Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Headliner: Build Audiograms For Your Podcast To Promote Socially
The podcast industry continues to grow for businesses. We’ve seen the incredible impact on the podcast series that we’ve helped companies to launch – many easily moving into the top percent of their industry due to a lack of competing alternatives. Podcasting is a fantastic marketing channel for several reasons: Voice – provides an intimate and emotionally engaging experience where…
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Content Marketing
16 Types of Infographic Layouts to Inspire You!
Over the years, we’ve become quite a resource for readers to find and learn from infographics. Infographics are, perhaps, one of the best tools of the trade right now because they have a number of advantages: They’re easily shared, making the best of social media – getting your content shared and read in relevant networks.They’re easily published, making the best…
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Customer Data Platforms
ZoomInfo: Accelerate Your B2B Pipeline With Company Data as a Service (DaaS)
If you’re selling to businesses, you know how difficult it is to find prospective companies and track down the decision-makers there… let alone understand their intent to actually purchase. B2B sales superstars are some amazing sleuths, making call after call to internal and external contacts they’ve built relationships with to identify the right people at the right companies – at…
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Content Marketing
How To Avoid Making Bad Infographics
Infographics are often hailed as the perfect marriage of data and design: a visually engaging format that distills complex information into digestible insights. But in practice, many infographics fail—not because the information is wrong, but because the execution misunderstands the purpose of visual communication. When businesses rely on infographics that require a deeper narrative or explanation, or when they misuse…
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E-commerce and Retail
SellerSmile: Why Should You Outsource Your E-commerce Support Team
When the pandemic struck and retailers were shut down, it didn’t just impact the retail outlets. It impacted the entire supply chain that fed those retailers as well. My digital transformation consulting firm is working with a manufacturer right now to assist them in building out their E-commerce and Martech stack to support a direct-to-consumer dropshipping business. It’s a challenging…
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Content Marketing
Infographic: How to Mix Up Your Content Marketing
I enjoyed this infographic from JBH and the story and imagery it produces as you think about content. 77% of marketers now utilize content marketing and 69% of brands create more content than they did a year ago. And just as everyone has a taste for their favorite cocktail, it’s important to remember that your audience is diverse – with…
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Marketing Tools
How to Use Font Awesome in Illustrator and other Applications
My son needed a business card for his DJ and music production business (yes, he’s almost got his Ph.D. in Math). We wanted to provide a clean list using the icons for each service to save space when displaying his social channels on his business card. Rather than purchasing each logo or a collection from a stock photo site, we used…
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Content Marketing
DesignCrowd: Crowdsource Graphic Designs from 485,000+ Professionals
We love the full-time design teams that we have working on websites, infographics, and other publications. Having a design team at your ready helps with your output quality and consistency. That said, there are one-off projects that pop up everyone once in a while that we just need to get out there and get done. Perhaps it’s a business card,…
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Analytics & Testing
Campaignalyzer: Consistently Tag, Track, Execute, and Analyze your Analytics Campaigns
While we have a nice little UTM campaign builder on Martech Zone, it doesn’t offer the ability to store and consistently build your campaign URLs. Effectively managing and tracking your analytics campaigns can differentiate success and confusion. CampaignAlyzer is a versatile tagging solution designed to empower marketers and businesses with essential features. Let’s dive into how CampaignAlyzer can help you…
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E-commerce and Retail
Scary… The Average Halloween Fan Is Planning To Spend Over $100 This Year!
For the first time ever, per-person spending for Halloween will top $100. This year, each of the top spending categories – candy, decorations, costumes, and greeting cards will see significant increases, not just over last year’s numbers, but also over 2019 spending numbers.The Shelf, 021 Halloween Spending, Sales, Stats, and Trends Halloween Statistics Are UP! Last year, less than half…
