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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.
- Analytics & Testing
How to Prevent Data Breaches in This Omni-Channel World
Google has determined that in a single day, 90% of consumers use multiple screens to meet their online needs such as banking, shopping, and booking travel and they expect that their data will remain secure as they hop from platform to platform. With customer satisfaction as a top priority, security and data protection can fall through the cracks. According to…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Media Is Failing Because a Lack of Faith in Itself
Yesterday I had a great conversation with Brad Shoemaker, a local media expert with a long history trying to drag radio into the digital age. It just so happened that another friend, Richard Sickels, walked into the office. Richard had a great history in radio as well. We talked a ton about the radio industry and I continued to think…
- Content Marketing
Using Content Marketing Strategies in B2B Emails
There are times when marketers closely follow convention and I think it’s a great idea. For instance, having help or content links on the top right of your site, next or submit buttons on the bottom right, and centering sites to accommodate varying viewports. At other times, it really doesn’t make sense though and I believe this Infographic provides a…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Key Strategies for Email Marketing
Email marketing continues to be the surest way to reconnect, retain and attract customers. While there are challenges getting in the inbox, there are still strategies that produce results for highly productive email marketing teams. The 2014 Adestra/Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census surveyed over 1,100 digital marketers and figured out which attributes are critical for creating an email marketing dream…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Your Checklist for a Successful Technology Festival!
This last weekend, we kicked of the first Music, Marketing & Tech Midwest Event (#MTMW) – an event here in Indianapolis to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of my Dad who we lost last year. This is the first event that I’ve ever put on so it was quite terrifying. However, it went off without…
- Content Marketing
Information Overload and Infographics
Every day we review our alerts from Meltwater, or sponsor, and review dozens of marketing-related infographics on the web. Each week we choose not to publish hundreds of infographics, though. We develop infographics ourselves and it’s not that we’re snobs… it’s simply that we understand what makes an infographic work and what doesn’t. A well-designed infographic without information overload has…
- Content Marketing
Smart Ways to Combine Content Marketing with SEO
The folks at Blogmost.com developed this infographic and named it Little Known Ways to Build High Quality Backlinks in 2014. I’m not sure I like that title… I don’t think companies should focus on building links anymore. Our local search experts at Site Strategics like to say that new strategies require earning links rather than actively building them. More importantly,…
- Marketing Books
The Big Switch: Your Mind Are Belong To Us
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been starting and stopping a few books—one of them being The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Today, I finally finished it. Carr does an excellent job drawing parallels between the rise of America’s electrical power grid and the emergence of cloud computing. While I appreciate Carr’s insight into cloud computing and how software development…
- Content Marketing
VerbalizeIt: App, Text, Audio and Video Translation
VerbalizeIt’s translation platform routes your uploaded content to a curated community for translation, review and return within 24-48 hours. Only the top 10% of eligible applicants are invited to join the translation community and a feedback loop from VerbalizeIt community leadership, customers and continuous testing is used to ensure they reward the highest quality translators, train high potential translators, and…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Testing Livefyre Sidenote for Commenting
We’ve moved between commenting systems a few times on Martech Zone. Luckily, all the key platforms will synchronize comments (we don’t use them if they don’t). Comments are becoming a topic nowadays since comment spam is rampant and many of the most colorful conversations are happening offline, leading some very large blogs to turn off commenting altogether. I’m with friend…
