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- Content Marketing
WordPress: Best Practices for Worry-Free Backups and Restoration
When backing up your WordPress site, it’s essential to follow best practices to ensure the safety and integrity of your data. While numerous plugins are available for backing up the CMS, it’s crucial to understand the importance of not relying solely on local backups. Local backups stored on the same server as your WordPress installation can be problematic in various…
- Content Marketing
4 Key Takeaways to a Smart Mobile Marketing Strategy
Mobile, mobile, mobile… are you tired of it yet? I think we’re working on mobile strategies with half of our clients right now – from optimizing mobile email templates, to integrating responsive themes, to building mobile applications. In reality, I believe businesses are honestly looking at their web presence backwards since much of the interaction with brands now starts with…
- Analytics & Testing
BuzzSumo: Research Content Engagement and Performance by Topic, Domain, And Influencer
If you’re a long-time reader of Martech Zone, you know that I’m a huge advocate of building a high-quality content library of articles. The tired and old strategy of mass producing tons of average content isn’t worth the investment. I believe frequent and plentiful average content publishing will hurt your site’s overall performance. As a consultant, I see it every…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Digital Transformation: Old Marketer vs. New Marketer
As I researched the Alterian site, I found this excellent diagram on their customer engagement page. The diagram effectively portrays how marketing has changed. It truly makes it clear as to whether or not your marketing has evolved. The strategies and tools marketers employ have dramatically transformed over the years. Technological advancements and data analytics have driven the shift from…
- Content Marketing
12 Critical Home Page Elements
HubSpot is definitely the leader in driving content to drive an inbound marketing strategy, I’ve never seen one company put out so many whitepapers, demos and ebooks. HubSpot now delivers an infographic on the 12 critical elements of a homepage. A homepage needs to wear many hats and serve many audiences who come from many different places. It’s unlike a…
- Advertising Technology
How Your Martech Stack Fails to Serve the Customer
In the older days of marketing, back in the early 2000s, a few brave CMOs invested in some rudimentary tools designed to help better manage their campaigns and audiences. These hardy pioneers sought to organize, analyze and improve performance, and thus created the first marketing technology stacks- integrated systems that brought order, unlocked targeted campaigns, and personalized messages for better…
- Advertising Technology
New Approaches to Digital Advertising After Third-Party Cookies Are No More
With Google’s recent announcement that it’ll phase out third-party cookies in 2023 to launch Google Topics, the world of cookies is in the midst of an evolution. Or a meltdown, depending on whom you talk to. Advertisers fidget en masse when a change is announced in the digital world. Suddenly, there’s no milk or bread in the grocery store and Armageddon is…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Peerlist: Connecting Top Design & Development Talent with Exciting Job Opportunities
As an entrepreneur, employer, and company owner, I used to find the LinkedIn platform amazing value. As a B2B social network, nothing came close to its reach and capabilities. In recent years, though, their push for growth and engagement has added a lot of noise to my profile, and my message requests are now 99% spam. While business people are…
- Content Marketing
Resort Marketing Strategies: Thriving During Economic Stress
In times of economic uncertainty, one might expect luxury or discretionary spending to be the first budget cut. However, history and recent trends demonstrate that people prioritize improving their quality of life even during challenging times, with travel being a prime example. You can still attract guests and thrive with the right marketing strategies. Here, we’ll explore how to craft…
- Marketing Books
The Digital Age: So Easy, A Caveman Could Do It…
Today was Book Club day and we had the incredible pleasure of getting on a phone conference with Mikela and Philip Tarlow, the authors of Digital Aboriginal. Digital Aboriginal, by Mikela Tarlow with Philip Tarlow, proposes a rather unique approach for those seeking innovative ways to stay abreast of today’s high-tech business environment: reach back to the “magical, networked, multidimensional…
