Adam Small's Articles on Martech Zone
- 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…
- 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…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Robocalls- We won’t miss them!
We all get them, and almost universally hate them, the annoying call promoting some product or event that plays a recording or, even worse, speaks to you in a mechanical voice. Well, the FTC has enacted new rules and regulations regarding the placing of these calls. Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC, had some pretty harsh words on the subject.…
- Content Marketing
Single-Tasking Tools
Douglas Karr must have been tapping into my brain when he wrote How to Single-Task. I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole multi-tasking thing, about how constant hopping from tidbit to tidbit and doing more than one task at once feels like it’s actually robbing me of time (and making me feel kind of stupid). When I’m writing reports,…
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Fishing in a Million Lakes
The other day I was having lunch with a group of people who primarily worked in advertising agencies, pr and marketing firms. Douglas Karr, founder of the Martech Zone, was speaking to the group about social media and its’ uses as a marketing tool. One of the things he said really struck a cord with me. I am going to…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Twitter Brand Faux Pas
There’s this one guy on Twitter who unfollows and follows me on what seems like a weekly basis. I think he believes that I’ll suddenly follow him (since I haven’t the last 27 times he’s tried.). He must imagine that I’ve automated my account or that I’m a sheep that will click follow on anyone who follows me. I didn’t…
- Content Marketing
Judge Name Ideas From Audience’s Perspective
When judging naming ideas, keep in mind the real world experience, not the pseudo-experience of creative presentations. Here’s the thing, when you say or show a name idea to someone with the intention of getting her buy-in or feedback, she doesn’t have the same experience that the consumer in the field will have. When you present the name ideas, your…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Why Aren’t You Leveraging Mobile?
No, I don’t mean people driving billboards around town. I mean reaching consumers and clients via mobile phone. This is typically referred to as Mobile Marketing but I have seen a number of people calling it Mobile Advertising lately. There are a number of different forms of Mobile Marketing; SMS/Text Message marketing, mobile optimized web pages and mobile applications are…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Integrating Mobile into an Outdoor Advertising Strategy
Mobile Marketing is emerging and becoming more commonplace everyday. Last week I was visiting family in the Myrtle Beach area and saw this billboard. It was great to see a major attraction integrating mobile into their overall marketing strategy. Doug has a similar mobile integration on his site, you can text MartechLOG to 71813 and get an alert when he…
