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- Analytics & Testing
Website Privacy Standards
Marty and I were up at the Social Media Club in Chicago held by the good folks at Edelman. The topic was Transparency in Social Media and the panelists were Tom Chernaik, CEO of Cmp.ly, Michael Kiefer, GM at BrandProtect, Rich Sharp, SVP of Digital Health Group Edelman and Roula Amire, Managing Editor of Ragan.com. The discussion focused on the…
- Analytics & Testing
Social E-commerce with Moontoast
With more people depending on social networks and blogs for news and updates, the focus is on engaging customers and potential customers through social media. However, for companies, such engagement or brand building initiatives remain an exercise in futility if they do not ultimately translate to added revenues. Enter Moontoast, the first socially distributable commerce platform, allowing companies to engage…
- Content Marketing
Create a Free, Beautiful Website in Minutes
Installing and configuring content management systems, finding an agency you can trust, and getting a unique yet affordable design can be a huge challenge for a small business. If your company doesn’t have the resources or the patience to build out a professional site… IM Creator may be the perfect option for your small business. Your site is up in…
- Content Marketing
It’s All About the Images
Every few weeks or so I’m bugging my boss to refill the stock photo budget. There’s not a piece of content we distribute for ourselves or our clients that doesn’t have some kind of representative image, graphic, or custom graphic assigned to it. We know, on Martech Zone, that when we select a great image to get our point across,…
- Content Marketing
How to Avoid Site Migration Suicide
Our first question when a client tells us they’re going to develop a new site is whether the page hierarchy and link structure is going to change. Most of the time the answer is yes… and that’s when the fun starts. If you’re an established company who has had a site for a while, migrating to a new CMS and…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: What is a Brand?
The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. It’s hard to find questions that are any simpler: Who are you? Why does your company exist? What makes you different from the competition? And yet, those are…
- Analytics & Testing
10 Mobile Strategy Considerations
Planning to embrace mobile engagement in a big way? There are many considerations that companies simply don’t anticipate or work to maximize their mobile strategies. Make sure to pay heed to the following tips: Seamless Technology – While technology for mobile engagement has still not arrived fully, companies should base their architecture around a cloud-based platform that brings together content,…
- Analytics & Testing
Affordable and Robust SEO Monitoring
We’ve had our eye on SERPS.com for a while now. Founder Scott Krager showed us the initial versions and we were really impressed. We’ve used our share of SEO monitoring tools before. However, SEO continues to change… and many tools just haven’t kept up. Scott’s team has embraced the change and really come up with a system that’s quite different……
- Content Marketing
Social Sharing Button Playground
What good is your content without enabling the ability for that content to be shared? I’m always surprised when I read an amazing page and there’s either no sharing buttons or it works improperly. If I click a share button and the title and description don’t come up, I’m typically too busy to make an edit and push it out…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Does Advertising in Social Games Work?
In terms of eyeballs and attention spans, no single distribution channel might compete with social gaming. People across the world spend about 200 million minutes a day playing Angry Birds. Zynga’s new game, Cityville, attracted 100 million users in its first month alone. Marketers may try to snatch a piece of the gaming pie by slipping in some casual games…
