Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Tools
Hive: Collaborative, Efficient Campaign and Workflow Management for Marketing Teams and Agencies
Marketing teams and agencies increasingly recognize the importance of robust project management platforms to scale their operations efficiently. With the burgeoning demand for more personalized and diverse marketing strategies, these teams face the challenge of managing complex projects, often with tight deadlines and multiple stakeholders. Companies who adopt project management practices report 27% higher performance in achieving their marketing goals.…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Rise of the Second Screen: Statistics, Trends, And Marketing Tips
The integration of second screen usage into our daily lives has revolutionized the way consumers interact with television and digital content. This convergence has opened up new vistas for marketers to engage with their audience. Let’s delve into the statistics that illustrate the impact of second screens on consumer behavior and outline strategies for marketers to tap into this trend.…
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Content Marketing
Displays May Be Ultra-Wide, But That Doesn’t Mean Your Web Page Should Be
Chances are, you’ve likely visited a website whose design incorporates the full width of the browser. You may have noticed the content wasn’t easy to digest as your eyes scanned the full width of the page. It’s actually a well-known readability and user experience (UX) issue. Research in typography and cognitive psychology suggests that shorter line lengths make reading easier…
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Marketing Tools
zipBoard: Streamlining Proofing and Collaboration Workflows for Any Digital Asset
Online proofing has become an essential process in the digital age, ensuring accuracy and effectiveness in various content creation, document collaboration, and marketing collateral. This systematic approach involves several prioritized steps, each crucial in maintaining the integrity and appeal of digital content. Brands utilize proofing processes and workflows to collaborate, verify, and approve: Accuracy and Quality: The primary goal of…
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Content Marketing
Crafting Excerpts in PHP or WordPress: Word, Sentence, and Paragraph Count Techniques
I was looking for a function in PHP that would cut off an excerpt at the word rather than in the middle of the word. PHP has just the trick, the strrpos function. Here's how to put it to use.
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Using Your Heart in Business: Six Steps To Resolving Conflicts And Grow Customer Loyalty
The significance of personal relationships cannot be overstated. At its core, business is not just about transactions; it’s about connections. Consumers and businesses alike yearn for interactions that go beyond the superficial level. They seek to be heard, understood and genuinely cared for. This aspect of emotional intelligence in business operations is crucial in establishing trust and loyalty. When business…
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Artificial Intelligence
Magic Studio: Every GenAI Visual Tool You Need, All in a Single Subscription
Visual generative AI (genAI) platforms are popping up all over the web, and I’ve shared quite a few here when they provide compelling results. It’s still a young industry; technology advances almost daily as these engines enhance their learning. Most of the image modification and creation AI tools you’re seeing are actually powered by the larger AI platforms but provide…
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Marketing Books
How and Why To Write a Book
It’s been years since I wrote my first book, and I’ve been anxious to write another one ever since. While we live in the digital era, you may be surprised that books continue to draw much attention and sales – especially business books. Approximately 80.64 million business and economics category print books were sold in 2021 representing 25% of adult non-fiction…
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E-commerce and Retail
Shopify AR: Implement Augmented Reality In Your Online Stores Without Breaking The Bank
Creating an engaging and immersive online shopping experience has become crucial to e-commerce success. Shopify is pioneering this transformation with its innovative augmented reality (AR) feature, Shopify AR. This technology redefines how customers interact with products online in 3D and addresses the significant challenge many e-commerce stores face in deploying AR solutions. Shopify AR Shopify AR empowers merchants to showcase…
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Customer Data Platforms
ConnectorEngine: Streamline Client Automation And Workflows For Your Agency With This Low-Code Integration Platform
Workflows and automation are critical in virtually any sales or MarTech stack to ensure data is kept accurate and up-to-date to maximize and measure campaigns effectively. While managing our clients, we often identified platforms that the client could own but that we could implement and manage. However, there were always a few clients that either didn’t have the technical resources…
