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Marketing Infographics
The Current State of B2B Marketing Automation
Revenues for B2B marketing automation systems increased 60% to $1.2 Billion in 2014, compared to a 50% increase the year before. In the last 5 years, the industry has grown 11-fold as corporations continue to find value in the key features that marketing automation has to offer. As the industry rapidly matures, the foundations of a great marketing automation platform…
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Content Marketing
Are Your Video Ads Being Seen?
A little more than half of all advertisements on video pages are seen across the web, a difficult situation for marketers hoping to take advantage of the growing video viewership across devices. It’s not all bad news… even a video ad that was partially listened to still had an impact. Google analyzed their DoubleClick, Google and YouTube advertising platforms to…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Your Checklist For Optimizing Your Email Design To Be Mobile Responsive
Nothing disappoints me as much as when I flip open an email I’m looking forward to on my mobile device and can’t read it. Either the images are hard-coded widths that won’t respond to the display, or the text is so wide that I’d have to scroll back and forth to read it. Unless it’s critical, I don’t wait to…
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Content Marketing
What Motivates You to Share Online? The Psychology of Sharing
We share daily through our blog posts and social presence. Our motivation is pretty simple – when we find fantastic content or discover something ourselves, we want to let you know about it. That makes us a connector of great information and provides value to you, our reader. By doing so, we keep you engaged and hope to deepen our…
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Content Marketing
How to Harness User-Generated Content Without Being Sued
User-generated images have become a valuable asset for marketers and media brands, providing some of most engaging and cost effective content for campaigns– unless of course it results in multimillion dollar lawsuit. Each year, several brands learn this the hard way. In 2013, a photographer sued BuzzFeed for $3.6 million after discovering the site had used one of his Flickr…
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Marketing Infographics
Technology Isn’t Slowing Down a Bit… er Flop!
Gordon E. Moore was the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor who wrote a paper 50 years ago that predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year. 10 years later, in 1975, he revised the forecast to every 2 years… and his prediction has been largely accurate. It’s now known as Moore’s Law. To provide…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Improve Your Failing Content Marketing Strategy
We asked the question recently – and provided some definition around – whether or not your content marketing strategy was about productivity, presence, or building authority. The problem we continue to see is companies solely focused on spewing content without analyzing and improving the results. Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again but expecting…
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Analytics & Testing
SeeVolution: Heatmaps and Real-Time Analytics
Businesses of all sizes are always on the hunt for ways to improve their website and to increase website conversion rates. The SeeVolution toolbar uses overlay technology, which allows users to view website analytics without ever leaving the page, providing accurate and comprehensive analytics at a glimpse of an eye. SeeVolution’s technology helps users instantly improve their website with a…
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Analytics & Testing
What Measures Marketers Need to Take to Succeed Online
The 21st century has the seen the emergence of so many technologies that enable us to successfully market businesses in a more integrated and impactful way compared to the past. From blogs, e-commerce stores, online marketplaces to social media channels, the web has become a public arena of information for customers to search and consume. For the first time, the…
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Content Marketing
Content Marketing is a Balance of Curation and Creation
As we review topics on Martech Zone to write about, we research their popularity as well as the content that’s already been published. If we believe we can update the topic and add additional details that are key to the topic – we typically take on the task of writing it ourselves. If we believe we can better illustrate the…
