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
How Your Site’s Speed Impacts Business Results [13 Case Studies]
We’ve written quite a bit about the factors that impact your website’s ability to load quickly and shared how slower speeds hurt your business. I’m honestly surprised by the number of clients we consult with that spend enormous amounts of time and energy on content marketing and promotion strategies – all while loading them on a substandard host with a site…
- Marketing Infographics
Social Media Checklist: Strategies for Each Social Media Channel for Businesses
Some businesses just need a nice checklist to work from when executing their social media strategy… so here’s a great one developed by the whole brain group. It’s a great, balanced approach to publishing and participating in social media to help build your audience and community. Social media platforms are constantly innovating, so they have updated their checklist to reflect…
- Advertising Technology
Baking in “Intelligence” to Drive-to-Web Campaigns
The modern “drive to web” campaign is much more than simply pushing consumers to a linked landing page. It’s leveraging technology and marketing software which is ever-evolving, and understanding how to create dynamic and personalized campaigns that produce web results. A Shift in Focus An advantage that an advanced agency such as Hawthorne holds is the ability to look not…
- Event Marketing
I Took A Year Off From Speaking At Conferences, Here’s What Happened
The last twelve months have been the busiest in our business history. We rebranded our Martech publication, moved our offices after 7 years, and honestly rebuilt our services from the ground up. I decided to skip conferences during the year to focus on the business. In fact, I didn’t even make a trip to Florida in the entire time, where I…
- Marketing Infographics
The Agile Marketing Journey
With a decade of helping companies grow their businesses online, we’ve solidified the processes that ensure success. More often than not, we find that companies struggle with their digital marketing because they attempt to jump directly into execution rather than taking the necessary steps. Digital Marketing Transformation Marketing transformation is synonymous with digital transformation. In a Data Study from PointSource –…
- Content Marketing
How to Record Premium Quality Audio via the Web
With solutions like Skype, teleconference software, and VOIP, you’d think recording two people across the world from one another would be the easiest thing in the world. It’s not. And it’s quite frustrating. Sure, if you have two folks with excellent equipment and high bandwidth, it can be done. The problem arises when you have guests on your podcast from…
- Content Marketing
Does Your Website Talk Like Amazon?
When was the last time Amazon asked you who you were? Probably when you first signed up for your Amazon account, right? How long ago was that? That’s what I figured! As soon as you sign into your Amazon account (or simply visit their site if you’re logged in), it immediately greets you on the right-hand corner. Not only does…
- Content Marketing
Content is King… But Only One Wears the Crown
You’ve heard the saying everywhere, Content is King. I don’t believe that’s changed, nor do I believe it ever will. Whether it’s companies writing about their products and services, earned media outlets writing about them, shared media outlets sharing them, paid media outlets promoting them… it’s content that drives influence, authority, and purchase decisions. The problem comes when everyone is…
- Marketing Books
What is Neuro Design?
Neuro Design is a growing field that applies insights from the mind sciences to help craft more effective designs. These insights can come from two main sources: The general principles of Neuro Design best practices have been derived from academic research on the human visual system and the psychology of vision. These include things like which areas of our visual…
- E-commerce and Retail
Ecrebo: Personalizing Your POS Experience
Advancements in technology are offering incredible opportunities for companies to improve the customer experience. Personalization isn’t just profitable for businesses, it’s appreciated by consumers. We want the businesses that we frequent to recognize who we are, reward us for our patronage, and make recommendations to us when the buying journey is underway. One such opportunity is being called POS Marketing.…
