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Email Marketing & Automation
Mobile Marketing: Drive Your Sales With These 5 Strategies
By the end of this year, over 80% of American adults will have a smartphone. Mobile devices dominate both the B2B and B2C landscapes and their usage dominates marketing. Everything we do now has a mobile component to it that we must incorporate into our marketing strategies. What is Mobile Marketing Mobile marketing is marketing on or with a mobile…
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Marketing Infographics
4 Barriers to a Successful Marketing Automation Implementation
While we love supporting our sponsors and colleagues in the martech industry, we are still vendor agnostic when it comes to most solutions. The reason isn’t what we don’t believe some platforms are better than the other, there are definitely some standout companies. The reason is that the platform must be right for the company implementing and utilizing it. Marketing…
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Marketing Tools
Google Sheets: Collaborative Sales and Marketing Spreadsheets With Integrated Real-Time Data
We’re still using spreadsheets! This is something I often hear from companies who are embarrassed by their company’s lack of technological sophistication. If sales and marketing truly leveraged the full power of Google Sheets, though, they’d likely be quite proud of their sophistication. Google Sheets is a highly versatile tool for sales and marketing departments, offering various ways to enhance…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mastering Email Response Management: A Comprehensive Guide for ERM
Email has become an integral part of modern business communication, and managing email responses effectively can significantly impact customer satisfaction, productivity, and overall organizational efficiency. Email response management refers to handling incoming emails in a timely, consistent, and organized manner. It encompasses various aspects, including setting response time expectations, prioritizing emails, delegating tasks, and tracking and analyzing email metrics. The…
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Email Marketing & Automation
6 Best Practices You Should Follow When Optimizing Your Email Unsubscribe Page
We’ve shared statistics on why people unsubscribe from your marketing emails or newsletters. Some may not even be your fault, as subscribers are inundated with so many emails that they need relief. Here are some key statistics: 53% of consumers reported getting too many emails from retailers. 45% unsubscribe because the emails aren’t mobile-friendly. 40% won’t unsubscribe if given the…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
RFP360: Emerging Technology To Take The Pain Out Of RFPs
I’ve spent my entire career in software sales and marketing. I have hustled to bring in hot leads, accelerate the sales cycle, and win deals — which means I’ve invested hundreds of hours of my life thinking about, working on, and responding to RFPs — a necessary evil when it comes to winning new business. RFPs have always felt like…
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Event Marketing
Snap, Share, Shine: Top 5 Photo Booth Apps to Elevate Your Next Event
Oh, the good old days when taking photos in a photo booth meant squeezing into a tiny box with your friends, trying to look glamorous (even though your pose is awkward), and waiting for those strip-like photos to get out of the slot… Fantastic times! But today, those times are gone in the world of AR beauty. The small booths are becoming…
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E-commerce and Retail
Cardlytics: Bank Card-Linked Marketing
Your ability to target consumers based on geography and purchase history is continuing to improve. Financial institutions can now open the gateway to rewards, loyalty programs and offers directly purchased using your bank card. Card-Linked Marketing (CLM) is when marketers reach consumers directly through their online bank statements. In fact, Bank of America is already using Cardlytics to power BankAmeriDeals.…
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Customer Data Platforms
The Evolution of Data-Driven Marketing
Data-driven marketing is a strategic approach that leverages customer information and data analytics to optimize marketing efforts, personalize customer experiences, and drive business growth. Its effectiveness lies in the fact that people with similar characteristics, interests, and behaviors tend to respond similarly to marketing stimuli. By collecting and analyzing vast amounts of customer data, marketers can identify patterns and segments…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Dynamically Include JavaScript or PHP Using the Post ID
One of the efforts that I’ve really been working on this year on Martech Zone is providing some simple web applications that are helpful to our visitors. There’s some basic development behind these that include both PHP and JavaScript (mostly jQuery). With WordPress, there’s not a really convenient way to write pages or posts with the specific code that you…
