Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Artificial Intelligence
Lavender: AI-Powered Email Coach to Humanize Your Sales and Email Marketing
With more than 347 billion emails sent each day, it’s clear that email has remained a business communication staple. The trouble is most emails are ineffective. When brands send the same exact message to hundreds of contacts, this problem is only amplified. Just look at cold sales emails—a 5% reply rate would make most teams elated. To stand out in…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is A Digital Marketing Strategy?
A digital marketing strategy is a comprehensive plan to achieve specific marketing goals and objectives using various online channels, mediums, and technologies. It involves identifying target audiences, setting marketing objectives, and leveraging digital platforms and tools to engage, convert, upsell, and retain customers. A well-designed digital marketing strategy can help businesses build brand awareness, generate leads, increase sales, and improve…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Add A Sortable Column To Display A Custom Field On The Custom Post Type Admin Page
One area of Martech Zone that continues to drive a lot of traffic to my site is my growing documentation of sales, marketing, and technology acronyms. I continue to expand the list of almost 600 and I also tag the posts with the acronym so that the latest posts are displayed within the single acronym display page. This custom post type…
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Analytics & Testing
Visual Website Optimizer: Increase Sales and Conversions Through A/B Testing And Experimentation
A/B testing is an essential tool in the modern business toolkit. It allows companies to compare two versions of a webpage or other user experience to determine which performs better. The process involves showing the two variants, A and B, to similar visitors at the same time. The one that gives a better conversion rate wins. Benefits Experimentation While many…
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Customer Data Platforms
Check Password Strength with JavaScript or jQuery and Regular Expressions (With Server-Side Examples, Too!)
I was doing some research on finding a good example of a Password Strength checker that uses JavaScript and Regular Expressions (Regex). In the application at my work, we do a post back to verify the password strength and it’s quite inconvenient for our users. What is Regex? A regular expression is a sequence of characters that define a search…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
10 Platforms For Maximizing A Brand’s Impact on X (formerly Twitter)
For enterprise corporations, selecting the right tool to manage their presence on X (formerly Twitter) involves addressing complex needs and challenges. Unlike small businesses, large enterprises require solutions that handle high volumes of content, interactions, and data across multiple accounts and teams. These tools must offer robust features to ensure effective engagement, detailed analytics, and seamless integration with other business…
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E-commerce and Retail
LangShop: Unlock New Markets With AI-Driven Translation Of Your Shopify Store
In today’s globalized world, the internet bridges gaps and transcends borders, making it easier than ever for businesses to reach potential customers all around the globe. As a result, e-commerce stores aren’t just serving local customers anymore; they’re catering to a worldwide audience. But to truly connect with this diverse demographic, businesses need to communicate effectively in the language their…
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Artificial Intelligence
11 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Fashion E-commerce
Over the last couple of years, we’ve been working with several fashion e-commerce clients to help them digitally transform. One area that we’ve been researching and exploring is how artificial intelligence (AI) can be deployed as a tool to help them with internal automation as well as to transform customer experiences. There are simple things we’re doing today from a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The History of Email and Email Design
years ago, on October 29, 1971, Raymond Tomlinson was working on ARPANET (the U.S. Government’s precursor to the publicly available Internet) and invented email. It was a pretty big deal because, up until that point, messages could only be sent and read on the same computer. This separated a user and a destination by the @ symbol. The first email…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: How To Sort Your Custom Post Type Posts Alphabetically
With the new theme (and child theme) I’ve implemented on Martech Zone, I had to rebuild and recode the custom post type I built for Acronyms. I optimized the code to insert some additional custom fields and I’m having to redesign the archive and taxonomy templates to better display the acronyms listed. In my last theme (whose developers discontinued support),…
