Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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WordPress: How To Automatically Share Your Content On A LinkedIn Company Page
As a consulting firm that is trying to reach prospective business clients, LinkedIn is a critical social media platform for our organization. That said, we don’t have the marketing resources to manage a LinkedIn program for networking, commenting, managing groups, or promoting content on a daily basis. With that in mind, my goal is to simply take information like this…
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21 Ways To Build and Grow Your Email List
We’ve been working on growing the Martech Zone email list after purging it of several thousand subscribers who had no activity. When you’ve been operating a publication like this for a decade… especially to a B2B audience, it’s not uncommon that many email addresses are abandoned as employees leave one company for the next. We are aggressive in acquiring email…
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How Much Does An Explainer Video Cost?
We’ve developed quite a few explainer video jobs for our clients and even produced a few explainer videos here on Martech Zone. We’ve gotten amazing results over the years when using them, but the prices have varied greatly. While an explainer video may seem pretty straightforward, there are quite a lot of moving parts to put together an effective explainer…
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How To Do A Backlink Audit And Disavow Toxic Backlinks
I’ve been working for two clients in two regions that perform identical home services. Client A is an established business with about 40 years of experience in its region. Client B is newer with about 20 years of experience. We completed implementing a fully new site after doing discovery for each of the clients that found some troubling organic search…
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Online Video Advertising Statistics And Trends
While advertising budgets are declining in 2022, there’s one area that continues to skyrocket in popularity – online video advertising. I believe there are several reasons why this is happening: Bandwidth – the expansion and support of high speed internet across both desktops and mobile (cellular).Adoption – virtually every platform has adopted both short and long video formats as part…
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Otter: Real-Time Meeting & Podcast Transcription With Highlights
This week, I was attending a video conference call using Zoom. In the chat window, I noticed that there was a link inserted in the chat window by an application, Otter. When I clicked on the link, I was absolutely blown away… it opened a window where I was watching the conversation be transcribed in real-time. Because it was fully…
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Meetings: The Death of American Productivity
Meetings at companies are expensive, interrupt productivity, and are often an absolute waste of time. Here are three types of meetings that damage the productivity of a business and can irreparably hurt the culture: Meetings to avoid accountability. Chances are that you’ve hired someone responsible to get the job done. If you’re holding a meeting to decide for them… or…
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NetLinePortal: Capture B2B Buyer Intent with the Largest CPL Marketplace
B2B marketers face an increasingly uphill battle: engaging the right buyers at the right time with content that converts. Whether you’re managing in-house campaigns or leading demand gen efforts for clients, the challenge remains the same—delivering high-quality, intent-driven leads that turn into pipeline. Most lead generation efforts struggle because they rely on static lists, broad targeting, or outdated performance models.…
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What Is The Map Pack? Why Is It Critical To Local Search Optimization?
If you are a local business or retailer hoping for more appointments, foot traffic, or business as a whole – the map pack in Google Searches is a critical strategy. Surprisingly, many businesses don’t understand how the map pack works or how they can maintain and improve their visibility in it. First, let’s start with some statistics on the importance…
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Siteimprove: Optimize Content for Accessibility, Organic Search, Customer Experience and Marketing Performance
Expectations for high-quality content are at an all-time high: Research shows that 73% of consumers say one extraordinary digital experience raises their expectations of other companies to deliver a similar experience. SOTI, Annual Connected Retailer Survey For marketers today, content is much like code. Publishing poor quality, inaccessible content is like pushing out code that hasn’t been proactively debugged. That’s…
