Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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…
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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product managers, and even executives often get bogged down in fixing errors, reconciling formats, and struggling with outdated datasets instead…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Gleam: Marketing Apps Designed To Grow Your Business
A friend of mine said that he believes marketing is a job where you make people who don’t want to buy something buy it. Ouch… I respectfully disagreed. I believe that marketing is the art and science of pushing and pulling consumers and businesses through the purchase cycle. Sometimes marketing requires amazing content, sometimes it’s an unbelievable offer… and sometimes…
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Brax: Create, Optimize, And Scale Your Native Advertising From A Single Dashboard
Much of the complexity of working with Native Advertising networks is the difficulty of working across ad networks and their tools to measure, compare, create, optimize, and scale your native advertising. Brax: Manage Native Ads All In One Place Brax is a native advertising platform for bulk management, unified reporting, and rule-based goal optimization across sources. Brax streamlines content syndication…
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5 Ways Animated Explainer Videos Increase Inbound Marketing Effectiveness
When we say video has become an essential part of our daily lives, we’re not joking. We watch online videos daily on our computers, phones, and even Smart TVs. According to YouTube, the number of hours people spend watching videos is up 60% yearly! Text-only-based websites have become outdated, and we’re not the only ones saying it: Google is! Video…
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WordPress Plugin: How to Add a Lightweight, Custom Pinterest Pinit Button on Image Hover
If you run a WordPress site and want to make your content more shareable on Pinterest, one of the simplest yet most effective enhancements is adding a Pin It button that appears when users hover over images. While Pinterest offers an official widget script to handle this functionality, many site owners prefer a lighter, more controlled approach that doesn’t rely…
