Which Came First: Content or Design?
The argument for and how to execute a content-first design strategy.
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5 Steps to Making Google Analytics GDPR Compliant
Quickly and easily become GDPR compliant with Google Analytics and Tag Manager using cookies and Javascript.
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New Feature Release: Content Version Interface
Review content versions, publish or schedule previous versions of content, search for previous content, and more with the latest release!
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New Feature Release: Custom Head Tags
In addition to the automatic Open Graph and Twitter Card tags, as well as metadata, you can now add additional tags for any other needs on any page.
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Comparing Headless CMS Contentful with Zesty.io
Learn key differences between headless CMSs Contentful and Zesty.io, two of the most popular headless CMS in the market for enterprise brands.
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How to Hard Refresh
Often times, a hard refresh will solve problems for seeing new content on a website. Here's how to do it, no matter what browser or OS you're using.
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How to Build a Website with a Headless CMS
Every system is different, but in this article we’ll walk you through the average headless CMS tutorial for building a website.
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New Feature Release: Content Item Locking
Now users working in the content editor in Zesty.io can see when another user is working on that content and, if they choose, override their session.
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Headless CMS: SEO Best Practices
Because Headless CMS delivers content differently from the traditional CMS, SEO and marketing professionals are left puzzled with their options.
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Headless Commerce: The Ultimate Guide to Headless CMS in eCommerce
Consumers can now make purchases away from their laptops, smartphones, and tablets; and yet the IoT era has barely begun.
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State of the Union Address:
How Headless Fits Into the Enterprise Technology Landscape in 2019
Headless CMS is an excellent developer tool, but it still takes a "head" and other features to truly support enterprise use cases.
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Dominate Google in 2019: Site Speed + Long Form Content
The fundamentals of SEO rarely change. But there’s no question Google is heavily in favor of two things in 2019: Speedy sites and long form content.
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Writing Google Cloud Functions in Go
In this article I’ll take a a quick look at how to write and deploy a simple function in Go.
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Manager UI & Instances API Release Notes Jan 31 2019
A list of updates, releases, and patches from Jan 11-31
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Manager UI Change Log January 11th, 2019
Many updates were sent to production since Monday's Release, these notes summarize all of the the changes.
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Zesty.io Launches New Interface and Instance API (Jan 7th 2019 at 6pm PST)
Today we are excited to launch a new interface for Zesty.io's content manager, enhancing content authors and developer's experiences in the platform.
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Fighting Submission Bots with Honeypot Fields
Adding a captcha isn’t always the best idea because it can kill conversions; that's where honeypot comes in.
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Top Tips for Optimizing SEO in 2019
Calling all content strategists: get ahead of the curve in 2019 with these tips for optimizing your content to rank higher in search.
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Zesty.io Powers Headless Presentations through Salesforce Commerce Cloud Integration
Deliver Consistent Experiences, Integrated With Salesforce Commerce Cloud
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2018: A Year in Review
Before we look forward to all of the new functionality coming to Zesty.io in 2019, we look back and review a year of tremendous growth.
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Zesty.io Q1 Features and Updates Preview
Get a sneak peek into all of Zesty.io's new tools, functionality, and features coming Q1.
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Testing Zesty.io’s Templating Engine using… Zesty.io!
Parsley is a server side templating engine which can be used to inject dynamic content into web pages or many other output formats.
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Rocket League Launches E-Sports Site Celebrating Players and Tournaments with Zesty.io
The influencer marketing site highlighting teams isn't just celebrated among the community, but also a win for Psyonix technology and marketing teams.
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CMS Migration 101: Everything You Need to Know
If your overall digital presence needs a revamp to keep up with consumer demands and expectations, then migrating your CMS may be your only option.
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Replatforming Your CMS: An Updated Guide
We’ve put this extensive guide together, along with tips to make a replatforming easier: how to make sure you never have to migrate your CMS again.
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Consumer Financial Services App with 5M+ Users Chooses Zesty.io for Headless Architecture to achieve Omnichannel Content Marketing Success
A well-known Consumer Financial Services App uses Zesty.io's headless architecture for omnichannel content delivery, growing to serve 5M+ users.
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Headless CMS Vs Decoupled CMS: The Ultimate Guide
With a headless CMS, brands can deliver their content to any device or channel — but is a headless CMS really the only available option?
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What is the Best Mobile App CMS?
When it comes to building mobile apps, you’ll need a CMS that can build and manage apps across iOS, Android, and other platforms— but that’s not all.
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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Voice Application
Whether you're building an Amazon Alexa app, a Google Assistant app, or other, this guide will help you build, plan, and optimize your voice app.
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Google Cloud Publishes Customer Case Study on Zesty.io
Discusses how GCP empowers Zesty.io to provide the leading enterprise Content as a Service (CaaS) platform.
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How to Resize Your Video For Instagram TV | IGTV Sizing Guide
As we see more marketers embrace Instagram’s latest feature, there's been a lot of queries on how to record, edit, and resize a video to fit IGTV.
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How to Build a Microsite in One Day
Microsites rose to prominence due to the growing complexities of promoting a corporate website for marketing purposes.
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Sony Uses Zesty.io to Accelerate Launch of Alpha Universe
Builds Digital Experience in 6 Weeks, Not Budgeted 4 Months
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Astroglide Uses Zesty.io to Drive Engagement and Education
Replatforming from a Legacy System to a SaaS Solution Gives Astroglide Unprecedented Marketing Control
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PetDesk Adds Value to Software Offering with Websites
The Zesty.io Platform Empowers Veterinarian and Pet Groomer Software Team to Drive Immediate Revenue and Tangible Value
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A List of Headless CMS for 2018
Headless CMS empowers brands to distribute content wherever it needs to go. What makes platforms on the market so different? We dive deep to explain.
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Here’s Why Drupal 8 Is Already Outdated
The value of the Drupal’s software immediately depreciates on the day of release, inevitably forcing you to migrate or replatform.
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How to Break Up With Drupal: The 5 Step Replatforming Guide
With the right process in place, and a helpful CMS vendor on the other end of the journey, replatforming could be a lot easier than you imagine.
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Omni Channel Marketing Made Easy
The right strategy + the right technology = skyrocketing content!
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Drupal Site Hacked? Follow These 8 Steps
We’ve put together an eight-step guide to help you recover from a Drupal cyber-attack as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
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Revealing the True Cost of Drupal
Drupal is widely known as a free and open source CMS platform — but the word “free” really ought to have an asterisk.
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How to Optimize Images for the Web | A Step-by-Step Guide
Speed up your site and delight your visitors with stunning images that don't slow down their experience.
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Learn Recursion from Mr. Meeseeks
A Developer's Quick, Easy, and Actually Exciting Guide to Recursion
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Summer Internship Series at Zesty.io, Post Five: Finishing Up the Internship
Ronak wraps up his last week at the Zesty.io office before entering into UCSD with some wise words of advise for other interns.
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Instant Insight with GCP & Stackdriver
Insight is definitely the best way to describe how metrics and monitoring can help your products or services.
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Summer Internship Series at Zesty.io, Post Four: It All Connects
The past week at Zesty.io, I've been working on writing connectors for the platform.
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Congratulations to the Winners of the Keeping Your Future Zesty Scholarship!
After reading over 70 entries, two exceptional students with incredible stories stood out. We're excited to announce this semester's recipients!
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Summer Internship Series at Zesty.io, Post Three: Creating the Guides
This past week at Zesty, I finished up my work on the iOS App and started working on my next project.
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Making Decisions in the new Accounts UI Built in React/Redux
The overarching theme with all of this is decoupling, as we have decoupled data from actions, actions from views, views from UI elements.
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Drupal Security Reviews: Drupal Security Vulnerabilities Compared & Explained
"All of my Drupal sites were hacked eventually because I wasn't able to install the updates in time.”
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Building Drupal Multi-sites: Pros & Cons List
Having a multisite architecture enables you to connect multiple sites to one dashboard, making it easier to manage multiple websites.
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What is Drupal? Is Drupal 8 Right for My Business?
In this article, we take a closer look at Drupal so you can assess whether Drupal is the right platform for your brand.
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Summer Internship Series at Zesty.io, Post Two: The Build
In just one week, I designed and implemented an app for iOS that can be edited remotely using a online editor (Yep, Zesty.io).
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Delaying Your CMS Migration? You May Be Killing Your Brand
Sometimes, the only thing worse than migrating, is not migrating.
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Writing Google Cloud Functions with Python 3
This is my third and final article looking at new features in Google Cloud functions as Google starts to narrow the gap to Amazon’s AWS Lambda.
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You Can Now Write Google Cloud Functions with Node.js 8
This is a welcome move towards catching up on Amazon’s lead in this space.
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It's Time: Google is Enforcing HTTPS
Chrome will now mark HTTP sites “not secure," making the web a safer place.
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Summer Internship Series at Zesty.io, Post One: An Introduction to Ronak
Hi! My name is Ronak, and I'm currently an intern at Zesty.io.
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Enterprise Governance in Zesty.io
One of the challenges our customers shared with us include managing dozens of users within a single instance or across instances. Teams solves this.
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Agency Teams Working in Zesty.io
We believe we can improve agency's content governance with great CMS design.
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Zesty.io Announces New Teams Feature
By creating teams, you will have a simple way to manage users and their access to instances.
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Using Environment Variables with Google Cloud Functions
One feature that’s been noticeably absent from the Cloud Functions runtime until very recently has been support for environment variables.
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How to Build Teams in Zesty.io
Love working with your teammates in Zesty.io? Now organize and manage teams even better with the new Teams feature.
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Publishing My First Enterprise React Project — The Takeaway
Following declarative patterns, maintaining a flat(ish) and clean state object, and working with promises helped make this a successful release.
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5 IT Predictions Enterprise Marketers Need to Heed
Gartner recently announced their predictions for changes in the IT landscape that will happen in the coming years, and they will affect marketing.
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Marketing Technology Landscape: The State of MarTech in 2018
There is a clear determination for MarTech firms to deliver better marketing solutions.
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Website Speed Optimization: 10 Methods to Increase Page Load Times
Your page load time can make the difference between a sale and a lost customer, so it’s an important thing to consider when designing your website.
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What is WYSIWYG? | What You See is What You Get
With a WYSIWYG editor, how your design and content appears on the editing platform is exactly what it will look like in the final version.
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The Complete Guide to Content Modeling
Having a structured content strategy won’t just benefit your consumers; it will also help your marketing team deliver higher quality content.
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Zesty.io Announces New Accounts Interface
You’ll notice there are loads of new features, more intuitive design, and more efficiencies throughout the new interface.
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Gaming CMS Checklist: How To Find The Best CMS For A Gaming Website
Not every CMS is built to handle the management of a gaming website. Here's what gaming publishers need to succeed.
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Top 5 SaaS Reseller & Affiliate Programs
If you’re looking to become an affiliate for SaaS companies, we’ve put together absolutely everything you need to know.
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40 Marketing Agency Partner Programs Dominating 2018
We’ve listed 40 of the best MarTech agency partner programs which are dominating 2018 — and we categorized them, too!
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Instagram TV and What it Means for Marketing
After rolling out new IGTV feature, marketers are quickly grappling with how to leverage this channel in their content marketing strategy.
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What is Content Marketing? | Guide to Content Creation
Great content marketing starts with valuable information and often incorporates a hint of entertainment.
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SEO Content Writing: The 2018 Rulebook
Increase your chances that your content will be seen and shared, that it will be seen favorably by Google, and that it will achieve its purpose.
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SDVG Names Zesty.io 2018 Cool Company!
We are thrilled to be included in a list of 30 incredible San Diego based startups that are shaping the San Diego Startup Ecosystem!
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Building Javascript Cookies: Everything You Need To Know
Cookies are a great tool that the most successful websites take advantage of in order to improve the user experience of a website.
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Drupal 8 Migration: There Has To Be Another Way
Organizations using Drupal technology are in a sticky situation yet again.
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What is a Data Flow Diagram: Everything You Need To Know
A data flow diagram (DFD) maps out the overall inputs, processes and outputs of data in a system.
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What is Enterprise Content Management | Fully Explained
ECM is a complete organization system for your business that covers everything from document control to customer support requests.
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5 Google Innovations Announced at I/O 2018 and their Impact on Marketing
Perhaps even more exciting than the technologies being announced at I/O this year is the implications they carry for marketing.
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15 Digital Content Creation Tools Dominating Marketing
We’ve created a list of the top 15 digital marketing tools available to help you dominate your digital marketing strategy.
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Using Zesty.io Headless CMS with React
A step-by-step guide for using Zesty.io as a headless CMS paired with a React front end.
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What is Enterprise Marketing? | Step-by-Step Guide for Marketers
Multi-channel marketing, brand awareness and brand diversity are a few of the heavy hitters that make up an effective Enterprise Marketing strategy.
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Content Marketing Strategy – How to Develop Content that Works
Your brand could be churning out content, but unless you’re backing it with a well defined strategy, your efforts may never be appreciated.
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A/B Testing: What It Is And How To Get Started
You’ve probably heard the term A/B testing before. It gets thrown around the digital marketing space a whole lot — and for good reason.
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Best Landing Page Examples of 2018
When done right, a landing page can significantly increase your conversion rate, attract new customers, and engage your audience thereafter.
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IaaS vs SaaS vs PaaS: Everything You Need to Know
One model is not necessarily better than the other, but there are certain circumstances where each one will make more sense than the other.
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Progressive Web Apps (PWA) - The Easy Guide
A PWA delivers an app-like experience, without the need for an intermediary between the developer and the user.
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5 Traits of a High Converting Landing Page
Your landing page is your gateway to consumers, so you’re going to want to make sure that it’s both inviting and optimized to capture the most data.
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Landing Page Best Practices | Most Effective Tips
Landing pages are key when it comes to lead gen; you’ll see the difference when you choose to direct traffic to a landing page vs the home page.
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What is a Landing Page? (All Questions Answered)
Making it easy for consumers to visit your landing pages is both a science and an art form: they should drive traffic, look great, and be optimized.
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How to Choose the Best CMS Platforms for Marketing
We’ve created a checklist to pinpoint how to choose the best CMS platforms that can take digital experiences next level.
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What is a Microsite? | Top 19 Microsite Examples of 2018
Microsites make excellent choices for promoting a standalone marketing campaign. Snag some Microsite inspiration here!
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How to Choose a CMS for Your Multilingual Website - Beginner's Guide
Being able to cater to global markets has endless possibilities.
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WCMS vs CMS | Compared and Explained
WCMS vs CMS... the confusion causes some gray lines in the content management world.
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What Is a Headless CMS?
How can content producers and developers be freed up, with a powerful and scalable solution to push content out wherever it is needed?
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Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 Upgrade: Time to Switch to SaaS?
Drupal upgrade got you in the dumps? Zesty.io has you covered!
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What is a Content Management System (CMS) | The Complete Guide
As marketers in the digital age, it’s incumbent on us to learn the best software, tools and practices for your content.
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The GDPR Compliant Website Starter Checklist
Yes, It's Important - Start the Compliance Audit with your CMS and Website
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Content Marketers - Beware the #SHADOWBAN
Seeing less engagement on Instagram? The Shadowban could be to blame.
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How to Get Funding for a Snazzy Website Upgrade
If you take it step by step, this is a manageable (dare I say, easy?) process. Let’s get you some budget and make it happen, captain!
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When Does It Make Sense to Automate SEO?
If you don’t have a full time team constantly optimizing your site, you need to invest in software that will help you do this around the clock.
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PSA Developers: How You Might Be Unintentionally Sabotaging Your Marketing Team
Wading through the muddy MarTech waters is the same every time: developers and marketers need to work together to navigate those waters.
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What is WCMS?
WCMS is an acronym for Web Content Management System. But what makes it different from a CMS?
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A Dreamy Scenario for Content
Zesty.io releases customizable JSON API endpoints because websites aren't just for desktop browsers anymore.
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WordPress Zero Day Vulnerability: Prevent With Zesty.io
How can you stay safe from the next WordPress vulnerability?
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Marketing Trends Shaping 2017
The advent of the digital age distracted us from who really helps sell products, and that is people.
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Social Media Primer: Reddit
A synopsis geared towards marketers on the popular social media platform: Reddit
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Switching to Google Cloud: Interview with Zesty.io DevOps leader Chris Hiestand
Zesty.io adopts Google Cloud for their SaaS platform
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Ignore Influencer Marketing at Your Own Risk
The millennials have taken the reins as the buying power in the United States.
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Sony Alpha Adopts Zesty.io SaaS Content Platform
Marketers Deploy Secure Consumer Camera Website in Two Months and Increase Visitors to 400,000+ Per Month
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5 Technical Mistakes that are Derailing your Marketing Campaign
Easily Avoidable Mistakes That Can Save Your Campaigns
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Do not let your Marketing Website become a Frankensite
Empower your website to send data to and from other systems
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Modern Business Websites act as Grand Central Stations
Websites are a lynchpin to a businesses digital strategy, but they are also a marketing tool. It's a complicated relationship.
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Face the Facts: Marketing Needs Marketing Technologists
Diminishing IT Dependency Doesn’t Mean Ditching Tech
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Experiences for Mankind Wins District Addy Award for Sony Alpha Website deployed on Zesty.io
Sony Alpha Leverages the Zesty.io Social Curator Tool for Customer Storytelling
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Hosted Platforms Not Ideal for Multisite Setups
Just because a software is well recognized, does not mean it fits for every solution.
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Open Source Multisite - A Nightmare for both Marketers and Technologists
The Wild West of Software, Open Source (or any hosted solution) is a Poor Choice for Multisite Marketing Needs
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How SaaS is changing the Enterprise Technology Landscape
Cloud Software-as-Service (SaaS) is empowering software entrepreneurs to take on the enterprise establishments
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Enterprise CMS With Native Yet Powerful Social Media Management
Harnessing Social Media for Enterprise of Every Size
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The Emergence of Software Services is Changing Traditional Business Operations
Businesses are relying less on IT to make technology decisions and looking to marketing technology operation specialists
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Connected Data: The Evolution of the Business Website
Websites have played a significant role for businesses in the last 20 years. Let's look into the future.
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It's a One Screen World
The original “Three Screen World” of Mobile, Desktop and Television has been expanded upon exponentially.
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SaaS CMS: The Mid-Market Brand's Key to Keeping Up With Customer Needs
A Lean Approach to Online Web Presence and Beyond - A Key to Success
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Multisite Management: Mastering the Art of Customer Experience Consistency
The Importance of Brand ConsistencyTrue Software-as-a Service (SaaS) is Changing the Enterprise Technology Landscape
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