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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How to Choose the Best Channels for Your Customer Support Strategy
With the advent of business ratings, online reviews, and social media, your company’s customer support efforts are now integral to your brand’s reputation and your customer experience online. It doesn’t matter how great your marketing efforts are if your support and expertise are lacking. A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by…
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Marketing Books
Building a StoryBrand: The 7 Desires Your Prospect Depends On
I participated in a marketing ideation meeting alongside a consultancy known for developing roadmaps for high-tech companies. As the roadmaps were created, I was impressed with the unique and differentiated paths the team came up with. However, I was also determined to keep the team focused on the target market. Innovation is a critical strategy in many industries today, but…
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Artificial Intelligence
Everything You Need To Know About AI-Driven Auto-Tagging In 2023
Tagging is the process of assigning labels or keywords to items, such as images, articles, or videos, to categorize, organize, and retrieve them more efficiently. It is widely used in various fields, including social media, websites, and content management systems, to improve searchability and navigation. On Martech Zone, for example, tagging provides superior internal search results, improves the relevance of…
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Email Marketing & Automation
What are the Key Requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act?
United States regulations covering commercial email messages were regulated in 2003 under the Federal Trade Commission’s CAN-SPAM Act (CAN-SPAM). While it’s been over a decade… I still open my inbox daily to an unsolicited email that has both false information and no method to opt out. I’m not sure how effective the regulations have been, even with the threat of…
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Martech Zone Tools
App: URL Encode and Decode
Data often travels embedded within uniform resource locators (URLs) to reach its destination. However, not all characters play well within URLs’ strict rules. URL encoding is a translator that ensures smooth communication between web browsers and servers. I built a little application to help you URL encode or decode your data. Source Data Result Data URL Encode URL Decode Copy…
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Marketing Tools
Surfshark: What’s a VPN? Why You Need One For Business and Personal Use
Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is crucial for anyone who values privacy and security, whether browsing from home, a coffee shop or traveling abroad. What is a VPN? A VPN is a tool that encrypts your internet traffic and masks your IP address to safeguard your privacy online. By creating a secure, private connection between your device and the…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Easiest Way To Minify Your Shopify CSS That’s Built Using Liquid Variables
We built out a Shopify Plus site for a client that has a number of settings for their styles in the actual theme file. While that’s really advantageous for easily adjusting styles, it means that you don’t have a static cascading style sheets (CSS) file that you can easily minify (reduce in size). Sometimes this is referred to as CSS…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
What is Social Media Monitoring?
Digital has transformed how businesses interact with their customers and understand their market. Social media monitoring, a critical component of this transformation, has evolved from an open-access data pool to a more regulated and insightful tool, significantly impacting marketing and brand management strategies. What is Social Media Monitoring? Social media monitoring, also called social listening, involves tracking and analyzing conversations,…
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Marketing Tools
Excel Formulas For Common Data Cleanup
For years, I’ve used the publication as a resource to describe how to do things and keep a record for myself to look up later! A client handed us a customer data file that was a disaster. Virtually every field was misformatted, and as a result, we could not import the data. While there are some great add-ons for Excel…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Mobile vs Desktop (vs Tablet) Activities: Consumer and Business Statistics in 2023
The use of smartphones and desktops varies significantly between consumers and businesses. This article, backed by recent statistics and sources, delves into how these devices are utilized. Here are some overall key differentiators: Media Consumption: While both smartphones and desktops are used for media consumption, smartphones lead in personal media consumption, whereas desktops are preferred for business-related media consumption. E-commerce:…
