Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
