Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
What is Email Authentication? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Explained
When we work with large email senders or migrate them to a new email service provider (ESP), email deliverability is paramount in researching the performance of their email marketing efforts. I’ve criticized the industry before (and I continue to) because the permission of email is on the wrong side of the equation. If internet service providers (ISPs) wish to guard…
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Content Marketing
How To Develop Website, Ecommerce, Or Application Color Schemes
We’ve shared quite a few articles on the importance of color with respect to a brand. For a website, e-commerce site, or mobile or web application, it’s just as critical. Colors have an impact on: The initial impression of a brand and its value – for example, luxury goods often utilize black, red implies excitement, etc. Purchase decisions – the…
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E-commerce and Retail
Sellfy: Build Your E-commerce Business Selling Products or Subscriptions In Minutes
Sellfy is an easy-to-use eCommerce solution for creators looking to sell digital and physical products as well as subscriptions and print-on-demand – all from one storefront. Whether it’s eBooks, music, videos, courses, merchandise, home decor, graphics, or any other type of business. Start easily – Create a store in a couple of clicks. Sign up, add your products, customize your store and…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Gong: Conversation Intelligence Platform for Sales Teams
Gong’s conversation analytics engine analyzes sales calls at the individual and aggregate levels to help you understand what’s working (and what’s not). Gong starts with a simple calendar integration where it scans each sales representative’s calendar looking for upcoming sales meetings, calls, or demos to record. Gong then joins each scheduled sales call as a virtual meeting attendee to record…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Calendly: How To Embed A Scheduling Popup or Embedded Calendar In Your Website or WordPress Site
A few weeks ago, I was on a site and noticed when I clicked a link to schedule an appointment with them that I wasn’t brought to a destination site; there was a widget that published the Calendly scheduler directly in a popup window. This is a great tool… keeping someone on your site is a much better experience than…
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Content Marketing
How to Make a Video Marketing Content Calendar
This last week, one of the projects that I delivered was a mobile optimization audit for a client. While they’d been doing well in desktop searches, they were lagging in mobile rankings versus their competitors. As I reviewed their site and their competitors’ sites, one gap in their strategy was video marketing. More than half of all video views come from…
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E-commerce and Retail
Rewind: How to Automatically Backup Your Shopify or Shopify Plus Store
The last couple of weeks has been quite productive with a fashion industry client that we’re launching a direct-to-consumer site for. This is the second client we’ve assisted with Shopify, the first was a delivery service. We helped this client build and brand a company, developed their product and marketing strategy, built their Shopify Plus site, integrated it to their…
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Advertising Technology
Phonesites: Create Sales Funnel Websites and Landing Pages in Minutes Using Your Phone
This might really anger some folks in my industry, but many companies simply don’t have a model that supports the investment into a massive site deployment and content marketing strategy. I know quite a few small businesses that still go door-to-door or depend on word-of-mouth to support an impressive business. Phonesites: Launch Pages In Minutes Every business has to balance…
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E-commerce and Retail
Spocket: Launch and Seamlessly Integrate A Dropshipping Business With Your E-commerce Platform
As a content publisher, diversifying your revenue streams is incredibly important. Where we had a few major media outlets a couple decades ago and advertising was lucrative, today we have thousands of media outlets and content producers everywhere. No doubt that you’ve seen advertising-based publishers have to cut staff over the years… and those that are surviving are looking to…
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Customer Data Platforms
Hippo Video: Boost Sales Response Rates With Video Selling
My inbox is a mess, I’ll totally admit it. I have rules and smart folders that are focused on my clients and virtually everything else falls by the wayside unless it captures my attention. Some sales pitches that stand out are personalized video emails that have been sent to me. Seeing someone speak to me personally, observing their personality, and…
