Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
How Are Retail Stores And Venues Utilizing Beacons For Proximity Marketing?
Beacon marketing is a proximity marketing strategy that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons to send targeted messages and promotions to nearby mobile devices. This is often referred to as micro-location services. The goal of beacon marketing is to provide customers with a personalized and contextualized experience, increase engagement, and drive sales. It’s important to note that beacon technology is…
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Content Marketing
Accessily: Find Relevant Sites To Expand Your Reach and Search Engine Authority with Paid Guest Posts
The vast majority of requests that I get on Martech Zone are guest post requests. We’re pretty open on these requests as long as they’re not outwardly salesy or just trying to garner backlinks. I’m adamant that the content we provide be of quality to keep to my goal of helping marketers research, discover, and learn about marketing technology. What…
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Content Marketing
Swarmify: Four Reasons Not To Use YouTube Video Embeds On Your Business Website
If your company has professional videos that you’ve spent thousands of dollars on, you should absolutely publish the videos on YouTube to take advantage of YouTube’s search results…. just make sure that you optimize your YouTube videos when you do. That said, you shouldn’t be embedding YouTube videos on your corporate site… for quite a few reasons: YouTube is tracking…
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Email Marketing & Automation
16 Mobile Friendly HTML Email Best Practices That Maximize Inbox Placement and Engagement
In 2023, it’s probable that mobile will surpass desktop as the primary device for opening email. In fact, HubSpot found that 46 percent of all email opens now occur on mobile. If you’re not designing emails for mobile, you’re leaving a lot of engagement and money on the table. Email Authentication: Ensuring your emails are authenticated to the sending domain and IP address…
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Customer Data Platforms
Typeform: Turn Data Collection Into A Human Experience
A few years ago, I completed a survey online, and it actually wasn’t a chore… it was elegant and simple. I looked up the provider, and it was Typeform. Typeform came about because the founders wanted to change how people answer questions on screens by making the process more human & more engaging. And it worked. Let’s face it… we…
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Content Marketing
The Evolution of Logos and the Impact of Technology on Logo Design
The word logo comes from the Greek word logos, which means word, thought, or speech. In ancient Greek philosophy, logos referred to the principle of reason and order in the universe. Over time, the meaning of logos expanded to include the use of words or symbols to represent a company or organization. Today, the term logo is commonly used to…
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Email Marketing & Automation
A Guide To Optimize Your Email Open, Click-Through, and Conversion Rates
One discussion that I have every week with clients is the increasingly frustrating means of building and sustaining a successful email marketing program. Simply put, as your email marketing list grows, so do your deliverability headaches. It seems that internet service providers have abandoned any hope of rewarding best practices and just have dumb algorithms that continue to punish good…
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Content Marketing
The Psychological Impact Of Color On Emotion, Attitude, and Behavior
I’m a sucker for color theory. We’ve already published how genders interpret colors and how colors impact buying behavior. If you want to learn more about how our eyes actually detect and interpret color, don’t miss reading Why Our Eyes Need Complementary Color Palette Schemes. This infographic details the psychology and even the return on investment a company might attain…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
It’s Time Your Sales Teams Stop Using Local Presence Deception
If you’ve never heard of local presence, it’s the strategy that many companies use to incorporate a regional presence to boost their overall brand’s trust and reliability. In a physical sense, local presence may involve setting up a brick-and-mortar store, office, or warehouse in a particular region, city, or neighborhood. This allows businesses to be physically present in the community…
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Analytics & Testing
Microsoft Clarity: Free Heatmaps and Session Recordings for Website Optimization
As we designed and developed a custom Shopify theme for a fashion customer, we wanted to ensure that we designed an elegant and simple e-commerce site that didn’t confuse or overwhelm their customers. One example of our design testing was a more information block that had additional details about the products. If we published the section in the default region,…
