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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.
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Postacumen: Competitive Analysis for Facebook Pages
Where does your brand rank in on Facebook with regard to your competitors? What are the types of content and images that your competitors are sharing that are driving engagement to their brand instead of yours? When is the community…
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Me-Commerce and Retail’s Future
Retail is changing rapidly – both online and offline. Traditionally, retail establishments have always had low profit margins and high volume to produce the business results they needed to survive. We’re seeing rapid turnover in retail nowadays where technology is…
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The Most Wanted Wearable Technologies
A few weeks ago, my mother had a scare with her heart that required her to wear a defibrillator full time. The system monitored and uploaded her heart data through sensors in the vest, would automatically warn if there was…
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Signal: Grow with Email, Text, Social and Sweepstakes
BrightTag, a cloud-based marketing platform for Internet retailers, has purchased Signal. Signal is a centralized marketing hub for cross channel marketing via email, SMS and social media. Signal features include: Email newsletters – pre-built, mobile-optimized email templates to use or…
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Email Marketing Stats You Need to Know
I’m not too sure every single email marketing statistic here is imperative to your email marketing, but a few of them really stand out to me: Email Advertising Revenue is surprisingly low and far underutilized. I’m always surprised on our…
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Credit Card Processing and Mobile Checkouts Explained
Mobile payments are becoming commonplace and a solid strategy for closing business faster and making payment processes easier on the customer. Whether you’re a e-commerce provider with a full shopping cart, a merchant with mobile checkout (our example here), or…
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The 5 Social Media Misconceptions of Businesses
Recently, I was interviewed and asked what misconceptions companies make when developing and implementing their social media strategy. My experience may run counter to many of the gurus out there, but – in all honesty – I think this industry…
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The Content Marketing Conundrum
Whether you’re across the pond or here in the Americas, I don’t believe the challenges with content marketing are indifferent… developing a measured strategy that develops compelling content relevant to your audiences across mediums and levels of intent is tough.…
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Workamajig: Financial and Project Management for Creative Agencies
Workamajig is a web-based system for managing your advertising or marketing agency’s finances and client projects. More than 2,000 firms utilize their marketing management software for their in-house departments. Workamajig is a customizable, Web-based project management software that streamlines everything…
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The Mobile Marketing Takeover
Mobile phones used to be so alien to us all, and yet now they are completely common place. Smartphones are more advanced and more interactive than ever, and there are still new and exciting developments under way for many large…
