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Customer Data Platforms
10 Companies Driving IoT, Data-Driven, Marketing Innovation
The Internet of Things refers to networks of physical objects—devices, sensors, machines, vehicles, and even store fixtures—that are embedded with software and connectivity, enabling them to collect and exchange data. These objects aren’t simply transmitting technical status reports; they’re observing the physical world and reporting back in real time. What a customer touches, how long they pause in front of…
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Sales and Marketing Training
American Managers are Spoiled…
American Managers are spoiled. Some are even brats. Imagine managing on an island. Your island has limited human resources, was hours away from anything, and you spoke a different language. Attracting employees to your island is difficult due to the native language and the island. The island isn’t in the Orient or the Caribbean; it’s cold and damp, with some…
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Thunderbird Arrives! Some features are killer, others should be killed!
My assessment of the latest release of Thunderbird. An incredible email client with a few, very painful flaws.
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Bob Prosen Launches Small Business Accelerator
A few years ago, I read and thoroughly enjoyed Kiss Theory Goodbye, a book from Bob Prosen that provides sound advice for businesses. Bob’s business leadership and management training programs have dramatically increased performance and profitability and changed the culture at Sabre, Hitachi, Sprint, AT&T and hundreds of small businesses across the nation. Bob’s consulting and training are now in…
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Content Marketing
It’s All About the Images
Every few weeks or so I’m bugging my boss to refill the stock photo budget. There’s not a piece of content we distribute for ourselves or our clients that doesn’t have some kind of representative image, graphic, or custom graphic assigned to it. We know, on Martech Zone, that when we select a great image to get our point across,…
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Customer Data Platforms
Hippo Video: Boost Sales Response Rates With Video Selling
My inbox is a mess, I’ll totally admit it. I have rules and smart folders that are focused on my clients and virtually everything else falls by the wayside unless it captures my attention. Some sales pitches that stand out are personalized video emails that have been sent to me. Seeing someone speak to me personally, observing their personality, and…
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Content Marketing
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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Advertising Technology
Buying Into CTV Is a Start—But Consumption Demands More
For the first time, streaming TV viewership surpassed both cable and broadcast combined in May 2025, with Connected TV (CTV) accounting for 44.8% of total TV viewing in the U.S. Variety Whether this milestone is an anomaly remains to be seen—will it hold through the NFL, NHL, and the fall broadcast debut season? Either way, this massive market penetration can’t be ignored.…
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Killing Me (Blog) Softly
Visitors: Down 33%Pageviews: Down 18%RSS Subscriptions: Up 5%Adsense: Down 70%Technorati Rank: Down 4%. These are some of my statistics for the last two weeks on my blog! For my regular visitors, you’ll notice I’ve not been blogging consistently – one of those cardinal rules that you should never break. Blogging is all about momentum. Once you lose momentum, there’s no…
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Analytics & Testing
Social E-commerce with Moontoast
With more people depending on social networks and blogs for news and updates, the focus is on engaging customers and potential customers through social media. However, for companies, such engagement or brand building initiatives remain an exercise in futility if they do not ultimately translate to added revenues. Enter Moontoast, the first socially distributable commerce platform, allowing companies to engage…
