Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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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Content Marketing
Responsive Web Design (RWD): What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Implement It
The internet has fundamentally changed the way we consume information, shop, and interact with brands. People access websites from a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops, televisions, and even smartwatches—devices of all shapes, sizes, and capabilities. The result? Websites today must adapt to various contexts to provide exceptional user experiences (UX). This is where Responsive Web Design…
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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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Content Marketing
What is RSS? What’s a Feed? What Is Content Syndication?
While human beings can view HTML, in order for software platforms to consume content, it must be in a structured, readable format for programming languages. The format that’s the standard online is called a feed. When you publish your latest posts in blog software like WordPress, a feed is automatically published as well. Your feed address is typically found just…
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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…
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Analytics & Testing
UserTesting: On-Demand Human Insights to Improve the Customer Experience
Modern marketing is all about the customer. In order to succeed in a customer-centric market, companies must focus on the experience; they must empathize with and listen to customer feedback to continually improve the experiences they create and deliver. Companies that embrace human insights and get qualitative feedback from their customers (and not just survey data) are able to better…
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Event Marketing
How To Set Up Your PowerPoint Slide Show In A Single Window for Virtual Events
As companies continue to work from home, the number of virtual meetings has skyrocketed. I’m actually surprised at the number of meetings where the presenter has issues actually sharing a PowerPoint Presentation on screen. I’m also not omitting myself from this… I’ve goofed a few times along the way and delayed the start of a webinar due to issues I’ve…
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Marketing Books
Navigating the Chaos: 12 Lessons Applied from Extreme Ownership to Marketing
Marketing today is more challenging than ever. With leaner teams, tighter budgets, and an ever-expanding ecosystem of channels, platforms, and technologies, executing consistently successful campaigns can feel like navigating a battlefield. The noise is louder, the pace is faster, and the expectations are higher. Yet despite the complexity, effective marketing execution doesn’t require brute force—it requires disciplined leadership. The most…
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Customer Data Platforms
Streak: Manage Your Sales Pipeline in Gmail With This Full-Featured CRM
Having established a great reputation and always working on my site, my speaking, my writing, my interviews, and my businesses… the number of responses and follow-ups I need to make often slips through the cracks. I have no doubt that I’ve lost great opportunities simply because I didn’t follow up with a prospect in a timely manner. At issue, though,…
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Customer Data Platforms
mParticle: Collect and Connect Customer Data Through Secure APIs and SDKs
A recent client that we worked with had a difficult architecture that patched together a dozen or so platforms and even more entry points. The result was a ton of duplication, data quality issues, and difficulty in managing further implementations. While they wanted us to add on more, we recommended that they identify and implement a Customer Data Platform (CDP)…