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- Advertising Technology
Why You Should Never Buy A New Website Again
This is going to be a rant. Not a week goes by that I don’t have companies asking me how much we charge for a new website. The question itself raises an ugly red flag that typically means that it’s a waste of time for me to pursue them as a client. Why? Because they’re looking at a website as…
- Marketing Infographics
Google’s Search Result Quality War
SEO.com has released an infographic on Google’s efforts to provide quality search results high. It’s an interesting look back at the key initiatives that Google has undertaken to combat sites from undeservedly dominating search results. While this may not seem like it would impact you, it actually does. Ensuring that your site or your clients’ sites are following the best…
- Content Marketing
Hey Mike! Marketing Is Also About the Make-Up
Yesterday, I received an email from a reader, Mike, who asked why I would put a picture on my blog that displays me as dark-haired, fit, and trim when – in reality – I’m graying and overweight. Ironically, the image you see on my blog is me from about 5 years ago. I’ve gained a few pounds, and my hair…
- Content Marketing
Meltwater Buzz Updates: Curation, Value and Authority
People often ask me how in the world we’re able to find and write about so many marketing technologies out there. It is true that we get pitched quite a bit by public relations professionals, but Martech Zone isn’t a news site – we’re a site to help marketers find technology they can leverage. Many of the tools we share…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
GetFeedback: Online Surveys Like Never Before
If you’ve taken a survey lately, you know how horrid the user interfaces are of traditional survey tools. It’s one of the problems of being a leader in a technology – you continue to build and integrate your platform and it gets more and more difficult to update it. I continue to see this with different platforms – and thank…
- Content Marketing
Do Search Engines Care If You Use Drupal?
How much do Content Management Systems (CMS), like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, play a part in search engine optimization (SEO)? Certainly bad site design (not clean urls, bad content, poor use of domain names, etc) in a CMS like Drupal is going to affect SEO (great tools used in a bad way idea). But do content management systems themselves lend to…
- Analytics & Testing
What Measures Marketers Need to Take to Succeed Online
The 21st century has the seen the emergence of so many technologies that enable us to successfully market businesses in a more integrated and impactful way compared to the past. From blogs, e-commerce stores, online marketplaces to social media channels, the web has become a public arena of information for customers to search and consume. For the first time, the…
- Marketing Tools
Friendbuy: Referral Programs, Referral Tracking, and Referral Campaign Optimization
Someone asked me tonight about what billing system that I was using. I’ve been a Freshbooks user for about a decade and love it, so I wanted to see if they had any kind of referral system where I might get a couple bucks or a free month or something. Sure enough, when I logged into my account, they had…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
4 Tips For Businesses To Better “Socialize” On Social Media
If you’re reading Martech Zone, chances are someone has clued you in already to the fact that it’s going to be more critical than ever to get your business social this year. A recent survey revealed that 40% of small to midsized business decision-makers plan to use social media in 2012. GrowBiz Media I recently heard a guest on Business…
