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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Four Sources for Finding New B2B Sales
There are at least four major sources at your disposal where you can focus your B2B sales efforts to increase your revenues. They are … Your existing customers Other people who you already know but that you don’t presently do business with People that others know but who you do not Folks that you presently have absolutely no connection to…
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E-commerce and Retail
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…
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Artificial Intelligence
Chatbase: Train ChatGPT and Launch Your Intelligent Website ChatBot Without Any AI Expertise
The traditional chatbot developed years ago had a simple experience… ask a question and the bot attempted to comprehend the question and provide a relevant answer. Designing a chatbot experience was rudimentary: searching for keywords and phrases, utilizing logic trees to provide direction, and rarely responding appropriately. For the most part, I believe most users (like myself) found them infuriating,…
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Content Marketing
How To Stop WordPress From Guessing Redirects When It Believes It Will Result in a 404 Error
If you’re a longtime reader of Martech Zone, you’ve probably noticed much progress on cleaning up the site. I’ve been correcting incorrect internal links, adding many redirects, removing articles to discontinued platforms, and updating critical articles. Working nights and weekends, I’ve probably deleted over 1,000 articles and edited over 1,000 more… and my work isn’t done. Another functional change I’ve…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What is a TLD? Top Level Domains Explained
If you parse any domain name, the top-level domain is the last section after the last dot. That’s the highest level within the hierarchy of a domain name. So, for martech.zone, the TLD is .zone. When the web was first launched in the United States, it was fairly easy to remember domain names. .com meant you were on a company’s…
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Marketing Tools
SoapUI: The Developer’s Tool for Testing and Visualizing APIs
Whenever I meet with a good friend, I hear about a new tool that makes life easier. I had coffee with David Grigsby, a .NET integration expert who works for DocuSign. David and I discussed SOAP versus REST APIs (that’s how we roll). I tend to favor REST APIs because they’re easier to visualize and develop a chunk at a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Wishpond: Elevating Your Marketing Strategy with an All-in-One AI-Powered Platform
Businesses face the daunting challenge of capturing leads, nurturing relationships, and converting prospects into loyal customers. The complexity of managing multiple marketing tools often leads to inefficiencies, fragmented data, and missed opportunities. Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) particularly struggle with limited resources and the need for cost-effective solutions that deliver measurable results. Wishpond Enter Wishpond, a comprehensive marketing platform designed…
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Customer Data Platforms
POWR: Attract And Engage Visitors With These 60+ Easy-To-Use Website Apps
Building a comprehensive website that attracts and engages visitors requires more than content. Adding elements that attract a visitor’s attention and drive them to conversion is essential to your inbound marketing strategy. No-code website apps are a great way to help companies who wish to quickly deploy these elements without needing custom development. When it comes to website apps, POWR…
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Content Marketing
The Science Behind Engaging, Memorable and Persuasive Marketing Presentations
Marketers know better than anyone the importance of effective communication. With any marketing efforts, the goal is to deliver a message to your audience that engages them, sticks in their minds, and persuades them to take action—and the same holds for any kind of presentation. Whether building a deck for your sales team, asking for budget from senior management, or…
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Artificial Intelligence
Landbot: A Guide to Conversational Design For Your Chatbot
Chatbots continue to get increasingly sophisticated and provide a much more seamless experience for site visitors than they did a year ago. Conversational design is at the heart of every successful chatbot deployment… and every failure. Chatbots are being deployed for automating lead capture and qualification, customer support and frequently asked questions (FAQs), onboarding automation, product recommendations, human resource management…