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.
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Advertising Technology
Keep Your Promises
A friend was telling me a story the other day. She’d felt she’d been burned by a company she’d been doing business with and needed to vent about it. Several months ago, when the relationship began, they’d sat down and agreed on how they’d work together, outlining who’d do what and when. Things looked pretty good at first. But as…
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The Greatest Marketing Tool Ever!
No, I am going to unveil some new great and wonderful technology, website, or other marketing silver bullet that will rocket your company into super stardom. I am talking about great customer service. It seems obvious to say that. Everyone knows that great customer service is a given, but from what I have seen many companies and individuals have forgotten…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
SEO: 10 Backlinking Temptations To Avoid
Google’s gold standard of whether or not a website should be ranked well continues to change over time, but for quite a while the best method has gone unchanged… relevant backlinks from legitimate, authoritative sites. On-page SEO and lots of great content may get your site indexed for specific keywords, but quality backlinks will drive up its rank. Since backlinks…
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Analytics & Testing
Predictive Marketing Analytics with ThinkVine
What would the Return on Investment be if you could change your marketing mix? This is a question that large customers with complex marketing strategies (that are balanced between a multitude of mediums) ask themselves every day. Should we drop radio for online? Should I shift marketing from television to search? What will the impact on my business be if…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Interview with Steven Woods: Digital Body Language
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of doing my first Google Voice Podcast with Steven Woods, CTO of Eloqua and author of Digital Body Language. Google Voice allows you to record your incoming calls (press 4 to start and stop recording) and then places them directly in your Google Voice inbox. I thought this was a great way to begin…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Business Impact of Early Adoption and Change
I’m reading Kevin Eikenberry’s book, Remarkable Leadership, and I will have coffee with Kevin tomorrow. It’s a fantastic book – and one chapter hit home with me on championing change. Kevin discusses change in great detail. One of Kevin’s references is the 1962 book by Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations. It’s a theory that has stood the test of time……
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Marketing & Sales Videos
MC Hammer 2.0 and Personal Branding
If you wanted to research a celebrity who has been able to re-energize their career through social media, my first example would be MC Hammer. Everyone has seen the Behind the Music and rise and fall of MC Hammer as a pop icon. MC Hammer has effectively utilized social media to re-insert himself into modern culture again. If you’ve been…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Where is Email Communications Headed?
I have fallen into a rather nasty habit of putting some emails aside for action for a month or more. I have a triage system for incoming emails. If they don’t require my immediate attention or action within a period of time to avoid pain of some sort, I just let them sit. Maybe that’s a bad thing. Or maybe…
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Content Marketing
Marketpath – Simplified Content Management
A few months ago I visited the team at Marketpath and had got a demonstration of their Software as a Service (SaaS) Content Management System (CMS) – which includes both an e-commerce and basic blogging solution. I had heard a lot about the company but it was great to finally get a demo and see what they had achieved. Matt…
