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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…
- Content Marketing
Why Medium.com Is Critical for Your Marketing Strategy
The best tools for online marketing are constantly changing. In order to keep up with the times, you need to keep your ear to the ground, to pick up the newest and most effective tools for audience building and traffic conversion. SEO blogging strategies emphasize the importance of “white hat” content and sharing, so you can leverage business blogs, authority…
- Marketing Infographics
What are the Elements of the Best Facebook Contest Apps?
Today I actually had the pleasure – thanks to an invite from Jay Baer – of sharing tacos and Margaritas with the leadership team from ShortStack out at Social Media Marketing World. I made sure to let the team from ShortStack know how much we’ve enjoyed our ongoing relationship. Sara from the ShortStack team has been feeding us with great…
- 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…
- Artificial Intelligence
Customer-First E-Commerce: Smart Solutions for the One Thing You Can’t Afford To Get Wrong
The pandemic-era pivot toward e-commerce has come with shifted consumer expectations. Once a value-add, online offerings have now become a primary client touchpoint for most retail brands. And as the main funnel of customer interactions, the importance of virtual customer support is at an all time high. E-commerce customer service comes with new challenges and pressures. First, at-home customers are…
- Content Marketing
The Dramatic Impact of Online Visual Storytelling
There’s a reason why we use so much imagery here at Martech Zone… it works. While the textual content is the focus, the imagery balances the pages and provides a means for readers to get an instant impression of what is to come. Imagery is an understated strategy when it comes to developing your content. If you haven’t already –…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Always Be Closing: 10 Statistics Driving Sales Change
The team at Microsoft has put together a fantastic white paper on the challenges and successes of sales organizations, their productivity, and ability to adapt and adopt to technology. We often meet with companies that tout impressive sales results from word-of-mouth and cold calling. I don’t ever doubt that either of these strategies work – of course they do. Sales…
- 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…
- 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…
- Marketing Infographics
The Future of Mobile
Every few days, my daughter and I get in an argument over who has the charging cord. I covet my cord and she tends to leave her cord in her car. If our phones are both down to single digit charge percentages… watch out! Our phones have become part of our person. It’s our connective tissue to our friends, our…
