Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Customer Data Platforms
OwnBackup: Disaster Recovery, Sandbox Seeding, And Data Archival for Salesforce
Years ago, I migrated my marketing automation to a fairly well-known and widely adopted platform (not Salesforce). My team designed and developed a few nurturing campaigns and we were really starting to drive some great lead traffic… until disaster struck. The platform was doing a major upgrade and accidentally wiped out a number of customers’ data, including ours. While the…
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Marketing Tools
Vectr: Create Logos, Convert Images, and Collaborate With AI in Real-Time
Designing professional graphics doesn’t need to be hard or expensive. But for many creators, marketers, and entrepreneurs, traditional vector design tools can feel like a wall of complexity—with steep learning curves, bloated software, and disconnected workflows. Whether you’re trying to convert an image to SVG, create a scalable logo, or collaborate with your team, the friction of old-school design tools…
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Analytics & Testing
From Hits to Events: A Comprehensive Glossary for Mastering Google Analytics 4
From its early beginnings tracking simple hits and pageviews in Urchin and Universal Analytics, Google’s measurement platform has undergone a radical transformation. The original model—based on sessions and categories of hits like pageviews, events, and ecommerce—was built for a desktop-centric web. But today’s digital landscape spans mobile apps, cross-device behavior, privacy regulations, and increasingly complex customer journeys. Google Analytics 4…
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Analytics & Testing
Outgrow: Increase Your Content Marketing ROI with Interactive Content
On a recent podcast with Marcus Sheridan, he spoke about the tactics that businesses are missing the mark on when they’re developing their digital marketing efforts. You can listen to the entire episode here: One key that he spoke to as consumers and businesses continue to self-direct their customer journeys is interactive content. Marcus mentioned three types of interactive content…
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Customer Data Platforms
Syncari: Unify and Manage Cross-Functional Data, Automate Workflows And Distribute Trusted Insights Everywhere.
Companies are drowning in data that accumulates in their CRM, marketing automation, ERP, and other cloud data sources. When crucial operating teams cannot agree on which data represents the truth, performance is stifled and revenue goals are harder to attain. Syncari wants to make life easier for people who work in marketing ops, sales ops, and revenue ops who continually…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Lately: Automatically Create, Optimize And Share Social Media Updates Using AI and Existing Content
Great social media programs start with great short-form content that you can blow out across all your channels and get everyone at your company to amplify. Easy to do once, twice, or even three times. But hundreds and thousands of times? That’s where Lately’s artificial social intelligence gives you a boost by turning any long-form content into droves of social…
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Analytics & Testing
Botco.ai: HIPAA-Compliant Conversational Marketing Solution
Botco.ai’s HIPAA-Compliant conversation platform continues to advance, adding Contextual Chat Marketing and an advanced analytics dashboard. Contextual Chat Marketing enables marketers to initiate customized conversations with prospects and customers based on how they came to visit the company’s website or media properties.The new analytics dashboard provides deep insights into visitor questions and behaviors. Together with Botco.ai’s integrations with email, CRM,…
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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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Advertising Technology
MOLOCO Cloud: Data-Driven, AI-Powered Mobile Ad Solutions for Mobile Apps
MOLOCO Cloud is an automated buying platform for ad inventory across the world’s leading programmatic exchanges and in-app ad networks. Now available as a cloud-based platform for all app marketers, MOLOCO Cloud is powered by proprietary machine learning technology that empowers mobile marketers to leverage first-party data and contextual signals from across the programmatic ecosystem to automatically optimize ad campaigns…