This is the most popular content on Martech Zone.
Martech Zone’s Most Popular Articles
-
Sender Hub: Manage Your Email Deliverability to Yahoo! and AOL Recipients
A survey conducted between January 2023 and July 2024 found that 34% of United States email users accessed Yahoo! Mail daily to once a month, indicating a significant user base. AOL’s user base has significantly declined over the years, with reports indicating around 1.5 million active users as of 2023. These ISPs could impact your ability to reach the inbox…
-
What is a Brand?
If I were to admit one thing after decades in marketing, it was honestly that I vastly underestimated the impact of a brand across marketing efforts. While that may sound like a ridiculous statement, it’s because the nuance of crafting a brand or the incredible effort in adjusting the perception of a brand is far more difficult than I ever…
-
What is Brand Advocacy? How Do You Cultivate Brand Advocacy?
Every business faces the challenge of attracting customers and creating loyal advocates who actively promote their products or services. Brand advocacy has become a cornerstone for sustainable growth, with advocates driving awareness, trust, and revenue in ways traditional marketing efforts cannot achieve. This guide explores brand advocacy, benefits, and actionable steps to foster it within your business. What is Brand…
-
DIY Infographic Production: A Step-by-Step Guide
Creating impactful infographics is a crucial skill in online marketing. With 200 million people on the FTC’s do-not-call list, diminishing email usage, and 78% of Internet users conducting product research online, infographics have become a go-to strategy for marketers looking to generate buzz, positive PR, and improve their online visibility. But what if you don’t have the budget to hire…
-
Instant Payment is Becoming the New Normal For Affiliate Partnerships
Did you know that the number of instant payment transactions is projected to grow by at least 289% between now and 2027? The global community is expected to perform more than 376 billion instant payments within that timeframe. Juniper Research This underscores a major shift in how businesses and customers prefer to pay: seamlessly and immediately. The notable rise in…
-
Social Media Marketing Plan: Six Steps To Plan Your Strategy and Free Templates
Creating an impactful social media presence requires a systematic approach incorporating goal-setting, audience understanding, and consistent execution. These six steps—grounded in strategy, planning, execution, and optimization—provide a comprehensive framework for building and maintaining a successful social media marketing plan. This guide expands on the key steps necessary to meet your objectives while delivering actionable insights and tools for each phase.…
-
25 Tips for Driving Relevant Traffic to Your Trade Show Booth
Trade shows remain one of the most powerful marketing opportunities for companies to connect directly with prospects, partners, and customers. Attending a trade show is rarely a casual endeavor — companies that send representatives often do so with clear intent and a defined budget. Travel, lodging, registration fees, and the cost of time out of the office add up quickly.…
-
How To Start Your Own Marketing Agency or Consulting Firm
A good friend of mine contacted me this week asking about how he should go about how to start and build a business for consulting with companies on their marketing efforts. Given the challenges of the economy, you may have found your position is at risk or even been laid off. Having started several businesses, including owning my own agency…
-
Blueprint to Success: Crafting the Ultimate Web Design Process
Designing a website is a complex process that involves several stages, each critical to ensuring the final product meets the desired objectives. A comprehensive web design process typically encompasses the following phases: Strategy, Planning, Design, Development, Launch, and Maintenance. Below is a detailed look at each stage, along with additional vital insights that might not be immediately apparent. Step 1:…
-
25 Proven Strategies To Increase Relevant Traffic To Your Site, Blog, Store, or Landing Page
Increase traffic… it’s a term that I hear over and over and over again. It’s not that I don’t believe in increasing traffic; it’s that often marketers are trying so hard to increase traffic that they forget to try to increase retention or conversions with the traffic they already have. Relevance is critical for every visitor to realize that their…
