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
LinkedIn Groups for Sales Success
LinkedIn has long been a solid source for business to business marketers and sales departments to find and connect with their prospects and customers. It’s also a great platform to include in your content strategies. Our advice has long been for sales and marketing professionals to be where the audience is… that audience can often be found on LinkedIn Groups.…
- Email Marketing & Automation
The Email and Social Media Jugalbandi
We recently published an inbound marketing crash course that provides 5 emails sent weekly (subscribe on the tab on our agency site). One of the series of emails focuses totally on email marketing, which we refer to the linchpin of any inbound marketing effort. The creative team at Email Monks have produced this infographic which shows the coupling… or jugalbandi……
- Analytics & Testing
Fresh URL: Clean Up Your URLs for Sharing
The good people at Wistia have developed a cross-browser script called Fresh URL that you can embed in your site that removes all the extraneous campaign tracking and other unnecessary querystring code from your URL. This is a great tool because it means that your campaign codes won’t be re-used as people share links to your site. As an example,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Serving is the New Selling
I attended an Indianapolis AMA luncheon where Joel Book spoke about Marketing to the Power of One. His presentation contained a plethora of great information around using digital marketing to serve customers more effectively. Although, there were several takeaways from the program, there was one that stuck with me. The notion that: serving is the new selling. Basically, the idea…
- Content Marketing
Growth Hacking for Content Marketing
One of the reasons why our agency isn’t a content shop is because the goal of online marketing isn’t to produce content, it’s to grow your business. We do produce content (mostly infographics and whitepapers) for clients, but clicking publish is just one step in a much larger strategy. Understanding who you’re writing to and what kind of content they’re…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Do Your Customers LOVE You?
Do your customers love you? New survey data from Responsys reveals how brands can maintain long-term relationships with consumers and avoid unnecessary breakups. Responsys research shows that consumers take the plunge with brands when their messages are part of an orchestrated customer experience that unfolds over time, across channels and according to an individual’s behaviors and preferences. With the right…
- Content Marketing
How Content Marketing Impacts Search Rankings
As search engine algorithms become better at identifying and ranking the appropriate content, the opportunity for companies that engage in content marketing become greater and greater. This infographic from QuickSprout shares some incredible statistics that can not be ignored: Companies with blogs typically receive 97% more leads than companies without blogs. 61% of consumers feel better about a company that…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Don’t Get Hacked on Twitter. Use Login Verification!
There’s nothing quite as embarrassing as having a simple password and being hacked. I’m not sure a week goes by that I don’t have someone that I know getting hacked on Twitter and sending me a suspicious link via direct message. This doesn’t have to happen. Social sites like Twitter offer another layer of security by coordinating logins with your…
- Advertising Technology
Social Media Advertising is a Failure
When I got into traditional media marketing, I was immediately pulled into what could be accomplished with data. Data directed our testing and verbiage in direct marketing and advertising, gave us accurate reporting and measurement, and provided us with a much clearer picture of who they were, what they wanted, where they were, where they wanted and how they wanted…
- Marketing Books
Free Ebook: Are You Playing the Numbers Game?
We’ve written about how impressed we were with EveryoneSocial to encourage your employees to promote your brand socially. After doing the post, the team there reached out and interviewed me regarding my experience with social media. They took the results of that interview and developed a beautiful ebook that you can download from their site. It’s not beautiful because my…
