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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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Content Marketing
Gas Hosevertising?
Speedway is the place for me to gas up. For a gas station, I must admit they do that little ‘extra’ for the inevitable trip to the gas station. For one, I carry around my Speedway rewards card that I’ve saved up 15,000 points on. I’m ashamed to admit that I have no clue what that means, other than every…
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Bubbles, Reflections – now Ambient Glow!
After scrapping my old theme, the default Kubrick theme started to grow on me… it’s clean and simple. After getting quite a bit of ribbing about my last theme (very, very, very customized aka hacked Anaconda theme) breaking with WordPress 2.1, I was motivated to get a new theme up and going quickly. Perhaps the worst (or best) ribbing I…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why You Should Noindex Your RSS Feed for SEO
With search engine optimization (SEO), every decision about how your site is structured and indexed can impact your rankings. One often overlooked aspect of SEO is whether to allow search engines to index your RSS feed. While RSS feeds serve an essential purpose for content distribution and syndication, they don’t always need to be indexed by search engines. Noindexing your…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
10 Steps To Negotiating a Pay Raise… Even in a Tight Job Market
Marketing roles—and many white-collar jobs—are experiencing slowdowns in hiring and even reductions in force. While the demand for roles may be declining, your value as a professional doesn’t have to. In fact, during periods of uncertainty or constraint, companies are looking harder than ever at who their key contributors are. That makes now a critical moment to advocate for your…
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Analytics & Testing
Ruler Analytics: Connect Revenue to Marketing with Closed-Loop Attribution
Most marketers are flying blind when it comes to proving the real impact of their efforts. The disconnect between lead generation and sales makes it difficult to know what’s working and what’s wasting your budget. That’s where closed-loop analytics comes in—providing the missing link between marketing activity and revenue outcomes. What is Marketing Attribution? Marketing attribution is the process of…
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Marketing Tools
DivMagic: Instantly Copy Any Web Design, Layout, Or Element
Turning a stunning website into usable code shouldn’t require hours of inspecting, tweaking, and reformatting. Yet for most developers, that’s the daily grind—hunting through DevTools, guessing CSS values, and reassembling UI components from scratch. Speed matters, and the tools we use should work with us, not against us. DivMagic That’s where DivMagic comes in—a lightweight yet powerful browser extension that…
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E-commerce and Retail
PitneyShip: Smarter, More Affordable Shipping for Your Online Store
E-commerce businesses of all sizes need tools that streamline shipping, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency. Pitney Bowes, a trusted name in mailing and shipping for over a century, offers a solution that brings all this together in one platform. PitneyShip PitneyShip is a cloud-based shipping solution designed to help businesses simplify and centralize their shipping and mailing operations. Whether…
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Content Marketing
Social Business, the Quiet Revolution
Social media and social technologies are now an integral component of how companies do business. It has become completely intertwined and integrated in our marketing efforts. Digital marketers can’t talk about content, SEO, website optimization, PR. Customers, whether they realize it or not, now have a completely new role to play within the corporate setting. They play a fundamentally different role in…
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Marketing Infographics
How Small Businesses Use Social Media
It’s always interesting to note out other marketers are leveraging social media for their own benefit. Pagemodo has developed an infographic on How Marketers Are Using Social Media Successfully. The infographic is based on a recent survey and showcases the most common benefits of using social media. Including: How important is social media marketing for small businesses? What percentage of…
