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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
Why Learning is a Leading Engagement Tool for Marketers
We’ve seen incredible growth in content marketing in recent years—nearly everyone is getting onboard. In fact, according to the Content Marketing Institute, 86% of B2B marketers and 77% of B2C marketers use content marketing. But smart organizations are taking their content marketing strategy to the next level and incorporating online learning content. Why? People are hungry for educational content, eager…
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Advertising Technology
How to Make the Most of New AdWords Conversion Reporting
Which would you prefer: The attention-grabbing digital ad that attracts 1,000 website visits? Or the slow-performing one that’s received just 12 clicks so far? It’s a trick question. The answer is neither. At least, not until you know how many of those visitors converted. A super-targeted ad resulting in a dozen qualified conversion actions would be ten times more valuable…
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Content Marketing
10 LinkedIn Profile Tips For Your Networking Success
This infographic from SalesforLife is focused on how a LinkedIn profile can be optimized for selling. Well, in my opinion, every LinkedIn profile should be optimized for selling… otherwise why are you on LinkedIn? Your value in your profession is only as valuable as your professional network. That said, I believe many people do damage by either abusing the platform…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
How to Market Your Mobile App
We recently shared the high cost and failure rate for enterprise mobile applications, but the benefits of a good mobile app are simply too great to ignore. Alongside planning, the experience of the mobile development team and the promotion of the app are both critical. Your app can rise to the top of everyone’s search to dominate the mobile market.…
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Content Marketing
A Successful B2B Content Marketing Strategy Requires Authority
Marketers are often struggling just to keep up with the needs of their content and email marketing programs. More often than not, our clients’ strategies are built around their internal processes. News, product releases, service updates or even just weekly schedules dictate the content that’s published. The problem, of course, is that your business’ marketing plan doesn’t follow the routine…
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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Apps: How Important is Planning, Prototyping, and Testing?
There’s quite a bit of expense in working with custom mobile application developers just in the planning and prototyping phase. Time spent to ensure the user experience is optimal is critical to the success of your mobile application’s adoption and usage, though. But only 52% employ a testing program for their mobile applications according to a report from Accenture! The…
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Advertising Technology
Everyone Hates Advertising… Does Paid Advertising Still Work?
There’s been a ton of conversations online about the demise of advertising. Twitter hasn’t been too successful with its advertising package. Facebook is successful, but consumers are growing weary of ads splattered everywhere. And paid search continues to drive incredible revenue… but search is declining as other methods for seeking and finding information online grow in popularity. Of course, if…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Redesigning E-mail: 6 Features That Need Re-Thinking
Depending on who you ask, e-mail has been around for between 30 and 40 years. Its value is obvious, with applications spanning across both social and professional aspects of life. What’s also apparent, however, is how outdated e-mail technology really is. In many ways, e-mail is being retrofitted to remain relevant to the growing needs of today’s users. But how…
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Content Marketing
Building Complex Templates with HubSpot
We’re pretty agnostic when it comes to platforms for marketing automation, landing page development and email marketing. We worked and got certified with HubSpot quite a few years ago, and we were impressed with som of the features, but design elements were a bit limited. That’s not the case any longer. One of our sponsors, FatStax, started with HubSpot but…
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E-commerce and Retail
Why E-commerce Brands Should Invest More Into Instagram
These days, you can’t build an ecommerce brand without an effective social media marketing strategy. Almost all marketers (93%) turn to Facebook as their primary social network. As Facebook continues to get saturated with marketers, the company is forced to decrease organic reach. For brands, Facebook is a pay to play social media platform. Instagram’s rapid growth is capturing the…
