Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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CleanTalk: How To Stop Form SPAM On WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, or Other Platforms
Because Martech Zone is quite popular, I get hundreds of submissions a day through the site. Most are comment spam which Akismet does a pretty good job at flagging. However, comment spam isn’t something that’s too difficult to identify or…
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ConvertKit: How Creators Grow, Engage, and Monetize Their Online Audience
Building a following is virtually limitless online, but it brings many challenges. Getting someone to follow you isn’t difficult… but keeping them engaged, offering them opportunities to do business with you, and scaling your ability to monetize your strongest connections…
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Owler Max: Help Your Sales Teams Work Faster and Smarter
Once upon a time, sales teams walked into office buildings with physical documents to conduct deals. Now, an abundance of information is available online, but despite the significant digital transformation, data is rarely presented in a way that can be…
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Reputology: Boost Your Local Search Results and Social Media Popularity With Review Management
In the age of digitalization, where every online interaction leaves a footprint, companies are recognizing the paramount importance of managing their online reputation. This is where Reputology shines as a review monitoring and management platform, offering businesses the tools they…
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How To Apply Monroe’s Motivated Sequence In Your Sales Content
My son was taking a speech class at IUPUI and shared with me a technique taught for persuasive speeches, Monroe’s motivated sequence. I’m sure it’s one of those lessons I took but eventually forgot since I’ve not been in class…
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Enterprise Social Media Marketing Platform Features
If you’re a large organization, there are typically six critical aspects of enterprise software that you always need: Account Hierarchies – perhaps the most requested feature of any enterprise platform is the ability to build account hierarchies within the solution.…
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Semrush: Research, Plan, Write, and Analyze Your Content For Improved Search Engine Visibility
There’s not a single client that we work on that we’re not continuously working to optimize their content marketing as part of their overall digital marketing strategy. At its core, content provides the breadcrumbs that lead the prospect to do…
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String Locator: How To Locate Code In A WordPress Theme or Plugin
The theme Martech Zone is using is no longer supported and the developers have disappeared, so I’ve been managing development myself. It’s been quite a challenge but the theme was pretty well-developed so I’ve been able to make a ton…
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Strikingly: Build A Personal Website, Small Business Site, or Online Store in Minutes
There are many people in the digital marketing industry that promote content management or e-commerce platforms simply because they have experience in deploying them. I’m definitely not knocking those agencies, designers, or consultants for executing what they do well and…
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Formidable: Build Forms, Calculators, Surveys, Payment Forms, Event Registrations, And More For WordPress
At Martech Zone and with our agency, we’ve deployed a WordPress Form Plugin that’s easy to use and has extensive integration capabilities. While we’ve used the plugin for over a decade, we’ve noticed that it is quite bloated with script…
