Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Customer.io: Automated Marketing Messages that Convert
You’ve got your customer acquisition funnel dialed in. Your retention strategy is all plotted out. And you’ve got a warehouse full of customer data. So why aren’t enough people converting, and where’s all that churn coming from? Chances are, your marketing messages just don’t line up with your customers’ actual needs in the moment. And when they don’t see immediate…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is An API? And Other Acronyms: REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, WSDL
When you utilize a browser, your browser makes requests from the client’s server, and the server sends back data that your browser assembles and displays a web page with. But what if you just wanted your server or web page to speak to another server? This would require you to program to an API. What Does API stand for? API…
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Analytics & Testing
GRIN: Manage Your E-commerce Influencer Marketing In This End-To-End Creator Management Platform
The latest household brands aren’t created through old-school mass advertising—they’re built alongside content creators. Brands that utilize content creators as brand storytellers are now the names on everyone’s lips. And how do they do it? It can’t be bought. It can’t be faked. It must be built, one genuine creator relationship at a time. What is Creator Management? Creator management…
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Advertising Technology
Web.com: How To Get Your Small Business or Online Store Up And Running Online Without Breaking the Bank
Marketing consultants and agencies tend to work with businesses that have enough revenue where they see the opportunity to invest in platforms and services. Having started multiple companies in the last couple of decades, I know how difficult it is to establish that sole proprietor business and get revenues to a point where I could hire those first employees. Over…
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Content Marketing
Website Features Checklist: The 68 Ultimate Must-Haves for Your Site
Wow. I love it when someone designs a checklist on an infographic that’s both simple and informative. UK Web Host Review designed this infographic to develop a list of features they believe should be included with every business’ online presence. For your business to succeed online you need to make sure that your website is feature packed! There are many…
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Content Marketing
How To Write Your Company’s Story: Five Essential Elements
I love design, but I’m a terrible designer. I love development, but I’m quite the hack. And I write daily on Martech Zone and I’ve authored Corporate Blogging For Dummies, but I don’t classify myself as a writer. I recognize a great design, I am blown away by great development, and I love great writing. We just launched a new…
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Content Marketing
Push Monkey: Automate Push Browser Notifications For Your Web Or E-commerce Site
Each month, we get a few thousand returning visitors through browser push notifications that we integrated with our site. If you’re a first-time visitor to our site, you’ll notice the request that’s made at the top of the page when you visit the site. If you enable these notifications, each time that we post an article or want to send…
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Content Marketing
How to Check, Remove, and Prevent Malware from Your WordPress Site
This week was pretty busy. One of the non-profits that I know found themselves in quite a predicament – their WordPress site was infected with malware. The site was hacked, and scripts were executed on visitors that did two different things: The site tried to infect Microsoft Windows users with malware. The site redirected all users to a site that…
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Content Marketing
How To Search For And Buy A Domain Name
If you’re trying to find a domain name for personal branding, your business, your products, or your services, Namecheap offers a great search for finding one: Find a domain starting at $0.88 powered by Namecheap 6 Tips On Choosing And Buying A Domain Name Here are my personal opinions on choosing a domain name: The shorter the better – the…
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Advertising Technology
Streaming Viewership Has Officially Overtaken Cable and Broadcast Television
The types of ways that viewers are consuming video are plentiful with the advent of the Internet: Cable and Satellite TV: Cable and satellite TV services like Comcast, DirecTV, and Dish Network provide television channels through physical cables or satellite signals. Differentiators include various channels, including premium content and live sports. Key services include channel packages and DVR for recording…
