Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
A Note from the Road
The last year has been an amazing year for me and my business. The refocus and attention to my customers has been fruitful and I’m so thankful for the incredible clients I have! The challenge I’ve had his balancing work (which I love) with health (which I’ve ignored). Over the last year, injuries coupled with bad habits have pushed my…
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Content Marketing
Visual Marketing: The Science On Why Our Brains Are Wired to Respond
Marketers face a fundamental truth: people are hardwired to process and respond to visuals. Whether browsing a website, scrolling social media, or evaluating a product, the human brain prioritizes visual information. Understanding why this happens—and how to leverage it—can dramatically improve engagement, recall, and conversion rates across all marketing efforts. Our Brain Is Made for Visual Processing The human brain…
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Email Marketing & Automation
AutoPitch: Email Automation for Sales Development Representatives
There are plenty of times where sales representatives have a great list, but the effort needed to send an email one at a time takes far too much effort. AutoPitch integrates directly with your email, enables templating, and then reports back on any activity or engagement regarding those emails. You can even setup sequenced sends to your list. Pulling a…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Amazing Marketing Opportunity Coming With IoT
I was asked to speak at a regional event on the Internet of Things. As co-host of the Dell Luminaries podcast, I’ve had a ton of exposure to Edge computing and the technological innovation already taking shape. However, if you search for marketing opportunities for IoT, there’s honestly not a lot of discussion online. I’m disappointed since IoT will transform…
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Advertising Technology
Wayin Launches Lightning Fast Mobile Social Stories
Digital advertising has reached a tipping point. 50% of adults actively avoid ads on mobile and desktop and another 47% actively avoid in-app ads. These are the numbers driving Wayin’s tool, Social Stories, an important tool for brand marketers and advertisers. Today, if users on Instagram click or swipe up on a Sponsored Story, it often takes a full five seconds…
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Content Marketing
WordPress Sidebar Widget and Shortcode for Playing Podcasts
If you’ve ever utilized the default RSS widget for WordPress and entered a Podcast RSS feed, you’ll notice that it only displays the title and description. That’s because the iTunes standard for podcast feeds adds additional tags for the image associated with a podcast as well as the location of the podcast file itself. Despite WordPress having its own audio…
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Analytics & Testing
Adjust: Mobile App Marketing Measurement and Fraud Prevention Platform
Adjust recently published its Mobile App Benchmarks report, with some fascinating results. The benchmark was based on 11,000 mobile apps, 10.7 billion mobile app installs, 1.29 trillion mobile app associated campaign events. Did you know, for instance, that: The source attributed to your mobile app campaign can have a dramatic impact on overall mobile app retention, loyalty, and customer lifetime…
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Content Marketing
Anchor: Free, Easy, Mobile-Friendly Podcasting
With Anchor, you can fully launch, edit, and manage your podcast right from your phone or desktop. Anchor is completely free to use with no storage limits. Users can capture all their audio with the Anchor mobile app or upload it from your dashboard online. Combine as many segments as you want into an episode (e.g., your theme song, an…
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Customer Data Platforms
Somewhere Between SPAM and Creepy Lies Transparency
Recent weeks have been eye-opening for me regarding the data scandals reported in mainstream news. I’ve honestly been taken aback by many of my peers in the industry and their knee-jerk reaction and response to how Facebook data was harvested and utilized for political purposes during the most recent campaign. Some History on Presidential Campaigns and Data: 2008 – I…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
REMME: Will Blockchain Rid Us of Logins and Passwords?
One of the more exciting technologies is blockchain. If you’d like an overview of blockchain technology – read our article, What is Blockchain Technology. Today, I happened across this ICO, REMME. What is an ICO? ICO is an Initial Coin Offering. An ICO occurs when someone offers investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token in exchange against cryptocurrencies…
