Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
The Relationship Between Personas, Buyer Journeys, And Sales Funnels
High-performance inbound marketing teams utilize buyer personas, understand buying journeys, and closely monitor their sales funnels. I’m helping deploy a training lesson on digital marketing campaigns and buyer personas with an international company right now and someone asked for clarification on the three so I think it’s worth discussing. Targeting Who: Buyer Personas I recently wrote on buyer personas and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The B2B Social Media Mirage: Why It’s Not Always the Growth Engine It’s Sold To Be
Everything I’m about to say is anecdotal. However, the pattern is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. I haven’t conducted a multi-year research study. I haven’t parsed datasets or reviewed industry-wide analytics dashboards. What I have done is listen to a growing chorus of quiet confessions—marketers, founders, even clients—admitting they’ve stopped trying to drive growth with social media. And here’s the…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
The Factors That Impact How Quickly Your Page Loads On Your Website
We were meeting with a prospective client today and were discussing what impacts website load speed. There’s quite a battle going on on the Internet right now: Visitors are demanding rich visual experiences – even on higher-pixel retina displays. This is driving larger images and higher resolutions which are bloating image sizes. Search engines are demanding ultra-fast pages that have…
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Content Marketing
How Your Slow Website Is Hurting Your Business
Years ago, we had to migrate our site to a new host after our current host just started getting slower and slower. No one wants to shift hosting companies… especially someone that’s hosting multiple websites. Migration can be quite a painful process. Aside from the speed boost, Flywheel offered free migration so it was a win-win. I didn’t have a…
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Content Marketing
Why There Are 542 Banana Hangers on Amazon
There are 542 different banana hangers on Amazon… ranging in price from $5.57 to $384.23. The most inexpensive banana hangers are simple hooks that you mount under your cabinetry. The most expensive banana hanger is this beautiful Chabatree banana hanger that is hand-crafted and made out of sustainable wood resources. Seriously… I looked them up. I counted the results, sorted…
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Content Marketing
DesignCap: Design Striking Graphics Quickly For Business, Events, Social Media And More…
DesignCap is an online graphic design platform packed with thousands of professionally designed templates that help you easily create graphics, including: Data Visualization – Design infographics, presentations, reports, and charts. Marketing Graphics – Design posters, flyers, brochures, or menus. Social Media Graphics – YouTube Banners, YouTube Thumbnails, Facebook Page Covers, Instagram Posts. Other – Design cards and invitations. Not everyone…
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Content Marketing
When Can You Borrow and Use An Image Online?
A business I worked with posted an update on Twitter with an amusing cartoon that even had their company logo overlaid on it. I was surprised because I didn’t think they’d hired a cartoonist. I sent them a note and they were surprised… they had hired a social media company to engage and grow their following. The social media company…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Design Trends for 2021
The browser industry continues to move at full-speed with amazing innovation. Email, on the other hand, drags behind in its technological advancements as email lag in adopting the latest in HTML and CSS standards. That said, it’s a challenge that makes digital marketers work that much harder at being innovative and creative in their use of this primary marketing medium.…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Kamua: Utilizing AI To Automate Video Rendering Formats
If you’ve ever produced and recorded video that you wished to display across social media, you know the effort required to crop for each video format to ensure your videos are engaging for the platform shared on. This is a fantastic example where artificial intelligence and machine learning can truly make a difference. Kamua has developed an online video editor…
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Content Marketing
InVideo: Create Custom Professional Videos For Social Media Within Minutes
Both podcasting and video are amazing opportunities to interact with your audience in a far more engaging and entertaining manner, but the creative and editing skills needed can be far outside most businesses’ means – not to mention the time and expense. InVideo has all of the features of a basic video editor, but with the added features of collaboration…
