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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The B2B Social Media Mirage: Why It’s Not Always the Growth Engine It’s Sold To Be
Everything I’m about to say is anecdotal. However, the pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. I haven’t conducted a multi-year research study. I haven’t parsed datasets or reviewed industry-wide analytics dashboards. What I have done is listen to a growing chorus of quiet confessions—marketers, founders, even clients—admitting they’ve stopped trying to drive growth with social media. And here’s the…
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Marketing Infographics
What $22 Billion Can Get You: Facebook’s Acquisitions in Perspective
Imagine if your company had so much money that you could spend $22 billion on acquiring other companies. While this would only happen in most people’s wildest dreams, it is the reality for Facebook. In 2013, Honduras and Afghanistan brought in less money than Facebook’s acquisitions. The top 13 big budget blockbuster films combined only total $2.4B, yet that $22B in…
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Analytics & Testing
Convert Customers into Advocates with Zuberance
The best way to promote a brand is by having a bunch of highly satisfied customers talk about it. The best customer to do it is a brand advocate – a customer whose satisfaction has reached the level of passion. Such brand advocates make powerful recommendations that usually have a long lasting impact. But brands need a clear cut way…
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E-commerce and Retail
A 5-Step Plan to Optimize Your Checkout for Shoppers.
According to Statista, in 2016, 177.4 million people used mobile devices to shop, research and browse products. This figure is predicted to reach almost 200 million by 2018. And a new report conducted by Addressy cited that cart abandonment has reached a median rate of 66% in the US. Online retailers who don’t offer a great mobile experience are likely to be missing out…
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Content Marketing
LinkedIn Expands Company Page Functionality
While Facebook has largely abandoned pages for organic reach, it appears LinkedIn is taking the opportunity to help businesses drive social engagement with the addition of some great new features in company profile pages. Communities are core to the success of every business. Employees, partners, customers and job candidates comprise a community, and together, can help drive your company’s growth…
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Marketing Infographics
How to Select a Sales Automation Solution
While marketers may have the most options available at this point, other industries are delving into the automation space to make lives and jobs easier. In a multi-channel world, we can’t manage everything and that also means simple administrative tasks that once accounted for 20% of our day. A primary example of one of the industries that are taking a…
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Content Marketing
Telbee: Capture Voice Messages From Your Podcast Listeners
There have been a few podcasts where I honestly wished I had spoken to the guests beforehand to ensure they were engaging and entertaining speakers. It requires a lot of work to plan, schedule, record, edit, publish, and promote each podcast. It’s often why I’m behind on my own. Martech Zone is my primary property that I maintain, but Martech…
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E-commerce and Retail
ActiveTrail: An Easy-to-Use Email Marketing and Marketing Automation Platform
With branches in the USA, Israel, Germany, France and Latin America, ActiveTrail helps businesses of all shapes and sizes, across the globe, to nurture relationships with their clientele. Since starting as a project internally, the company has become a leading, multi-channel email service provider, offering an advanced marketing platform. ActiveTrail Email Marketing Platform Features Include Email Marketing – Easily build…
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Customer Data Platforms
Formstack: Transform How You Collect Data, Create, and Sign Documents With This No-Code Platform
In a world where digital expectations move faster than most business processes, teams often struggle to juggle spreadsheets, paper forms, and manual workflows that slow everything down. Whether you’re collecting customer feedback, managing internal approvals, or preparing documents for signature, inefficiencies cost time, money, and trust. Formstack Formstack exists to eliminate these inefficiencies with a simple but powerful promise: to…
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Marketing Infographics
The Gold Rush for Top Level Domains
If you’ve not heard all the noise about TLDs, you probably aren’t a billion dollar company (that’s sarcasm). Personally, I despise the fact that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has put these up for sale out of the reach of any average small business. It costs $185,000 to apply and $25,000 per year to maintain a…
