Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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PersistIQ: Personalize And Scale Your Sales Outreach In One Easy Sales Enablement Platform
PersistIQ is a sales engagement platform designed to help businesses automate and streamline their outbound sales process. It combines lead generation, outreach, and follow-up into a single tool, aiming to increase sales team efficiency and productivity. PersistIQ is specifically designed for outbound sales engagement, providing a targeted set of features and capabilities to help sales teams streamline their outreach process…
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Close: The Inside Sales CRM and Sales Automation Platform For Fast, Agile Teams
Close is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Automation platform designed specifically for sales teams. Close streamlines and improves the sales process, enabling businesses to close deals faster and more efficiently. Close primarily helps small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups that have a focus on B2B sales. It is especially beneficial for sales-driven organizations with inbound sales teams who…
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What is Native Advertising?
Native advertising is a form of paid advertising where the ad content seamlessly blends with the look, feel, and function of the platform on which it appears. The primary goal of native advertising is to provide relevant and valuable content to the target audience, without disrupting their browsing experience. Native ads often mimic the style and tone of editorial content,…
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Mailmodo: Build Interactive Emails With AMP To Increase Engagement
Our inboxes are overflowing with terrible emails… so if your business has an extensive subscriber base and really hopes to take your email open and click-through rates (CTR) up a notch, interactivity is critical. One solution that’s building momentum is the use of Accelerated Mobile Page technology in HTML email. AMP for Email The ability to use AMP technology to…
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Digital Transformation: Set Expectations But Deliver Experiences
Within the digital transformation realm, the use cases out in the marketplace for platforms and services are so outlandish that I often find most of my time tempering impressionable clients. If you’ve never worked at an enterprise software company or service provider, you should understand how the process works. While working on hundreds or even thousands of clients, an account…
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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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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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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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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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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…
