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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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Autoupdates Failing on WordPress? FTP Failing?
Recently, we had a client that configured their own servers for use with WordPress. When the recent 3.04 security update came through, there was some sense of urgency to getting this version installed on all of our clients. However, this particular client always required that we upgrade WordPress manually… a process not for the faint of heart! We wouldn’t get…
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5 Ways to Kill Your Competition with Content
Someone asked on Quora if their blog could compete in an overly crowded segment of the blogosphere. The question was too good to answer there… I wanted to share my answer with all of you. Of course they can compete! Great content will always rise to the top, regardless of how crowded the space is. Different techniques you can apply…
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Content Marketing
We Only Value Tools We Can Use
This week has been a rough week… lots of stress, lots of change, and mostly a lot of progress. At 42 years old, I’m pretty set in my ways but I had an event this week that really hit hard. I’ve been saying for quite a while that social media is an incredible amplifier – but that companies who were…
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How to Let Customers Drive Your Next Campaign
A few weeks ago, we installed Ooma – a VOIP solution for a home or small business. It’s pretty amazing – even integrating Google Voice (which is our company phone number). Today, we received this email and I instantly loved it. That question is the only question you really need to ask your customers when it comes to satisfaction. When…
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Emailium: Email Template Inspiration
Today marks the public beta of a new tool for email marketers and creative teams, Emailium, a database of email marketing campaigns. This online application catalogs public emails, and organizes them by Industries, Companies, or user-defined tags. How might this service be of use to you? Let’s look at a few scenarios: Creative Teams – When pressed for a new…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
We’re Sliding Back to Eyeballs
If you belong to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, your user interface always includes recommendations for others to connect with or follow. I find this disturbing. I’m not excusing myself on this, either. I’m always looking to grow my online following and promote it at every chance. Go to any site with a company or person seeking authority online, and…
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Content Marketing
It’s the Most Wonderful Zeitgeist of the Year
It's with great anticipation that I await the yearly arrival of the Google Zeitgeist. Not just because I get to say it a lot, but also because it’s a fantastic yearly treat to look into the state of search from the past year.
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Analytics & Testing
Aw, Heck. I Guess I’ll Start A Marketing Business!
What do you get when you mix a high unemployment rate with a highly educated (some say over-educated) society? Consultants, of course. Lots of them. After all, if you’ve been in corporate marketing for 25 years where you were fortunate enough to have your employer pay for you to become a “master of business administration” just before they stopped paying you altogether… who…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Maybe You’re Just Not Good at This
Every once in a while you’re blessed by someone who takes the time to thank you after you do a speech. I joke with folks who tell me how great a session was by letting them know I’ve never been good at ballet. It always gets a chuckle, but there’s a story behind it. I actually do love to dance.…
