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Customer Data Platforms
IFTTT: Automate Your Workflows From Anywhere With If This Then That
Managing multiple online services and applications can be overwhelming. Tracking various tasks, notifications, and data across different platforms often leads to inefficiency and wasted time. Fortunately, there is a solution that can help streamline your digital life and boost your productivity. IFTTT IFTTT (If This Then That), pronounced ift, is a powerful web-based service that allows users to seamlessly create…
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Content Marketing
Long-Form Content Marketing
Society and life in general seem to move at light-speed; catch up or miss out is the motto for many businesses. In fact, life in the fast lane has taken on a whole new meaning with the introduction of websites that exist to share short-form content – Vine, Twitter and BuzzFeed are just a couple, popular examples. Because of this,…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Serving is the New Selling
I attended an Indianapolis AMA luncheon where Joel Book spoke about Marketing to the Power of One. His presentation contained a plethora of great information around using digital marketing to serve customers more effectively. Although, there were several takeaways from the program, there was one that stuck with me. The notion that: serving is the new selling. Basically, the idea…
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Content Marketing
The Public Relations Lesson We Learned When Pitching Our Story
Years ago I wrote a post on the mechanics of how to write a pitch from my perspective as a publication. One of the last things I mention in the article is that it has to be relevant to our audience. I’m going to go a step further and say, with all the noise and crap pitches out there, that…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How to Implement Email Accessibility For Assistive Technologies
There’s a constant pressure for marketers to deploy and optimize the latest technologies and many struggle to keep up. The message I hear over and over again from every company that I consult with is that they’re behind. I assure them that, while they may be, so is everyone else. Technology is advancing at a relentless pace that’s almost impossible…
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Advertising Technology
Predictive Bidding and AI’s Role in Transforming the Programmatic Ecosystem
The programmatic advertising industry is experiencing a rapid blooming time: new companies are entering the market, technologies are snowballing, and powerful transformations are in the air. All of this is incredibly complicating the advertising ecosystems, creating conditions for increased fraud and waste. This is where trending solutions that use machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models to predict rates…
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Public Relations
How NOT to Pitch to an Influencer, Blogger, or Journalist
I recently received this email from a public relations (PR) professional asking if I’d cover their client’s latest acquisition on Martech Zone. The entire body of the email (minus the contact signature) read as follows: [Client Name] is expanding its international business and services by acquiring a UK-based multimedia service provider next week, further strengthening its global footprint and reaching…
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Content Marketing
Factors in Purchasing a Marketing Automation Platform
There are so many marketing automation systems out there… and many of them define themselves as marketing automation with a varying degree of actual features that support it. Still, we watch as many companies make huge mistakes in either spending far too much money, far too much time or buying the wrong solution altogether. Specific to marketing technology, we always…
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Artificial Intelligence
3 Keys To Building a Successful Chat Marketing Program
AI chatbots can open the door to better digital experiences and increased customer conversions. But they can also tank your customer experience. Here’s how to get it right. Today’s consumers expect businesses to deliver a personal and on-demand experience 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year. Companies in every industry need to expand their…
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Content Marketing
5 Tips to Maximize the Impact of Your Global Content Strategy
82% of marketers are actively investing in content as part of their marketing strategies. Hubspot At the same time, research has shown that translating branded content into local languages improves customer experiences and leads to a greater likelihood of purchase. This makes high-quality translations crucial for achieving your marketing KPIs (such as increasing brand awareness, building customer relationships, and driving…
