Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Artificial Intelligence
Einstein: How Salesforce’s AI Solution Can Drive Marketing and Sales Performance
Businesses constantly seek ways to improve efficiency, productivity, and customer engagement. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), new opportunities exist to automate tasks, predict outcomes, and personalize customer experiences. However, implementing AI solutions can be complex and expensive, requiring specialized expertise and significant resources. Salesforce Einstein Salesforce Einstein is an integrated set of AI technologies that makes Salesforce’s Customer…
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E-commerce and Retail
UPS API Endpoints and Sample PHP Test Code
We’re working with a WooCommerce client right now whose UPS shipping address validation and shipping cost calculations stopped working. The first issue we identified was the UPS shipping plugin they had was outdated and the core domain for the company that developed it had malware… that’s never a good sign. So, we purchased the WooCommerce UPS plugin since it’s well-supported…
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Content Marketing
How To Feed Your WordPress Blog Posts By Tag In Your ActiveCampaign Template
We’re working on optimizing some email journeys for a client that promotes multiple types of products on their WordPress site. Each of the ActiveCampaign email templates that we’re building is highly customized to the product it’s promoting and providing content on. Rather than rewriting much of the content that’s already well-produced and formatted on the WordPress site, we integrated their…
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Event Marketing
Eventbrite: Events Truly Made Easy
Eventbrite is an online event management and ticketing platform that allows organizers to create and promote events, sell tickets, and manage registrations. Despite some substantial competition, Eventbrite’s user-friendly platform, a broad range of features, and strong marketing capabilities have contributed to its significant market share and continued growth in the event management industry. Eventbrite ranked second in the list of…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Publish Your Shopify Blog Feed In Your Klaviyo Email Template
We continue to enhance and optimize our Shopify Plus fashion client’s email marketing efforts using Klaviyo. Klaviyo has a solid integration with Shopify that enables a ton of e-commerce-related communications that are pre-built and ready to go. Surprisingly, inserting your Shopify Blog Posts into an email is NOT one of them, though! Making things even more difficult… the documentation for…
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Content Marketing
What Is An Infographic? What Are The Benefits Of An Infographic Strategy?
As you flip through social media or websites, you’ll often arrive at some beautifully designed informational graphics that provide an overview of a topic or break down tons of data into an elegant, single graphic, that is embedded in the article. The fact is… followers, viewers, and readers love them. The definition of an infographic is just that… What Is…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
What Is Backlinking? How to Produce Quality Backlinks Without Putting Your Domain At Risk
When I hear someone mention the word backlink as part of an overall digital marketing strategy, I tend to cringe. I’ll explain why through this post but want to begin with some history. At one time, search engines used to be large directories that were primarily constructed and ordered much like a directory. Google’s Pagerank Algorithm changed the landscape of…
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Analytics & Testing
What is Exit Intent? How Is It Used To Improve Conversion Rates?
As a business, you’ve invested a ton of time, effort, and money into designing a fantastic website or e-commerce site. Virtually every business and marketer alike work hard to acquire new visitors to their site… they produce beautiful product pages, landing pages, content, etc. Your visitor arrived because they thought you had the answers, the products, or the services that…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Subject Line Words That Trigger Spam Filters And Route You To The Junk Folder
Getting your emails routed to the junk folder sucks… especially when you’ve worked so hard to build a list of subscribers that fully opted in and wish to view your email. There are a few factors that impact your sender reputation that can impact your ability to make it to the inbox: Sending from a domain or IP address with…
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Content Marketing
How To Create A Temporary Login To WordPress Via A Direct Link
I’ve worked across hundreds of clients with WordPress, developing themes, plugins, integrations, etc. For the most part, a tried and tested theme or plugin that has a great rating and reputation operate seamlessly on a client site. But, every so often, a plugin or theme will throw a bug or may even take down the site altogether. This week, I…
