Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is a fractional Chief Marketing Officer specializing in SaaS and AI companies, where he helps scale marketing operations, drive demand generation, and implement AI-powered strategies. He is the founder and publisher of Martech Zone, a leading publication in marketing technology, and a trusted advisor to startups and enterprises alike. With a track record spanning more than $5 billion in MarTech acquisitions and investments, Douglas has led go-to-market strategy, brand positioning, and digital transformation initiatives for companies ranging from early-stage startups to global tech leaders like Dell, GoDaddy, Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe. A published author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies and contributor to The Better Business Book, Douglas is also a recognized speaker, curriculum developer, and Forbes contributor. A U.S. Navy veteran, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to help organizations achieve measurable growth.

Customer Data Platforms

Douglas KarrFeb 9, 2022

Gleam: Marketing Apps Designed To Grow Your Business

A friend of mine said that he believes marketing is a job where you make people who don’t want to buy something buy it. Ouch… I respectfully disagreed. I believe that marketing is the art and science of pushing and pulling consumers and businesses through the purchase cycle. Sometimes marketing requires amazing content, sometimes it’s an unbelievable offer… and sometimes…
Advertising Technology

Douglas KarrFeb 7, 2022

Brax: Create, Optimize, And Scale Your Native Advertising From A Single Dashboard

Much of the complexity of working with Native Advertising networks is the difficulty of working across ad networks and their tools to measure, compare, create, optimize, and scale your native advertising. Brax: Manage Native Ads All In One Place Brax is a native advertising platform for bulk management, unified reporting, and rule-based goal optimization across sources. Brax streamlines content syndication…
Content Marketing

Douglas KarrFeb 7, 2022

5 Ways Animated Explainer Videos Increase Inbound Marketing Effectiveness

When we say video has become an essential part of our daily lives, we’re not joking. We watch online videos daily on our computers, phones, and even Smart TVs. According to YouTube, the number of hours people spend watching videos is up 60% yearly! Text-only-based websites have become outdated, and we’re not the only ones saying it: Google is! Video…
Social Media & Influencer Marketing

Douglas KarrFeb 5, 2022

WordPress Plugin: How to Add a Lightweight, Custom Pinterest Pinit Button on Image Hover

If you run a WordPress site and want to make your content more shareable on Pinterest, one of the simplest yet most effective enhancements is adding a Pin It button that appears when users hover over images. While Pinterest offers an official widget script to handle this functionality, many site owners prefer a lighter, more controlled approach that doesn’t rely…
Content Marketing

Douglas KarrFeb 4, 2022

Queue-it: Add A Virtual Waiting Room To Your Website To Manage High Traffic Surges

We can’t take orders… site is down because it’s getting crushed with traffic. These is never the words you want to hear if you’ve ever been part of a product launch, an online sale, or selling tickets to an event… the inability to scale your infrastructure as fast as demand hits your site is a disaster for several reasons: Visitor…
E-commerce and Retail

Douglas KarrFeb 3, 2022

ReferralCandy: A Complete E-commerce Referral Platform You Can Launch In Minutes

For the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing our successful launch of our client’s site where you can buy dresses online. One strategy we wanted to deploy was building out a referral program for customers, affiliate marketers, and influencers. Some of our needs: We wanted to have it work with Shopify so that we could include a discount for the…
Marketing Infographics

Douglas KarrFeb 1, 2022

7 Steps to Optimize Your Online Marketing Conversion Funnel

Creating a high-converting marketing funnel is one of the most strategic and sustainable ways to grow a business online. Whether you’re a startup launching your first product or a mature business scaling sales operations, a well-designed funnel moves prospects from unaware to paying (and repeating) customers with deliberate steps that build trust, address objections, and increase value along the way.…
Marketing Infographics

Douglas KarrFeb 1, 2022

What Roles Are Needed in Today’s Digital Marketing Department?

For some of my clients, I manage all of the talent necessary for their digital marketing efforts. For others, they have a small staff and we augment the skills necessary. For others, they have an incredibly robust team internally and are just needing overall guidance and an external perspective to help them stay innovative and identify gaps. When I first…
Email Marketing & Automation

Douglas KarrJan 31, 2022

How To Set Up Email Authentication with Microsoft Office (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)

We’re seeing more and more deliverability issues with clients these days and too many companies don’t have basic email authentication set up with their office email and email marketing service providers. The most recent was an e-commerce company we’re working with that sends their support messages out of Microsoft Exchange Server. This is important because the client’s customer support emails…
Email Marketing & Automation

Douglas KarrJan 28, 2022

How To Make An Animated GIF For Your Next Email Marketing Campaign Using Photoshop

We built an online dress store for a dress manufacturer that we branded and built from the ground up to bring a direct-to-consumer (D2C) offering to the marketplace. Their leadership is always working with us on collaborative ideas for the next campaign or strategy that we’re executing. As part of their implementation, we deployed Klaviyo for Shopify Plus. Klaviyo is…

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