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Will You Lose Your Marketing Job to a Robot?
This is one of those posts that you snicker at… and then go get a shot of bourbon to forget. At first glance, this seems like a ridiculous question. How in the world could you replace a marketing manager? That would require the ability to study consumer behavior thoroughly, analyze complex data and trends objectively, and think creatively to come…
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When is the FTC Going to Cash In on Celebrity Endorsements?
The warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been sent, more than 90 direct emails to marketers and their influencers, including actors and musicians like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Sofia Vergara, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Bush, Zendaya Coleman, Jennifer Lopez, Luke Bryan, and Sean Combs. We’ve written about disclosure before, but I’m still amazed at the number of…
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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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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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An E-commerce Plugin For WordPress: WooCommerce
If you haven’t had the chance yet to work with WooThemes, a fantastic theming membership for WordPress themes, you should. They do some amazing work. We had a developer package with them for quite a while before we started building out custom themes from the ground up. WooThemes has released a very clean, comprehensive and simple to use ecommerce integration…
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If You Serve Millennials, You Better Be Serving Video
Every day I get pitched a millennial interview or article. I recognize that millennials are an age group that offers businesses an opportunity – and I have no doubt that they are unique. Having grown up in an age where having a smartphone and being connected to the Internet is having profound changes in behavior that we must pay attention…
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Beeketing: Add a Sales Pop to Your E-commerce Site
Social proof is critical when buyers are making a purchase decision on your e-commerce site. Visitors want to know that your site is trusted and that others are buying from you. Too often, an e-commerce site sits static, and the reviews are stale and old… impacting new buyer decisions. One feature that you can add, literally, in a few minutes…
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How Entity Resolution Adds Value To Your Marketing Processes
A large number of B2B marketers – almost 27% – admit that insufficient data has cost them 10%, or in some cases, even more in annual revenue losses. This clearly highlights a significant issue faced by most marketers today, and that is: poor data quality. Incomplete, missing, or poor-quality data can have huge impact on the success of your marketing…
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12 Steps to Driving Pay-Per-Click Conversions and Winning Paid Search in 2024
When people ask about paid search, I tell them I’m all in on the strategy. This wasn’t always the reality. Organic search and social media could drive far better ROI for quite some time. Over time, though, search has been far more complicated, with massive domains sucking up most of the search engine results page (SERP) and social media crippled organic…
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Formidable: Build Forms, Calculators, Surveys, Payment Forms, Event Registrations, And More For WordPress
At Martech Zone and with our agency, we’ve deployed a WordPress Form Plugin that’s easy to use and has extensive integration capabilities. While we’ve used the plugin for over a decade, we’ve noticed that it is quite bloated with script and styling… to the point that it’s adversely impacting our site’s performance. Four stylesheets and two javascript files are loaded…
