Latest Martech Article
- CRM and Data Platforms
SheerID: How Brands Such as ASICS and Target are Acquiring Customers Via Identity Marketing
One of the most prominent challenges marketers face today is getting the attention of the distracted consumer. For decades, marketers have served ads and other promotions to demographics such as 18-24-year-olds. But, no one identifies with being part of an 18 to 24-year-old club. SheerID has found that college students associate with one another and recognize one another as part of a community. Inviting college students to participate in something truly exclusive to them –…
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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…
- Ecommerce and Retail
Flip: Reach More Customers and Generate More Sales With The Next Generation of Social Commerce for Ecommerce Brands
For many people, social commerce is synonymous with influencer marketing. Three-quarters of brand marketers dedicate budget to influencer marketing, and 68% plan to increase that spend. Influencer Marketing Hub But consumers are catching onto paid sponsorships and dishonest reviews. The next generation of shopping experiences must be built on trust. For consumers to choose new products with confidence, they must…
- Analytics & Testing
How To Migrate Events From Universal Analytics To Google Analytics 4
I’m not too confident in Google Analytics 4 despite the buzz being passed by the Google Analytics team. Companies have spent millions of dollars to enhance and integrate their sites, platforms, campaigns, events, and other measurement data within Universal Analytics only to find that it doesn’t automatically work within Google Analytics 4. Events are no different… It’s disappointing that Google…
- Content Marketing
How Brands Use Sonic Identity to Stand Out Against Large Competitors
If you’re a smaller brand, you probably struggle to create awareness, especially if your main competitors are well-known incumbent brands (think TurboTax in the consumer tax-prep space, or Coca-Cola in beverages). This is precisely the challenge that TaxAct, an online tax filing service, faced. The company had invested in very clever ads, but when consumers thought about the TV commercials…
- Analytics & Testing
How To Exclude Tags In Google Tag Manager By The Visitor’s Logged-In User Role in WordPress
Throughout any day, I log into Martech Zone to read form submissions, add and edit content, and improve the site’s performance. At issue is that I don’t want that activity skewing my analytics or executing tags within Google Tag Manager (GTM), such as opening my chatbot or detecting a visitor’s location using an IP lookup service (our chat tag fires…
