Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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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Advertising Technology
Apple Marketing: 10 Lessons You Can Apply When Promoting Your Business
My friends love to give me a hard time for being such an Apple fanboy. I can honestly blame it all on a good friend, Bill Dawson, who bought me my first Apple device – an AppleTV… and then worked with me at a company where we were the first product managers to use MacBook Pros. I’ve been a fan…
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Content Marketing
CleanTalk: How To Stop Form SPAM On WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, or Other Platforms
Because Martech Zone is quite popular, I get hundreds of submissions a day through the site. Most are comment spam which Akismet does a pretty good job at flagging. However, comment spam isn’t something that’s too difficult to identify or that eats up my time. The real culprit for irritating spam on my site happens via form submissions on my…
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Customer Data Platforms
Owler Max: Help Your Sales Teams Work Faster and Smarter
Once upon a time, sales teams walked into office buildings with physical documents to conduct deals. Now, an abundance of information is available online, but despite the significant digital transformation, data is rarely presented in a way that can be readily leveraged. Sales professionals are in need of a companion, a reliable and accurate tool that can set teams up…