Martech Zone
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Is Sales Science or Art?
This is such a great question that I decided to pose it to two professionals I know who work with leading sales departments daily. Bill Caskey of Caskey Sales Trainin g is a nationally recognized sales expert and coach, and…
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The Small Business Content Marketing Media Matrix
Content marketing strategies continue to change, especially with advancements in mobile technologies, and access to high bandwidth is becoming commonplace. Marketers need to be more resourceful in their approach to generating content. One thing we do is often work back…
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TOMS: A Case Study in Profitable Cause Marketing
I had written a plea to stop killing cause marketing a while ago. Central to the controversy is that, sometimes, cause marketing clashes with consumers when businesses apply their marketing efforts to profitable ventures while using non-profits or charities. Opponents of cause…
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4 Video Production Myths And Their Solutions
We've been encouraging all of our clients to leverage video as part of an overall online marketing strategy. Many of your web visitors are abandoning your site altogether because there's no video. Others are not even making it there because…
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The Problem with Project Management Software
Sometimes, I wonder if folks who develop project management solutions ( PMS ) use them. Within the marketing space, project management software is a must - keeping track of ads, posts, videos, whitepapers, use case scenarios, and other projects is…
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Acquisio: Turbocharge Your PPC Campaigns with Machine Learning
Managing paid search campaigns across multiple platforms can be overwhelming. From launch to reporting, marketers face the dual challenge of staying efficient while maximizing results. With increasing demand for transparency, ROI , and automation, agencies and businesses alike require tools…
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GM: You’re Doing Surveys Wrong
After driving my car a decade, I decided to go big or go home. Influenced by my Grandfather's love of his Cadillac and remembering the weekend rides where he took us out... I bought my first Cadillac earlier in the…
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How to do Effective Local SEO on a Budget
Over time, SEO has become more challenging and more rigorous, but should that necessarily mean more expensive? Not all companies that need SEO services are Internet-based or IT-related. The majority are small, local businesses that serve a specific geographic area.…
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Dependencies of an Inbound Marketing Strategy
We've been consulting clients large and small for several months now and really believe that there are some gaps in most strategies and a whole lot of hype with others. When our clients are struggling, we typically see that there's…
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Respect My Authority
A couple of years ago, I stopped looking for fans and followers. I don't mean to say I didn't want to continue gaining a following. I mean that I stopped looking. I stopped being politically correct online. I stopped avoiding…
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Why Website RFPs Don’t Work
As a digital agency in business since 1996, we've had the opportunity to create hundreds of corporate and non-profit websites. We've learned plenty along the way and have gotten our process down to a well-oiled machine. Our process starts with…
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Five Critical SEO Issues Discovered with Screaming Frog
Have you ever crawled your own site? It's a great strategy to fix some rather blatant issues with your site that you may not have noticed. Good friends at Site Strategics told us about Screaming Frog's SEO Spider . It's…
