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Currently, companies rely on internet marketing and brand positioning, therefore, making it necessary for marketers to constantly adapt and improve their knowledge.

Data sharing is a hot button topic across the world, especially in the last few years where technological advancements have made accessing sensitive personal data far easier than ever before.

AdTech has been a buzzword in the digital and marketing worlds for a couple of years now. It is a general term for the software and tools that help agencies and brands target, deliver, and analyze their digital advertising efforts. AdTech methodologies deliver the right content at the right time to the right consumers, so …

Advertising and marketing are increasingly becoming part of the same ecosystem, which is why the convergence between AdTech and MarTech is on the horizon. Called “MadTech,” this convergence will blend the anonymous audience acquisition capabilities of AdTech with the relationship-management functionality of MarTech into a melting pot of sorts. The publishers’ aim is therefore simple: …

The past few years have been very fruitful for email marketing. Not only is it still the cheapest way to  successfully reach your target audience but it’s also the most effective. Having absolute freedom in creative formats, length and content in general, companies are open to create emails that are more technologically sophisticated, visually rich …

Working remotely comes with many challenges. There are issues with collaboration and time management. And of course battling distractions and sometimes even time zone differences. Today there are tons of tools available to help with collaboration – like Google Hangouts, Git, Slack, Jira, etc. However, how do you substitute face-to-face encounters? Having remote teammates makes …

While it’s true that twenty five years ago we may have expected greater technological advances by this year (think flying cars, and robot companions), strides have definitely been made. From Tesla’s self-driving cars, to innovations in social media, to advances to robotics, the needle is being moved forward, just not as quickly as we had …

Welcome to our new monthly techie blog… Ready API is a web service testing suite produced by SmartBear. It started out as a single product, SoapUI and allowed users to write tests for SOAP-based web services over ten years ago. It has a feature-rich UI that allows you to write many tests without the need …

AdTech and MarTech: two hot button words in the advertising/marketing space backed by new approaches, concepts, and tools that are reshaping how businesses make money. They’re very different, but also exceptionally complimentary. And if there were a Facebook profile to represent their relationship, the status would certainly be #itscomplicated. The key distinction between advertising and …

Guest Post by Josh Wardini People tend to have a very short attention span (about 8 seconds by some estimates), so it is no wonder that video is doing so well as a marketing technique in making the best of those precious few seconds. Why does video work so well? First, people can get what they …

There’s an overarching belief that Thanksgiving doesn’t get the same hype that other holidays do. After the ghosts and ghouls get pulled off the shelves, we are greeted by rosy-cheeked Santa Clauses and a variety of Christmas trees. Sure, there may be a “Happy Thanksgiving” sign somewhere in the store (usually shoved in between the …

When you’re preparing your marketing mix, there’s so much to think about. Why? Because there’s a ton of new tools, strategies, and opportunities that are pushed on marketers and businesses all the time—especially online. Facebook ads. Instagram ads. LinkedIn advertising. Google AdWords. Even Twitter pushes advertising when all you want to do is skim through …

If you are accustomed to checking email from your smartphone, then you are familiar with viewing less than attractive emails that either take up your entire screen or don’t load at all. When this happens, you and millions of others simply close the email, sending it to trash or spam. In the worst case scenario …

Before there was Myspace, Facebook, or any other social media channel there was email. Email marketing completely changed the marketing game, allowing for amplified reach without the price tag.

A key reason people “fall off the wagon” with their email newsletters is because of time. The reality is, “time” or perceived lack thereof, is an excuse for a whole host of things—not just e-mail. While we could get into an extensive discussion on the construct of time and how you can’t “find time” and …