Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Customer Data Platforms
Formidable Forms: How To Build A Multi-Purpose Form In WordPress To Collect Leads for Multiple Products or Services
One of the efforts I’m making on this site is to make it easier for visitors to request assistance. We have a manned chatbot that prompts our users, but sometimes that’s a bit too intrusive. We have a contact form in our footer, but that’s often too general. What I really needed was a lead collection form that I could…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Sendoso: Incentivize Engagement, Acquisition, and Retention with Direct Mail
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, traditional marketing approaches are proving insufficient. Email blasts, cold calls, and mailers are losing effectiveness as potential customers are increasingly resistant to generic, impersonal attempts to capture their attention. The hunt for innovative, authentic, and personalized connections with audiences has led to the rise of Sendoso, a direct marketing automation platform. Consumer behavior has…
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Email Marketing & Automation
AtData: Unleash the Power of First-Party Data With Email Intelligence
Harnessing the potential of data has become a pivotal factor for companies striving to gain a competitive edge. First-party (1P) data, in particular, has emerged as a goldmine of valuable insights. Recognizing this, AtData, an email intelligence company, offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to help businesses leverage and maximize their first-party data. By partnering with AtData, marketers can…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
NiceJob: Collect Reviews and Referrals From Customers to Grow Your Business With Social Proof
Building trust and establishing a strong reputation among potential customers is a challenge faced by many businesses. Without a substantial number of reviews and recommendations, businesses may struggle to gain credibility and attract new customers. In today’s digital age, online reviews and word-of-mouth referrals play a critical role in shaping consumer purchasing decisions, making it vital for businesses to proactively…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Should You Automate Publishing The Same Content Across Your Social Media Profiles?
When the Twitter algorithms were recently open-sourced, one interesting finding was that Twitter profiles that automated their social media publishing weren’t provided the same level of visibility as native posts. I was a bit disappointed with this. I have a personal Twitter profile where I engage personally with other Twitter accounts but Martech Zone’s Twitter account is a place where folks…
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Customer Data Platforms
Optimove: Driving Transformative Customer Relationships With AI
Optimove is an industry leader in the realm of customer relationship management (CRM), recognized for its AI-led orchestration, comprehensive customer insights, and multi-channel approach. The company is celebrated for its ability to personalize customer journeys at scale and ensure optimal communication and engagement at all customer touchpoints. Optimove received perfect scores in 12 criteria in Forrester’s Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign…
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Analytics & Testing
What Is Enterprise Tag Management? Why Should You Implement Tag Management?
Verbiage that people use in the industry can get confusing. If you’re talking about tagging with blogging, you probably mean selecting terms that are important to the article to tag it and make it easy to search for and find. Tag management is a totally different technology and solution. In my opinion, I think it’s poorly named… but it’s become…
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Content Marketing
The Essence of an Effective Branding Strategy and Its Multifaceted Dimensions
A brand strategy can be defined as a long-term plan that a business establishes to develop a successful brand that achieves specific goals. It embodies a company’s mission, values, promises, and how it communicates them to the audience, with the primary aim of fostering a unique, consistent identity in the market. To clarify, a brand strategy is not about a…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is A Digital Experience Platform (DXP)?
As we navigate deeper into the digital era, the competitive landscape is witnessing a significant shift. Businesses today don’t solely compete based on the quality of their products or services. Instead, they are increasingly focusing on delivering a seamless, personalized, and holistic digital customer experience. It’s here that Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) come into play. What Are Digital Experience Platforms…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Prepend Text With A Custom Field To Your Custom Post Type Content
in WordPress, add_filter() is a function used to hook a custom function or an existing WordPress function to a specific filter action. Filters are one of the two types of Hooks, the other being Actions. They provide a way for functions to modify the data of other functions and are the cornerstone of WordPress’ plugin functionality. Here’s the basic syntax…
