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.
- E-commerce and Retail
ROBO: How Today’s Shoppers Research Online and Buy Offline
The phenomenon known as Research Online, Buy Offline (ROBO) has emerged as a significant force shaping consumer behavior. While e-commerce continues to grow, it’s crucial to recognize that 90% of consumer purchases still occur in physical retail outlets. This statistic underscores the enduring importance of brick-and-mortar stores, even as online influences play an increasingly pivotal role in the shopping journey.…
- Content Marketing
The Impact of Going Global with Your Mobile App
With 7,000 languages in the world and growth internationally for mobile applications, you’re most likely selling yourself short if you go to market with an app that doesn’t support localization… er localisation. Interestingly enough, Mobile apps that support English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese, can reach half the globe It’s important to note that 72% of app users are not native…
- Advertising Technology
How Are Advertisers Capitalizing on March Madness?
In 2015, there were 11.3 million average total viewers of the NCAA’s March Madness, along with a record 80.7 million live video stream viewers. The most watched game attracted 28.3 million total viewers. If you don’t think it’s a big deal, you should try working in downtown Indianapolis this month (where our offices are)! We’ll be working from home most…
- Advertising Technology
Skimlinks Data Provider Checklist – Asking the Right Questions
Until recently, digital marketers and ad agency professionals who were looking to make programmatic ad buys confronted a black box data scenario. Most aren’t engineers or data scientists, and they had to take a leap of faith and trust the data provider’s claims about data quality, reviewing results after implementation — and after the purchase was already made. But what…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Email Drip Campaign Tips, Examples, Statistics and Best Practices
Email drip campaigns, akin to the precision and care of drip irrigation in agriculture, are a cornerstone in nurturing and converting leads within the digital marketing landscape. What is a Drip Email Campaign? Email drip campaigns consist of a series of pre-written, automated emails dispatched to potential customers at various stages of the buyer’s journey, from initial awareness to post-purchase…
- E-commerce and Retail
Thrive Market’s Shopping Cart is Brilliantly Enticing
I’ve been getting back into some healthy eating and saw an ad for Thrive Market. It’s a really amazing specialty shop online where users can filter their site based on virtually any specialty from grass-fed, to dye free, paleo, vegan and dozens of other options. I digress… but be sure to check it out and use my link above so I…
- Analytics & Testing
Over 20% of our Home Page Clicks Come from One Feature
We signed up for Hotjar and did some heatmap testing on our home page. It’s a fairly comprehensive home page with a lot of sections, elements, and information. Our goal isn’t to confuse people – it’s to provide an organized page where visitors can find whatever they’re seeking. But they’re not finding it! How do we know? Over 20% of…
- Marketing Infographics
What’s the Cost of Acquiring Versus Retaining a Customer?
There’s some prevailing wisdom that the cost of acquiring a new customer can be 4 to 8 times the cost of retaining one. I say prevailing wisdom because I see that statistics are often shared but never actually find a resource to go with it. I’m not doubting that keeping a customer is less expensive for an organization, but there are exceptions.…
- Content Marketing
5 Attributes Loyal Customers Demand from Your Sales and Marketing
Brett Evans is a great local sales talent and advised me to read The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation in one of our many discussions of the overlap of sales and marketing. Based on an exhaustive study of thousands of sales reps across multiple industries and geographies,The Challenger Sale argues that classic relationship building is a losing approach,…
- 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…
