This is the most popular content on Martech Zone.
Martech Zone’s Most Popular Articles
-
How Ink Factory’s Graphic Recordings Make Meetings, Events, and Presentations Unforgettable
Capturing—and keeping—your audience’s attention is more challenging than ever. Whether you’re hosting a corporate training, delivering a keynote, or pitching a bold new idea, it’s not enough to present content—you have to make it stick. That’s where Ink Factory comes in, offering a powerful visual tool that transforms live content into vibrant, memorable illustrations through the art of graphic recording.…
-
I Canceled My Basecamp Account Today
In the past, I’ve been a fan of 37 Signals. They were ahead of their day in user interface design and simplicity. Their book, Getting Real, still impacts how I develop, design, and build product requirements. Since last summer, I’ve utilized a Basecamp account to track several projects and clients. While reading the 37 Signals blog over the last year, I’ve noticed…
-
How Taking a Mindful Approach to AI Cuts Down on Biased Data Sets
AI-powered solutions need data sets to be effective. And the creation of those data sets is fraught with an implicit bias problem at a systematic level. All people suffer from biases (both conscious and unconscious). The biases can take any number of forms: geographic, linguistic, socio-economic, sexist, and racist. And those systematic biases are baked into data, which can result…
-
5 Marketing Budget Mistakes to Avoid
One of the most shared infographics we did was speaking to SaaS Marketing Budgets and exactly what percent of total revenue some companies were spending to maintain and acquire market share. Setting your marketing budget to an overall percentage of revenue, it provides your marketing team to incrementally increase demand as your sales team requires it. Flat budgets produce flat…
-
The Digital Age Is Rapidly Changing Everything
When I speak to young employees now, it’s startling to think that they don’t recall the days that we didn’t have the Internet. Some even don’t remember a time without having a smartphone. Their perception of technology has always been that it’s continued to advance. We’ve had decades of periods in my lifetime where technology advancements settled… but that’s no…
-
5 Steps To Capture Every Lead At Your Next Public Speaking Event or Conference
While many people believe that public speaking is a lucrative industry, having a career in speaking is only possible if you’re leading (keynoting) large events or doing custom speaking or training for corporations. Folks don’t realize that many conference speakers they watch at an event aren’t getting paid at all. It’s likely that they even paid thier own transportation and…
-
How Are Advertisers Capitalizing on March Madness?
In 2015, there were 11.3 million average total viewers of the NCAA’s March Madness, along with a record 80.7 million live video stream viewers. The most watched game attracted 28.3 million total viewers. If you don’t think it’s a big deal, you should try working in downtown Indianapolis this month (where our offices are)! We’ll be working from home most…
-
WordPress: How To Disable The New Widgets Administration
Every once in a while there’s a new feature in WordPress that just doesn’t appear to be well thought out. I believe one of these was when WordPress decided to go full-force with its Gutenberg editor and apply it to widget administration as well. I shared this recently in an article on the challenges of using WordPress as your CMS.…
-
How to Create a Culture of Recognition for Freelancers: Best Practices for Agency Owners
As an agency owner, you may find yourself recruiting new employees, if not today, soon when the potential employee asks more questions than ever before. What is it like to work here? What do your employees think of you as an employer? Do your employees feel appreciated? Is remote work available? These questions require employers to consider workplace culture an…
-
How Email Engagement Compares to Social Engagement
As soon as I see versus used in the title of an article in marketing, I get a little bit queasy. This infographic below from Devesh Design does a great job of putting into perspective the need for customers to utilize email for their company. I have no doubt as to the power of email and it’s ability as a…
