Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Managing Your IP, Copyrights, and Digital Rights as a Content Creator in the Age of AI
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a tool but an active content generator, creators are facing a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Original works—whether text, audio, visual, or video—can now be copied, remixed, or emulated with staggering realism by machines trained on publicly available data. Unfortunately, that data often includes content from creators who never gave their…
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E-commerce and Retail
The State of the Consumer Goods Industry in 2025: A Strategic Outlook for Retailers and D2C Marketers
The consumer goods industry is undergoing a seismic transformation. After several years of supply chain disruptions, digital upheaval, and shifting consumer priorities, 2025 marks a year where both legacy brands and digital-native challengers are resetting their strategies. For retailers, D2C brands, and online store operators, understanding the prevailing trends is not just important—it’s mission-critical. According to the 2025 Consumer Goods…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Airslate: Design and Automate Any Document Workflow in Minutes
Disconnected tools are one of the biggest obstacles to modern business productivity. Teams juggle multiple platforms—one for building forms, another for signatures, another for automation—only to discover they still need yet another tool to get the work done. These disconnected interactions waste time, cause errors, and delay critical decisions. When your business relies on accurate and timely documentation, every delay…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Rank Math Content AI: Transforming SEO Content Creation in WordPress
Rank Math, already a household name among WordPress users for its powerful SEO plugin, has dramatically expanded its utility with the introduction of Content AI, a built-in, GenAI content assistant designed to streamline the creation, optimization, and scaling of SEO-focused content directly within WordPress. This isn’t just another AI copywriting tool bolted onto a plugin. Content AI is deeply integrated…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
How Mobile Monitoring is Helping Salespeople Reach Peak Performance
Sales professionals are known for their drive, adaptability, and focus on results. But even the most motivated reps struggle with inefficiencies that distract from their core job: selling. Whether it’s navigating traffic, updating CRMs after hours, or chasing down information across disconnected tools, the typical sales workflow is loaded with unnecessary friction. Mobile monitoring tools are changing that. Modern sales…
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Customer Data Platforms
Comparing VPS with storage to Other Hosting Types: What Should You Choose for Your Business?
Every business that deals with large volumes of data faces the challenge of choosing the optimal hosting solution. The right hosting plan can significantly impact business efficiency and resource savings. That’s why more and more companies are turning to VPS with storage — an ideal solution for storing large amounts of data, combining speed, security, and flexibility. Table of ContentsComparison of VPS…
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Artificial Intelligence
Xavier AI: Instantly Generate Consulting-Quality Marketing Presentations and Sales Decks
Growing a business demands strategic clarity, speed, and compelling communication. However, building pitch decks, campaign strategies, and executive presentations still consumes hours, especially for startups and small businesses without access to a whole marketing team. The opportunity cost is enormous. What if you could generate an entire consulting-style marketing presentation, tailored to your needs, in less than a minute? Xavier…
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Marketing Tools
Scribe: Instantly Document Complex Processes with AI-Powered Precision
In marketing, product, or operations, documentation often becomes the silent bottleneck. Whether you’re implementing a new Martech stack, onboarding a SaaS customer, or scaling a go-to-market (GTM) strategy, one truth remains: processes change fast—too fast for most teams to keep up with clear, current instructions. And yet, without documentation, teams stall, customers get confused, and knowledge walks out the door.…
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Advertising Technology
LinkTrackr: Supercharge Affiliate Tracking & Cloak Links Like a Pro
Affiliate marketers face an uphill battle today. Between ad fraud, commission hijacking, and poor tracking by affiliate networks, it isn’t easy to trust the data or the dollars. Worse, long and ugly affiliate URLs can turn off savvy visitors or expose your commissions to savvy competitors. That’s where link cloaking comes in. What is Link Cloaking? Link cloaking is the…
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Content Marketing
Voice Overs: The Neuroscience and Nuance Behind Human and AI Narration
The rise of AI-generated voiceovers is rapidly transforming the way businesses create audio content for marketing, training, customer service, and multimedia purposes. Tools have democratized access to professional-quality voice-overs, offering natural-sounding results in dozens of languages, tones, and styles. No longer do you need a recording studio, a casting session, or a hefty budget to get started. But here’s the…
