Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Swarmify: Four Reasons Not To Use YouTube Video Embeds On Your Business Website
If your company has professional videos that you’ve spent thousands of dollars on, you should absolutely publish the videos on YouTube to take advantage of YouTube’s search results…. just make sure that you optimize your YouTube videos when you do.…
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16 Mobile Friendly HTML Email Best Practices That Maximize Inbox Placement and Engagement
In 2023, it’s probable that mobile will surpass desktop as the primary device for opening email. In fact, HubSpot found that 46 percent of all email opens now occur on mobile. If you’re not designing emails for mobile, you’re leaving a lot of…
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Typeform: Turn Data Collection Into A Human Experience
A few years ago, I completed a survey online, and it actually wasn’t a chore… it was elegant and simple. I looked up the provider, and it was Typeform. Typeform came about because the founders wanted to change how people…
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The Evolution of Logos and the Impact of Technology on Logo Design
The word logo comes from the Greek word logos, which means word, thought, or speech. In ancient Greek philosophy, logos referred to the principle of reason and order in the universe. Over time, the meaning of logos expanded to include…
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A Guide To Optimize Your Email Open, Click-Through, and Conversion Rates
One discussion that I have every week with clients is the increasingly frustrating means of building and sustaining a successful email marketing program. Simply put, as your email marketing list grows, so do your deliverability headaches. It seems that internet…
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The Psychological Impact Of Color On Emotion, Attitude, and Behavior
I’m a sucker for color theory. We’ve already published how genders interpret colors and how colors impact buying behavior. If you want to learn more about how our eyes actually detect and interpret color, don’t miss reading Why Our Eyes…
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It’s Time Your Sales Teams Stop Using Local Presence Deception
If you’ve never heard of local presence, it’s the strategy that many companies use to incorporate a regional presence to boost their overall brand’s trust and reliability. In a physical sense, local presence may involve setting up a brick-and-mortar store,…
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Microsoft Clarity: Free Heatmaps and Session Recordings for Website Optimization
As we designed and developed a custom Shopify theme for a fashion customer, we wanted to ensure that we designed an elegant and simple e-commerce site that didn’t confuse or overwhelm their customers. One example of our design testing was…
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Are You Really Mobile Friendly? Tools And What To Test For Mobile Speed, Mobile SEO, And Mobile User Behavior
While most marketing industry professionals design and publish sites from the comfort of their desktop and a nice large display, the majority of visitors to your website may be arriving (or could be arriving) from mobile devices. Not taking the…
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Seobility: Analyze Your Web Page’s Search Engine Optimization With This Simple SEO Checker
As someone who works to assist our clients with their search engine optimization (SEO) as well as runs a marketing technology publication, you can only imagine how many organic search engine platforms that I’ve experimented with and purchased subscriptions for…
