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.
- Marketing Infographics
Tips for Brands to Maintain a Balanced Twitter Feed
We’ve been doing quite a few things to ramp up our Twitter engagement recently. I believe the team at Twitter has been much more aggressive at improving quality and kicking out the spammers… and it’s showing. On the Martech Zone twitter account, we’ve been working to find and follow new accounts, share popular information from all over the web, add…
- Content Marketing
Confessions of the SEO Marketers
Search engine optimization is one piece of marketing optimization, and it can be as confusing and contrived as a parking sign in New York City. There’s so many people talking and writing about SEO and many contradict each other. I reached out to top contributors in the Moz community and asked them the same three questions: What SEO tactic that…
- Analytics & Testing
The World of Social Media Monitoring and Analytics
The first bit of data on this infographic is pretty fascinating… the growth of the analytics tool market. In my opinion, it points to a couple issues. First is that we’re all still seeking better tools to report and monitor on our marketing strategies and second is that we’re willing to apply a larger percentage of our marketing budget to…
- Content Marketing
How We Manually Migrate WordPress Installations
You’d like to think that moving your WordPress site from one host to another is really easy, but it can truly get frustrating. We were literally helping a client last night that decided to move from one host to another and it quickly turned into a troubleshooting session. They did what folks would normally do – they zipped up the…
- Analytics & Testing
How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
- Content Marketing
The Playbook for B2B Online Marketing
This is a fantastic infographic on the strategies of every successful business-to-business (B2B) online system. As we work with our customers, this is relatively close to our engagements’ overall look and feel. Simply doing B2B online marketing is not going to maximize success and your website isn’t going to just magically generate new business because it’s there and it looks…
- Analytics & Testing
Appinions: The Who, What and Which of Influence Marketing
Some marketing technology platforms age like fine wine as they continue to unwind the issues that plague marketers. Appinions appears to be one of those platforms. When we did a post a few years ago, it was a nice little platform that provided influence by topic and person – very useful at the time. Years later and it’s a comprehensive…
- Advertising Technology
What a Tangled Web Native Advertising Will Weave
I’m not sure if you’ve seen this video yet. It’s not safe for work but it’s absolutely hilarious regarding the topic of major newspapers and traditional news publications looking to increase revenue through the display of native advertising, also known as sponsored content. What is Native Advertising? Native advertising is an online advertising method in which the advertiser attempts to…
- Content Marketing
How Your Eyes Move on a Website
For creatives, I’m sure there’s someone inside screaming at them to be different and avoid building a website that looks and acts like everyone else. From a marketing perspective, though, we’ve educated our visitors over a decade now as to what to expect on a website and how to navigate one effectively. As a user, there’s nothing quite as frustrating…
- Content Marketing
4 Key Takeaways to a Smart Mobile Marketing Strategy
Mobile, mobile, mobile… are you tired of it yet? I think we’re working on mobile strategies with half of our clients right now – from optimizing mobile email templates, to integrating responsive themes, to building mobile applications. In reality, I believe businesses are honestly looking at their web presence backwards since much of the interaction with brands now starts with…
