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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…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Small Businesses Use Software to Manage Contacts
With over 90% of small businesses using some digital form of data management to store contacts, it seems apparent that small businesses have plunged into the digital age. But, we wanted to know what these small businesses are doing with the contact data. What we discovered may surprise you. You can find the full survey results at the AddressTwo University.
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Analytics & Testing
Viralheat: Social Media Monitoring for SMBs
We’ve been on the lookout for a social media monitoring service for quite some time. A social media monitoring system allows you to set up brands and keywords and monitor various social media sites for mentions, sentiment and activity around those mentions. For companies, a social media monitoring strategy can be very lucrative for managing customer service issues, monitoring how…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Does Your Organic Search Rank Really Matter?
Time for me to ruffle some SEO feathers again! Today I decided to download my stats from Google Search Console and really do some digging on the traffic that I’m getting from organic search. Martech Zone ranks incredibly high on a number of keywords with dozens of #1 ranks on highly competitive, high-volume keywords. We all know that the higher…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Who Owns Your Corporate Twitter Followers?
Pretty interesting account on the New York Times of how Phonedog is suing a previous employee to gain access to the Twitter followers on the account he set up as part of their social media outreach. By current employment standards in the country, I suppose PhoneDog is fully within their rights… the work you do on company time is typically…
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E-commerce and Retail
Amazon Versus the World!
Amazon now stands as one of the most powerful retail sources in the world. With millions of die-hard customers and fans, it has challenged not only other retailers on and offline, but entire online marketing channels. Amazon’s newest product, the Kindle Fire, took some pretty harsh criticism last week. Regardless, sales still appear to be monstrous, with more than 1…
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Customer Data Platforms
What Is Concept Testing?
Concept testing is a process used to evaluate a new idea or concept with the target audience to understand how well it resonates with them. The primary goal of concept testing is to validate the concept or idea and to identify any potential issues or areas for improvement before investing significant time and resources in further development. Here are some…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Subdomains, SEO and Business Results
Here’s a very touchy SEO subject (which I ran into again this week): Subdomains. Many SEO consultants despise subdomains. They want everything in one neat place so they can do off-site promotion easily and focus on getting that domain more authority. If your site has multiple domains, it multiplies the work it takes. In other words, if you’re going to…
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Marketing Infographics
Top 20 Marketing Automation Solutions
Marketing automation is becoming a conversation we’re having with clients more and more each week. Today we discussed HubSpot (used by a customer), Act-On (which we implemented for two of our customers) and Optify with a client and I was just talking to the team last week about their success. It’s important to note that there’s really not one marketing…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Digital Wallet and the Future of Payments
In 2011, the number of global mobile payment transactions is going to reach $241 billion but by 2015, that’s expected to exceed $1 trillion! No doubt that’s why every credit card company and online payment gateway is hard at work investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Near Field Communications technology and payment methodologies. With the proliferation of broadband networks…
