Let’s start with a few sobering martech stats: 56% of organizations report underutilizing their marketing technology; 21% of companies have platforms or tools they’ve purchased that aren’t being used at all; and only 9% of marketing departments say they have all of the marketing tools they need and fully use them. So is marketing technology […]
Right now, the barriers for new brands and startups to enter the market have never been lower. Want to sell stuff online? Sign up for Squarespace. Start an Etsy account. Heck, log into Craigslist. And voilà, you’ve done it. You, and ten thousand others. With innovation at an all-time high, it won’t be your technology
Every successful sales rep knows the best recipe for closing the deal has only two ingredients: exceptional products or services and exceptional customer service. The rise of account-based marketing (ABM) reflects this tenet. ABM is a new phrase for a long-standing approach to sales and marketing in which integrated teams prove they care about the
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Prospective buyers of marketing technologies rank demos, test drives, and self-driven online research as the most valuable methods for evaluating products/services, according to a recent report from Target Marketing, NAPCO Research, and IBM. The report was based on data from a survey of 315 businesspeople who are involved in the purchase process of marketing technologies
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There has been a lot of talk recently about attribution. And answering these questions has been one of the biggest challenges facing the modern marketer: “Is my marketing campaign working?” “Does that last click really deserve all the credit?” “Where then am I spending more than I should?” While many tools have been developed that attempt to
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As you #AMPlify your site with Accelerated Mobile Pages, it’s important to keep an eye periodically on the validation status of your pages, as only valid AMP pages are eligible to show on Google Search. When implementing AMP, sometimes pages will contain errors causing them to not be indexed by Google Search. Pages may also
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Chart of the Day: How good is your use of campaign tracking codes? As this post on campaign tracking in Google Analytics shows, Google’s UTM tracking codes provide an excellent way to see which of your marketing channels and content is influencing site visits, leads and sales. This week we have launched a simple tracking code
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