Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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HelloBar: Increase Conversions With Notification Bars, Modals, Alerts, Sliders, and Page Takeovers
To date, I’m fairly certain that we’ve built or redesigned over 100 sites for clients across virtually every content management system (CMS). The majority of these platforms have been around for over a decade and I’m always amazed at the website features that aren’t included by default with every platform. A case in point is the opportunity for calls-to-action (CTAs)…
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Writesonic: How Marketers Are Harnessing The Power of AI Writing
As a marketer, you know how important it is to be able to write content that resonates with your audience. With the help of AI writers, you can now create content that is both engaging and informative. You may have read my previous article where I explored and was blown away by ChatGPT. It started me down a deep dive…
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What Is A CRM? What Are The Benefits Of Using One?
I’ve seen some great CRM implementations and some terrible ones in my career. Like any technology, ensuring that your team spends less time working in the CRM and more time providing value with your CRM is the key to a great CRM implementation. I’ve seen poorly implemented CRM systems that froze sales teams… and unused CRMs that duplicated efforts and…
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3 Ways That Digital Experience Analytics Maximizes Your Marketing ROI
The uncertain economic outlook that we are facing: the energy crisis, high-interest rates, and macroeconomic factors that affect global markets and the supply chain, means that the budgets allocated to marketing continue without recovering, leaving the pre-pandemic figure far behind, which was by 11%. (Source: Gartner) However, the pandemic has shown that brands remain willing to invest, albeit in areas…
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A Shopify Product Feed Integrated To Google Merchant Center Is Critical To Your Online Store’s Success
The first step for most people that are researching a product online, their first step is often Google. Brands often think that selling their products on Google simply means that they can have their products show up on Google Shopping… but it extends beyond that microsite. A comprehensive feed that’s integrated into Google Merchant Center uses the feed to format…
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App: Free JSON Viewer To Parse and View Your API’s Output
There are times when I’m working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) getting passed or returned from APIs and I need to troubleshoot how I’m parsing the array that’s returned. However, most of the time it’s difficult because it’s just a single string. That’s when a JSON Viewer comes in very handy so that you can indent the hierarchical data and…
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Call To Action Best Practices: Offers, Verbiage, Design, Locations, and More
Every advertisement, email, or distributed piece of content that has been distributed by marketers should include a call to action (CTA). A prospect or customer that’s being informed wants… needs to be told what the next action(s) should be to either continue their research or to connect with your business. I’m stunned when we are hired by a client who…
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Keap: A Powerful CRM With Sales and Marketing Automation for Small Businesses
Every industry has unique needs when it comes to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and sales and marketing automation. Keap has the flexibility to meet your small business’s needs… with users in accounting, coaching, consulting, financial advisors, gyms, fitness, insurance, marketing agencies, non-profits, photographers, real estate, startups, and professional services. Keap CRM Keap is ideal for growing small businesses that are…
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NapoleonCat: A Social Management Platform To Moderate, Publish, Analyze, and Grow Your Social Media Presence
NapoleonCat is your team’s social media toolkit, integrated with Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Business, and YouTube. The platform is utilized by SMBs, online stores, agencies, and enterprise organizations. Features of NapoleonCat include: Social Inbox – Drive social media engagement for your brand and respond centrally to your prospects and customers. Social Inbox enables you to filter out these…
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Post Planner: Social Media Management Software For Content Creation, Curation, Scheduling, And Analysis
In a recent article, we shared how small businesses are utilizing social media to grow their business. An enormous challenge for businesses to manage their social media following and foster a community is the ability to scale their presence across social media networks and consistently provide value to their audience. Marketing departments are often shy on human resources… so few…
