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Customer Data Platforms
Formidable Forms: How To Build A Multi-Purpose Form In WordPress To Collect Leads for Multiple Products or Services
One of the efforts I’m making on this site is to make it easier for visitors to request assistance. We have a manned chatbot that prompts our users, but sometimes that’s a bit too intrusive. We have a contact form in our footer, but that’s often too general. What I really needed was a lead collection form that I could…
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Advertising Technology
Embedded Finance and How It Addresses Cash Flow Problems in Affiliate Marketing
Recent technological developments are driving seamless payments and more cost-effective payment options. These factors make them a key driving force in the growth of embedded finance, a market whose value is projected to surpass $228 billion by 2028. What is Embedded Finance? Embedded finance, or embedded banking, refers to integrating financial services or tools within a non-financial company’s products, services,…
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Content Marketing
Attention Shoppers: Retail Earns More Reviews than Restaurants on Yelp
You hear TripAdvisor, you think hotels. You hear Healthgrades, you think doctors. You hear Yelp, and chances are good that you think restaurants. That’s exactly why it comes as a surprise to many local business owners and marketers to read Yelp’s own statistic which states that, of the 115 million consumer reviews Yelpers have left since launch, 22% relate to…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Find an SEO Cheat
Search engine optimization is a double-edged sword. While Google provides guidelines to webmasters to optimize their sites and utilize keywords effectively to get found and indexed properly, some SEO folks know that exploiting those algorithms can shoot them directly to the top. SEO employees are under a lot of pressure to keep their companies ranking well, SEO consultants are under…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Measure and Improve Your Twitter Marketing Strategy
There’s not too much news on the Twitter front and I have yet to hear back from Jack on my Open Letter to Twitter. That said, I still use Twitter daily, find value amongst the deafening noise, and wish for it to succeed. Can you utilize Twitter to help promote your personal brand, corporate brand, products, or services? Of course! Fifty-seven…
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Analytics & Testing
Engagement Is a Lie: Why Your Marketing Metrics Are Leading You Astray
If a guy talks to his girlfriend 83% more this month than last month, is he engaged? What if he left a few comments on her social media posts? Does that make him engaged? No. The definitions of engagement are clear: (1) A formal agreement to get married.(2) An arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time.…
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Advertising Technology
Publishers Are Letting AdTech Kill Their Advantages
The web is the most dynamic and inventive medium ever to exist. So, when it comes to digital advertising, creativity should be unbounded. A publisher should, in theory, be able to radically differentiate its media kit from other publishers to win direct sales and deliver unparalleled impact and performance to its partners. But they don’t — because they’ve been focused…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Fight Registration Bot Spam On Your Site With hCaptcha
As with many WordPress sites, Martech Zone is open to anyone registering. I don’t want to shut down open registration, as I’ve welcomed hundreds of contributors and partners to the site. However, having an open registration form on the site has invited thousands (I’m not kidding) of bots to register accounts to publish malware and spam articles. A bot that…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Ambassador Marketing Trends to Supercharge Your Marketing Efforts
Brand ambassadors are key to forming strong connections between brands and their audiences. But in a rapidly evolving marketplace, where consumer preferences constantly change, brands must stay ahead of the curve. So, how can brands maintain their competitive edge with the help of brand ambassadors? How else can brands deliver novel and meaningful experiences to their audiences? Key Ambassador Marketing…
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Advertising Technology
Introducing Creative Factory: Mobile Ads Just Got A Lot Easier
Mobile advertising continues to be one of the fastest growing and most challenging sectors of the global marketing economy. According to the ad-buying agency Magna, digital advertising will surpass traditional TV advertising this year (thanks largely to mobile advertising). By 2021, mobile advertising will have increased to $215 billion, or 72 percent of total digital ad-buy budgets. So how can…
