Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Use These Tips and Tools To Conquer Your Marketing Workload
If you want to effectively manage your marketing workload, you have to do a better job of organizing your day, reassessing your network, developing healthier processes, and taking advantage of platforms that can help. Adopt Technology That Helps You Focus Because I’m a technology guy, I’ll start with that. I’m not sure what I’d do without Brightpod, the system I use…
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Marketing Infographics
Hotter than Hot: Introducing the New Secret Sauce Recipe for Marketing on LinkedIn
A year ago, LinkedIn shared their special in-house recipe. When they released Secret Sauce: How LinkedIn Uses LinkedIn for Marketing, they made public all of the tactics and tips used by the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions team when executing campaigns on their own platform. Now, they’re bringing back the Secret Sauce and turning up the heat. Same bottle. More flavor. The…
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Artificial Intelligence
SalesRep.ai: Utilizing Intelligence to Automate Multi-Channel Prospect Interaction
As this video from SalesRep shows, a huge portion of outbound sales time is spent connecting or scheduling to connect with a customer. SalesRep utilizes call automation with an autonomous, natural language processing (NLP) platform to take that effort off of your sales team’s back, enabling them to focus all of their attention on the sale – not the connection.…
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Marketing Infographics
How Businesses Should Be Interacting with Each Social Media Platform
My opinion of social media is often different with those in my industry. Theoretically, I love social media and the opportunity it offers businesses to reach customers and prospects on a personal level. The reality has been very different, though. I’ve watched businesses attempt to utilize social media the same way they do other marketing channels. In some situations, this…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Heartbeat: Reach Over 150,000 Passionate Female Millennial Consumers
Brands today are spending $36 billion on social channels to engage and acquire new millennial consumers using Influencer-style campaigns with celebrity names. However; engagement and conversions are low because millennial women trust and engage more with friends’ recommendations exclusively when choosing between one product or service and another. Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to promote brands within their…
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Customer Data Platforms
How Netflix Increases Customer Engagement Utilizing Big Data
Data has become a precious commodity for businesses across all sectors. Netflix, the streaming giant with over 100 million subscribers, has mastered the art of harnessing big data to enhance user experience, improve content creation, and drive business growth. This article explores how Netflix utilizes big data and what marketers can learn from their approach. What is Big Data? Before…
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Marketing Books
Adopting IoT: Why Marketers Must Embrace the Digital Evolution
In Internet of Things: Digitize or Die by Nicolas Windpassinger, the author delivers more than a roadmap for technological transformation—he delivers a wake-up call. Drawing from years of experience in digital ecosystems and industrial automation, Windpassinger writes with urgency and clarity about the IoT revolution, offering a stark binary for businesses: digitize or die. As this helpful book explains, the…
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Advertising Technology
Vibenomics Audio Out-Of-Home Advertising: Personalized, Location-Based Music and Messaging
Prime Car Wash CEO Brent Oakley had a problem. His premium car washes were a hit, but while his customers were waiting on their car, no one was engaging them on the new products and services they had to offer. He created a platform where he could record personalized, location-based messages and music to his customers. And it worked. When…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Greatest Rewards Come With The Most Effort
As a 49-year-old, this article is going to forever label me as a curmudgeon. I hope, through this, that I open your mind to a different way of thinking about marketing, technology and our lives in their entirety. I’m not, by any sense of the world, a visionary nor am I a wealthy entrepreneur. I am, however, a delighted, stable…
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Marketing Infographics
Click-to-Call Has Become Critical to Local Search Advertising Success
Click-to-call allows potential customers to phone your business in one click from search engine results. Customers still love to call businesses and click-to-call makes it easier than ever for them to do that. Global click-to-call revenue was $7.41 billion in 2016 and this is expected to rise to $13.7 billion by 2020 In fact, 61% of mobile users say click-to-call…
