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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Market Like Beyonce (NSFW)
Just a heads’ up that this video does have some colorful language. If you’re at work, you may need to put on the headphones. This is a pretty straight forward message from Gary Vaynerchuk. I love the message that social media is a long-term strategy and it’s one that most companies fail to understand. I always tell folks that it’s…
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Content Marketing
Are Content Marketers Ready for Disruption?
In a new study commissioned by Kapost from the Aberdeen Group, research found few marketers who feel they’re adequately producing and tracking their content. And an exploitable gap is emerging between content leaders and content followers. Kapost calls the transition period where demand is high but smart planning is in short supply Content Chaos. They designed the infographic below to…
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Content Marketing
Why Every Publisher Should Implement a trust.txt File—and How to Do It Right
In an era where misinformation spreads faster than facts and AI models are trained on everything that isn’t nailed down, publishers have an increasing obligation to transparently assert their identity, affiliations, and data usage policies. The trust.txt file is an emerging standard designed to do precisely that—and it’s time for every publisher to consider implementing it. Here’s everything you need…
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Understanding Spheres
Blogosphere is one of those non-sense terms that most people can't stand but when you look at the Internet and how sites move up and down, it really is a sphere of influence. Read more about how you can drive from the outskirts of the web to the A-list.
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Marketing Infographics
Highlights of the Social Customer Index Report
Utilizing social listening software, every day we identify complaints, mistruths, service requests or compliments made to companies that lack any response from the business targeted. While consumers are now dominating social media, businesses are getting worse at responding. According to Sprout Social – 4 out of 5 requests go unanswered! Ouch. These are highlights from the Sprout Social Index Engagement…
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Email Marketing & Automation
BlackBox: Risk Management for ESPs Fighting Spammers
BlackBox describes itself as a consolidated, continually updated database of nearly every email address that is actively being bought and sold on the open market. It is used exclusively by Email Service Providers (ESPs), in order to predetermine if a sender’s list is permission-based, spammy, or outright toxic. Many of the problems that email service providers run into is fly-by-night…
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Marketing Books
The Business of Social Networks
David Silver, a venture capitalist who specializes in social networks, wrote The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth. I’ve been reading through the book with interest – since I’m a co-founder of Smaller Indiana and owner of a social network for Navy Veterans. The two networks have very different business models and goals. Pat Coyle…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
66% of Facebook Users LIKE the New Changes!
It’s not a scientific survey of any sort… just a SurveyMonkey online survey of readers and followers of Martech Zone. However, judging by the response, you folks like the changes that Facebook has implemented. There’s still a third of folks out there that were ticked off by such a drastic change. In my opinion, I think two things are happening…
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Customer Data Platforms
B2B Acquisition: How To Prioritize Your Outbound Sales With Company Profile Matching
Business-to-business (B2B) acquisition can be quite daunting. If you are an organization that services a large region with few employees, you want to ensure that your acquisition strategy is efficient. If there are 50,000 businesses in the region, imagine you can contact 25 prospects per week or 5 per day. That would require you to have 20 salespeople. That’s pretty…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Pipes.ai: Supercharge Sales With AI-Powered Lead Conversion
Managing lead volume is one of the most frustrating challenges for sales organizations. Too often, marketing teams capture web leads that never convert because sales teams can’t follow up quickly enough or waste time chasing bad data. The result? Bloated pipelines, missed revenue, and high agent burnout. There’s a better way to turn intent into revenue—and it starts with automating…
