Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What Is Mind Mapping? How Can You Use Mind Mapping to Improve Your Marketing Strategies
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that helps individuals represent, structure, and organize information or ideas. It involves creating a diagram with a central topic, from which related subtopics, concepts, or keywords branch out. This hierarchical structure allows users to easily identify and understand connections between ideas, facilitating brainstorming, problem-solving, and learning. History of Mind Mapping The concept of…
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The Top Social Media Trends for 2023
The growth of social media sales and marketing within organizations has been on an upward trajectory over the past few years and is expected to continue growing. As social media platforms evolve and user behavior shifts, businesses are recognizing the value of incorporating social media into their sales and marketing strategies. There are 4.76 billion social media users in the…
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Alli AI: AI-driven SEO is More Effective and Less Expensive than Traditional SEO
Back in 2012, I had written that SEO was dead. I fully admit that I was posting it as linkbait to get people to read the article. At that time, I was pushing hard for SEO consultants to stop wasting all of their time backlinking and scheming and… instead… focus on the quality of the content and optimizing conversion rates.…
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What Is MarTech? Marketing Stacks, Marketing Technology Landscape, And Martech Resources
You may get a chuckle out of me writing an article on MarTech after publishing over 6,000 articles on marketing technology for over 16 years (beyond this blog’s age… I was on blogger previously). I do believe it’s worth publishing and helping business professionals better realize what MarTech was, is, and the future of what it will be. First, of…
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HighLevel: The Ultimate All-In-One Platform for Marketing, Sales, and CRM (Available for White-Labeling by Agencies)
HighLevel is a cloud-based platform that offers a variety of marketing, sales, and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. The platform is designed to help businesses centralize their sales and marketing workflows, manage and scale their operations efficiently, and improve their overall business performance. Some of the benefits of using HighLevel include: Simplified Lead Management: Easily capture leads from multiple sources…
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Recollective: Uncover Actionable, Qualitative Insights Through AI-Powered Communities
Understanding customer behavior has never been more critical or more difficult. Traditional market research methods can be slow, expensive, and disconnected from the real-time feedback loop brands and agencies now require. Researchers and marketers need more innovative ways to gather meaningful insights from their audience without compromising speed, scale, or depth. Recollective Recollective is a Guided Discovery Platform that transforms…
