Ann Smarty's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Four Ways to Use Heatmaps to Optimize Your Landing Page
Landing page optimization is one of the most challenging tasks, simply because there are no rights or wrongs. What works for some websites may not work so well for you. There are too many variables: colors, images, different kinds of calls-to-action (CTAs), etc. You can never be sure what distracts your visitors and what draws their attention. There are all…
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Content Marketing
10 Ways to Ensure Content Marketing Success
Ready to give your content marketing efforts a boost? It takes some time and forethought to make your content work for you, but with a little planning, it’s more than possible. Here’s a checklist for you to follow to take your already awesome content to the next level. 1. Be Purposeful Before you even get started with your content marketing…
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Marketing Tools
Three Ways Marketing Agencies Are Innovating and Growing Value With Their Clients
Digital marketing is one of the fastest-evolving industries. Driven by economic instability and fast-emerging technology, it changes yearly. Is your marketing agency keeping up with all those changes, or are you providing the same service you did ten years ago? Don’t get me wrong: It is perfectly ok to be good at one specific thing and have years of experience…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How To Drive More Traffic And Conversions From Social Media
Social media is a great way to generate traffic and brand awareness, but it is not easy to convert visitors into leads or generate instant conversions. Social media platforms are tough for marketing inherently because people use them to get entertained and distracted from work. They may not be too willing to think about their business, even if they are…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Are You Doing Instagram Marketing Wrong? Focus on Authenticity!
According to the network itself, Instagram has more than 1 billion active users at the moment, and that number will undoubtedly keep growing. More than 71% of the Americans age 18 to 29 were using Instagram in 2021. For ages 30 to 49, 48% of Americans were using Instagram. In all, over 40% of Americans state that they’re using Instagram.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
B2B: How to Create an Effective Social Media Lead Generation Funnel
Social media is a great way to generate traffic and brand awareness but it may be quite challenging in generating B2B leads. Why is social media not as effective at serving as a B2B sales funnel and how to overcome that challenge? Let’s try to figure it out! Social Media Lead Generation Challenges There are two main reasons why social media platforms…