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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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Analytics & Testing
Parsely: Content Publishing Analytics Done Right
If your company is investing in the development of content, you’ll find standard analytics nothing less than frustrating. Here are a few reasons… authors, categories, publication dates and tagging. There are specific questions you get asked by your company that you simply can’t answer: What content that we published this month performed the best? What author drives the most traffic…
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E-commerce and Retail
Five Steps You Can Take Today to Boost Your Amazon Sales
Recent shopping seasons were certainly atypical. During a historic pandemic, shoppers abandoned brick-and-mortar shops in droves, with Black Friday foot traffic falling by more than 50% year-over-year. In contrast, online sales surged, particularly for Amazon. In 2020, the online giant reported that independent sellers on its platform had moved $4.8 million of merchandise on Black Friday and Cyber Monday —…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Maropost Marketing Cloud: Multi-Channel Automation For Email, SMS, Web, and Social Media
A challenge to today’s marketers is to recognize that their prospects are all at different points in the customer journey. On the same day, you may have a visitor to your website who isn’t aware of your brand, a prospect who is researching your products and services to solve their challenge or an existing customer who is seeing if there…
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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…
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Sales and Marketing Training
IoT Applications: Ideas and Examples That Drive Customer Loyalty, Experience, and Build Value
The Internet of Things (IoT) rapidly transforms how businesses interact with customers and deliver value. By connecting everyday objects to the internet, companies can gather valuable data, personalize experiences, and build stronger customer relationships. With the rapid evolution of all digital technology, communications, hardware, software, and IoT mobile app development services are now becoming affordable to many businesses. Just in…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Did Information Access Really Kill the News Industry?
Throughout human history, the control and dissemination of information have been intrinsically linked to power structures and social organization. From ancient scribes to modern social media, the journey of how we share knowledge reflects our evolving society and its power dynamics. Early Information Sharing and the Rise of Literacy In ancient civilizations, knowledge was preserved and transmitted through oral traditions…
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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…
