Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Formidable: Build Forms, Calculators, Surveys, Payment Forms, Event Registrations, And More For WordPress
At Martech Zone and with our agency, we’ve deployed a WordPress Form Plugin that’s easy to use and has extensive integration capabilities. While we’ve used the plugin for over a decade, we’ve noticed that it is quite bloated with script and styling… to the point that it’s adversely impacting our site’s performance. Four stylesheets and two javascript files are loaded…
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Customer Data Platforms
Snov.io: A Complete Platform For Email Prospecting And Cold Outreach
There’s not a day that goes by that I do not receive an email about a product, service, or other company interested in somehow doing business with mine. It’s a strategy that clearly works – or else companies wouldn’t invest heavily in prospect data, tracking systems, and sales teams to reach out to prospective customers. While it may be classified…
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Customer Data Platforms
LinkedCamp: Leverage B2B Sales Automation To Prospect On LinkedIn
If you haven’t followed Martech Zone on LinkedIn, I will encourage you to. We’ve expanded to sharing our posts on our LinkedIn company page so that people can follow and discuss them in a professional environment. LinkedIn continues to dominate as the primary network and connection tool I utilize daily to connect with customers, prospects, employees, job candidates, and partners.…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Digital Transformation: Old Marketer vs. New Marketer
As I researched the Alterian site, I found this excellent diagram on their customer engagement page. The diagram effectively portrays how marketing has changed. It truly makes it clear as to whether or not your marketing has evolved. The strategies and tools marketers employ have dramatically transformed over the years. Technological advancements and data analytics have driven the shift from…
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E-commerce and Retail
Fastr Publicator: Unleash Interactive Digital Publications and Revolutionize Your PDF Catalogs
Staying ahead of the competition requires innovation and adaptability. One key aspect of this adaptation is how businesses present their products and services to customers. Traditional print materials are becoming obsolete, and the need for dynamic, interactive digital publications is more critical than ever. Enter Fastr Publicator, the premiere catalog solution that transforms static PDFs into engaging, shoppable, and fully…
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Analytics & Testing
Checklist: A Comprehensive List Of 40+ Steps To Successfully Launch A New Website, Online Store, or Do A Site Refresh
Whether I’m launching a website on a new domain or relaunching a client website, there are a number of steps that I take to ensure that the site is properly launched and fully accessible to users and search engines. I will mention some examples of plugins or applications in the following article, but this is not a platform-specific article. This…
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Customer Data Platforms
Understanding Address Parsing, Standardization, and Delivery Verification APIs
A key offering that many of our clients appreciate is our trackable direct mail. With a dynamic QR code, we can identify every direct mail recipient that uses their smartphone to open a call-to-action… from dialing a phone number or scheduling an appointment. We can even push an event record for the specific recipient to their customer relationship management system……
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Content Marketing
Camtasia: The Easiest Screen Recording and Video Editing Software For Your Business
Whether you’re looking to create interactive software demos, training videos, or tutorials, utilizing desktop software is almost a must. Editing, publishing, and converting video files requires plenty of hardware and memory… so online platforms aren’t typically an option. Some video editing mobile applications are pretty good, but they lack the desktop real estate that your large monitor has to comfortably…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
How Do Companies Benefit From Internal Social Platforms?
There’s a growing movement to bring the advantages of social networks to corporations. I recently researched this topic during a social networking session with the IABC, and the findings are worth exploring further. Business Cases for Internal Social Platforms Monitor and Drive Corporate Strategies: Internal social networks help ensure that employees, teams, and projects align with the corporate vision. Flatten…
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Content Marketing
What Are Single Opt-In, Confirmed Opt-In, And Double Opt-In?
When building an email list, how you collect consent isn’t just a technical detail—it shapes your entire subscriber relationship, affects email deliverability, and determines compliance with privacy regulations. The three primary types of opt-in mechanisms (single, confirmed, and double) each offer a different balance of convenience, quality control, and legal protection. Understanding their differences can help you match the right…
