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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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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
53% Shifting Budget from Print to Search and Social
This morning, I’m reading eConsultancy’s State of Search Marketing Report for 2011. The State of Search Marketing Report 2011, produced by Econsultancy in association with SEMPO, looks in-depth at how companies are using paid search, search engine optimization (natural search) and social media marketing. The report, which also contains a marketplace valuation, follows a survey of over 900 respondents from…
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Content Marketing
WordPress .htaccess Rules Have Exceptions, Too
WordPress made a major evolutionary step forward in the blogging platform, moving it closer to a full-fledged content management system with revision tracking, more support for custom menus, and–the most intriguing feature for me–multi-site support with domain mapping. If you are not a content management system junkie, it’s okay. You can skip right past this article. But for my fellow…
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Content Marketing
Crowdsource Your B2B Data Cleansing
Last week I had a great discussion with the folks at NetProspex, a Software as a Service toolset that allows you to enhance and verify your business to business contact records. The system is quite rich, already accumulating data on over 21 million verified B2B contacts. Sometimes it’s easy to collect a name, an email address or some other part…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
What’s So Special About Social Media?
Last week, I mentioned that one of the reasons social media was failing many marketers was because we haven’t identified the magic algorithm. I still don’t think there is a magic algorithm… but after this week, I can point to one of the special traits of social media. It’s vulnerability. The next section is sort of personal… so if you…
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Content Marketing
Are Entrepreneurs Born?
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, discusses entrepreneurship. I enjoyed his candid responses – he truly enjoys finding and solving problems, but learned the rest of the necessary traits of an entrepreneur through the growth of his businesses. I have a bit of a different take on entrepreneurship. I honestly think that everyone is born with entrepreneurial talent, but many of…
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Content Marketing
Writing For People Who Do Not Read
This week, I responded to a Facebook comment (ok… it was an argument) and the author immediately responded… “So we agree!”. It made me go back and reread his comment. I was embarrassed to see how terrible my comment was in response to his – I totally missed his key points. Later on, I found a comment on my blog…
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Content Marketing
Technology Fueling Economic Growth in Indiana
As a judge for the 2011 Mira Awards, I had a chance to spend a day meeting with founders, inventors, programmers and business leaders making a significant impact in our technology landscape. While I can’t tell you who the winners are, you will need to attend the Mira awards next month, I can tell you there are some really exciting…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Marketing is Failing
Last year, I wrote a post in response to Jonathan Salem Baskin, taking exception to his notion that Social Media could be dangerous for companies. (I actually agreed with him on many counts). This time – in my opinion – Mr. Baskin nailed it. Every company has been jumping on the social media bandwagon, increasing marketing spend in that arena,…
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Content Marketing
Squeeze In Some New Visitors with Tynt
Everyone is looking for ways to fully leverage their content, the Martech Zone isn’t any different. Many of your readers will read your content and then copy and paste snippets to send along to others or embed it into their own posts. Tynt is a service you can easily embed that detects the copy and adds your URL to the…
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Event Marketing
Marketing Idea: One-Click Event Registration
Over at the productivity consulting company I run, we do a ton of public seminars. We do the standard event marketing stuff: we’ve got the microsite, we’ve got the email newsletter, and we’ve got the online registration system. But we’ve got one more idea that we’re thinking about trying, and it’s a little crazy. Maybe you can help tell us…
