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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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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 having someone wonder how many characters they have left, I modified Geeky Grrl’s little in-line JavaScript method to display the…
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Who’s Twittering You?
Reputation managers can set up alerts on micro-blogging and communicate to consumers, supporters and criticisms directly. Here's how to set up an alert for those communications within minutes.
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5 Strategies to Get Attention on the Web
This might be an ironic post given the fact that my blog is in a slight decline in readership. The truth is that I know what’s causing it, but I lack the time right now to invest to stop it. No worries, though, I’ll turn it around soon! With that, I’ve been thinking a lot about what paths that companies…
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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, $api); curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data = curl_exec($session); curl_close($session); return $data; } function doShortenURL($longurl) { $url = "http://is.gd/api.php"; $variable = "longurl"; $shorturl = doCurlRequest($url, $variable,…
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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 another. I’ve had quite a bit of success with the blog and I continue to get additional engagements because of the…
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WordPress and MySQL: What’s Your Word Count?
There’s been some talk on blogs about the average word count of a WordPress post. Some light has been shed that search engines will only weigh the impact of the first x number of characters, where x is currently unknown. As a result, anything after that is simply a waste of words. I’m rather garrulous with my blog posts so…
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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. This week, I applied with Google Adsense to convert my feed from Feedburner to Google. The process to do this…
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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 original cards. When folks hand me their business cards these days, I don’t have them for long – I get home…
