Awareness
Martech Zone articles tagged awareness:
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E-commerce and Retail
Mike SzczesnyMar 3, 2024
From Unaware to Raving Fan: Decoding the 8 Stages Of The E-commerce B2C Buyer’s Journey
In the bustling world of e-commerce, the journey from discovering a product online to becoming a loyal advocate involves a series of strategic stages. This pathway not only defines the consumer experience but also shapes the success of online businesses. While niche, a product like glass trophies offers an intriguing perspective for examining this journey, showcasing how targeted efforts at…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Douglas KarrFeb 8, 2024
What is Change Management?
Technological advancements, shifting customer demands, and fluctuating economic conditions are the norm rather than the exception in business. The ability to adapt and evolve has become a critical determinant of success. Change management has emerged as a necessity in this context, serving as the linchpin enabling organizations to navigate these tumultuous waters with agility and resilience. As technologies evolve at…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Douglas KarrJan 24, 2024
The Complete List of Social Media Marketing Benefits for Any Business
Gone are the days when companies solely dictated their brand’s voice, narrative, and marketing strategies. Today, the true power lies in the hands of consumers and business customers, whose voices on social media platforms have the remarkable capacity to make or break a brand. This shift has transformed social media into a critical arena where customer validation is not just…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Douglas KarrSep 5, 2023
What Are The Differences In B2B Marketing Strategies With LinkedIn Versus Facebook
Business-to-business (B2B) Marketers are often distracted in their advertising and marketing efforts by focusing solely on a channel’s reach. Whenever I’m speaking with clients about the channels they utilize or don’t utilize, it’s essential to understand the motivation of their buyers for using the platform they’re on. Let’s discuss why users generally utilize LinkedIn vs. Facebook: LinkedIn Professional Networking: LinkedIn…
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Content Marketing
Douglas KarrAug 28, 2023
What Happened When I Stopped Podcasting? Hint: It Wasn’t Good!
If you’ve been a long-time reader or listener, you likely saw that I stopped podcasting a couple of years ago. A lot was going on in my personal and professional life when I made the decision. I had a new grandson, a new girlfriend (now fiancé), was remodeling my home, found a new hobby in landscaping, and I had merged…
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Content Marketing
Douglas KarrJul 24, 2023
Validate Your Social Media Strategy Against this 8-Point Checklist
Most companies who come to us for social media marketing (SMM) look at social media as a publishing and acquisition channel, severely limiting their ability to grow their brand’s awareness, authority, and conversions online. There’s so much more to social media, including listening to your customers and competitors, expanding your network, and growing your people and brand’s authority online. If…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Douglas KarrMay 11, 2023
What Is A Digital Marketing Strategy?
A digital marketing strategy is a comprehensive plan to achieve specific marketing goals and objectives using various online channels, mediums, and technologies. It involves identifying target audiences, setting marketing objectives, and leveraging digital platforms and tools to engage, convert, upsell, and retain customers. A well-designed digital marketing strategy can help businesses build brand awareness, generate leads, increase sales, and improve…
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Sales Enablement
Douglas KarrMar 31, 2023
Interact: Create Interactive Quizzes That Increase Engagement, Capture Critical Data, And Generate More Qualified Leads
Interactive content, like quizzes, has become a popular lead-generation tool for many businesses. These interactive elements can offer a more engaging and personalized experience for users compared to static content. Interactive content generates 2x more conversions than passive content. DemandMetric Quizzes offer several benefits over static content when used for lead generation in marketing strategies, including: Higher engagement: Quizzes capture…
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Advertising Technology
Douglas KarrMar 28, 2021
How Does Advertising Work? What Makes People Buy?
While researching the topic of advertising, I happened upon an infographic on How Advertising Makes Us Buy. The infographic below opens with the notion that companies are rich and have piles of money and they use it to manipulate their poor audience. I think that’s a rather disturbing, unfortunate, and unlikely notion. The first notion that only rich companies advertise…
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Analytics & Testing
Shannon TuckerJul 15, 2019
Exposure is Not the Same as Impact: It’s Time to Stop Using Impressions to Measure Value
What are Impressions? Impressions are the number of potential eyeballs on your story or social media post based on estimated readers/viewers of the outlet/source. In 2019, impressions are laughed out of the room. It’s not uncommon to see impressions in the billions. There are 7 billion people on earth: about 1 billion of them don’t have electricity, and most of the…