Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Content Marketing
WordPress: WLWManifest Is A Legacy Feature With Security Implications. Here’s How To Disable It
In the evolving landscape of content management systems, certain features persist long after their original purpose has faded into obscurity. The Windows Live Writer Manifest (WLWManifest) in WordPress is one such artifact, representing a bygone era of desktop blogging tools while potentially introducing unnecessary security risks to modern WordPress installations. WLWManifest Origins and Purpose The WLWManifest feature was introduced to…
- Sales and Marketing Training
Please Test Your Lead Generation Forms
Years ago, we worked with a client who invested a significant budget with a branding agency to build a beautiful new web presence. The client came to us because they weren’t seeing any leads coming through the site and asked us to help them out. We did the first thing we usually do: submit a request through their contact page…
- Marketing Tools
Why Should Your Company Pay for Managed DNS?
While you manage the registration of a domain at a domain registrar, it’s not always a great idea to manage where and how your domain resolves all of its other DNS entries to resolve your email, subdomains, host, etc. Your domain registrars’ primary business is selling domains, not ensuring that your domain can resolve quickly, managed easily, and has redundancy…
- Marketing Tools
KosmoTime: Create Tasks That Reserve Time On Your Calendar
As a partner in an agency working with enterprise companies, my days are a blur, and my calendar is a mess – bouncing from sales to strategy to stand-ups to partner meetings non-stop. Between all those calls, I need to get the work done that I’ve committed to with clients, too! One thing I’ve done in the past is block…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Zendesk: How To Integrate Your Helpdesk with X (Formerly Twitter)
Social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become integral to customer interaction with brands. They provide a public forum for customers to express their opinions, ask questions, and seek support. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. The challenge lies in managing the sheer volume and velocity of customer interactions on social media. The opportunity, however,…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Swing2App: The Ultimate No-code App Development Platform
There’s enough evidence about how mobile apps have taken over smartphones. If not a hundred, there is at least one app for every purpose. And yet, pioneering entrepreneurs are still probing new avenues to enter the mobility solution game. The question to ask, though, is: How many new businesses and entrepreneurs can actually afford the traditional way of app development? …
- Advertising Technology
Purply: Automated Affiliate Program Management for Ecommerce
As online business continues to grow, especially during this time of Covid-19, as well as year over year during the holiday season, small and midsize companies are increasingly entering the digital fray. These businesses are in direct competition with much larger, established players, such as Amazon and Walmart. For these businesses to stay viable and competitive, adopting an affiliate marketing…
- Content Marketing
The Importance of A Video Marketing Strategy: Statistics and Tips
We just shared an infographic on the importance of visual marketing – and that, of course, includes video. We’ve been doing a ton of video for our clients recently and it’s increasing both engagement and conversion rates. There are many types of recorded, produced videos you can do… and don’t forget real-time video on Facebook, social video on Instagram and…
- Content Marketing
It’s Time to Raise Your RSS Feed From the Dead
Contrary to popular belief, feeds are still roaming the face of the internet… or at least the underworld of it. Content syndication may be being consumed by applications and websites more than people using a feed reader… but the opportunity to ensure your content is distributed and looks great across devices is still a plus for content strategies. I was…
- Content Marketing
How to Channel Your Marketing Translation Spend to Benefit from the E-commerce Boom
Ecommerce has been a rising trend over the past decade. And with the pandemic, more people are shopping online than ever. E-commerce provides the perfect way to reach demographics all over the world from right behind a computer. Below, we’ll look at the importance of marketing translation services and how to use them to boost your eCommerce sales. Why it Pays to…
