Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Ditch Your Video Editor for One of These With Audio Synching
This last week, I was working on remixing a customer testimonial for a client. The videographer they worked with was fantastic, providing all of the raw video and audio to them in the event they wanted to assemble videos in the future. They shared the raw MXF files with me so that I could download them and I instantly realized…
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Content Marketing
PERIODS: Maximize Your Home or Landing Page with these 7 Pieces of Content
Over the last decade, we’ve really seen visitors on websites behave quite differently. Years ago, we built sites that listed out products, features, and company information… all of which were centered around what companies did. Now, consumers and businesses alike are landing on home pages and landing pages to research their next purchase. But they’re not seeking a list of…
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Marketing Events
On Demand Webinar: Creating Customer Experience Journeys in Fintech with Salesforce
As digital experience continues to be the top area of focus for Financial Service companies, the customer journey (personalized digital touchpoint occurring across channel) is the foundation of that experience. Please join us as we provide insight into how to develop your own journeys for acquisition, onboarding, retention, and increasing value with your prospects and customers. We’ll also look at…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What Is A Marketing Strategy?
A marketing strategy is a detailed plan that outlines how a company will reach its target audience, promote its products or services, and achieve its overall business goals. It’s a roadmap that guides all marketing efforts and ensures they align with the broader company vision. Marketing strategies often don’t get the attention they deserve, causing many downstream issues. A well-crafted…
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Content Marketing
How Are You Marketing Your Brand’s Sustainability and Diversity?
Earth Day was this week and we saw the typical run of social posts where companies promoted the environment. Unfortunately, for many companies – this only happens once a year and the other days they go back to business as usual. Last week, I completed a marketing workshop at a large company in the healthcare industry. One of the points…
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E-commerce and Retail
Extole: Brand Advocacy and Referral Marketing
As consumers become more tone-deaf to interruptive marketing, it’s imperative that brands identify their advocates and provide them the tools necessary to help refer their products and services. Extole’s referral marketing platform creates advocacy programs that scale for the biggest brands. On-Brand Sharing Create an effortless, integrated advocate-sharing experience. A referral program tailored to your brand will turn more of…
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Content Marketing
Stop Shaming Companies that Bail on Social Media and Content Marketing
shame, shaming, social media, content marketing, weather, local seo, local search, gartner, forrester, speaking, conferences, conference marketing, event marketing,
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Marketing Tools
What is Robotic Process Automation?
One of the clients that I’m working with has exposed me to a fascinating industry that many marketers may not even be aware exists. In their Workplace Transformation Study, commissioned by DXC.technology, Futurum states: RPA (robotic process automation) may not be at the forefront of media hype as it once was but this technology has been quietly and efficiently working…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Klear Connect: Influencer Marketing CRM and Campaign Tracking
Klear, an influencer marketing technology, has added Klear Connect, a complete solution for influencer campaign management. An important development for influencer marketing—for both brands and influencers. Klear answers the question: How do you keep track of everything? Connect streamlines communication between brands and influencers by automating manual processes throughout the influencer program life cycle with an integrated chat service and…
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Content Marketing
Xara: Create Visually Engaging Marketing Documents in Minutes
There’s not a day that goes by that I’m not working in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and I’m constantly frustrated by the lack of consistency in each tool’s offerings. I received a note from the team at Xara a week ago to take their online publishing engine for a test drive. And I’m absolutely impressed! Xara Cloud is a new…
