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Analytics & Testing
SEOmoz Releases Mother of all SEO Apps
I’m a huge fan of Rand Fishkin and SEOmoz. Often I hear murmurs in the Search Engine Optimization industry about SEOmoz being right or being wrong… but I have yet to see a single organization amass as many resources, professionals, tools and tests with regard to SEO. Rand, himself, is another reason why I love SEOmoz. Recently, when I discovered…
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Content Marketing
Three Keys to Leveraging Your Content
Many marketers leverage one piece of technology that they enjoy or are comfortable with and ignore the others. I’m a huge proponent of automation and the marketer leveraging their messaging in any way, shape, or form – so much as it never does harm to their marketing efforts. With regard to a company leveraging content through its site, articles, whitepapers,…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Semrush Sensor: How To Monitor Organic Search Engine Volatility For Your Domain
If you’ve ever felt like managing SEO is like sailing through unpredictable waters, you’re not wrong. You set a clear course—optimizing pages, earning backlinks, and publishing new content—but external forces often shift the tides. Your direction remains fixed, but the competition is fierce and ever-present. The ocean is Google’s algorithm, the winds are search trends, and the waves? They’re volatility—unpredictable,…
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Content Marketing
How Are Marketers Using Social Media?
If you’re wondering how marketers are leveraging social media for their businesses, HubSpot pulled together an infographic snapshot to feature some of results from the 6,491 survey respondents of a survey executed by Moz. The data was released in a joint webinar between HubSpot and Moz today. One interesting stat, 44.4% of survey respondents said their proficiency level with social…
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Content Marketing
Every Home Office Needs One!
A little over a year ago (2005) I was doing quite a bit of consulting on the side and needed to get some new hardware around the home to handle it. I purchased a new computer, new netgear wireless router and wireless cards… and the best investment was my LinkStation. The LinkStation connects directly to my wireless router and has…
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Customer Data Platforms
Big Data Insights from Microsoft
According to Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Big Data Trends: 2013 study of more than 280 IT decision-makers, the following trends emerged: Although the IT department (52 percent) is currently driving most of the demand for big data, customer care (41 percent), sales (26 percent), finance (23 percent) and marketing (23 percent) departments are increasingly driving demand. Seventeen percent of customers surveyed…
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Analytics & Testing
Determining Facebook and Twitter ROI
I’m not sure I agree with the title of this infographic from InventHelp since it doesn’t actually educate one on how to determine the literal return on investment. More so, it’s a great infographic that shows where marketers should look for a return on investment by leveraging Facebook and Twitter. Within the infographic, a method of looking at the change…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Testing Livefyre Sidenote for Commenting
We’ve moved between commenting systems a few times on Martech Zone. Luckily, all the key platforms will synchronize comments (we don’t use them if they don’t). Comments are becoming a topic nowadays since comment spam is rampant and many of the most colorful conversations are happening offline, leading some very large blogs to turn off commenting altogether. I’m with friend…
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The Four Horsemen of the Startup
I’ve been working in startups for almost a decade now. In reviewing the success and challenges of the startups I’ve worked for, its often entrepreneurs that were previously successful that move on to their next startup. I believe there are four issues that startups (and entrepreneurs) must avoid if they wish to survive. The Four Horsemen of the Startup: Greed…