Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
50+ Online SEO Tools for Audits, Backlink Monitoring, Keyword Research, and Rank Tracking
We’re always on the lookout for great tools and with a $5 billion industry, search engine optimization (SEO) is one market that has a ton of tools to help you. Whether you’re researching your competitors’ backlinks, trying to identify keywords and co-occurrence terms, or simply trying to monitor how your site is ranking, here are the most popular SEO tools…
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Content Marketing
Understanding WordPress Custom Post Types (CPTs): Creating a Glossary with Custom Taxonomies and Theme Templates
WordPress is more than a blogging platform—it’s a flexible content management system that can be extended far beyond posts and pages. One of the most powerful features enabling this flexibility is Custom Post Types (CPTs). These allow developers and content managers to structure content for specific use cases like portfolios, events, product directories, podcasts, or glossaries—each with their own admin…
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Marketing Tools
Later: The Visual Social Media Publishing and Link In Bio Platform For Small Businesses
As companies grow their social media presence to monitor their target audience and customers, communicate with them, research their competition, and promote their products and services, the challenge is to scale their marketing efforts across the changing landscape of social media platforms and the mediums each one offers. It’s nearly impossible, and definitely not efficient, to work natively within each…
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Analytics & Testing
Tidio: Multichannel Live Chat and Chatbots For Your Online Store Or Website
As a small business, one challenge that I have is attempting to respond to all inbound requests across my site, my social media accounts, and my email accounts. In order to effectively manage these requests, your company must centralize these communications so that you can measure each channel’s impact as well as optimize your messaging and prequalification process. When chatbots…
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Customer Data Platforms
Capsule: Customer Relationship Management and Sales Pipelines Made Simple
Over the years, I’ve implemented, integrated, used, and optimized many customer relationship management (CRM) platforms for my companies and clients. Prospects and clients often ask us what the best CRM platform is on the market. There is no best. In my opinion, a CRM with a great return on investment has three factors that impact its effectiveness: Process Alignment –…
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Content Marketing
Why Your Business Should Invest in Infographics Immediately
Our agency has developed over 100 infographics and, by far, a powerful strategy that continues to prove successful for every client we’ve designed. We now do them for several agencies to extend their offerings to their clients. Businesses that publish infographics have 12% greater traffic volume. Graphs.net Infographics have benefits that go beyond the majority of content strategies: Cognition – if designed…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Sales Impact Academy: Learn How To Upskill Your B2B Sales With The World’s Best Talent
The traditional higher education system has let the world of B2B down, with a complete lack of formal, structured education across the entire industry. This major oversight has led to totally inconsistent core technical skills across every role in go-to-market teams from leadership through to SDRs, AEs, CSMs, marketing, and revenue operations. Early in my business, I had the fortune…
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Content Marketing
BlueJeans: Deliver High-Quality, Enterprise Grade, Browser-Based Webinars And Virtual Events
Salesforce, Dell, Webtrends, and Angi are just a few of the enterprise companies that I’ve assisted with webinars and virtual events. While my focus was always on the distribution of content, the technology was often the make or break of the event. In fact, I was speaking at one event when the platform simply hiccuped and thousands of attendees were…
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Content Marketing
Sonix: Automated Transcription, Translation and Subtitling in 40+ Languages
Previously, I shared that I had implemented machine translations of my content, which exploded the site’s reach and growth. As a publisher, the growth of my audience is critical to the health of my site and business, so I’m always looking for new ways to reach new audiences… and translation is one of them. In the past, I’ve used Sonix…
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Customer Data Platforms
Experian: How Marketers Gain Precision, Scale, and Agility with a Data Partnership
Marketing performance depends on knowing your audience—and reaching them at the right time, through the right channel—marketers need more than just data. They need advantage. For brands and businesses that partner with Experian, that advantage comes in the form of unmatched consumer insight, omnichannel activation capabilities, and privacy-forward innovation. This isn’t just about why you should partner with Experian—it’s about…
