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- Analytics & Testing
Google Analytics: Dynamically Appending UTM Query Strings to Outgoing Links
Adding UTM query string parameters to outgoing URLs can provide valuable insights when tracking marketing campaigns and referral traffic sources. However, relying on content authors to manually add these parameters is error-prone and often incomplete. A better approach is to dynamically append UTM parameters to external links using JavaScript after loading the page. jQuery: Append UTM Campaign Querystrings Here’s a…
- Content Marketing
Copying Content is Not Okay
First my disclaimer: I am not an attorney. Since I am not an attorney, I’m going to write this post as an opinion. On LinkedIn, a conversation started with the following question: Is it legal to repost articles and other content that I find informative on my blog (of course giving credit to actual author) or should I speak with…
- Marketing Infographics
Social Influencers
I think too many marketers look at social influence as if it’s some kind of new phenomena. I don’t believe it is. In the early days of television, we used the newscaster or the actor to pitch items to the audience. The three networks owned the audience and there was trust and authority established… so the commercial advertising industry was…
- Content Marketing
Our New Martech Zone Logo Unveiled for 2019
One area that I didn’t invest in branding was this site. While my company had a great logo that I love, and we work with all of our clients on their branding, I wasn’t available to work on the Martech Zone brand. The old M symbol was a slightly modified illustration I purchased hastily after switching the domain. It was…
- Analytics & Testing
The Secret Art of Digital Marketing
This infographic from Hostgator bounces around between advertising and promotion, tools and actual digital marketing events. SEO is a strategy, but Analytics isn’t a strategy – it’s a tool to help determine the strategy. Paid marketing is part of an overall strategy but not a strategy in and of itself. And conversion isn’t a strategy, it’s the result of a…
- Analytics & Testing
Seven Steps to Meet the Customer Experience Imperative and Cultivate Customers for Life
Customers will leave after a single bad experience with your company, which means customer experience (CX) is the difference between red and black in your business ledger. If you can’t differentiate by consistently delivering an amazing and effortless experience, your customers will move on to your competition. Our study, based on a survey of 1,600 global sales and marketing professionals…
- Content Marketing
Workamajig: Financial and Project Management for Creative Agencies
Workamajig is a web-based system for managing your advertising or marketing agency’s finances and client projects. More than 2,000 firms utilize their marketing management software for their in-house departments. Workamajig is a customizable, Web-based project management software that streamlines everything your agency does – from new business and sales leads to staffing and creative execution, all the way through a…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Super Festive Facebook Holiday Contest Ideas
ShortStack analyzed more than 50,000 active Facebook Pages and 300,000 custom Facebook Page apps that serve more than 1.4 billion Facebook fans, and among the things they discovered: Engagement in December increased by as much as 66 percent on custom Facebook Page apps! Other data they uncovered about brands using Facebook Page apps during December: Brands see a 66% increase in contest submissions Brands…
- Analytics & Testing
How to Set Up GA4 for Multiple Domains in a Single Analytics Property
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) marks a significant departure from Universal Analytics (UA). It is an update and a complete transformation designed for a privacy-focused, cross-platform world. Understanding these fundamental changes is essential, particularly when managing subdomains and separate domains. From Sessions to Events: The Core Transformation Universal Analytics relied on sessions as its primary metric, focusing on website traffic and…
- Event Marketing
What We’ve Learned About Customer Acquisition by Swinging for the Fences
Take us out to the ballgame? Yes! 3DplusMe, a company acquired by WhiteClouds, has been a licensee of MLB for the past two years, creating interactive 3D experiences and personalized full-color 3D products for ballgame-goers. We built and provide the technology that enables MLB attendees to get drafted to their favorite team and “become” a player via our capture-to-print platform. …
