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Email Marketing & Automation
Small Business Marketing Cycle Toolbox
Our technology sponsor,Formstack (for online form building), built than incredible infographic providing guidance on the strategies and tools that a small business can leverage. Each of the tools are cost effective and easy to use. Developing a marketing strategy can be tough. Luckily, the Toolbox of the Small Business Marketing Cycle helps you streamline the process, all while providing popular…
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Content Marketing
The Dramatic Impact of Online Visual Storytelling
There’s a reason why we use so much imagery here at Martech Zone… it works. While the textual content is the focus, the imagery balances the pages and provides a means for readers to get an instant impression of what is to come. Imagery is an understated strategy when it comes to developing your content. If you haven’t already –…
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Content Marketing
How Are Marketers Using Social Media?
If you’re wondering how marketers are leveraging social media for their businesses, HubSpot pulled together an infographic snapshot to feature some of results from the 6,491 survey respondents of a survey executed by Moz. The data was released in a joint webinar between HubSpot and Moz today. One interesting stat, 44.4% of survey respondents said their proficiency level with social…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google: Subdomain or Subfolder for Multi-Language
Within Google Search Console, there are several options for handling querystring parameters. One of the options on these is making a language indicator. To date, I always thought that this would be the best means of providing multilanguage support to a website so that Google could distinguish which pages were developed for what language. It appears I’m wrong, though, after…
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Analytics & Testing
Klout Scores Reinvented… and I Like It!
I had heard about Klout a while ago but didn’t pay much attention until I met some of the Klout team in Las Vegas. I tested it out and found that some of the scores were lacking. For instance, many of us had multiple pages, multiple accounts, and a history online that spanned a decade… but Klout wasn’t impacted by…
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Email Marketing & Automation
5 Point Email Marketing Holiday Checklist
It’s Fall which means back to school shopping is in full swing and students are on their way back to the classroom. However, Timing. Be aware that even though it’s only August, several people are already starting to look into gift ideas. If they find it for the right price, they go ahead and purchase to be ahead of the…
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Analytics & Testing
Website First Impressions
So many companies simply don’t perform well on the Internet due to the aesthetics of their site. Design may be one of the most under-rated investments you can make, mostly because it’s so difficult to measure the return. You have to invest and invest heavily before you’ll ever find out how well your site is performing. This infographic, the Power…
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Content Marketing
Presentation: 10 Proven Tips to Leverage SlideShare
I’ve had incredible success with SlideShare over the years, but have noticed that many of our clients haven’t been as successful. I have over 313 followers on SlideShare with well over 50,000 views as well as a couple presentations that made the home page of SlideShare. In the last few years, I’ve really learned how to get much more out…
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Marketing Infographics
What is Search Engine Spam?
We’ve been on a pretty big kick lately warning you about search engine optimization techniques that are going to get you in trouble. Even if your site isn’t suffering today, Google continues to modify it’s algorithms and test new ones that will catch you tomorrow. Don’t be tempted to spam the search engines… it will catch up with you. This…
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Marketing Infographics
12 Steps of SEO Recovery
We love having some fun with Infographics, so with all the talk of SEO woes and even our own talk of the death of SEO, we decided to come up with a 12 Step Program for SEO Consultants and put it into a humorous infographic! SEO Prayer: Google grant me the serenity to accept the rank I cannot change, the…
