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- Content Marketing
Martech Zone: Welcome To My New Martech Publication!
It’s only been a year since I last reskinned our WordPress site. While I liked the layout, I had a ton of plugins and customizations to make it function the way I wanted it, too. With WordPress, that can begin to spell disaster from a performance standpoint and I was seeing the cracks in the foundation. So, I went on…
- Content Marketing
Virtual Events Don’t Have to Suck: Marketing Departments Can Make Them Dazzle
We all participated in a lot of virtual events during the pandemic — every human interaction became a Zoom or Meets meeting. After two years of staring at screens, it’s hard to get people to tune into another boring virtual event or webinar. So, why are the best marketing teams investing in virtual events and webinars? When well executed, virtual…
- Artificial Intelligence
How Virtual Assistants Are Transforming Customer Personalization—and Innovation
Personalization is profitable (when it works). Connecting with customers on a deeper level is an undisputed game-changer in sales and brand development. Understanding the audience—their needs, preferences, and behaviors—leads to better problem-solving and conversions. Businesses that leverage personalization can achieve a 10-15% boost in sales. McKinsey And when they were first rolled out at scale, chatbots were supposed to deliver…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
The Power of the Twenty Eleven WordPress Theme
Over the weekend, I switched my WordPress theme back to Twenty Eleven. I can honestly say that I’m happy with the design now. I’ve tailored it to my liking and I didn’t even have to touch the code. Now don’t get me wrong, there are times when I love diving right into a theme and hacking the crap out of…
- Content Marketing
The Content Grid v2
The Content Grid (Version 2), developed by JESS3 and Eloqua, explains the connection between content type and distribution channels, matching content to the buyer’s stage in the purchase process, equipping marketers with Key Performance Indicators for each type of content, and delivering it all in an easily digestible grid. The introduction to the Infographic reads: The buying process begins long…
- Marketing Infographics
Elements of a Perfect Facebook Contest App
The first thing most business owners do when they want to increase engagement and Likes on their Facebook Pages is create a contest app. Yet so many people are confused not only by Facebook’s complicated rules, but by how to create an app that actually does what they hope it will. Creating the perfect app is both an art and…
- Marketing Infographics
What is Mobile Marketing Automation?
Mobile Marketing Automation (MMA) has emerged as a transformative force for businesses seeking to bridge the gap between marketing and sales, while delivering timely and personalized messaging to their prospects. By enabling marketers to deliver content and offers based on behavior, timing, and preferences, MMA not only increases engagement but also boosts conversion rates. Marketers often face significant challenges with…
- Analytics & Testing
10 Mobile Strategy Considerations
Planning to embrace mobile engagement in a big way? There are many considerations that companies simply don’t anticipate or work to maximize their mobile strategies. Make sure to pay heed to the following tips: Seamless Technology – While technology for mobile engagement has still not arrived fully, companies should base their architecture around a cloud-based platform that brings together content,…
- Email Marketing & Automation
When will CAN-SPAM evolve past email?
The FTC has shut down quite a few spammers lately. Spam is still a huge issue, I get hundreds of messages a day. I could filter the emails (I used to use MailWasher) but gave up. There are other alternatives – using a SPAM service that requires each person get authorized to email me, but I like being accessible. Now…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
ATTN: Social Media Application Developers
Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. My blog. My company. Aside from those, I have a Google account. I have a gravatar account. I have a WordPress account. I have a Yahoo! account. I’m on Flickr. Delicious. Technorati. Ning. Before that there was MySpace. And AOL. Back in the day, I even had a Prodigy account. So here’s my question, since I’m absolutely…
