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Advertising Technology
Lessons Learned: Social Media Platforms and Blockchain Mass Adoption
The inception of blockchain as a solution to secure data is a welcome change. All the more now, as social media platforms have leveraged their pervasive presence to abuse people’s privacy constantly. It is a fact. A fact that has attracted massive public outcry in the last few years. Just last year itself, Facebook came under heavy fire for misusing the personal…
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Customer Data Platforms
Why Businesses Purchase B2B and B2C Lists (And Why That’s Not a Bad Thing)
When a colleague posed a seemingly innocuous question on X… Where do you purchase accurate business lists? She was not met with helpful suggestions but a wave of indignation. The backlash was so absurd and intense that she removed the post altogether. Accusations of unethical behavior were made without any context or understanding of the actual use case. And therein…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Our Best Performing Email Opt-In Strategy Ever
My marketing podcast colleague, Erin Sparks, loves to give me a hard time about our opt-in strategy on Martech Zone. Before discussing what we’ve tested and what’s worked, I should explain the importance of email. If you were looking at an online publication as a machine, capturing email addresses is – by far – the most efficient way of returning relevant…
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Artificial Intelligence
Beauty Matching Engine: Personalized AI Recommendations That Drive Online Beauty Sales
No one could have realized the apocalyptic effect COVID-19 would have on our daily lives, the economy, and retail, with the closure of many leading high street stores. It’s made brands, retailers, and consumers rethink the future of retailing. Beauty Matches Engine Beauty Matches Engine (BME) is a solution for beauty-specific retailers, e-tailers, supermarkets, hairdressers, and brands. BME is an…
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Advertising Technology
Tiger Pistol: Collaborative Social Media Advertising for Facebook and Instagram at Scale
Simplifying high-performance social media advertising and making those strategies scalable is challenging for companies advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Tiger Pistol’s Collaborative Advertising Platform™ has advanced how brands, resellers, and agencies approach social advertising, removing barriers and driving impressive results. Tiger Pistol offers a comprehensive solution that brings all your channel partners and sales locations under one umbrella, making creating…
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Content Marketing
It’s Time to Raise Your RSS Feed From the Dead
Contrary to popular belief, feeds are still roaming the face of the internet… or at least the underworld of it. Content syndication may be being consumed by applications and websites more than people using a feed reader… but the opportunity to ensure your content is distributed and looks great across devices is still a plus for content strategies. I was…
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Email Marketing & Automation
10 Proven Methods To Capture Email Addresses from Your Social Media Followers
The relationship between businesses and social media platforms creates an interesting dynamic. While platforms provide access to your audience, they control that access and monetize it through advertising. And, of course, they also monetize your followers through your competitors’ advertising. A key reason why I removed this site’s Facebook Page altogether was that competing sites were advertising on Facebook to…
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Analytics & Testing
What Metrics to Measure Your Content Marketing Effectiveness With
Content marketing metrics are the quantitative measures that tell you how your content is performing. They help you prove the value of your content efforts – but only if you focus on the right metrics. It’s easy to get distracted by vanity metrics (such as raw traffic or social likes) that appear impressive but don’t always translate into business growth.…
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Analytics & Testing
Hootsuite: How to Add Google Analytics 4 UTM Campaign Tracking To Your Social Media Posts
Utilizing UTM parameters for your distributed social media links is essential for effective digital marketing. They provide a robust framework for tracking the effectiveness of your social media campaigns in Google Analytics (GA4) by allowing you to see precisely how much web traffic is derived from specific links shared across your platforms. This information is crucial for evaluating the performance…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
What Are The Most Effective Steps to Deploying an Effective B2B Growth Strategy?
For B2B marketers seeking to drive sustainable growth in an increasingly complex landscape, traditional lead-centric strategies are no longer sufficient. Buyers are more anonymous, independent, and digitally savvy than ever. To break through this noise and inefficiency, many organizations are shifting to a modern B2B growth strategy rooted in account-based thinking and buyer-centric engagement. Based on insights drawn from a…
