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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Using Your Heart in Business: Six Steps To Resolving Conflicts And Grow Customer Loyalty
The significance of personal relationships cannot be overstated. At its core, business is not just about transactions; it’s about connections. Consumers and businesses alike yearn for interactions that go beyond the superficial level. They seek to be heard, understood and genuinely cared for. This aspect of emotional intelligence in business operations is crucial in establishing trust and loyalty. When business…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Improve Your Sales Team’s Performance
So many of my friends are great sales people. Quite honestly, I never fully respected their craft until I started my own business and took a stab at it. I had a great audience, solid relationships with companies who respected me, and a great service that they needed. None of that mattered the second I stepped through the door to…
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Content Marketing
Composable: Delivering on the Personalization Promise
The promise of personalization has failed. For years we’ve been hearing about its incredible benefits, and marketers looking to capitalize on it have bought into pricey and technically complicated solutions, only to discover too late that, for most, the promise of personalization is little more than smoke and mirrors. The problem starts with how personalization has been viewed. Positioned as…
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Artificial Intelligence
Cara, Meta, and Adobe: Creators and AI Collide
I’ve been writing every week on Martech Zone since 2006. While I think of myself as a creator, every product, solution, strategy, or opinion I provide here was learned or collaborated before I published it. Of course, I repackage and focus my content in a way that I believe provides value to my readers, but I would struggle with an…
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Content Marketing
Smartfile: Whitelabel Your Large File Solution
Whether you are starting a new business, or launching a new product, the first question you have to ask is, “Who is my market/customer”? Sounds easy, right? Before I get to the part about us completely failing to answer that question correctly, let me give you my two-sentence business pitch: SmartFile (that’s us) is a file sharing company designed for…
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Customer Data Platforms
Pabbly Plus: Form Creation, Email Marketing, Payments, And Workflow Automation In One Bundle
With so many companies forced to reduce marketing headcount and looking for ways to automate data processes as well as reduce technology expenses, bundles like Pabbly are worth evaluating. While there are many workflow and automation platforms out there, I’m not sure of any platform that includes a form builder, payment processing for subscriptions, an affiliate program, and email verification.…
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Analytics & Testing
Clarabridge: Actionable Insights from Every Customer Interaction
As consumer expectations for customer service increase, companies must take action to ensure their customer experience remains commensurate. 90% of Americans consider customer service when deciding whether to do business with a company. American Express It can be difficult to deliver on this objective as the sheer volume of available feedback can be overwhelming, causing Customer Experience (CX) teams to…
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E-commerce and Retail
IONOS: Launch Your S-commerce Strategy Easily With A Social Buy Button
Buying on social media typically involves a different buying behavior than traditional e-commerce. Consumers on social media typically see a product, watch a testimonial or influencer, and then purchase it. While brands with expensive products can build awareness and nudge the buying cycle on social media, the vast majority of social media and e-commerce conversions happen with smaller, emotional purchases.…
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Artificial Intelligence
How to Create a VTuber Avatar: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners and Streamers
Vtubing has taken the digital world by storm, blending creativity and technology to let individuals express themselves through virtual avatars. These animated personas have become a global phenomenon, captivating audiences on platforms like YouTube and Twitch. Whether you’re a streamer, content creator, or just curious about the trend, creating your Vtuber avatar is an exciting way to enter this virtual frontier.…
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Content Marketing
PHP: Use the WordPress API to Build a Shortcode to List Subpages
We’re working on quite a complex implementation for an enterprise client right now. The site is being built in WordPress but has a ton of bells and whistles. Often, when I’m doing this type of work, I like to save the custom code for repurposing later on other sites. In this case, I thought it was such a useful function,…
