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Content Marketing
Digital Body Language at The Online Marketing Summit
As of today, my list of books to read just got one deeper. I had the pleasure of speaking at the Online Marketing Summit in Houston on behalf of Compendium. At the summit was also Steven Woods of Eloqua. Steven’s keynote and panel conversations were insightful and thought provoking. Steven has released the book, Digital Body Language – Deciphering Customer…
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Content Marketing
Why You Should Send Cards this Holiday
Our sponsors at SurveyMonkey released a holiday survey and found 63% of the 1,000 respondents will send holiday cards for the 2011 holiday season. In an age where text, twitter, and Facebook updates are the main form for daily personal updates, the holiday card remains the gold standard for the period in the year where people aim to keep traditions…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Retailer’s Guide to SoLoMo
Social, Local, Mobile. The nickname for that is SoLoMo and it’s a strategy that’s securing a lot of growth in the industry. Social drives traffic through promotion and sharing, local drives action while users search for retailers in their region, and mobile is driving the purchase decision in and outside the retail location. Although retail conversion rates are low for…
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Analytics & Testing
Conversion In A Box
Conversion In A Box is a combination of landing page, form and data administration, automated email response, and analytics in a single solution. Conversion In A Box helps you turn any webpage into a conversion strategy. Upload compelling content to our secure servers and we’ll generate form code that you can easily paste into blog posts, Facebook pages, websites, landing…
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Content Marketing
The Key to Your Brand Regaining Control is Personalization
Every prospect and customer are motivated differently, arrive at your business through different mediums, with different levels of intent, are seeking different information, are at different stages of the customer journey, and expect to immediately find what they need. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting held up when you’re trying to take the next step. Perhaps it’s something as simple…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Good, The Great, and the Scary with Artificial Intelligence
When I was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1992, it was perfect timing. I went to work for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia – a company that fully adopted IT Innovation as part of its core strategies. We installed fiber and removed line-of-site satellite, we hard-wired programmable-logic controllers to PCs and captured data that helped us fine-tune our maintenance…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Why You Should Unsubscribe Today
Each week, Martech Zone delivers an email via Mailchimp that automatically converts our feed to nicely formatted HTML email. Only a few thousand subscribers take advantage of it – a fraction of our weekly readership. That’s okay… it’s a niche and feeds those who want it. I don’t try to artificially grow the list; it’s got excellent retention and does…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Monkey’s Fist: A Practical Sales Approach to Building Trust and Driving Conversions
Sales is as much about psychology as it is about persuasion. The best sales professionals don’t just sell; they guide, educate, and build relationships. One particularly effective technique in this space is the Monkey’s Fist strategy, which helps reduce friction in the buying process while building trust. In the Navy, when a ship approaches a dock, the crew needs to…
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Martech Zone Tools
App: Measure Your Website’s Response Time with This Simple Metrics Tool
When a website loads slowly, it’s not always clear what’s to blame. Is it the DNS provider? The server itself? Or something in between? To help web professionals pinpoint where delays occur, I’ve published this tool on this site that measures the full lifecycle of an HTTP request, from domain resolution to content delivery. This browser-based tool uses server-side diagnostics to simulate a…
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Recession is a REQUIRED Marketing Tactic
I’m a big fan of Andy Sernovitz’s blog, Damn! I Wish I’d Thought of That! Today, though, I’m not sure I agree with Andy. Marketers: Stop sending promotions that start with in these tough times, how to market in a recession, or any other bad economy-themed promotion. I Wish Andy would have thought of this: Perform a search on Recession…
