Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Add a Responsive Image Rotator Widget To Your Site On Any Platform
Many years ago, I was disappointed to find out there wasn’t a simple way to rotate images in WordPress so I developed an Image Rotator Widget Plugin for WordPress. Over the years, though, WordPress advanced its capabilities and a ton of other plugins, page builders, new widget user interface, and third-party tools have surfaced. It wasn’t worthwhile for us to…
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Advertising Technology
AdCreative.ai: Utilize Artificial Intelligence to Design And Boost Your Ad Conversion Rates
The average advertiser has quite a few challenges when creating banners, display ads, and other ad creatives: Creation – creating a number of ad options can be time-consuming.Statistics – letting each ad version run long enough to gather enough data to make the appropriate decision can be wasteful.Relevance – while their are best practices for creating display and banner ads,…
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Content Marketing
How Much Do Infographics Cost?
Businesses that publish infographics have 12% greater traffic volume What is an Infographic? Most content marketers think an infographic is simply wrapping a ton of data and statistics around a given premise. Ugh… we see these all over the web and rarely share them unless there’s something incredibly compelling about some of the stats found. We believe a balanced infographic…
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Email Marketing & Automation
40 Email Marketing Mistakes To Check And Avoid Before Clicking Send
There are a ton more mistakes you can do with your entire email marketing program… but this infographic focuses on the most common mistakes we make before clicking send. We’ve added a few of our own recommendations here before you ever even start building your first email. Deliverability Checks Before we begin, are we set up for failure or success?…
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Content Marketing
13 Ways to Increase the ROI of Your Content Marketing
Maybe this should infographic could have been one giant recommendation… get readers to convert! Seriously, we’re a bit confounded on how many companies are writing mediocre content, not analyzing their customer base, not analyzing their competitor’s content, and not developing longer-term strategies to drive readers into customers. My go-to research on this is from Jay Baer who identified years ago…
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Analytics & Testing
What is the Net Promoter Score (NPS) System?
Last week, I traveled to Florida (I do this every quarter or so) and for the first time I listened to a book on Audible on the way down. I selected The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World after a dialogue with some marketing professionals online. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) system is based…
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E-commerce and Retail
SQU IQ: Sync Inventory and Reporting Between Your POS and E-commerce Platforms
Over the last few years, there’s no doubt that the need for an online store is critical to retailers being able to meet consumer demands, compete effectively, and grow their sales beyond their retail locations. A critical challenge for this industry is that the modern point-of-sale (POS) systems that retailers invested in were built for retail sales – not for…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Spam Laws: A Comparison of US, UK, CA, DE, and AU
As the global economy becomes a reality, treaties are being signed that ensure that each country respects the laws of another and may even be able to take punitive action against companies that violate those laws. One area of focus for any company that’s sending emails internationally is understanding the nuances of each country as it refers to email and…
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E-commerce and Retail
Shopify: How To Program Dynamic Theme Titles and Meta Descriptions for SEO using Liquid
If you’ve been reading my articles over the last few months, you’ll notice that I’ve been sharing a lot more about ecommerce, especially with regard to Shopify. My firm has been building out a highly customized and integrated Shopify Plus site for a client. Rather than spending months and tens of thousands of dollars on building a theme from scratch,…
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Content Marketing
PLANOLY: Meeting The Planning Needs of Social Video Managers
Many organizations are shifting gears to take a video-first approach to social content. Why? Video generates 1200% more shares than image-based and text-based content. WordStream – 75 Staggering Video Marketing Statistics This change may be lucrative for some, but others might struggle with algorithm updates, as well as staying on top of trends in a fast-paced environment, and organizing and…
