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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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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
10 Takeaways From Gary Vaynerchuk’s Speech On Customer Retention and the ROI of Social Media
I’m not sure I’ve heard a speech that more closely matched the way we work with our customers. Like many of the other folks I respect in the online marketing industry, Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t just blowing smoke with theory… he’s aggressively applied, tested, and fine-tuned his approaches to online marketing – and succeeded. This is a matter-of-fact style speech (warning:…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Social Media Revolution – The Parody
We’ve posted the series of social media revolution videos based off of Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics. They’re insightful and full of staggering statistics on how social media is changing the way we live, work and communicate with one another. This parody is too funny not to share, though. People say that when you touch on the truth… that’s when things get…
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Marketing Infographics
What’s a Facebook Friend Really Worth?
Facebook’s IPO has come and gone already and there’s no shortage of opinions floating around the blogosphere as to whether or not it was successful and what the future may hold for Facebook’s users. No matter your thoughts the fact remains Facebook raised $16 billion in an afternoon after raising their target price twice and had the 3rd largest IPO…
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Marketing Tools
Dig Deeper Into Your Survey Results: Cross Tab and Filter Analysis
I do Social Media Marketing for SurveyMonkey, so I’m a big proponent of using online surveys to reach out to your customers to make better more strategic business decisions. You can get a lot of insight from a simple survey, especially when you know something about creating and analyzing it. Writing and designing a good survey is an important part…
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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Marketing Growth
The numbers are staggering and continue to accelerate. More and more people are trading in their mobile phones for smartphones, generating a huge demand for marketing apps, marketing-optimized web sites, location-based services and interactive mobile and social usage outside the home and office. From the Infographic: The traditional cellphone is being overtaken by the far more capable ssmartphone. Equipped with…
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Content Marketing
Why Content for SEO?
Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your product or service. The questions vary… so a few pages of great content just isn’t going to cut it anymore.…
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Marketing Infographics
The Facebook Power User
Today’s the day! Facebook will officially be a $100 billion property, skyrocketing the company to the top of the most valuable companies in the United States. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t buy a single share if I were in a position to. I may be naive, but I don’t think there are enough humans on the Earth to sustain growth enough…
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Content Marketing
Sitecore Brings Content Management to Printed Brochures
The marketing campaign production life cycle, starting with the conceptualization of an idea and extending through the development phase to the final report, data sheet, brochure, catalog, magazine or anything else is a tedious and time-consuming process. Sitecore, a market leader in online content management system software, has rolled out a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize this…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Huddle: Online Collaboration and File Sharing
Rolling out or orchestrating a marketing campaign involves content management and collaboration bottlenecks. I bet you are fed up with making endless changes to VPN or firewall configuration to facilitate increased collaboration! Chances are that you are using either an obsolete intranet or SharePoint. Switching over to the seamless experience that the cloud based Huddle workspace provides would actually make…
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Content Marketing
The Inbound Marketing Experts You Will Learn From Online
Colleague Dave Morse of Delta Faucet passed on a congratulations to me today for making a list of 18 Must-Know Inbound Marketing Experts in Marketo’s Whitepaper: Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing Program. What is an Inbound Marketing Expert? Inbound marketing refers to marketing activities that bring visitors in, rather than marketers having to…
