Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Digital Transformation: Old Marketer vs. New Marketer
As I researched the Alterian site, I found this excellent diagram on their customer engagement page. The diagram effectively portrays how marketing has changed. It truly makes it clear as to whether or not your marketing has evolved. The strategies and tools marketers employ have dramatically transformed over the years. Technological advancements and data analytics have driven the shift from…
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Fastr Publicator: Unleash Interactive Digital Publications and Revolutionize Your PDF Catalogs
Staying ahead of the competition requires innovation and adaptability. One key aspect of this adaptation is how businesses present their products and services to customers. Traditional print materials are becoming obsolete, and the need for dynamic, interactive digital publications is more critical than ever. Enter Fastr Publicator, the premiere catalog solution that transforms static PDFs into engaging, shoppable, and fully…
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Checklist: A Comprehensive List Of 40+ Steps To Successfully Launch A New Website, Online Store, or Do A Site Refresh
Whether I’m launching a website on a new domain or relaunching a client website, there are a number of steps that I take to ensure that the site is properly launched and fully accessible to users and search engines. I will mention some examples of plugins or applications in the following article, but this is not a platform-specific article. This…
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Understanding Address Parsing, Standardization, and Delivery Verification APIs
A key offering that many of our clients appreciate is our trackable direct mail. With a dynamic QR code, we can identify every direct mail recipient that uses their smartphone to open a call-to-action… from dialing a phone number or scheduling an appointment. We can even push an event record for the specific recipient to their customer relationship management system……
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Camtasia: The Easiest Screen Recording and Video Editing Software For Your Business
Whether you’re looking to create interactive software demos, training videos, or tutorials, utilizing desktop software is almost a must. Editing, publishing, and converting video files requires plenty of hardware and memory… so online platforms aren’t typically an option. Some video editing mobile applications are pretty good, but they lack the desktop real estate that your large monitor has to comfortably…
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How Do Companies Benefit From Internal Social Platforms?
There’s a growing movement to bring the advantages of social networks to corporations. I recently researched this topic during a social networking session with the IABC, and the findings are worth exploring further. Business Cases for Internal Social Platforms Monitor and Drive Corporate Strategies: Internal social networks help ensure that employees, teams, and projects align with the corporate vision. Flatten…
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What Are Single Opt-In, Confirmed Opt-In, And Double Opt-In?
When building an email list, how you collect consent isn’t just a technical detail—it shapes your entire subscriber relationship, affects email deliverability, and determines compliance with privacy regulations. The three primary types of opt-in mechanisms (single, confirmed, and double) each offer a different balance of convenience, quality control, and legal protection. Understanding their differences can help you match the right…
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Vyond: Build Your Own Animated Videos With This Video Animation Studio
I’ve helped several companies develop their video strategies over the years and animated video explainer videos are an amazing piece of content that can be used to concisely and thoroughly explain your products, services, and solutions, as well as differentiate your brand from your competitors. Explainer videos all follow a similar production and script sequence and are incredibly effective at…
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How To Validate An Email Address With Regular Expressions (Regex). Sample HTML5, PHP, C#, Python, and Java Code.
Virtually every programming language supports regular expressions nowadays. While some developers don’t like them, they truly are a best practice as they typically perform functions like validation extremely fast with fewer server resources. Email addresses are a perfect example… where they can be easily checked to ensure they’re properly formatted. Keep in mind that validation is not verification. Validation simply…
