Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Brand Perception is a Key to Successful Marketing
When I first visited Chicago with my parents years ago, we did the obligatory visit to the Sears Tower (now known as the Willis Tower). Walking the blocks to the building and looking up – you begin to think about what a wonder of engineering it is. It’s 4.56 million gross square feet, 110 stories high, took 3 years to…
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ShareThis: Unlocking the Power of Behavioral Data Beyond Sharing Buttons
Most marketers recognize ShareThis for its ubiquitous social sharing buttons—those sleek, omnipresent icons enabling users to share content across social platforms with a single click. They’ve powered billions of digital moments. But behind the scenes, ShareThis has quietly built something far more valuable to marketers: a powerful data engine that captures real-time behavioral signals across the open web. And with…
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Repurpose House: Drive More Traffic and Leads With This Shareable Social Media Content Service
Businesses, including mine, are constantly creating new and amazing content for their sites – including videos, podcasts, and articles. While creation is amazing, there’s typically a short lifecycle to that content over time… so the full return on investment on your content is never truly realized. It’s one of the reasons I push our clients to think more about developing…
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How Will Deepfake Technology Impact Marketing?
If you haven’t tried it yet, perhaps the mobile app I’ve been having the most fun with this year is Reface. The mobile application allows you to take your face and replace the face of anyone in another photo or video within their database. Why Is It Called Deepfake? Deepfake is a combination of the terms Deep Learning and Fake.…
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How To Do A Complete SEO Audit
What are the basic elements of an SEO Audit? This article and infographic provides a beginner with the technical aspects of auditing your site.
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MarketerHire: Where To Hire A Vetted Freelance Marketer
This year has been a challenge for many organizations. Despite it being anecdotal, three trends that I’m observing are: Digital Transformation – the previous focus on external customer experience has shifted to internal automation and integration with large organizations as they reduce staff and expenses.Remote Teams – because of the shift to working from home during the pandemic, companies have…
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Omnisend: An Easy-to-use Platform for E-commerce Email & SMS Marketing Automation
One of the most exciting advancements in marketing automation this year, in my opinion, has been the advancement of affordable solutions to automate your e-commerce marketing. Traditional marketing automation platforms have to be integrated and then each campaign developed over time – the implementations can take weeks or months before you can start seeing revenue. Now, these new platforms don’t…
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AMP: What are Accelerated Mobile Pages? And Don’t Forget To Implement Analytics
This last month I’ve been working with a client that’s seen a noticeable decline in organic search traffic over the last year. We’ve fixed quite a few issues with the site that could impact rankings; however, I was missing one key factor in reviewing their analytics – Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). What is AMP? With responsive websites becoming the norm,…
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Marketing Cloud: Maximize Your Email Deliverability with Sender Authentication Package
Most companies sending emails genuinely underestimate how much deliverability can impact their organization. A beautiful, well-constructed, and highly effective email can be in the junk folder of someone who subscribed and wished to convert to your company. That’s a terrible situation to be in. Even worse, you may not realize that your emails are being routed to junk unless you…
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ICanLocalize: Affordably Translate Your Business Site To Reach New Audiences
My agency is working assisting a bilingual healthcare-related company to build out their site, optimize it for search, and to develop marketing communications out to their clients. While they had a nice WordPress site, the people that built it depended on machine translation for visitors who spoke Spanish. There are three challenges with the site’s machine translation, though: Dialect –…
