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The Path to Conversion: Ensuring Every Page Guides Users Forward
When discussing website conversions, many immediately think of the final sale, lead submission, or sign-up. However, conversion is more than just a destination—a journey. Every visitor’s step toward becoming a customer, subscriber, or engaged user is a conversion. Each of these steps are conversions: Engagement Conversion: A visitor lands on the homepage and clicks on a featured blog post that…
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WordPress Plugin: Advanced Admin Search With Title, Slug, Content, or Tag
Finding content in the WordPress admin panel can quickly become a chore, especially for sites with hundreds or thousands of posts. By default, the search box in the All Posts screen is limited in capability—it only checks post titles, and there’s no built-in way to search specifically by slug, content, or tags. If you’re a developer, editor, or content manager…
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What Makes a Great Analyst?
At the eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit, we had an interesting conversation on what makes a great data analyst. With a room full of analysts in the room, it’s an excellent question. Generally, the team I worked with agreed that there were business analysts and data analysts – and the expectations on each were a bit different. Business analysts provide information…
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Authority: The Missing Element of Most Content Strategies
There’s not a week that goes by on Martech Zone that we aren’t curating and sharing other people’s facts, opinions, quotes, and even their content by way of infographics and other publications. We are not a curation site for other people’s content, though. Sharing other people’s ideas doesn’t make you an authority, it recognizes and strengthens the author’s authority. But……
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Ebook: What is Lifecycle Marketing?
What is lifecycle marketing? According to our marketing automation sponsors, lifecycle marketing is: …about how organizations interact with prospects and customers across all stages of their relationship with their brand. Is your interaction helping or hurting your brand? Sales and marketing has changed drastically over the past 50 years, let alone the past decade. The funnel is not the same…
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You Don’t Need a Business Degree to Understand This
Okay, it’s time for a rant. This week I’ve been beat up a couple times and I’m truly at a loss that some of these folks have made it as long as they have in business. I want to get a few things straight when you go to negotiate and purchase services from your next Agency. The Price is What…
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The Rise of Social and Mobile Native Ads
With the increasing popularity of smartphones, more people are using their mobile devices to check their social accounts than their desktops. Smart marketers are taking advantage of this shift by increasing their spend to mobile marketing, and integrating their ads seamlessly into the social feeds of their target audiences with native advertising. In the U.S. last year, more than $4.6…
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Develop Your Social Resume
In our industry, a social resume is a requirement. If you’re a candidate looking for a job in social media, you better have a great network and online presence. If you’re a candidate looking for a job in search engine optimization, I better be able to find you in search results. If you’re a candidate looking for a content marketing…
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Influence: It’s Never As Simple as Fan and Follower Counts
Influencer marketing has become a crucial aspect of many companies’ marketing strategies. Influencers are individuals who have the power to affect the purchasing decisions of others due to their authority, knowledge, position, or relationship with their audience. Here are seven ways to drive influencer marketing results by effectively identifying and engaging with the right influencers to promote your products or…
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Mastering Conversion Metrics for Business Blogging: A Comprehensive Guide
Understanding and tracking conversion metrics is essential for gauging the success of your content marketing efforts. Conversion metrics help you determine how effectively your blog posts drive desired actions, such as subscriptions, demo requests, event registrations, consultations, or product purchases. In this comprehensive article, we will explore direct and indirect attribution, the journey visitors take, and how to monitor these…
