Martech Zone
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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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Acquisition Exchange with ividence
Email continues to be a dominating force in the online marketing industry. While technology has infused itself into virtually every other aspect of online marketing, email seems to be the one that has barely moved in two decades. Recent advances in affordable marketing automation are exciting, but acquisition, permission and SPAM still lead the challenges of the industry. Building great…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Delivra Launches New Website
Our email marketing sponsor, Delivra, launched a beautiful new website today, designed and developed by our other good friends, SpinWeb, on Accrisoft Freedom. Delivra has been a sponsor of the Martech Zone for 3 months, and we have loved working with this client-dedicated and knowledgeable team based out of Indianapolis. Delivra’s email marketing platform offers a variety of features that…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Our Social Responsibility in Social Media
Whether you like it or not, as your company begins to build a dialogue in social media you have a responsibility. You have a responsibility to your audience and your company to uphold the quality of those conversations. I hate visiting a major media outlet and seeing nothing but lies, trolls and spammers take over a page. It tells me…
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Content Marketing
PIPA/SOPA: How Free Content Might Kill Us
Many companies are blacking out their sites in an effort to fight the Protect IP (PIPA)/SOPA Act that’s under review here in the United States. Rather than climbing onboard the wagon and shutting down my site, I thought it would be more constructive to share my reaction with you. We have over 2,500 blog posts that promote technology that assists…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
What Digital Technology is Killing
The digital age has ushered in significant transformations, rendering several technologies obsolete while simultaneously revolutionizing others. This infographic video from Eric Qualman lists almost 50 different technologies that are now obsolete or transformed by digital media. Research for Eric’s newest book, Digital Leader, spurred this list. Wrist Watches: Once essential for timekeeping, wristwatches have become more of a fashion statement…
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Analytics & Testing
Which End of the Sales Funnel?
Marketing strategies are often designed to find more leads or upsell current customers. One of the issues we often find with clients is that they’re often working on the wrong end of the sales funnel. Many companies get less visitors a month to their website than they would like… but if they were able to convert twice as many of…
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Content Marketing
Cross Browser Testing Made Easy
If you’re in web development or web design, you know that one of the most frustrating tasks upon completing a beautiful design is actually ensuring that it works across all browsers. Not only can the browser and operating system severely impact how a page renders, so can the plugins that you are running! We’re launching a site for VA Loan…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
4 Tips For Businesses To Better “Socialize” On Social Media
If you’re reading Martech Zone, chances are someone has clued you in already to the fact that it’s going to be more critical than ever to get your business social this year. A recent survey revealed that 40% of small to midsized business decision-makers plan to use social media in 2012. GrowBiz Media I recently heard a guest on Business…
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Marketing Infographics
How Much Does SEO Cost?
SEOmoz released data from over 600 agencies that perform SEO for their clients. AYTM took the data and put it into a infographic, How Much Does SEO Cost?. One takeaway that was outstanding to see: Pure “SEO” consultants/agencies may be fading as broader “inbound marketing” services firms (offering SEO, social, content, conversion, analytics, etc) rise. The data showed 150 respondents…
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E-commerce and Retail
Site Testing leads to Conversion Happiness
Aside from testing for search, speed and social, there are critical components of a test site that your company should be working on to analyze how visitors are converted into customers. Elements in and on pages like call-to-action buttons, layouts, navigation, copy, promotions, offers, checkout process, product selection process and even security should be constantly tested to find issues and…
