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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…
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E-commerce and Retail
Holiday Marketing Tips for Retail and Ecommerce
It’s no surprise that 78% of shoppers will be researching their next purchase online, but what is a surprise how many retailers and e-commerce companies are leaving their online presence out of the equation. One of those missing elements is Pinterest – the leading social network for gift inspiration. In the last 15 years, 75% of retail growth has been…
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Content Marketing
6 Compelling Content Roles Your Content Library Should Have To Align with Audience Intent
Compelling content begins with understanding the customer journey. From initial awareness to final decision-making and retention, each stage demands a different kind of conversation. Content isn’t just a broadcast tool—it’s a pathfinder that helps users discover, evaluate, and commit. High-performing content aligns with these journey stages, offering relevant insights and calls-to-action that move prospects forward. When crafted with strategic intent,…
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Content Marketing
Ways to Target Your Website Traffic
We’re behind on customization of our mobile and iPad versions of the new theme on Martech… it’s in the works, though! One thing you will notice is that, based on the categorization of the post, we have different advertisements on the page. We did this by customizing our own dynamic widgets and utilizing iSocket for self-service placement of the ads.…
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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…
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Content Marketing
Will Your Branded Content Idea Work? 5 Ways to Know
Branded content is not one size fits all. What works for one brand may not work for all, and it’s good to know if your content idea is likely to work before you pour resources into executing it. Column Five has come up with 5 questions you can ask yourself and your team to see if your brilliant ideas will translate from the…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Score the Winning Goal in the E-Commerce Game
While in the World Cup there can only one winner, many companies can experience success in the game of e-Commerce. There are proven tactics that have helped retailers score. Baynote shows you how to field the best players and a create a dynamic game plan so that your e-Commerce business can bring home a win. Before the season starts, teams…
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Marketing Tools
Credible: The Speech Coach App To Help You Stop Saying “Um… Like… You Know…”
The less public speaking and podcasting I do, the more I find filler words entering each conversation that I’m having. Being a public speaker makes you highly aware of this terrible habit in others, and it’s downright embarrassing as I find myself doing it. When speaking in public or engaging in professional conversations, using filler words like um, like, and…
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E-commerce and Retail
Choice Overload: The Case for Smarter, Not Fewer, Options
Starbucks made headlines recently by announcing a significant reduction in its menu, cutting approximately 30% of its offerings by the end of the year as part of CEO Kevin Johnson’s Back to Starbucks strategy to streamline operations and enhance the customer experience. This bold move, aimed at reducing wait times and simplifying choices for both baristas and customers, underscores a growing trend among…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Twitter Brand Faux Pas
There’s this one guy on Twitter who unfollows and follows me on what seems like a weekly basis. I think he believes that I’ll suddenly follow him (since I haven’t the last 27 times he’s tried.). He must imagine that I’ve automated my account or that I’m a sheep that will click follow on anyone who follows me. I didn’t…
