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.
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Optimized Marketing: Why You Should Align Brand Segmentation to Activation & Reporting
With high volumes of data created across multiple marketing channels, brands are challenged to organize and activate the right data assets to maximize cross-channel performance. You must align your brand segmentation with digital activation and reporting to understand better your…
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Social Customer Service for Marketeers
Customer service IS marketing. I’ll say it again… customer service IS marketing. Because the way you treat your customers is promoted on social media, ratings and reviews every single day, your customer service is no longer an indicator of customer…
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More Content, More Problems: The Struggle of a Sales Rep
We’ve been publishing quite a bit about the tools that align sales and marketing efforts. In my opinion, sales representatives have a much more difficult job to do nowadays. 59% of their time doing tasks other than selling such as…
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How to Make Marketing Automation Work for You
There’s a lot of confusion in the online front today on what exactly marketing automation is. It seems that any company who figures out how to send an email based on a triggered event calls themselves marketing automation. We’ve learned…
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GoDaddy: Leaving the Boobs Behind and Kicking Ass
I hated GoDaddy. I truly did. I couldn’t believe a brand could spend millions of dollars flashing cleavage and continue to build so much business. It was a slap in the face to marketers who worked hard to keep their…
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#Atomicchat: User-Generated Content
If you follow me on Twitter, we had a fantastic chat session with the folks at Atomic Reach speaking about User Generated Content (UGC). Here are the highlights and key takeaways from #AtomicChat Twitter chat, hosted every Monday night at…
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5 Ways that Tablets are Changing the Retail Experience
This week I was shopping in the local CVS pharmacy and was pretty intrigued when I noticed a full, multimedia display with video and sound promoting one of the electric razors. The unit fit right on the shelf, didn’t take…
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Blog Promotion Strategies From Top Marketing Experts
A successful blogging strategy ain’t easy but it’s also not rocket science. Some folks think that “If you blog, they will come…” but nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, you could organically attract folks to your blog over…
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MeetingHero: An App for Meeting Productivity
Marketers have meetings all the time as do agencies… meetings are the lifeblood of ideation and planning. But meetings can be terribly unproductive as well. While many people want meetings all the time, I often resist. Meetings are taxing and…
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How to Get Fans Creating and Sharing Content for You
We just shared how LinkedIn was utilizing storytelling and user stories to increase it’s brand marketing efforts and up pops this infographic from Neil Patel – How to Get Fans Creating and Sharing Content for You. The infographic walks through…
