Marketing Glossary

The marketing industry is full of complex concepts, terminology, and acronyms. This comprehensive marketing glossary is here to help grow your vocabulary.

A

A/B Tests

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Abandoned Cart

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Above the fold

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Access

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Acquisition cost

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Ad Copy

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Ad Network

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Ad swap

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AdSense

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Advertising Budget

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Advertorial

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Affiliate

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Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate Network

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Affirmative consent

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Alert

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Alias

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Alt Text

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Anchor Text

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AOL

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Application Program Interface (API)

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Application Service Provider (ASP)

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ASP

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Attachment

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Audience Segmentation

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Authentication

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Autoresponder

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B

B-to-B

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B-to-C

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B2B

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B2C

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Back-end

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Backlinks

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Banner Ad

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Bayesian filter

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BIMI

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Bing Ads

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BITNET

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Black Hat SEO

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Blacklist

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Block

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Blog

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Bonded Sender

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Bounce

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Bounce handling

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Bounce message

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Bounce Rate

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Bounces

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Brand

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Brand Identity

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Brand Image

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Brand Manager

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Breadcrumbs

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Broadcast

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Bulk folder (also junk folder)

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C

Call to Action (CTA)

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CAN-SPAM

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Canonical URL

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Catch-all

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Cell

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CGI

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Challenge-Response

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Challenge-response system

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Classified Advertising

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Click-Through Rate (CTR)

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Click-through tracking

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clickthrough & clickthrough tracking

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Co-registration

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Commercial email

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Conditional blocks

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Confirmation

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Confirmed opt-in

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Contact Form

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Content

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Content Marketing

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Conversion

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Conversion Rate

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Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

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Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)

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Cost Per Click (CPC)

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CPA

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CPC

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CPM

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Creative

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Creatives

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CRM

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Cross-campaign profiling

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Cross-post

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CSS

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CTR

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Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

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Customer Data Platform

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Customer Journey

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D

Database Management System

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Dedicated Server

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Deduplication (deduping)

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Deliverability

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Delivery tracking

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Denial-of-service attack (DOS)

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Deploy

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Digest

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Digital Marketing

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Direct Mail Marketing

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Direct Marketing

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Discussion group

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Display Ads

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Distribution Channel

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DMARC

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DNS

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Domain

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Domain name

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Domain Name System

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Domain Throttling

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DomainKeys

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Double opt-in

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Download

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Drip Campaign

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Dropshipping

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Dynamic content

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E

E-commerce

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E-commerce Website

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ECOA

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Effective rate

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Email

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Email address

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Email appending

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Email Automation

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Email bounces

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Email client

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Email Domain

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Email Filter

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Email Friendly Name Aka Display Name, From name.

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Email harvesting

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Email header

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Email List

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Email Marketing

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Email Newsletter

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Email Prefix

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Email Vendor

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End User

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Enhanced whitelist

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Error 404

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Event triggered email

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Extensible Markup Language (XML)

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Eye Tracking

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Ezine (also e-zine)

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F

Facebook Ads

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Facebook Ads Manager

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Facebook Business Page

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Facebook Profile

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False positive

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FCC

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Featured Snippet

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Filter

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Firewall

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Footer

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Forward (also Forward to a Friend)

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Forward DNS Lookup

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FQDN

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Freeware

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From

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FTC

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FTP

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Full-service provider

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G

Gateway

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Gmail

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Goodbye message

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Google Ads

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Google Algorithm

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Google Analytics

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Google My Business

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Google Remarketing

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Google Search Console

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Gross Rating Points

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H

H1

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Hard Bounce

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Hashtag

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Header

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Heat Map

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Host

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Host name

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House list

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Hreflang Tags

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HTML

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HTML message

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HTTP (HTTPS)

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Hygiene

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Hyperlink

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I

Iframe

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IMAP

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Impression

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In-house list

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Inbound Marketing

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Index Page

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Instagram Ads

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Integrated Marketing

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Internet

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Intranet

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IP Address

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ISP

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J

JavaScript

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Joe job

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K

Key Success Factors

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Keyword

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Keyword Density

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KPI

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L

LAN

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Landing Page

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Leads

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LinkedIn Advertising

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LinkedIn Profile

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Linkrot

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List

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List Broker

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List fatigue

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List host

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List hygiene

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List management

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List owner

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List rental

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List sale

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M

Mail bomb

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Mail loop

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Mail-merge

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Mailing list

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mailto

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Mainframe

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Market Share

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Marketing Analytics

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Marketing Automation

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Marketing Collateral

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Marketing Mix

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Marketing Objectives

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Marketing Research

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Merge-purge

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Meta Description

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Meta Keywords

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Meta Tags

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MIME

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Moderated list

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MSP

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MTA

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MUA

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Multi-part MIME

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Multi-threading

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Multipart/alternative

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MX

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N

Narrowcasting

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Nofollow

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Nonprofit Marketing

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Nth name

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O

ODBC

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Offload

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Omnichannel Marketing

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Open rate

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Open relay

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Open-relay

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Open-up rate

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Open-up tracking

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Operating system

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Opt-in

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Opt-out

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Organic Search

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Out-of-office replies

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Outsourcing

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P

Paid Search

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Pass-along

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Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

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PDF

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Permission

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Personalization

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Personalized Marketing

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Personalized Product Recommendations

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PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)

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Phishing

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Plain text

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POP

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Postmaster

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Preferences

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Preview pane

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Privacy

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Privacy policy

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Product Differentiation

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Product Lifecycle

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Product Positioning

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Product Range

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Promotional Mix

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Promotions

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Protocol

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Psychographics

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Q

Quality Score

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Query

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Questionnaire

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Queue

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R

Read email

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Redirect

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Referral

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Registration

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Relationship email

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Reply-to

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Responsive Web Design

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Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)

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Return on Investment (ROI)

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Return Rate

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Reverse DNS

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Reverse DNS Lookup

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Rich Media

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Robots.txt

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Router (Routing System)

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RSS

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S

Scalability

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Schema Markup

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Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Search Engine Results Page (SERP)

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Search Engines

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Search Query

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Seed emails

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Segment

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Select

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Selective Unsubscribe

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Sender ID

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Sender Policy Framework (also SPF)

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Sent emails

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Server

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Server

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Shared server

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Shareware

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Signature

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Signature file

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Sitelink

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Sitemap XML

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SMTP

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Snail mail

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Sniffing

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Social Media Marketing

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Soft Bounce

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Solo mailing

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Spam

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Spamcop

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SPF

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Sponsorship swap

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Spoofing

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SSL

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Streaming media

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Subject line

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Subscribe

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Subscriber

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Suppression file

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T

Tags

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Target Audience

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Targeting

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TCP / IP

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Test

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Text newsletter

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Thank-you page

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Throttling

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Title Tag

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Tracking

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Tracking Code

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Transactional email

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Twitter Advertising

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U

UCE

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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

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Unique Reference Number

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Unique Selling Proposition

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Unique Visitors

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Unsubscribe

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URL

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URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

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User Experience (UX)

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User Interface

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User Interface (UI)

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V

Vendor

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Verification

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Video e-mail

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Viral marketing

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Virtual hosting

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Virus

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Vision Statement

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W

Web bug (also Web beacon)

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Welcome Email

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Welcome message

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White Hat SEO

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Whitelist

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Wireframe

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Word-of-Mouth Marketing (WOM Marketing)

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Worm

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Worm

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X

XML

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Y

Yahoo Advertising

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YouTube Advertising

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