Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
2Checkout: Scale Your Payment Processing Globally To Maximize Revenue
If you’ve never had the opportunity to integrate a payment processing solution, you’re in for quite the learning experience. Payment processors have a range of features and offerings, from fees and how long your payments are held to the user’s checkout experience, global support, fraud prevention, and the quality of tools for you to monitor revenue. 2Checkout is a cloud-based…
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Analytics & Testing
Affinity: Leverage Your Network To Close More Deals With This Relationship Intelligence Platform and Analytics
The average customer relationship management (CRM) solution is a pretty static platform… a database of connections, their activities, and; perhaps, some integrations with other systems that provide additional insight or marketing opportunities. Simultaneously, every connection in your database has strong, influential connections to other consumers and business decision-makers. This extension of your network is untapped, though. What is Relationship Intelligence?…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why You Should Noindex Your RSS Feed for SEO
With search engine optimization (SEO), every decision about how your site is structured and indexed can impact your rankings. One often overlooked aspect of SEO is whether to allow search engines to index your RSS feed. While RSS feeds serve an essential purpose for content distribution and syndication, they don’t always need to be indexed by search engines. Noindexing your…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
6 Examples of How Businesses Were Able to Grow During the Pandemic
At the beginning of the pandemic, many companies cut their advertising and marketing budgets due to decreases in revenue. Some businesses thought that due to mass layoffs, customers would stop spending so advertising and marketing budgets were reduced. These companies hunkered down in response to economic hardship. In addition to companies hesitating to continue or launch new advertising campaigns, television…
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Analytics & Testing
Subbly: Launch Your Subscription Box Service With This E-commerce Platform
One huge rage that we’re seeing in e-commerce is subscription box offerings. Subscriber boxes are an intriguing offering… from meal kits, children’s education products, to dog treats… tens of millions of consumers sign up for subscription boxes. Convenience, personalization, novelty, surprise, exclusivity, and price are all characteristics that drive subscription box sales. For creative e-commerce businesses, subscription boxes can be…