Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
12 Factors that Impact Your International Email Strategy
We’ve assisted clients with internationalization (I18N); it’s not fun. The nuances of encoding, translation, and localization make it a complex process. If internationalization is done wrong, it can be incredibly embarrassing… not to mention ineffective. But 70% of the world’s 2.3 billion online users aren’t native English speakers. Every $1 spent on localization has been found to have an ROI…
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Customer Data Platforms
Bitskout: Build AI-Driven Automations To Read and Record Messages, Documents, Emails, and More
Decades ago, I worked as an analyst at a newspaper where we used to have old terminals that generated reports (via dot matrix printers) that had thousands of records that required entry in another system. Because the reports were generated, the pages were structured so that we could templatize and automate the reading of the reports and the insertion of…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
VideoPeel: Request, Capture, and Share Your Customer Video Testimonials Easily
A critical stage in every buyer’s journey is researching the business, the product, or the services offered to validate the business. Trust may be even more critical than other factors like price and refund policies when a business or consumer is deciding whether or not to make a purchase, so customer testimonials are critical in helping ease the buyer through…
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Customer Data Platforms
What Are The Six Stages Of The Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Sales Funnel?
Terminus has produced this detailed infographic that defines the stages of the ABM sales funnel as well as what to measure in order to optimize each stage’s success. If you’re new to ABM, we’ve written about what Account-Based Marketing is and why it has so many advantages over traditional marketing strategies… but this gets into the finer details of segmenting…
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Customer Data Platforms
Pabbly Plus: Form Creation, Email Marketing, Payments, And Workflow Automation In One Bundle
With so many companies forced to reduce marketing headcount and looking for ways to automate data processes as well as reduce technology expenses, bundles like Pabbly are worth evaluating. While there are many workflow and automation platforms out there, I’m not sure of any platform that includes a form builder, payment processing for subscriptions, an affiliate program, and email verification.…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
GrowSurf: Effortlessly Launch A Fully Automated Referral Marketing Program
No matter how much sales, marketing, and advertising we do, our primary lead generation source continues to be our own customers. Sometimes it’s a peer that’s moved on to a new company and brings us along, other times it’s a client that introduces us to another business that has similar needs. Either way, these continue to be our highest closing…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Validity Everest: The Email Success Platform For Managing Reputation, Deliverability, and Increasing Email Marketing Engagement
Congested inboxes and tighter filtering algorithms make it more difficult to attract the attention of your email recipients. Everest is the email deliverability platform developed by Validity that merged their acquisition of 250ok and Return Path into one central platform. The platform is a complete solution for designing, executing, and optimizing email marketing for improved inbox deliverability and engagement. To…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Maropost Marketing Cloud: Multi-Channel Automation For Email, SMS, Web, and Social Media
A challenge to today’s marketers is to recognize that their prospects are all at different points in the customer journey. On the same day, you may have a visitor to your website who isn’t aware of your brand, a prospect who is researching your products and services to solve their challenge or an existing customer who is seeing if there…
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Content Marketing
VideoScribe: An Easy-To-Use, Drag & Drop Animated GIF and Video Maker Platform
Create eye-catching promo videos, email assets, and social posts to increase engagement, and customer loyalty. VideoScribe’s video animation software helps brands create memorable visual moments from their stories. With VideoScribe, users build their own introductory videos, case study videos, testimonial videos, explainer videos, event invitation videos, or occasion & holiday videos: Start with a fully customizable template – in just…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Campaigner: Advanced Email and SMS Automation and Workflows In One Affordable Marketing Platform
Campaigner was founded in 1999 when the internet and email were just beginning to reach the masses. Since then, Campaigner has remained at the forefront of email, now combining mobile SMS marketing into its automation and workflow capabilities. Campaigner provides all the advanced features you need to execute engaging and high-performing email and SMS marketing campaigns. Features include: Email Marketing…
