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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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Marketing Analytics 101: Show Me the Money!
When I wrote an article for Talent Zoo last month, I wrote about leveraging automation and integration to maximize and leverage your online strategies, as well as the companies helping businesses to execute those marketing automation opportunities . A few…
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Mobile Textarea: How Many Characters Left
We're up to Version 3.0 of the WordPress Mobile Plugin utilizing Connective Mobile's API and Text Club feature. Connective Mobile has a 150 Character limit for your Mobile Marketing message that you want to broadcast to your subscribers. Rather than…
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PHP: Using Is.gd API to Shorten URL
Just read an article on the benefits and pitfalls of shortening URLs over at SEOmoz . I utilize the Is.gd API to do this: function doCurlRequest($url, $variable, $value) { $api = $url."?".$variable."=".$value; $session = curl_init(); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_URL, $api ...
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We Hired an Attorney Today
It's not a bad thing. Every week, for more than a year, I've had a reminder from 43 things to Start a Successful Business . That's a tall order! Starting a business is one thing, making it successful is quite…
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Google Adsense Now Monetizing my Feed
For quite some time I ran affiliate marketing ads in my feed using the PostPost plugin I developed for WordPress and Commission Junction advertisements. It wasn't really a source of any significant revenue, though, perhaps a few dollars a month.…
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The New Business “Cards” Are Here!
When I posted about purchasing some new business cards , I received some great recommendations. Included were metal business cards and even a business card using a tag cloud. I decided to go in a completely opposite direction from my…
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Starbucks: The Inflation and Devaluation of a Brand
The United States really didn't understand what coffee could taste like. Coffee grinds were flavored with chips for a long time, which helped maximize the profits of coffee companies. I had a friend who worked in a packaging plant, specifically…
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Recommendations for Business Cards?
My son and I are watching American Psycho. It's a disturbing movie, but the business card scene is my favorite (Huey Lewis is a close second). I've had blog-based business cards for a while, but now that I've changed my…
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Blogging for Business: New Tricks for Old Dogs
No one can argue the absolute dominance of blogs on popularity and, in turn, search engine ranking. The popularity of blogs comes from this new method of communication that has evolved on the web - more personable, less refined and…
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Tuned In: Deciding New Products, Services or Features
This week I received Tuned In from Pragmatic Marketing, and it’s already proving to be one of those rare business books that’s both accessible and transformative. I’m about a third of the way through it, and it’s making me rethink…