Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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CodePen: Built, Test, Share and Discover HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
One challenge with a content management system is testing and producing scripted tools. While that’s not a requirement for most publishers, as a technology publication, I like sharing working scripts occasionally to help others. I’ve shared how to use JavaScript to check password strength and how to check email address syntax with Regular Expressions (Regex), and most recently added this…
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How Does Advertising Work? What Makes People Buy?
While researching the topic of advertising, I happened upon an infographic on How Advertising Makes Us Buy. The infographic below opens with the notion that companies are rich and have piles of money and they use it to manipulate their poor audience. I think that’s a rather disturbing, unfortunate, and unlikely notion. The first notion that only rich companies advertise…
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Loop & Tie: B2B Outreach Gifting Is Now A Salesforce App In The AppExchange Marketplace
A lesson that I continue to teach people in B2B marketing is that buying is still personal, even when working with large organizations. Decision-makers are concerned with their careers, their stress levels, their work volume, and even their day-to-day enjoyment of their job. As a B2B service or product provider, the experience of working with your organization will often outweigh…
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What Is A 404 Error Page? Why Are They So Important?
When you make a request for an address in a browser, a series of events happen in a matter of microseconds: You type an address with http or https and hit enter. The http stands for hypertext transfer protocol and is routed to a domain name server. Https is a secure connection where the host and browser do a handshake…
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TikTok For Business: Reach Relevant Consumers In This Short-Form Video Network
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, providing content that is exciting, spontaneous, and genuine. There’s little doubt as to its growth: TikTok Statistics TikTok has 689 million monthly active users worldwide. The TikTok app has been downloaded over 2 billion times on the App Store and Google Play. TikTok ranked as the top most-downloaded app in Apple’s iOS…
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UpLead: Build An Accurate B2B Prospect List To Power Campaigns and Close Sales
There are many marketing professionals out there that are vehemently against buying lists for prospecting. And there are, of course, very good reasons why: Permission – these prospects have not opted into solicitations from you so you risk your reputation by spamming them. Sending an unsolicited email doesn’t violate CAN-SPAM regulations in the United States as long as you have…
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Referral Factory: Launch and Run Your Own Referral Marketing Program
Any business with limited advertising and marketing budgets will tell you that referrals are their most lucrative channel for acquiring new customers. I love referrals because the businesses that I’ve worked understand my strengths and can recognize with their colleagues need assistance that I can provide. Not to mention that the person referring me is already trusted and their recommendation…
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Social Web Suite: A Social Media Management Platform Built for WordPress Publishers
If your company is publishing and not utilizing social media effectively to promote the content, you’re truly missing out on quite a bit of traffic. And… for better results, each post could really use some optimization based on the platform you’re utilizing. Currently, there are just a few options for automated publishing from your WordPress site: The majority of social…
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InfluencerActive: Find B2B Influencers Easily For Your Next Influencer Marketing Campaign
Today, I joined over 100 other B2B influencers in the launch of Influencer Active. This is the first B2B influencer digital marketplace for B2B or B2C brands to discover and hire influencers directly. The global self-service influencer marketplace is unique because it connects brand marketers with curated influencers who have built a significant following and credible reputation on various channels. The…
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Imagen: Store, Manage, and Organize Video and Rich Media Content in this Agile DAM
DIgital Asset Management (DAM) platforms have been around for over a decade, enabling large corporations to store, manage, organize, and distribute their brand-approved rich media files. Here’s a great explainer video of how Imagen helps brands to better ingest and manage their assets: Imagen offers two DAM products: Imagen Go An agile digital asset managment platform to store and organize all…
