Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Public Relations
Media Relations Platforms To Find And Pitch Journalists and Influencers
When we’re working with companies to assist in increasing their visibility online for building awareness and acquiring new customers, there are three general strategies that we recommend: Public Relations – pitching media outlets that already have a relationship with your target audience, whether it’s a traditional journalist and media outlet, or a publication (like Martech Zone) with an influencer operating…
- Content Marketing
WordPress: Use WP Activity Log To Monitor and Alert You Of Changes and Errors
One of the tasks we’re often handed with a new client is adopting their WordPress site that has been built in-house or with an inexperienced agency. The result is often a slow site, problems with poorly developed themes, and packed with a ton of plugins. While I’m a fan of WordPress, it’s far too easy to build out an instance…
- Advertising Technology
What Is An Ad Server? How Does Ad Serving Work?
An ad server is a technology platform that stores, manages, and delivers online advertisements to websites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms. It plays a crucial role in the ad ecosystem by facilitating the process of displaying ads to the right audience at the right time, based on various targeting criteria and campaign settings. Ad servers also provide tracking and…
- Customer Data Platforms
Riddle: The Ultimate Quiz Maker for Marketers to Collect First-Party Data
In today’s competitive digital landscape, marketers are constantly searching for effective strategies to cut through the noise and engage their audience. Riddle, an online quiz-maker platform, has emerged as a popular solution for marketers to create engaging quizzes with integrated lead-generation features. One significant differentiator for Riddle.com is its use of first-party cookies (1P), ensuring accurate data collection while respecting…
- Content Marketing
Property Management Marketing: How Entrata Boosts Business Growth and Enhances Customer Experience
Americans are increasingly choosing rental housing as the number of married couples with children decreases dramatically and millennials choose to be renters for mobility, comfort, and financial reasons. With the uptick in millennials saturating the rental market, it’s no surprise that recent studies have found that 74 percent of prospective apartment renters are taking to the internet using their mobile…
- Email Marketing & Automation
How To Properly Build A Survey With Any Email Platform
Building a webpage with a form is ideal if you’re trying to capture information like a survey. However, getting an email subscriber to click through to a form isn’t advisable. The best approach is to have your subscribers respond to the survey directly by interacting with the email. Unfortunately, email clients don’t support modern HTML standards, and several email clients…
- E-commerce and Retail
Zapiet: Enable Delivery and Store Pickup On Your Shopify Store
During lockdowns, I assisted a local farm doing meat delivery in Indianapolis through their Shopify store. They had a number of vendors who assembled the system prior to me coming on board but had quite a few issues with the integrations. I helped to tighten the integrations and optimization of the site, helping them to achieve record sales and reducing…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Rank Math: How To Use Custom Fields In Your WordPress Page Titles
As I’ve been building out our acronyms on Martech Zone, the inevitable happened when I had a single acronym with multiple definitions. Specifically, PaaS: Platform as a Service Payment as a Service At issue here is my page title is a duplicate. Both page titles were: What is PaaS? | Martech Zone Acronyms SEO audits with Sitechecker continued to nag…
- Content Marketing
Elfsight Apps: Easily Embeddable Ecommerce, Form, Content, And Social Widgets For Your Website
If you’re working on a popular content management platform, you’ll often find a great selection of tools and widgets that can be easily added to enhance your site. Not every platform has those options, though, so it often requires third-party developers to integrate the features or platforms that you wish to implement. One example, recently, was that we wanted to…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How To Optimize Your YouTube Video and Channel
We’ve continued to work on our optimization guide for our clients. While we audit and provide our clients with what’s wrong and why it’s wrong, it’s imperative that we also provide guidance on how to correct the issues. When we audit our clients, we’re always surprised at the minimal effort put into enhancing their YouTube presence and the associated information…
