. Today, they pulled out all of the stops by bringing in every marketing superstar the industry had to offer – Jay…
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Boost Your Conversions by Combating These 5 Conversion Killers
If there’s one company online that gets to monitor and measure conversion rates across any variable, it’s the folks at Formstack! We’ve been friends, fans, and affiliates of the team for years, and it doesn’t hurt that they’re right here…
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The Most Common Misconception Marketing And PR Grads Have About Social Media
Over the last decade, I’ve hired interns and marketing graduates for my business. As a full-service marketing consultancy, we work on multichannel marketing for our clients, so I can place graduates where they best fit rather than just throwing them…
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Sitelock: Protect Your WordPress Website and Visitors
WordPress security is one of those things that’s often left until it’s too late. About once a quarter I’m asked to help clean up a site that’s been attacked. The attacks happen because WordPress is left without updating and a…
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Four Common Characteristics With Companies Who Transformed Their Digital Marketing
I recently had the pleasure to join the CRMradio podcast with Paul Peterson from Goldmine, discussing how companies, both small and large, are leveraging digital marketing. You can listen to it here: https://crmradio.podbean.com/mf/play/hebh9j/CRM-080910-Karr-REVISED.mp3 Be sure to subscribe and listen to…
