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.
- Email Marketing & Automation
Right On Interactive: A Disrupter in Marketing Automation
When it comes to marketing automation, the industry is truly split. There are low-end solutions that require you to match their processes in order to be successful. These aren’t inexpensive… many cost thousands of dollars per month and basically require you to retool how your company works to match their methodology. I believe this spells disaster for many companies… who…
- Content Marketing
What is Organic SEO?
If you want to understand search engine optimization, you really have to stop listening to those in the industry looking to profit from it and simply boil it down to Google’s advice. Here’s a great paragraph from their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide: Even though this guide’s title contains the words “search engine”, we’d like to say that you should…
- Marketing Infographics
Why Women Are The Real Power Behind Social Media
During peak hours, almost 76 of online users who are on Facebook are actually women, and they update their statuses on Twitter and Instagram way more often than men. This is an interesting figure to consider, and is probably why a lot of brands appeal or target women when it comes to their online marketing campaign. This infographic shows that…
- Analytics & Testing
How to Plan Your New Web Site
We’ve all been there… your site needs a refresh. Either your business has rebranded, the site has become stale and old, or it’s simply not converting visitors the way you need it too. Our clients come to us to increase conversions and we often have to take a step back and redevelop their entire web presences from branding through to…
- Marketing Infographics
The Year of the Social Small Business
Whenever I hear that someone is starting a business or they own their own small business, I immediately have respect for them. Small businesses make up the majority of our extended network and we all work hard to raise each other up in the sea of the goliaths. I tend to lean on small businesses much more since every customer…
- Analytics & Testing
Mashape Connects Developers and APIs
For the longest time, my goto for finding APIs was Programmable Web – but that may have changed after perusing Mashape. Mashape isn’t simple a searchable directory of APIs, it actually integrates the API directly into their repository. This enables you to sign up, find and test an API without any difficulty at all. Here’s their list of benefits and…
- Analytics & Testing
What Your Customers Really Think About Privacy
The media loves to drone on and on about how companies are using and abusing big data. Do consumers really care? As a marketer, my only expectation is that the data be utilized to improve the experience I receive from the brand. Sometimes that’s a bit too optimistic, but when I answer a ton of questions and then the experience…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Armature: Wireframing Extension For Illustrator CC / CS5+
Many of my friends in the industry already wireframe using Illustrator but Armature has arrived – a $24 extension for Adobe Illustrator. Armature has a collection of objects for the conceptualization of web apps, mobile apps, and web sites for simple drag & drop wireframing. What is a wireframe? According to Wikipedia: A website wireframe, also known as a page…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
B2B Marketing Guide to Drive Sales Results
This infographic from Introhive does a nice job in breaking down tactics to channels for business-to-business (B2B) marketing efforts that drive sales results. I’m not convinced that the advice here should be literally accepted by every B2B organization, but it does supply some great descriptions as to how the channels can benefit your sales efforts. This resource is meant to…
- Marketing Infographics
The Social Marketing Potential of Snapchat
While marketing strategists have found many successful ways to promote their brands on Facebook and Instagram, there is a powerful app that often gets overlooked: Snapchat. This app has over 26 million active U.S. users with a core audience between ages 13 and 25, but the only way to interact with a user is if they add you. Clothing retailer,…
