Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Uptimia: Uptime Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, and Downtime Alerts
The frantic rhythm of keeping websites always available, responsive, and secure can be overwhelming for business leaders, marketers, and sales executives. You’re tasked with ensuring your digital presence delivers consistently, yet manual monitoring risks expensive outages, slowdowns, or security lapses.…
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Email Still Sucks… 50 Years Later
Email is one of the oldest technologies still shaping how we communicate online. Born in the early days of the internet, it has connected billions of people, transformed businesses, and sparked an entire industry of platforms, tools, and specialists dedicated…
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Navigating Time Challenges in an Era of Shrinking Budgets, Expanding Strategies, and Limited Resources
It’s been 20 years since I first wrote about the challenge of time with respect to marketing. Marketers continue to grapple with a persistent and escalating challenge: the lack of time to manage every channel and medium effectively. With budgets…
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You.com’s Web Search API: Real-Time Intelligence To Integrate and Drive Business Results
Modern business moves at the speed of information. Whether you’re building campaigns, researching prospects, or publishing content, the value of your efforts depends on the speed, accuracy, and freshness of the insights you’re working with. Static data and traditional search…
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How Businesses Can Use Reverse Phone Lookup to Enhance Customer Trust
Customer trust is one of the most critical factors for driving customer journeys. People are becoming more cautious when engaging with businesses due to an increase in fraud, bogus contacts, and personal data misuse. For organizations of all sizes, understanding…
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11 Best PR Distribution Marketplaces to Get Noticed in the AI Era 2025
Drowning in AI-generated noise, how do you make your message stand out in 2025? A press release alone won’t cut it. It’s the distribution that defines whether your story gains traction or fades into the void. That’s where PR distribution…
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When and How to Hire Developers for Complex Marketing Technology Integrations
Marketing tech stacks have grown significantly more complex and must accommodate a number of tools for seamless customer journeys. Demand for extremely skilled developer resources to perform these integrations is off the charts. The answer is nearshoring. What is Nearshoring?…
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5 Tips for Staying Productive in a World of Continuous Interruptions
The average worker gets just 12 minutes on a task before being interrupted, and it takes an average of 25 minutes to recover that focus. UC Berkeley In marketing and sales, it seems that distraction is the default. Work doesn’t…
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The Brand Promise: Reputation, Trust, and Crisis in Today’s Digital World
A friend of mine recently asked marketers what their definition of a brand was. I responded that a brand was the vision that I wanted to deliver to the customers I worked with. He asked, So what’s a brand strategy?…
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Does Your Marketing Content Encourage or Discourage Your Ideal Customers?
Companies often walk a fine line between offering too little information and overwhelming prospective buyers with too much. The question is not simply whether your website or collateral is informative; it’s whether it helps buyers take the next step in…
