This is the most popular content on Martech Zone.
Martech Zone’s Most Popular Articles
-
SPAM of the Day
Even with all the SPAM filters in the world, I still get SPAM. I hate SPAM, but I have to admit one of my guilty pleasures as I scan through the SPAM, I tend to read some. I quickly scan them to try to identify things that were caught by the filter that were valid comments. Every once in a…
-
How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
-
The Gold Standard of Content Marketing
Newsreach has released both an infographic and accompanying whitepaper, The True Value of Content Marketing. Individual pieces of high quality content are capable of attracting and engaging web users, but on their own will not have the impact you want. Content Marketing requires an ongoing effort to produce fresh, relevant high-quality pieces. Many businesses face challenges in producing the volume…
-
The Dangers of SEO and How to Implement a Flawless Strategy
Yesterday we had a great regional conference organized by Revenue North. The topics ranged across business, technology and marketing and I opened the day with a discussion of the dangers of SEO. So much has changed in the search engine optimization industry. One of my attendees even joked with me that I had conflicting advice just a couple years ago.…
-
The iPad Hype… Why You’re Next
1.webp” alt=”” title=”Flipboard iPad” width=”150″ height=”150″ class=”alignright size-thumbnail tie-image10524″ align=”right” />We had a couple folks complain that the blog had an issue on the iPad where they actually couldn’t read the posts. This was about the tenth person that complained about our blog and the iPad so I finally broke down and we purchased a few. One is for me,…
-
We Only Value Tools We Can Use
This week has been a rough week… lots of stress, lots of change, and mostly a lot of progress. At 42 years old, I’m pretty set in my ways but I had an event this week that really hit hard. I’ve been saying for quite a while that social media is an incredible amplifier – but that companies who were…
-
Because Google Said So
Google is the master. Period. We can’t avoid it. If you want to benefit from organic search, the SEO formula is simple – listen to what Google wants you to do and do it! (And don’t do as they do) It happened again this week. A representative from the web department brushed off an alert in Google Search Console and…
-
No One Cares About Your Blog! Or Mine.
When I first wrote about the value of blogging back in 2006, the internet felt like a frontier. There was plenty of skepticism, and I’d often get ribbed for spending so much time on my blog. I didn’t take offense. I’d think to myself, It’s a blogger thing—you wouldn’t understand. Nearly 25 years later, I’m still publishing, but the landscape…
-
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…
-
Locations for Your Calls to Action
We’re always testing Calls to Action on our own sites and our clients. This may be an elementary post, but there are several places to provide a path to engagement on the typical website. I’d encourage companies to program these locations into their content management themes to make it easier for businesses to add, update, and test different calls-to-action. CTA…
