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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.
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Here’s How You Don’t Get Burned with Influencer Marketing
We’ve written before about the traps of influence marketing. As one who is compensated from time to time as an influencer, I’m skeptical of how many influence marketing relationships are setup. Case in point, earlier this year I was invited to the Brickyard because I’m a local influencer on social media. There were a bunch of folks invited from social…
- Email Marketing & Automation
MyYappyDog: Social CRM for Real Estate Agents
There’s a new startup that’s gaining some traction in Indianapolis with Real Estate Agents, and it’s called My Yappy Dog. If you could combine a dead simple communication platform with a no-nonsense customer relationship management platform, you’ve got a Social CRM called My Yappy Dog. 3 out of 4 of real estate agency customers said they would do business again…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Questions That Aren’t Being Asked About Ello
I’m sure someone is asking these questions, but I’m going to take a stab at it anyways because I haven’t found them. I joined Ello quite early – thanks to my friend and fellow marketing tech addict, Kevin Mullett. Immediately, within the small network I roamed and discovered some amazing people that I had never met before. We began sharing…
- Marketing Infographics
How are Marketers Like You Selecting a Marketing Automation Provider?
We’ve written about the loose understandings surrounding what marketing automation is, and shared some of the B2B challenges in the marketing automation industry. This infographic from Marketo, who teamed up with Software Advice, shared this infographic on where they combined the results of hundreds of companies to determine what drives organizations to purchase marketing automation systems. Did you know that…
- Marketing Infographics
Here are 33 LinkedIn Tips for you to Tweet!
There aren’t too many days that I’m not reading an update from LinkedIn, connecting with someone on LinkedIn, participating in a group on LinkedIn, or promoting our content and business on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a lifeline for my business – and I’m happy with the upgrade I made to a premium account earlier this year. Here are some fantastic tips…
- Marketing Infographics
5 Tips to Successfully Convert Your Online Prospect into a Client
We shared about how incredible the Refresh app was yesterday. I found out about them when I received this infographic to share from them, How to Close a Sales Lead. The journey that they describe in the email basically starts after the lead is captured via marketing. The 5 Tips to Close a Lead Use a CRM – Of course,…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
If You’re in Sales or Marketing, Get Refresh Now!
It happens every week. I get an email from a vendor or prospect and we work together a date to talk. I check out their site and see whether or not it’s a fit. I might even connect with them on LinkedIn to learn a bit more about them. The date is set, the calendar invite is accepted and I…
- Marketing Infographics
How to Measure the Return on Investment of Social Media
We’ve discussed the challenges of measuring social media ROI in the past – and some of the limitations of what you can measure and how impactful social media marketing can be. That’s not to say some of the social media activity can’t be measured with precision, though. Here’s a simple example… the CEO of the company tweets on thought leadership…
- Marketing Books
Agile Marketing is Evolution, Not Revolution, and Why You Must Adopt It
From building buildings to building software. In the 1950’s the Waterfall Development Model was introduced into software design and development. The system is a relic of the manufacturing industry where, by necessity, the right answer had to be devised before work started. And, in that world, the right answer makes sense! Could you imagine a scenario where you decided to…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Ballparker: Create Estimates with Ease
The sales enablement sector is exploding in growth, with more and more companies recognizing that the job of sales has changed quite a bit over the years. By the time the prospect gets to you, they’ve researched you and your competitors online, understand your strengths and weaknesses and simply want to get down to a proposal. One sector of the…
