Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
How And Why To Register A Distribution Email Address for a Corporate Google Account
When my agency started working with a client, we requested that they provide us access to their Google accounts with full permissions. This enables me to research and optimize their Google tools – including Search Console, Tag Manager, Analytics, and YouTube. The company gets confused about who owns the Gmail account used to log in and maintain those properties. And the…
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Customer Data Platforms
Gravity Forms: Easily Build Forms in WordPress to Capture Leads
Utilizing WordPress as your content management system is pretty much the norm nowadays. Many of these sites are beautiful but lack any strategy for capturing inbound marketing leads. Companies publish whitepapers, case studies, and use cases in great detail without ever capturing the contact information of the folks who download them. A good inbound marketing strategy is developing a website…
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E-commerce and Retail
Appointy: All-In-One Online Scheduling For Your Business
Businesses with service-based offerings are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for clients to purchase services or reserve their time. An appointment scheduling tool is a seamless way to achieve this since you can provide the convenience and flexibility of 24×7 online booking coupled with the added benefits of secure online payments, instant booking notifications, and zero double…
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E-commerce and Retail
Carts Guru: Marketing Automation for Ecommerce
Unfortunately, e-commerce platforms often don’t prioritize marketing. If you have an online store, you won’t meet your full revenue potential unless you’re able to acquire new customers and maximize the revenue potential of your current customers. Thankfully, there are excellent marketing automation platforms available that provide all the tools necessary to automatically target customers where they’re most likely to open,…
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Marketing Tools
How to Check Your Local Directory Listings
Local directories can be both a blessing and a curse to businesses. There are three key reasons to pay attention to local directories: SERP Map Visibility – companies don’t often realize that having a business and a website doesn’t necessarily make you visible in search engine result pages. Your business must be listed on Google Business to get visibility in…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Khoros: Social Media Marketing & Management For Enterprise
Khoros helps large brands orchestrate, govern, publish, and measure social media campaigns that drive business results. How Khoros’ Social Media Platform Helps Enterprise Team effectiveness – Bring all your teams, channels, and content into one easy-to-adopt platform. Manage cross-channel social media campaigns and real-time conversations in a single dashboard with greater efficiency and visibility. Elevate your content – Collaborate, plan,…
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Analytics & Testing
10 Reasons Your Site Is Losing Organic Ranking… And What To Do
There are a number of reasons that your website may be losing its organic search visibility. Migration to a new domain – While Google offers a means for letting them know you’ve moved to a new domain via Search Console, there’s still the issue of ensuring every backlink out there resolves to a good URL on your new domain rather…
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Content Marketing
Soundtrap: Create Your Guest-Driven Podcast in the Cloud
If you’ve ever wanted to create a podcast and bring guests on, you know how difficult it can be. I currently use Zoom to do this since they offer a multi-track option when recording… ensuring that I can edit each person’s track independently. It still requires that I import the audio tracks and mix them within Garageband, though. Today I…
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Content Marketing
WordPress Plugin: Open A Video In A Lightbox with Elementor
We’ve adopted a website with a client that was built with Elementor, a fantastic drag-and-drop editing plugin for WordPress that transforms the ease of building complex, beautiful, responsive layouts without programming or the need to understand shortcodes. Elementor does have some limitations, one of which I ran into working on a client site. They wanted a button that opened a…
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Content Marketing
Elementor: A Fantastic Editor for Designing Beautiful WordPress Pages and Posts
This afternoon, I spent a few hours building my first client site using Elementor. If you’re in the WordPress industry, you’ve probably already heard the buzz about Elementor—they’ve just hit 2 million installations! For the last couple of years, I’ve been using Avada for all of my clients. The theme is elegantly constructed, utilizing a combination of theme and plugin to maintain…
