Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
6 Best Practices You Should Follow When Optimizing Your Email Unsubscribe Page
We’ve shared statistics on why people unsubscribe from your marketing emails or newsletters. Some may not even be your fault, as subscribers are inundated with so many emails that they need relief. Here are some key statistics: 53% of consumers reported getting too many emails from retailers. 45% unsubscribe because the emails aren’t mobile-friendly. 40% won’t unsubscribe if given the…
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Marketing Infographics
6 Keys to Customer Service Success Using Social Media
We shared statistics on the growth of customer service using social media, and this infographic takes it a bit further, providing 6 distinct keys for your company to incorporate to ensure success. Lousy customer service can derail your marketing, so its essential for marketers to monitor sentiment and response time via social media. In one JD Power survey of more…
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Content Marketing
Your Value Proposition Is NOT What You DO
My daughter is a recent graduate who is making waves in the public relations and event management space. I’m incredibly proud of her, and perhaps the best part of my week is when she stops by to “talk shop” with me. Kait recently shared that she’d learned about a company that was struggling to get traction despite some amazing work…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Marketers Are Saying Organic Social Media Is Dead. Don’t Believe Them.
You may have seen these articles of recent: Is Organic Social Reach Dead? The Death of Organic Social Media and Free Marketing on Facebook is Now Dead. Now What? Many of the marketers I know and respect are in agreement with this. In fact, Michael Stelzner who wrote The Death of Organic Social Media is a good friend and a leader in the industry that I admire. It’s just not the case though. I spend exactly $0 on promoting my…
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E-commerce and Retail
Don’t Underestimate The Impact of a Brick and Mortar Store
We recently shared some examples of how Enterprise IoT (Internet of Things) may have an enormous impact of retail store sales. My son was just sharing a news story with me on retail that pointed some fairly bleak statistics regarding the opening and closing of retail stores. While the gap of closures continues to increase, it’s important to recognize that…
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Marketing Infographics
7 Steps to Creating a Killer Marketing Video
We’re ramping up an animated video for one of our clients at the moment. They have a ton of visitors coming to their site, but we’re not seeing people stick around too long. A short explainer will be the perfect tool to deploy to get their value proposition and differentiation across to new visitors in an impressive way. Studies show…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Check Out This Ingenious Animated GIF Email from Netflix
In many of the email best practice guides that I read, experts often discourage email marketers from developing emails with a single image. I’ve never been a fan of rules like this; I always think trying unique strategies is worth the test. I received a fantastic email from Netflix. It had the subject line: Suspicious activity █████ Marvel on Netflix…
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E-commerce and Retail
Pixelz: On-Demand Photo Retouching Service for E-Commerce
If you’ve ever developed or managed an e-commerce site, one aspect that’s critical but time consuming is your ability to keep up to date product photos that compliment the site. Three Danish entrepreneurs who grew tired of running into the same frustrating problem with post-production built Pixelz, a service platform that will edit, retouch, and optimize product images for you, freeing…
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Marketing Infographics
Will Enterprise IoT Help Jumpstart the Retail Industry?
Lenders are backing off financing an already ailing retail industry. Bloomberg is even predicting the Retail Apocolypse may quickly be upon us. The retail industry is starving for innovation, and the Internet of Things just may provide the boost needed. In fact, 72% of retailers are currently engaged in Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) projects. Half of all retailers are…
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Advertising Technology
3 Ways to Easily Collect Prospect Data with LinkedIn Integrated Lead Generation Forms
LinkedIn continues to be a primary resource for my business as I seek prospects and partners for my business. I’m not sure a day doesn’t go by that I’m not utilizing my professional account to connect and meet others. LinkedIn continues to recognize their key position in the social media space, ensuring the ability of businesses to connect for recruitment…
