Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Netra: AI-Powered Video Content Intelligence and Comprehension APIs
Netra is an AI-powered content classification company that is on a mission to revolutionize the way we perceive and interact with visual content. It harnesses the power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to illuminate the world’s content. The Challenge of Visual Content The internet has evolved to host an ever-increasing amount of visual content. It’s estimated that by 2022,…
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BuzzSumo: Research Content Engagement and Performance by Topic, Domain, And Influencer
If you’re a long-time reader of Martech Zone, you know that I’m a huge advocate of building a high-quality content library of articles. The tired and old strategy of mass producing tons of average content isn’t worth the investment. I believe frequent and plentiful average content publishing will hurt your site’s overall performance. As a consultant, I see it every…
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AdButler: Manage Your Site’s Advertising Packages and Ad Serving Within WordPress
If you’ve got a WordPress site and want to manage ad offering, packages, payments, and ad serving, AdButler may be the best option on the market. The WordPress integration via widgets makes building and deploying ad zones a piece of cake, and the AdButler system is highly customizable, flexible, scalable, and even offers whitelabeling. AdButler Platform Features Include: Scalability –…
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How to Protect Your Business from the Growing Threat of Invoice Fraud in the Martech Era
The average enterprise uses well over 100 tools across its stack—each one potentially requiring a license, subscription, or recurring service contract. Combine this sprawling martech ecosystem with decentralized teams, automated accounting systems, and often fragmented procurement workflows, and you have the perfect breeding ground for a growing threat: fraudulent invoicing scams. These scams are no longer limited to crude phishing…
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YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Google Workspace and Two-Factor Authentication
I’m a huge proponent of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on every platform that I’m running. As a marketer that works with clients and client data, I simply can’t be too careful about security so the combination of different passwords for every site, using Apple Keychain as a password repository, and enabling 2FA on every service is a must. If you’re running…
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YaySMTP: Send Email Via SMTP In WordPress With Microsoft 365, Live, Outlook, or Hotmail
If you’re running WordPress as your content management system, the system is typically configured to push email messages (like system messages, password reminders, etc.) through your host. However, this isn’t an advisable solution for a couple of reasons: Some hosts actually block the ability to send outbound emails from the server so that they’re not a target for hackers to…
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Five Questions You Need To Answer When Optimizing Your Content Marketing Strategies
Off and on I notice that some social media pundits tell companies it doesn’t matter where they participate in social media, only that they actually do. Others argue the development of a social media strategy before ever starting. There are five questions you need to ask yourself when creating content on the web: Where should the content be placed? –…
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The Best WordPress SEO Plugin: Rank Math
Rank Math SEO Plugin for WordPress is a lightweight search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that includes sitemaps, rich snippets, content analysis, and redirects.
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WP Migrate: The Easiest Way To Separate A Single Site Away From WordPress Multisite
One of our clients grew to a point that their company separated from their parent company. At issue was that the parent company was managing all of their subbrands via WordPress Multisite. What is WordPress Multisite? WordPress Multisite is a pretty unique feature built within WordPress that enables quite a bit of customization and permissions across a network of sites…
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Friendbuy: Drive ROI With Smarter Loyalty and Referral Tools
Customer acquisition costs are rising, competition in e-commerce is fierce, and retaining customers has never been more critical. Many brands find themselves spending heavily on ads, only to see diminishing returns, as customer churn erodes their profitability. To achieve sustainable growth, businesses need more innovative ways to both win new customers and maximize the value of existing ones. Friendbuy Friendbuy…
