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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.
- Customer Data Platforms
Big Data is Pushing Marketing into Real-Time
Marketers have always sought to reach their customers at just the right moment – and to do so before their competitors. With the advent of the Internet and real-time analytics, the timeframe for being relevant to your customers is shrinking. Big Data is now making marketing even faster, more responsive, and more personal than ever before. The massive amounts of…
- Content Marketing
Using WordTracker to Build Your Question and Answers Content
We pay for a lot of tools to analyze our clients and we test even more. Every time I embark on a comprehensive keyword analysis strategy, one tool is always a necessity. I often don’t touch it for months… and often let the subscription drop… but then… WordTracker is a necessity because I can’t find another tool that has the…
- Content Marketing
8 Steps to a Successful Account-Based Marketing Strategy
If you’re wondering What account-based marketing is?, Doug Bewsher wrote a great article about it for Martech Zone. The strategy is paying off for most B2B marketers. In fact, 92% of B2B marketers consider ABM extremely or very important to their marketing efforts. And 84% of B2B marketers believe ABM provides significant retention and upsell opportunities. Integrate released this fantastic infographic…
- Analytics & Testing
Capture Yelp and Google Reviews from Apps Your Customers Use!
Not too long ago we had a fantastic interview with Daniel Lemin, the author of ManipuRATED: How Business Owners Can Fight Fraudulent Online Ratings and Reviews. He spoke to the importance of capturing reviews in order to have both fresh reviews and to combat any negative reviews that may occasionally arise. Is there a better time to capture a great review…
- Analytics & Testing
What Marketers Believe Are The Top 3 Successes to Capturing Leads
The great folks at Formstack surveyed 200 small and mid-sized U.S. businesses and non-profits to identify where marketers are going right and wrong with their lead generation strategies. This infographic is a glimpse into a full The State of Lead Capture in 2016 report with more key insights on lead capture challenges and strategies. Their first finding, that marketing requires insight into…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Our Best Performing Email Opt-In Strategy Ever
My marketing podcast colleague, Erin Sparks, loves to give me a hard time about our opt-in strategy on Martech Zone. Before discussing what we’ve tested and what’s worked, I should explain the importance of email. If you were looking at an online publication as a machine, capturing email addresses is – by far – the most efficient way of returning relevant…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Impact of Custom Packaging on Your E-commerce Sales
One of the first packages that I ever opened that was special was the first MacBook Pro that I purchased. It felt like an unveiling as I opened the suitcase-style box with the laptop and accessories beautifully fitted within. It was a significant investment, and you could see the care Apple took to make sure that I knew it was…
- Advertising Technology
Scout: A Service for Sending Postcards for $1 Each
Scout is a simple service that does one thing – it allows you to send 4×6, full-color postcards customized by you. You supply your own front and back images, provide a list of addresses (we can help you build it or you can do it yourself), and they’ll print a beautiful postcard and then mail it to any number of…
- E-commerce and Retail
Repricing: How Amazon Repricing Works and How Long It Takes
Amazon reported that merchants selling on its marketplace accounted for 45% of units sold in the second quarter of 2015, up from 41% the year before. With millions of sellers selling billions of products in a commerce site like Amazon, sellers benefit from adjusting their pricing so they’re both competitive and can still maintain profits. Repricing is the strategy of…
- Analytics & Testing
The Myth of Attribution
One of the slides that I discuss in virtually every conversation I have with businesses is one that I call the myth of attribution. In any system of measurement, we prefer boolean and discrete rules of behavior. If this, then that. It’s a problem, though, because that’s not how purchase decisions are made. It doesn’t matter if you’re a consumer…
