Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Set Up Email Authentication with Microsoft Office (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
We’re seeing more and more deliverability issues with clients these days and too many companies don’t have basic email authentication set up with their office email and email marketing service providers. The most recent was an e-commerce company we’re working with that sends their support messages out of Microsoft Exchange Server. This is important because the client’s customer support emails…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Make An Animated GIF For Your Next Email Marketing Campaign Using Photoshop
We built an online dress store for a dress manufacturer that we branded and built from the ground up to bring a direct-to-consumer (D2C) offering to the marketplace. Their leadership is always working with us on collaborative ideas for the next campaign or strategy that we’re executing. As part of their implementation, we deployed Klaviyo for Shopify Plus. Klaviyo is…
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Marketing Infographics
10 Modern Technologies That Are Transforming Digital Marketing
The infographic below utilizes the term disruption but sometimes the word disruption has a negative connotation. I don’t believe digital marketing today is being disrupted by any modern technology, I believe it’s being transformed by it. Marketers who adapt and adopt newer technologies are able to personalize, engage, and connect with their prospects and customers in much more meaningful ways.…
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Marketing Tools
Coggle: Unleashing Creative and Organizational Potential With Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that draws upon the intrinsic workings of the human brain, facilitating the organization, generation, and connection of ideas in a highly intuitive and engaging manner. It is a graphical way to represent concepts and their relationships to each other and to a central idea. At its core, mind mapping is about harnessing creativity,…
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Content Marketing
How To Combine Posts and Custom Post Types In WordPress Queries and RSS Feed
One of the most amazing features of WordPress is the ability to build Custom Post Types. This flexibility is fantastic… as custom post types can be utilized for a business to organize other types of posts like events, locations, FAQs, portfolio items easily. You can build custom taxonomies, additional metadata fields, and even custom templates to display them. On our…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How To Enable Automatic Google Analytics UTM Tracking in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Marketing Cloud’s integration with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful tool that enables you to track and analyze customer journey activities. Marketing Cloud automatically appends tracking data to every link in your emails, SMS messages, and journeys. This comprehensive overview will guide you through the integration, data sampling limitations, configuring web tracking, and the benefits of automatic tracking data.…
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Marketing Infographics
How Important Is Your LinkedIn Profile Photo?
Several years ago, I attended an international conference and they had an automated station where you could pose and get a few headshots. The results were stunning… the intelligence behind the camera had you position your head to a target, then the lighting automatically adjusted, and boom… the photos were taken. I felt like a dang supermodel they came out…
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Content Marketing
Owning Your Domain!
Companies often write content on other domains due to the popularity and reach of these external publications or social media platforms. This strategy can significantly enhance a brand’s visibility, tapping into the established audience of these platforms. And, of course, it can also considerably improve the other domain’s visibility and drive rank and authority to their brand. An example I…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How to Optimize Welcome Message Emails for Maximum Engagement
A well-crafted welcome message is one of the most effective ways to build trust, set expectations, and move new subscribers further down your funnel. This first impression can determine whether a user stays engaged with your brand or quietly disappears. For email marketers, this is an opportunity to combine personalization, strategic messaging, and clear value to boost long-term performance. Below…
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E-commerce and Retail
Aspire: The Influencer Marketing Platform For High-Growth Shopify Brands
If you’re an avid reader of Martech Zone, you know that I have mixed feelings on influencer marketing. My view of influencer marketing isn’t that it doesn’t work… it’s that it needs to be implemented and tracked well. There are a few reasons why: Purchase Behavior – Influencers may build brand awareness, but not necessarily convince a visitor to actually…