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Email Marketing & Automation
3 Strategies for Email Marketing Sequences That Increase Conversion Rates
If your inbound marketing were described as a funnel, I’d describe your email marketing as a container to capture the leads that fall through. Many people will visit your site and even engage with you, but perhaps it’s not time to actually convert. It’s only anecdotal, but I’ll describe my own patterns when researching a platform or shopping online: Pre-purchase…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Resurrection of Personalization: Why AI is Changing the Game with Predictive Customer Insights
Remember when personalized marketing was going to be the next big thing? In 2019, Gartner predicted that most marketers would abandon personalization: By 2025, 80% of marketers who have invested in personalization will abandon their efforts due to lack of ROI, the perils of customer data management or both. In fact, 27% of marketers believe data is the key obstacle to personalization…
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Analytics & Testing
The World of Social Media Monitoring and Analytics
The first bit of data on this infographic is pretty fascinating… the growth of the analytics tool market. In my opinion, it points to a couple issues. First is that we’re all still seeking better tools to report and monitor on our marketing strategies and second is that we’re willing to apply a larger percentage of our marketing budget to…
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E-commerce and Retail
8 Insights Into Today’s Online Shopping Behavior… That Brands Must Deliver On
The dynamics of online shopping continue to evolve as consumer expectations shift rapidly in response to convenience, pricing, and technological enablement. While marketers often focus on trends in automation or AI personalization, the behavioral patterns of everyday buyers reveal the most immediate opportunities for growth. Source: Fit Small Business A detailed look at recent commerce studies highlights several critical consumer…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How to Best Connect with Someone on LinkedIn: A Respectful and Effective Guide
LinkedIn remains one of the most powerful tools for professional outreach, yet it’s increasingly clear how you connect matters more than ever. With the deprecation of both bulk import and contact sync features, LinkedIn has moved firmly toward promoting intentional, high-quality networking. For professionals with expansive networks—like mine, which includes over 10,000 connections—I’ve learned that leveraging LinkedIn isn’t about volume.…
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Advertising Technology
Maximize Your 2022 Marketing Efforts with Consent Management
2021 has been just as unpredictable as 2020, as a host of new issues are challenging retail marketers. Marketers will need to remain agile and responsive to challenges old and new while attempting to do more with less. COVID-19 irreversibly changed the way people discover and shop — now add compounding forces of the Omicron variant, supply chain disruptions and…
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Marketing Tools
Shell Script: Append And Minify Your Code Into Files for AI to Analyze
If you’re a developer, you’re likely getting a lot of assistance from generative AI (GenAI). However, all AI platforms have maximum file size and limit the number of files you can upload. This can be frustrating if you’re working with a directory that may have dozens of small files that are organized well. I have encountered this issue repeatedly when…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Three Buckets of Social Media Marketing Speakers
What an amazing week this has been at Social Media Marketing World! I moderated a session on corporate blogging with Justin Levy and Waynette Tubbs. Justin leads the charge at Citrix for their social and content strategies, and Waynette leads the help of SAS content strategy efforts. Two amazing people that are running enormous strategies efficiently and practically. Since I…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Semrush Backlink Analytics: How To Find and Restore Rankings and Authority With Lost Content
While every website evolves, those changes often leave behind unintended damage, especially regarding SEO. Martech Zone has undergone several transitions, including domain changes, migrations to new hosting, and theme changes. These improvements helped modernize the site and improve performance, but they also introduced risk: broken links, missing content, and forgotten pages. This is particularly costly because many of these outdated…
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WordPress: How to Make a Video Facebox Popup
Vimeo and YouTube videos now offer higher definition videos that can take up quite a bit of real estate on a web site or blog. One way of optimizing for this is to utilize a method called a Facebox. A facebox is a nice means of displaying a window within your page without a separate popup window. Lifeline Data Centers…
