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Experian: How Marketers Gain Precision, Scale, and Agility with a Data Partnership
Marketing performance depends on knowing your audience—and reaching them at the right time, through the right channel—marketers need more than just data. They need advantage. For brands and businesses that partner with Experian, that advantage comes in the form of unmatched consumer insight, omnichannel activation capabilities, and privacy-forward innovation. This isn’t just about why you should partner with Experian—it’s about…
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mParticle Analytics: Data-Driven Customer Analytics With Actionable Insights
Every modern business grapples with making informed decisions using customer data. With customer journeys becoming increasingly complex, organizations need a robust analytics solution that empowers their teams to make smarter decisions without the complexity of traditional data querying. mParticle Analytics mParticle Analytics (formerly Indicative) is the only product analytics platform that directly integrates with your data warehouse, offering actionable insights…
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How Much Does It Cost to Outsource Your Brand’s Social Media in 2025?
As businesses increasingly rely on social media marketing (SMM) to connect with audiences, outsourcing these efforts to agencies or third-party providers has become a pivotal strategic choice. U.S. social media ad spending grew by 13.5% to $82.88 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $230 billion in 2025—outsourcing can offer expertise and efficiency. AgencyAnalytics But what does outsourcing social…
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How Important Is Your LinkedIn Profile Photo?
Several years ago, I attended an international conference and they had an automated station where you could pose and get a few headshots. The results were stunning… the intelligence behind the camera had you position your head to a target, then the lighting automatically adjusted, and boom… the photos were taken. I felt like a dang supermodel they came out…
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10 Ways To Find The Perfect Influencers For Your Brand
As a business, you know that influencer marketing is an important part of your marketing strategy. After all, 92% of consumers trust earned media more than any other form of advertising, and influencer marketing can deliver as much as 11x higher ROI than traditional forms of digital marketing. But with so many options out there, it can be hard to figure out how to…
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Gravity SMTP: Ensure Reliable Email Delivery of Form Leads Using Gravity SMTP
A colleague of mine requested my assistance after he migrated a client’s WordPress site to a new host, and the email notifications from their Gravity Forms weren’t making it to the client’s inbox. Response times are critical to closing business nowadays, and if you don’t respond quickly, a competitor that does will likely get your business. A quick look and…
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Why Marketing Momentum Matters (Especially If You’re Sales-Driven)
As a Fractional CMO, I get to work with a wide range of companies—some with massive brand strategies unfolding over years, and others who are just a few weeks into a campaign and already asking, Why isn’t the phone ringing? That contrast isn’t surprising. What’s always surprising, though, is how many companies still expect instant results from marketing, as if…
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What Are Single Opt-In, Confirmed Opt-In, And Double Opt-In?
When building an email list, how you collect consent isn’t just a technical detail—it shapes your entire subscriber relationship, affects email deliverability, and determines compliance with privacy regulations. The three primary types of opt-in mechanisms (single, confirmed, and double) each offer a different balance of convenience, quality control, and legal protection. Understanding their differences can help you match the right…
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Is Millennial Shopping Behavior Really That Different?
Sometimes, I groan when I hear the term millennial in a marketing conversation. At our office, I’m surrounded by millennials, so the work ethic and entitlement stereotypes make me cringe. Everyone I know that age is busting their butt and optimistic about their future. I love millennials – but I don’t think they’re sprayed with magic dust that makes them…
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How I Reached 1 Million Page Views (Without Spending More Money)
Martech Zone is a project of passion for me that’s been publishing articles on how to research, learn, and discover sales and marketing technology for over 18 years! A decade ago, we dominated search and honestly didn’t have a lot of competition. Now, we have thousands of sites across the web where both companies and publishers are working to assist…
