This is the most popular content on Martech Zone.
Martech Zone’s Most Popular Articles
- E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Payment Hacks for Business
Does your business provide a mobile payment option? As payment services and mobile technologies become ubiquitous, the opportunity to turn a prospect into a customer through a mobile payment option should be on your radar! Mobile payments are clearly the trending technology for businesses of all sizes. In 2012 there were $12.8 billion in mobile transactions in the U.S., by…
- E-commerce and Retail
Priming the Omnichannel for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
There’s no question about it, retail is undergoing a dynamic transformation. The constant flux among all the channels is forcing retailers to sharpen their sales and marketing strategies, especially as they approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Digital sales, which include online and mobile, are clearly the bright spots in retail. Cyber Monday 2016 claimed the title for the largest…
- Analytics & Testing
Stirista Powers Its New Identity Graph with Real-Time Data
Consumers make purchases at an online store from your home computer, visit a product page at another site on a tablet, use a smartphone to post about it on social media and then go out and physically buy a related product at the nearby shopping center. Every one of these encounters helps to develop a complete user profile, but they…
- Content Marketing
10 Ways to Ensure Content Marketing Success
Ready to give your content marketing efforts a boost? It takes some time and forethought to make your content work for you, but with a little planning, it’s more than possible. Here’s a checklist for you to follow to take your already awesome content to the next level. 1. Be Purposeful Before you even get started with your content marketing…
- Sales and Marketing Training
How to Build a Social Media Marketing Funnel
The word funnel kind of bugs me as I continue to work with clients to improve their online presence and we see the data from sponsors like Right On Interactive. There isn’t truly a one-size fits all funnel out there. Your prospects all take very different paths that may lead them to converting or abandonment. But the term funnel is…
- E-commerce and Retail
Is Vine the Diamond in the Rough of Social Commerce?
While I was at the IRCE, I was pretty excited when one speaker, Danny Gavin, stopped me and told me he had seen me speak years ago at an event in Austin. Danny is one of the Internet’s top marketers… developing cutting-edge Internet marketing and social media campaigns for Brian Gavin Diamonds. With his expertise, he’s helped to propel BGD…
- Marketing Books
It’s Not Their Fault. It’s Yours
I am again in the middle of a book binge, with four on my plate right now. I picked up Small is the New Big, by Seth Godin this weekend. I’m already enjoying it, although Mr. Godin took me by surprise. Had I read more about the book, I would have noticed that the material is a compilation of his…
- Advertising Technology
4 Strategies to Mitigate the Risk of Rampant Click Fraud
Digital Advertising will most likely be the top media advertising expenditure in 2016 according to comScore. That’s also making it an irresistible target for click fraud. In fact, according to a new report on fraud in the online advertising industry, one-third of all advertising expenditures will be wasted on fraud. Distil Networks and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) have released…
- E-commerce and Retail
Integrate Shopify Seamlessly With Your WordPress Site
We’ve been setting up quite a few WooCommerce sites for clients… and it hasn’t been easy. The WooCommerce interface is a bit clunky and additional features are mostly available through a plethora of plugins that require paid subscriptions… and more configuring. Lots and lots of configuring. If you’ve never seen Shopify, we shared a video that shows you how to…
- Artificial Intelligence
Otter: Real-Time Meeting & Podcast Transcription With Highlights
This week, I was attending a video conference call using Zoom. In the chat window, I noticed that there was a link inserted in the chat window by an application, Otter. When I clicked on the link, I was absolutely blown away… it opened a window where I was watching the conversation be transcribed in real-time. Because it was fully…
