Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
Ongage: An Email Marketing Platform That Lets You Change Your Sender (SMTP, MTA)
Email Service Providers (ESPs) offer a comprehensive solution for email marketing, combining design, list management, tracking, and the all-important sending engine. Even the best ESPs can face challenges, mainly when IP reputation or deliverability issues arise. In a shared IP environment, a client may need to migrate to a new provider because other senders on the same IP address are…
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E-commerce and Retail
nopCommerce: The Leading Free and Open-Source ASP.NET Ecommerce Platform
Built on the ASP.NET framework and available under an open-source license, nopCommerce has cemented its position as the most popular choice for entrepreneurs, startups, and established businesses. Its versatility and rich feature set make it the go-to platform for anyone looking to launch or grow their online store with confidence. Its modular architecture allows for easy customization and scalability, ensuring…
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Content Marketing
Marq: Streamline Brand Workflows and Ensure Your Brand Consistency Across Teams and Strategies
Managing a brand and its assets can be frustrating, especially in today’s ever-evolving business landscape. Keeping brand consistency across various teams and marketing materials while ensuring ease of use and customization is a challenge many organizations face. Not managing your brand assets isn’t just inconvenient and costly. When we work with brands, having access to their brand assets saves us…
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Advertising Technology
Tiger Pistol: Collaborative Social Media Advertising for Facebook and Instagram at Scale
Simplifying high-performance social media advertising and making those strategies scalable is challenging for companies advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Tiger Pistol’s Collaborative Advertising Platform™ has advanced how brands, resellers, and agencies approach social advertising, removing barriers and driving impressive results. Tiger Pistol offers a comprehensive solution that brings all your channel partners and sales locations under one umbrella, making creating…
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Analytics & Testing
Google Analytics 4: Analyzing Your Social Media Referral Traffic and Campaigns
Social media has emerged as a potent force for driving word-of-mouth marketing and referral traffic to websites for some industries and strategies. Social media platforms aren’t limited to sharing personal experiences and connecting with friends; they’re also a legitimate source of traffic and prospects for businesses. Utilizing analytics to track social media referred traffic to your site is critical to…
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Analytics & Testing
Woopra: Data-Driven Customer Journey Analytics
Businesses face a formidable challenge: understanding their customers’ journey to make informed decisions and enhance their offerings. The path to success for every business begins with a deep understanding of its customers. Deciphering customers’ intricate journeys while interacting with products, marketing campaigns, and support services is daunting. This lack of visibility into customer journeys left businesses in the dark, unable…
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Customer Data Platforms
BugSnag: Real-Time Bug Reporting and Prioritization For Application Development
Creating and maintaining web applications is a constant challenge. As developers strive to provide seamless and bug-free user experiences, identifying and addressing bugs becomes critical to their work. This is where BugSnag, a robust error monitoring and reporting platform, steps in to streamline the bug reporting process and enhance the overall performance of web applications. The Challenge of Bug Reporting…
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Advertising Technology
Marketing Through Economic Shifts: Eight Areas To Focus On for Stability and Growth
These last few years have been some of the most challenging for many of my customers but surprisingly quite good for others. This is purely anecdotal, but I believe the effort to stimulate the economy by the government has pumped quite a bit of money into industries and corporations that work directly or indirectly with the government or the financial…
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Content Marketing
What Are The Graphic Design Trends That Shaped 2023?
Graphic design is an ever-evolving field where creativity meets technology to create innovative and visually compelling solutions. As we step into a new era of design, the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into graphic design platforms has emerged as a game-changer. I recently shared how Adobe Illustrator is integrating generative AI tools to accelerate the innovation process for creatives. This…
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Content Marketing
ExpressionEngine: A Flexible, Developer-Friendly, and Well-Structured Open Source CMS
The choice of a content management system (CMS) depends on individual needs and project objectives. ExpressionEngine targets users who demand advanced customization, structured content, security, and scalability. This open source platform stands out as a preferred content management system for many individuals and businesses for a variety of reasons, each contributing to its distinct appeal: Flexibility and Customization: ExpressionEngine’s hallmark…
