Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
HypeAuditor: Your Influencer Marketing Stack For Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Twitch
Over the last few years, I’ve really ramped up my affiliate and influencer marketing initiatives. I’m quite selective in working with brands – ensuring that the reputation that I’ve built doesn’t get tarnished while setting expectations with the brands on how I may be able to assist. Influencers are only influential because they have an audience that trusts, listens, and…
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Analytics & Testing
How To Track Elementor Form Submissions in Google Analytics Events using JQuery
I’ve been working on a client WordPress site for the last few weeks that has quite a few complexities. They are using WordPress with an integration to ActiveCampaign for nurturing leads and a Zapier integration to Zendesk Sell via Elementor Forms. It’s a great system… kicking off drip campaigns to people who request information and pushing a lead to the…
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Content Marketing
Storytelling versus Corporate Speak
Many years back I was certified in a hiring process called Targeted Selection. One of the keys to the interview process with a new candidate was asking open-ended questions that required the candidate to tell a story. The reason was that it was a lot easier to get people to reveal their honest answers when you asked them to describe…
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Content Marketing
B2B Content Marketing Trends
The pandemic substantially disrupted consumer marketing trends as businesses adjusted to government actions taken to attempt to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. As conferences were shut down, B2B buyers moved online for content and virtual resources to assist them through the stages of the B2B buyer’s journey. The team at Digital Marketing Philippines has put together this infographic, B2B…
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Content Marketing
Moqups: Plan, Design, Prototype, and Collaborate With Wireframes and Detailed Mockups
One of the really enjoyable and fulfilling jobs that I had was working as a product manager for an enterprise SaaS platform. People underestimate the process required to successfully plan, design, prototype, and collaborate on the most minor user interface changes. In order to plan the smallest feature or user interface change, I would interview heavy users of the platform…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Launch A Successful Email Signature Marketing (ESM) Campaign
If you’re working for a company with more than one employee, there’s an opportunity for your company to utilize email signatures to manage and drive awareness, acquisition, upsell, and retention initiatives but doing it in a manner that’s not intrusive. Your employees are writing and sending countless emails every single day to hundreds, if not thousands, of recipients. The real…
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E-commerce and Retail
10 Rules On How To Respond To A Negative Review Online
Running a business can be incredibly challenging. Whether you’re assisting a business with its digital transformation, published a mobile app, are a retail outlet, chances are that you’re not going to meet the expectations of your clients someday. In a social world with public ratings and reviews, your chances of getting some negative online reviews are almost imminent. As public…
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Content Marketing
10 Things Your Agency Missed That Continue to Hurt Your Business
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a workshop with the regional National Speakers Association, led by Karl Ahlrichs. For public speakers, it’s critical to have an excellent web presence, and most attendees were surprised to find huge gaps in their strategy. Most of this is because the industry has changed considerably… and most agencies haven’t kept up. If you…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How To Add Your Agency To Manage Your Google Business Listing
We’ve been working with several customers where local search visitors are critical to the acquisition of new customers. While we work on their site to ensure it’s geographically targeted, it’s also critical that we work on their Google Business Listing. Why You Must Maintain a Google Business Listing Google search engine results pages are broken up into 3 components: Google…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Moz Pro: Making The Most Out of SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a complicated and ever-evolving field. Factors such as Google’s changing algorithms, new trends, and, most recently, the pandemic’s impact on how people search for products and services make nailing down one SEO strategy difficult. Businesses have had to increase their web presence significantly to stand out from the competition and the flooded field is a…
