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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.
- Marketing & Sales Videos
The Awesome Authors Beta is Live
Part of our rebranding was coming up with a unique feature specifically for Martech Zone. Although I call this site my blog, I truly want the blog to be a collection of views from other professionals in the industry. At times, I disagree with what’s written here… but I support the fact that we all have different perspectives on the…
- Content Marketing
Marketing Automation with Aggregation and Syndication
We like to use big words in the marketing industry… aggregation and syndication are a couple of them – and they’re very important. Aggregation – allows you to collect content from other sites and display them in yours. They could be from a blog, news feed, podcast, or social feed. Aggregation can be a great tool to use to keep…
- Content Marketing
Technology Marketing: The Apple Formula
Technology marketing, as opposed to marketing technology, is the way that products and services in technology are positioned to potential customers. Since our world and lives are moving online… the manner in which technologies are fantastic, leading examples of how to brand and market overall. It’s difficult not to think about technology marketing without speaking to Apple. They are fantastic…
- Content Marketing
Four Communication Best Practices for Tech Startups
Incorporating a few internal and external communication best practices will provide a solid foundation for future growth. Recognize the value of Public Relations – Word of mouth and tweeting generate interest and are a critical part of evangelizing today’s tech buyers. But a traditional PR program has access to analysts and editors who have a ready and loyal audience of…
- Content Marketing
The Marketing Genius of Jim Irsay
On Sunday, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Tennessee Titans to become the AFC South Champions. Before the game, however, Colts owner Jim Irsay ran an absolutely brilliant marketing campaign over Twitter. In case you weren’t up on the details, let’s review Irsay’s tweets from December 31st: TO WIN A PRIUS AND $4K—At 1:15pm this Sunday there will be a black…
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…
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…
- 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…
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…
