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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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Customer ESP: How Predictive Analytics and Marketing Automation Are Transforming Business
Buyer behavior is evolving faster than ever, leaving companies scrambling to keep pace. Traditional approaches to understanding customer needs often relied on gut instinct, broad campaigns, and guesswork. Today, predictive analytics combined with marketing automation has emerged as a decisive…
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Your Brand as a Planet – The Social Employee
We were excited when we saw EveryoneSocial and the ability to utilize your own employees to help increase the voice of your company but we’re still surprised at how quiet many companies are. We recognize that some employees simply aren’t…
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20 E-commerce Strategies to Increase Holiday Sales
The folks at Volusion are projecting a 20% increase in online holiday sales for small to medium- sized online businesses this season! How do you get the most out of this ever-important holiday season without burning your budget? Go into…
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Are Content Marketers Ready for Disruption?
In a new study commissioned by Kapost from the Aberdeen Group, research found few marketers who feel they’re adequately producing and tracking their content. And an exploitable gap is emerging between content leaders and content followers. Kapost calls the transition…
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Nimble: Contact Management and Social CRM
Nimble automatically pulls your contacts into one place so you can engage them across any channel – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Skype, Phone, Email – in one easy to use interface. With Nimble, you can send messages, add tasks and…
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How to Get PR
If you’re a public relations beginner, be sure to check out the entire Guide to PR by Brownstein & Egusa. And for some more detail on PR strategies, be sure to read the guest post – PR Advice From A…
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Black Friday Shoppers – Night Owls vs Early Birds
The 2013 Find&Save Black Friday Shopping Survey shows how, when and why Night Owls and Early Bird shop on Black Friday. While primarily motivated by the sales, Black Friday shoppers are driven by the thrill of the competition to find…
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Increase Email CTRs with Social Sharing
GetResponse has put together an infographic on the overall impact of social sharing on email click-through rates… and the results are quite striking. The number of users who include social sharing buttons in their emails increased from 18.3% to 29.4%.…
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The Six Insider’s Secrets of Contagious Content
Our very own Jenn Lisak was showcased for her advice when developing content. What does it take, exactly, for content to become contagious? Marketing professor Jonah Berger wrote about it in his book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On. According to…
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You Don’t Need a Business Degree to Understand This
Okay, it’s time for a rant. This week I’ve been beat up a couple times and I’m truly at a loss that some of these folks have made it as long as they have in business. I want to get…
