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How Do Barcodes Work? History, Technology, and How To Purchase
The journey of barcodes from an innovative idea to a ubiquitous component in inventory management and sales tracking is a fascinating tale of technological evolution, legal battles, and strategic rebranding. This overview explores the key milestones in developing barcodes, highlighting their impact on sales, marketing, and global commerce. A barcode is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable…
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Why Is Salesforce So Expensive? 12 Ways To Keep Your Costs Down and Maximize Your Return on Investment
As a premium CRM goes, Salesforce leads the marketplace in its ability to be tailored to virtually any industry or process. After decades of implementing and assisting Salesforce clients, the initial wave of jubilation that comes with having a 360-degree view of the customer and improving your business comes with some sticker shock after the platform rolls out and is…
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WordPress Running Slow? Migrate to Rocket.net, the Fastest WordPress Managed Hosting
WordPress, with its user-friendly interface and extensive plugin library, has been the go-to choice for website owners for over a decade. However, beneath its user-friendliness lies a set of challenges that need careful handling. Managing updates, ensuring backups, and preventing malware are just a few hurdles you might face. Additionally, the very infrastructure of a database-driven CMS like WordPress can…
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Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on PPC, Native, and Display Advertising
This year, I took on a couple of ambitious tasks. One was part of my professional development, to learn everything I could about artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing, and the other focused on native advertising. I knew little then, but the subsequent AI research produced an entire ebook: Everything You Need to Know About Marketing Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. It…
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Email Monetization: 10 Ways That Publishers Monetize Their Newsletters
Every Monday, we send a newsletter of the articles published in the last week at Martech Zone. It’s growing in popularity. Since launching it over a month ago, we are nearing 5,000 subscribers. While we’ve automated the newsletter using Mailchimp, we still make edits each week before it’s sent. Our long-term goal with the newsletter is to drive leads to…
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Uscreen: How Transform Your Video Content into a Thriving Membership Business
Content creators face a common challenge: transforming their passion for video content into a sustainable, profitable business. Whether you’re a fitness instructor, educational content creator, or entertainment producer, monetizing your video content while building a loyal community can seem overwhelming. The technical complexities, marketing hurdles, and engagement challenges often prevent talented creators from reaching their full potential. Uscreen Uscreen empowers…
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Add a Home Icon to the WordPress Navigation Menu Using Code
We love WordPress and work with it virtually every day. The navigation menu active in WordPress is incredible – a nice drag-and-drop feature that’s easy to use. Sometimes, you create a menu you wish to use throughout your theme without including the home link, though. Here’s some code adding the home link to the menu without using the menu options…
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Understanding DMARC: The Evolution of Email Authentication and Its Role in Preventing Spoofing
Email remains one of the most critical and widely exploited communication tools in the digital world. Despite numerous advances in security, one of the persistent challenges has been email spoofing—when a malicious actor sends emails with forged sender addresses to deceive recipients. Table of ContentsWhy DMARC Was NecessaryHow DMARC Works (Visual Guide Reference)DMARC Keys and Cryptographic ValidationBenefits of DMARCDMARC Implementation…
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Why Are Brands Still Blogging? Features, Platforms, and Benefits
It’s hard to believe it’s been over a decade since I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies! In that time, I’ve seen a transformation where blogs have become a feature of virtually every content or e-commerce platform. Blogging is still critical as companies require a simple process for quickly publishing articles, news, and building their content library. Blogging Continues To Dominate…
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How To Start A Dropshipping Business
These last few years have been very exciting for entrepreneurs or companies looking to build an e-commerce business. A decade ago, launching an e-commerce platform, integrating your payment processing, calculating local, state, and national tax rates, building out marketing automation, integrating a shipping provider, and bringing in your logistics platform to move a product from sale to delivery took months…
