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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
How OTT Technology Is Taking Over Your TV
If you have ever binge-watched a TV series on Hulu or viewed a movie on Netflix, you’ve used over-the-top content and may not have even realized it. Typically referred to as OTT in the broadcast and technology communities, this type of content circumvents traditional cable TV providers. It uses the Internet as a vehicle to stream content like the latest episode…
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Analytics & Testing
Autopilot Launches Insights, a Customer Journey Tracker for Marketers
82% of customers stopped doing business with a company in 2016 after a bad experience according to Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report. Lack of data and insights could be preventing marketers from advancing in their careers: new data shows that One-third of marketers lack the data and analytics they need to assess their performance, and 82% said better analytics…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Build Review Links for Google, Bing, Yelp, and More…
A key way to improve your ranking on virtually any ratings and review site or local search is to capture recent, frequent, and outstanding reviews. Business pages with the most positive and recent reviews rank better on the map pack, a significant referrer of customers to local businesses. To capture reviews, you have to make it easy for your customers,…
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Content Marketing
Why Use Drupal?
I recently ask What is Drupal? as a way to introduce Drupal. The next question that comes to mind is “Should I use Drupal?” This is a great question. Many times you see a technology and something about it prompts you to think about using it. In the case of Drupal you may have heard that some pretty mainstream websites are…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
When is the FTC Going to Cash In on Celebrity Endorsements?
The warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been sent, more than 90 direct emails to marketers and their influencers, including actors and musicians like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Sofia Vergara, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Bush, Zendaya Coleman, Jennifer Lopez, Luke Bryan, and Sean Combs. We’ve written about disclosure before, but I’m still amazed at the number of…
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Content Marketing
Know Your Fair Use, Disclosure and IP
This morning I received a note from a company that we’ve written about. The email was quite forceful in demanding that we immediately remove any references to the trademarked company name in our post and suggested that we link to their site utilizing a phrase instead. Trademark Fair Usage I’m guessing the company may have been successful in the past…
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E-commerce and Retail
Should Brands Take a Stance on Social Issues?
This morning, I unfollowed a brand on Facebook. Over the last year, their updates morphed into political attacks, and I no longer wished to see that negativity in my feed. For several years, I openly shared my political viewpoints. too. I watched as my following was transformed into more people that agreed with me while others who did not agree unfollowed…
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Artificial Intelligence
Dell EMC World: 10 Terms Transforming Information Technology
Wow, what a couple weeks! If you’ve noticed I haven’t been writing as frequently, it’s because I made one heck of a trip out to Dell EMC World where Mark Schaefer and I had the honor of interviewing the leadership across Dell Technology companies for their Luminaries podcast. To put this conference into perspective, I walked 4.8 miles the first…
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Marketing Infographics
Agile Marketing: 5 Advantages Over Traditional Marketing Processes
Agile marketing is a methodology that integrates the principles of agile software development into the marketing function, emphasizing flexibility, customer-centricity, collaboration, and data-driven iteration. It allows marketing teams to move faster, respond more accurately to market changes, and improve outcomes over time through continuous feedback and refinement. The origins of agile marketing can be traced back to growing dissatisfaction with…
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Marketing Tools
Vectr: A Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator
Vectr is a free and very intuitive vector graphics editor app for web and desktop. Vectr has a very low learning curve making graphic design accessible to anyone. Vectr is going to remain free forever with no strings attached. What’s the difference between Vector and Raster Graphics? Vector-based images are made of lines and paths to create an image. They…
