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Five Ways to Step Up Your Content Marketing Game
If you’re engaging in content marketing of any kind, then you’re using a strategy. It might not be an official, planned, or effective strategy, but it’s a strategy. Think of all the time, resources, and effort that go into creating good content. It’s not cheap, so it’s important that you direct that valuable content using a proper strategy. Here are…
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How to Improve Engagement at Your Next Conference
This infographic from The Europe Hotel & Resort, a five star luxury hotel in Ireland, provides some an overview of trends in MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions): Meeting spend is rising globally with a 2.1% expected rise predicted for 201636% of #travel industry professionals expect to spend more than $4,000 per person in incentives in 2016Exhibitions within the trade…
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Zyro: Easily Build Your Site Or Online Store With This Affordable Platform
The availability of affordable marketing platforms continues to impress, and content management systems (CMS) are no different. Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of proprietary, open-source, and paid CMS platforms—some incredible and some quite difficult. Until I learn a client’s goals, resources, and processes, I don’t make a recommendation on which platform to utilize. If you’re a small…
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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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Sales Strategies: Even Dead Fish Float
Growing up, I was raised by an optimist and a pessimist. My Mom was probably the happiest, funniest, friendliest person you could ever meet. She ensured that I was raised with an abundant mindset, wishing nothing but good for everybody and doing my best to help people. As I started to learn and mature, I asked her why she was…
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Business Cards Are Dead, Aren’t They? How To Optimize Your Mobile vCard
For decades, the business card was the marketer’s and salesperson’s badge of introduction. It was the tangible token of credibility—slid across a boardroom table, clipped to a brochure, or tucked into a pocket at a conference. Yet as mobile technology has advanced, the way we exchange contact details has shifted dramatically. What was once paper has now become data, and…
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How the Order of Operations prepared me for Programming
Algebra has always been a favorite subject of mine. There’s not much theory involved, just a toolbox of methods and the order of operations to solve. If you reach back into high school, you’ll remember: First, all operations that lie inside parentheses must be done. Next, do any work with exponents or radicals. Working from left to right, do all…
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BrightTALK Benchmark Report: Best Practices for Promoting Your Webinar
BrightTALK, which has been publishing webinar benchmark data since 2010, analyzed more than 14,000 webinars, 300 million emails, feed and social promotions, and a total of 1.2 million hours of engagement from the past year. This annual report helps B2B marketers compare their performance to those of their industries and see which practices lead to the greatest success. In 2017,…
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VaultPress: Offsite WordPress Backups & Restores, Malware Scanning & Removal, and Spam Blocking
Some of our clients choose to host their WordPress instances in the cloud on their own hosting platform. DK New Media had been recently hired to help a company whose site had been hacked and malware injected throughout their core WordPress files. The site was subsequently delisted by search engines and the owner was notified via a Google Search Console…
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How Businesses Should Be Interacting with Each Social Media Platform
My opinion of social media is often different with those in my industry. Theoretically, I love social media and the opportunity it offers businesses to reach customers and prospects on a personal level. The reality has been very different, though. I’ve watched businesses attempt to utilize social media the same way they do other marketing channels. In some situations, this…
