Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Voice Calls Are Critical To Your Customer’s Journey
I have to admit that I’m terrible about calls and I absolutely know that I’m leaving money on the table with my business. My phone often rings throughout the day and the people don’t bother to leave a message, they just move on. My guess is that they simply don’t wish to work with an unresponsive company and that answering…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Google Authorship Was Discontinued, But rel=”author” Doesn’t Hurt
Google Authorship was a feature that allowed Google to identify the author of a piece of content and display their name and profile photo alongside the content in search engine result pages (SERPs). It also was included as a direct ranking factor for content. Authorship was designated by adding rel=”author” markup to the content, which linked it to the author’s…
- Advertising Technology
QR Code Builder: How To Design and Manage Beautiful QR Codes For Digital or Print
One of our clients has a list of over 100,000 customers that they’ve delivered to but don’t have an email address to communicate them with. We were able to to do an email append that successfully matched (by name and mailing address) and we started a welcome journey that has been quite successful. The other 60,000 customers we are sending…
- Analytics & Testing
How Do UTM Parameters In Email Work With Google Analytics Campaigns?
We do quite a bit of migration and implementation projects of email service providers for our clients. While it’s not often specified in the statements of work, one strategy that we always deploy is ensuring that any email communications are automatically tagged with UTM parameters so that companies can observe the impact of email marketing and communications on their overall…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Adobe Creative Cloud Express: Beautiful Templates for Social Media Content, Logos, and More
When Mari Smith says she loves a tool for marketing on Facebook, it means it’s worth looking into. And that’s just what I did. Adobe Creative Cloud Express, previously known as Adobe Spark, is a free integrated web and mobile solution for creating and sharing impactful visual stories. Creative Cloud Express makes it easy to get started with tons of…
- Customer Data Platforms
Talend Data Preparation: Clean CRM Data for Smarter Insights Fast
The promise of actionable insights often runs headfirst into the messy reality of unclean data. Business leaders know their teams can’t afford to waste time on manual data cleaning when faster, more accurate decisions are needed. Yet data analysts, marketers, product managers, and even executives often get bogged down in fixing errors, reconciling formats, and struggling with outdated datasets instead…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Easiest Way To Minify Your Shopify CSS That’s Built Using Liquid Variables
We built out a Shopify Plus site for a client that has a number of settings for their styles in the actual theme file. While that’s really advantageous for easily adjusting styles, it means that you don’t have a static cascading style sheets (CSS) file that you can easily minify (reduce in size). Sometimes this is referred to as CSS…
- Content Marketing
6 Game-Changing SEO Tips: How These Businesses Grew Organic Traffic to 20,000+ Monthly Visitors
In the world of search engine optimization (SEO), only those who have actually succeeded can shed light on what it actually takes to grow your website to tens of thousands of visitors per month. This proof of concept is the most powerful evidence of a brand’s ability to apply effective strategies and produce extraordinary content that will rank. With so…
- Customer Data Platforms
How Your Sales and Marketing Teams Can Stop Contributing To Digital Fatigue
The last couple of years has been an incredible challenge for me. On the personal side, I was blessed with my first grandchild. On the business side, I joined forces with some colleagues that I highly respect and we’re building a digital transformation consultancy that’s really taking off. Of course, in the middle of that, there’s been a pandemic that…
- Advertising Technology
Sellics Benchmarker: How to Benchmark Your Amazon Advertising Account
There are often times that we wonder, as marketers, how our ad spend is doing in compared to other advertisers in our industry or across a specific channel. Benchmark systems are designed for this reason – and Sellics has a free, comprehensive benchmark report for your Amazon Advertising Account to compare your performance to others. Amazon Advertising Amazon advertising offers…
