Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Infographics
10 Modern Technologies That Are Transforming Digital Marketing
The infographic below utilizes the term disruption but sometimes the word disruption has a negative connotation. I don’t believe digital marketing today is being disrupted by any modern technology, I believe it’s being transformed by it. Marketers who adapt and adopt newer technologies are able to personalize, engage, and connect with their prospects and customers in much more meaningful ways.…
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Marketing Tools
Coggle: Unleashing Creative and Organizational Potential With Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that draws upon the intrinsic workings of the human brain, facilitating the organization, generation, and connection of ideas in a highly intuitive and engaging manner. It is a graphical way to represent concepts and their relationships to each other and to a central idea. At its core, mind mapping is about harnessing creativity,…
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Content Marketing
How To Combine Posts and Custom Post Types In WordPress Queries and RSS Feed
One of the most amazing features of WordPress is the ability to build Custom Post Types. This flexibility is fantastic… as custom post types can be utilized for a business to organize other types of posts like events, locations, FAQs, portfolio items easily. You can build custom taxonomies, additional metadata fields, and even custom templates to display them. On our…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Enable Automatic Google Analytics UTM Tracking in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Marketing Cloud’s integration with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful tool that enables you to track and analyze customer journey activities. Marketing Cloud automatically appends tracking data to every link in your emails, SMS messages, and journeys. This comprehensive overview will guide you through the integration, data sampling limitations, configuring web tracking, and the benefits of automatic tracking data.…
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Marketing Infographics
How Important Is Your LinkedIn Profile Photo?
Several years ago, I attended an international conference and they had an automated station where you could pose and get a few headshots. The results were stunning… the intelligence behind the camera had you position your head to a target, then the lighting automatically adjusted, and boom… the photos were taken. I felt like a dang supermodel they came out…
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Content Marketing
Owning Your Domain!
Companies often write content on other domains due to the popularity and reach of these external publications or social media platforms. This strategy can significantly enhance a brand’s visibility, tapping into the established audience of these platforms. And, of course, it can also considerably improve the other domain’s visibility and drive rank and authority to their brand. An example I…
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E-commerce and Retail
Aspire: The Influencer Marketing Platform For High-Growth Shopify Brands
If you’re an avid reader of Martech Zone, you know that I have mixed feelings on influencer marketing. My view of influencer marketing isn’t that it doesn’t work… it’s that it needs to be implemented and tracked well. There are a few reasons why: Purchase Behavior – Influencers may build brand awareness, but not necessarily convince a visitor to actually…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Shoutcart: A Simple Way To Buy Shoutouts From Social Media Influencers
Digital channels continue to grow at a rapid rate, a challenge to marketers everywhere as they decide what to promote and where to promote their products and services online. As you look to reach new audiences, there are traditional digital channels like industry publications and search results… but there are also influencers. Influencer marketing continues to grow in popularity because…
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Content Marketing
ConvertMore: Convert More Website Visits With This Phone Callback Widget
As you view your site’s analytics, one thing you’re always seeking to do is to increase the conversions of visitors. Content and a great user experience can drive engagement on a site, but that doesn’t necessarily bridge the gap between engagement and actually driving the conversion. When people want to connect personally with you, are you enabling them to? We…
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Analytics & Testing
Audiense Insights: Audience Segmentation Intelligence and Analysis Software
A key strategy and challenge when developing and marketing a brand is understanding who your market is. Great marketers avoid the temptation of guessing because we’re often biased in our approach. Anecdotal stories from internal decision-makers who have relationships with their market often don’t uncover the overall view of our audience is for a few reasons: The loudest prospects or…
