Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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VideoPeel: Request, Capture, and Share Your Customer Video Testimonials Easily
A critical stage in every buyer’s journey is researching the business, the product, or the services offered to validate the business. Trust may be even more critical than other factors like price and refund policies when a business or consumer is deciding whether or not to make a purchase, so customer testimonials are critical in helping ease the buyer through…
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What Are The Six Stages Of The Account-Based Marketing (ABM) Sales Funnel?
Terminus has produced this detailed infographic that defines the stages of the ABM sales funnel as well as what to measure in order to optimize each stage’s success. If you’re new to ABM, we’ve written about what Account-Based Marketing is and why it has so many advantages over traditional marketing strategies… but this gets into the finer details of segmenting…
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Pabbly Plus: Form Creation, Email Marketing, Payments, And Workflow Automation In One Bundle
With so many companies forced to reduce marketing headcount and looking for ways to automate data processes as well as reduce technology expenses, bundles like Pabbly are worth evaluating. While there are many workflow and automation platforms out there, I’m not sure of any platform that includes a form builder, payment processing for subscriptions, an affiliate program, and email verification.…
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GrowSurf: Effortlessly Launch A Fully Automated Referral Marketing Program
No matter how much sales, marketing, and advertising we do, our primary lead generation source continues to be our own customers. Sometimes it’s a peer that’s moved on to a new company and brings us along, other times it’s a client that introduces us to another business that has similar needs. Either way, these continue to be our highest closing…
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Validity Everest: The Email Success Platform For Managing Reputation, Deliverability, and Increasing Email Marketing Engagement
Congested inboxes and tighter filtering algorithms make it more difficult to attract the attention of your email recipients. Everest is the email deliverability platform developed by Validity that merged their acquisition of 250ok and Return Path into one central platform. The platform is a complete solution for designing, executing, and optimizing email marketing for improved inbox deliverability and engagement. To…
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Maropost Marketing Cloud: Multi-Channel Automation For Email, SMS, Web, and Social Media
A challenge to today’s marketers is to recognize that their prospects are all at different points in the customer journey. On the same day, you may have a visitor to your website who isn’t aware of your brand, a prospect who is researching your products and services to solve their challenge or an existing customer who is seeing if there…
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VideoScribe: An Easy-To-Use, Drag & Drop Animated GIF and Video Maker Platform
Create eye-catching promo videos, email assets, and social posts to increase engagement, and customer loyalty. VideoScribe’s video animation software helps brands create memorable visual moments from their stories. With VideoScribe, users build their own introductory videos, case study videos, testimonial videos, explainer videos, event invitation videos, or occasion & holiday videos: Start with a fully customizable template – in just…
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Campaigner: Advanced Email and SMS Automation and Workflows In One Affordable Marketing Platform
Campaigner was founded in 1999 when the internet and email were just beginning to reach the masses. Since then, Campaigner has remained at the forefront of email, now combining mobile SMS marketing into its automation and workflow capabilities. Campaigner provides all the advanced features you need to execute engaging and high-performing email and SMS marketing campaigns. Features include: Email Marketing…
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Sitechecker: An SEO Platform With A Personalized Checklist On How To Optimize Your Website
One area of expertise I pride myself on is my ability to assist our clients in growing their businesses through organic search engine traffic. I’m a huge proponent of SEO for a few reasons: Intent – search engine visitors enter keywords, phrases, or questions in search queries because they’re actively seeking a solution to their problem(s). This is far different…
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EDM Lead Network: Lead Generation for Insurance, Financial, and Home Service Professionals
Lead generation (LeadGen) strategies have significantly evolved over the past few years. While many people tout the secret to sales, the truth is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution that will allow businesses to improve their KPIs, ROI, or profits across the board. That being said, there are nonetheless several tried-and-true lead generation strategies that can help companies convert sales.…
