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.
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Who’s Your Search Engine Marketing Villain?
It doesn’t matter how much initial education you put into a new engagement, a Search Engine Marketing Villain will pop up when you least expect it. I have identified a short list of the Villains that we seem to come across when engaging new prospects. Can you relate to any of these? Lack of Goals Don’t Tell How Much You Want…
- Content Marketing
How To Find Ideas For Blog Posts Using Google
As you may know, blogging is a great content marketing activity and can lead to improved search engine rankings, stronger credibility, and a better social media presence. However, one of the most difficult aspects of blogging can be getting ideas. Blog ideas can come from many sources, including customer interactions, current events, and industry news. However, another great way to…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO Doesn’t Stop with Your Site
From time to time, DK New Media has room in our busy schedule to assist our partner companies. We blog about some, have them on the radio show, have designed some infographics for others, and we give away software licenses (we just sent out a bunch for our social media monitoring) and even do some SEO promotion! For the holidays…
- Content Marketing
Visits up 25% Since Redesign
We still don’t have Martech Zone exactly the way we’d like it, but the new design has been a huge success. Traffic to the site has increased over 25% with pageviews up over 30%. That doesn’t include the additional traffic that we’re experiencing from our new weekly newsletter (subscribe above). Design is consistently underrated as a means to increase traffic…
- Content Marketing
Hold Companies Accountable
I could share some great horror stories with you on my history with banks and credit cards. Some of it has admittedly been my fault but most of it is the ridiculous actions of banks. I wonder how these guys sleep at night… massive profits, bailouts, executive bonuses and ridiculous overage fees haven’t even budged them to improve their systems.…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The iPad Hype… Why You’re Next
We had a couple folks complain that the blog had an issue on the iPad where they actually couldn’t read the posts. This was about the tenth person that complained about our blog and the iPad so I finally broke down and we purchased a few. One is for me, one for Stephen, our developer… and the other one is…
- Content Marketing
Get Ready for Facebook Mobile
Facebook is making a quiet push to gain access to your mobile phone number. In recent weeks they have made two noticeable changes that suggest preparations to dominate the mobile marketing space. First they have started warning users who have not provided a mobile phone number that their Facebook security is low, and the first step to increasing their security…
- Analytics & Testing
Conversions: Meet the Intent of your Visitor
It may seem like an obvious question, but it when your site is designed to respond to the intent of each kind of visitor you’re able to convert more. Visitors will come to your site for a number of reasons: Seeking Information – both clients and prospects may be looking for specific answers. Can they find them? If not, can…
- Content Marketing
A Project Management Solution for Consultants
There are three kinds of projects. The ones you can do on your own, the ones that you can pay someone else to handle for you, and the ones that you need to collaborate with others on. Project management software is for the third kind. I recently discovered Mavenlink, a cloud-based project management application that is similar to Basecamp, but…
- Advertising Technology
Do Not Track: What Marketers Need to Know
There’s already been quite a bit of news about the FTC’s request for Internet companies to enabled features that empower consumers to not be tracked. If you hadn’t read the 122-page Privacy report, you’d think the FTC was setting some kind of line in the sand on a feature they’re requesting called Do Not Track. What is Do Not Track?…
