Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Protecting Customer Data from Identity Thieves: Marketing, SaaS, and Business Responsibilities
Identity theft is a type of fraud in which someone illegally obtains and uses another person’s personal information, such as their name, Social Security number, credit card numbers, or other personally identifiable information (PII) without their consent or knowledge. The main goals of identity thieves are to steal money from the victim’s bank accounts, open new credit lines and take…
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How To Leverage Reddit to Drive Traffic And Leads to Your Brand or Publication
Reddit has struck a $60 million per year deal with Google to license its content for training the search giant’s AI models as the social media platform seeks to generate new revenue streams ahead of its anticipated IPO filing this week. The SEO industry is in a bit of an uproar because this engagement is overlapping with a coincidental increase…
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Navigating Sales Tax for SaaS Businesses: Best Practices and Platforms
As Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses continue to grow and expand their customer base across different states, it’s crucial to understand the complexities of sales tax compliance. Each state has its rules and regulations regarding the taxation of SaaS products, making it challenging for businesses to stay compliant. This article will discuss best practices, do’s and don’ts, and platforms…
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What is Cohort Analysis? Your Detailed Guide for Cohort Exploration in GA4
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) offers a powerful Cohort Exploration report that enables you to understand user behavior over time. This guide dives into what cohort analysis is, why it’s valuable, how to use the GA4 report, and how the insights can influence your marketing strategies. What is Cohort Analysis? Cohort analysis is a technique that groups users based on a…
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GiftCards.com: The Easy Way to Create Branded Gift Cards
Companies always look for effective ways to promote their brand, delight customers, reward employees, and engage prospects. Branded gift cards offer a versatile solution to achieve these goals, but creating custom cards can often be time-consuming and complex. GiftCards.com provides a user-friendly platform that simplifies the creation of custom-branded gift cards for businesses of all sizes. Custom gift cards provide…
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Rumi.ai: Revolutionize Your Meetings with AI-Powered Real-Time Productivity
If you’re a longtime reader, you know how much I despise meetings. Add remote work environments; professionals often find themselves in a seemingly endless cycle of virtual meetings. The challenges of staying focused, avoiding distractions, and ensuring equal participation can lead to meeting fatigue, wasted time, and a lack of tangible results. But what if there was a solution that…
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Jetpack: Effortless Backups, Speed, and Growth for Your WordPress Site
Every website owner faces the same relentless challenges — keeping their site secure, running fast, and growing traffic in a crowded online world. Unfortunately, managing dozens of plugins for each feature can create security gaps, slow down your site, and leave you with complex configurations that are hard to maintain. Jetpack Jetpack is an all-in-one WordPress plugin built by Automattic,…
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Fooling the Detectors: How AI is Generating Content That Passes for Human
Recently, Paul Graham noticed that he was getting some cold emails. A single word stood out: delve. He did some sleuthing and noticed that the term had skyrocketed in use—coincidentally, as GenAI tools took hold in the industry for writing email content. My point here is not that I dislike "delve," though I do, but that it's a sign that…
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Alteryx: An AI Analytics Platform To Unlock Insights at Enterprise Scale
Organizations are drowning in data but starving for insights. Extracting meaningful information from vast and complex datasets is a major challenge, requiring significant time, resources, and technical expertise. Many companies struggle to keep up with the growing demands of data analysis, leading to missed opportunities and suboptimal decision-making. Alteryx AI Analytics Platform The Alteryx AI Analytics Platform is a unified,…
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Imagga: An API for AI-Powered Image Recognition
Developers face the challenge of efficiently analyzing and organizing vast amounts of visual content. From e-commerce platforms to social media apps, accurately tagging, categorizing, and recognizing images is crucial for enhancing user experience and driving engagement. However, manual image processing is time-consuming and prone to errors, hindering productivity and innovation. Imagga Imagga provides AI-powered, innovative, and cutting-edge APIs for image…
