Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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10 Reasons A Company May Want to Build A Solution Versus Licensing One (And Reasons Not To)
Recently, I wrote an article advising companies not to host their videos on their infrastructure. There was some pushback from some techies who understood the ins and outs of video hosting. They had some excellent points, but video requires an audience, and many video hosting platforms provide a solution AND the audience. In fact, YouTube is the second most searched…
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How Is Social Media Marketing Different Than Traditional Marketing?
Businesses continually adapt their strategies to reach and engage their target audiences effectively. Two major approaches have emerged: traditional marketing and social media marketing. While both aim to promote products or services, they differ significantly in their methods, reach, and effectiveness. This article explores the key differences between these two marketing paradigms and their strengths and weaknesses. Traditional vs. Social…
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Top 9 Ways to Save Time and Money with Marketing Automation
Automating repetitive marketing tasks like emails, social media updates, and other website actions can free up valuable time, allowing you to focus on bigger-picture strategies. Here are nine marketing automation strategies to help your business save time, money, and resources. Table of ContentsSocial Media Updates & PostsDynamic ContentContent AmplificationClient Reservations & AppointmentsLead ManagementPost-Purchase Email SeriesLead Scoring & SegmentingUpsell OffersIncentive &…
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Conga Contract Lifecycle Management: Improve Sales Efficiency With Document Workflow Automation
Conducting business that feels frictionless to the customer in the face of an increasingly complex market is no easy feat. Conga’s expertise and comprehensive solution suite for commercial operations—the processes around Configure Price Quote (CPQ), Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM), and Digital Documents—helps businesses tackle complexity with confidence so they can provide a frictionless customer experience and accelerate revenue. With Conga, businesses move faster to meet customer needs…
