Adam Small's Articles on Martech Zone
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8 Reasons Why Visitors Leave Your Site
KISSmetrics lays out the top 8 reasons that visitors leave your website: Visitors are frustrated by complex or inconsistent navigation. Visitors are distracted by popup, flash, and other ads that divert attention. Visitors can’t find what they are looking for due to poorly structured content. Visitors are surprised by video or audio that starts automatically in the page. Visitors are…
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The Mobile Workstyle
Social Contact Manager Gist (recently acquired by RIM) put together this infographic on the Mobile Workstyle. Unlike the Dell Infographic on the mobile workforce this infographic focused more on the habits and preferences of the mobile worker as opposed to why a company should consider mobilizing their workforce. Such as: 65% of mobile workers use a tablet 32% of employees…
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SPAM and the Text Messaging Industry
Businesses have vastly underestimated the impact of mobile text messaging. Text messaging, otherwise known as SMS (Short Message System), has been put in the shadow over more popular mobile web applications. However, not every phone is a smartphone and can use apps. Every mobile phone allows text messaging. As businesses are returning to this incredible medium, many are disregarding the…
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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…
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West vs Midwest Round II
PREAMBLE Last week, I was on a panel at The Combine – 2010 called Go West: Former Midwesterners that have moved to the Silicon Valley share their stories. I was one of four people discussing our personal stories and it set off a firestorm on Twitter and went Cat 4 when Douglas Karr posted his reactions when he recapped the Combine 2010 here.…
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What You Can Learn about Twitter from Tweets
This presentation has had over 24,000 views on Slideshare and has an incredible amount of information… all packed into snippets of 140 characters or less. You’ll even find a few of the authors from Martech Zone in there, too! The variety and richness of these tips are a real testament to the power of Twitter as a communication medium. Don’t…
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How Comments Impact Search Engine Rank
Does commenting on other blogs help my search engine ranking? Google’s ranking algorithm weighs heavily on relevant links back to your site. Since links back to your site help, wouldn’t it make sense that commenting and leaving your links everywhere would benefit your site? Not exactly. In this recent video, Matt Cutts (Search Quality for Google) discusses the potential risks…
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Masterful Branding: West Baden
My husband, the fabulous and talented creative director Steve Nealy (shameless plug), and I spent a few days this week at the historic West Baden Springs Hotel in southern Indiana. Let me say before I get into the meat of this that if you live within a drive (or even beyond) of this hotel and the rest of the French…
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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…
