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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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……
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Smartcards Rolling Out Over the Next Few Years
Wow… when you think about all the dedicated and dependent hardware for traditional magnetic striped credit cards, that’s a ton of equipment and expense out there to replace. Over the next few years, though, that’s exactly what’s going to happen!…
