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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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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…
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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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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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Content Marketing
ASP RSS Parser, Feed Reader
This weekend, I’ve been glued to my laptop, searching the net for web-based RSS feed readers. The reason is that I wanted to write an ASP RSS feed reader that would display the feed so that the content could be automatically scraped into an HTML email. So, for folks who want to reserve a portion of their email newsletter for…
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Analytics & Testing
Checklist: A Comprehensive List Of 40+ Steps To Successfully Launch A New Website, Online Store, or Do A Site Refresh
Whether I’m launching a website on a new domain or relaunching a client website, there are a number of steps that I take to ensure that the site is properly launched and fully accessible to users and search engines. I will mention some examples of plugins or applications in the following article, but this is not a platform-specific article. This…
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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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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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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
The True Value of SEO: Beyond Rankings and Traffic
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) remains a critical component of online success. However, there’s a growing divide between SEO practitioners who focus solely on rankings and traffic and those who understand the true impact of SEO on business outcomes. This article explores why the latter approach is not just preferable but essential for achieving meaningful results. The Problem with Traditional SEO…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
The Future of Interactive 360 Degree Video
This is a pretty amazing technology when you start to think about the possibilities. Perhaps you could record multiple storylines and have the user click and enter the next. Could make for one heck of a horror movie! 🙂 See the world like never before with 360° video. Can you imagine? People like to look at 360° photos of the…
