Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Customer Data Platforms
What is Netnography? How Is It Being Used In Sales and Marketing?
You’ve all heard my thoughts on buyer personas, and the virtual ink is barely dry on that blog post, and I’ve already found a new and much better way of creating buyer personas. Netnography has emerged as a much faster, more efficient, and more accurate means of creating buyer personas. One means of this is online research companies utilizing location-based…
- Marketing Tools
Fathom: Transcribe, Summarize, and Highlight Key Notes And Action Items From Your Zoom Meetings
Despite DK New Media being a Google Workspace client, not all of our clients want us to utilize Google Meet for our meetings. As a result, like most of our industry, we’ve turned to Zoom to be our tool of choice for meetings, recorded interviews, webinars, or even podcast recordings. Zoom has a robust third-party application program that extends the…
- Martech Zone Apps
App: Check Your Sending IP Address To See If You’re Blacklisted For Email On Major DNSBL Servers
If you’re concerned that your email is not getting to your subscriber’s inbox, there’s a chance that the IP address you’re sending from has been blacklisted. You can enter the IP Address that you’re sending your email from, or you can enter the domain or subdomain you’re sending from and this form will resolve it. IP Address: Check IP What’s…
- Content Marketing
WordPress: Find and Replace All Permalinks In Your Database using Regular Expressions (Example: /YYYY/MM/DD)
With any site that spans over a decade, it’s not uncommon that there are many changes made to the permalink structure. In the early days of WordPress, it wasn’t uncommon for the permalink structure for a blog post to be set to a path that included the year, month, day, and the slug of the post: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ Aside from having…
- Public Relations
Prowly: An Easy and Affordable PR and Media Relations Platform (PRM) For Any Size Team
Suppose you’re a business with a public relations (PR) team, a freelance public relations professional, or a public relations firm. In that case, finding a comprehensive Public Relations Management (PRM) platform is an absolute must. What is a PRM Platform? A PRM platform enables a public relations professional to do all of the tasks associated with their job with the…
- Analytics & Testing
What Are The Most Common Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Digital Marketing?
As sailors navigated the globe centuries ago, they would frequently pull out their sextant to determine the location, direction, and speed of their ship with respect to the sun, the stars, or the moon. They’d frequently take these measurements to ensure that their ship was always heading to its destination. As marketers, we use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in much…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Mediafly Revenue360: The Evolution of Sales Enablement Technology
Before 2020, B2B buyer behaviors had already begun shifting to favor digital and self-service channels. With more buyers firmly cemented in the world of digital selling, there’s no going back. 71% of buyers willingly spend over $50,000 on a single transaction using a remote or self-service model, for example. McKinsey To remain competitive and relevant, revenue teams will need different…
- Content Marketing
How Can You Programmatically Change Font Color Based on the Background? (Light/Dark Mode)
If you’ve visited Martech Zone lately, you may have noticed that we now offer the ability to view the site in either light or dark mode. Just search for the moon or sun icon next to the date in the top left navigation bar on the site. It’s a pretty cool feature and it works really well. When I launched…
- Advertising Technology
A Must-Have List of Content EVERY B2B Business Needs To Feed The Buyer’s Journey
It’s puzzling to me that B2B Marketers will often deploy a plethora of campaigns and produce an endless stream of content or social media updates without the very basic minimum, well-produced content library that every prospect is seeking when researching their next partner, product, provider, or service. The base of your content must directly feed your buyers’ journey. Years ago,…
- Martech Zone Apps
App: Convert Hex, RGB, and RGBA Colors
This is a simple tool to convert a hexadecimal color to an RGB or RGBA value or vice versa. If you’re converting hex to RGB, Enter the hex value as #000 or #000000. If you’re converting RGB to hex, enter the RGB value as rgb(0,0,0) or rgba(0,0,0,0.1). I also return the common name for the color. Hex to RGB and…
