Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Understanding Your Customers’ Needs with Predictive Analytics
For many sales and marketing professionals, it’s a constant struggle to derive any actionable insights from existing data. The crushing volume of incoming data can be intimidating and wholly overwhelming, and attempting to extract the last ounce of the value, or even just the key insights, from that data can be a daunting task. In the past, the options were…
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E-commerce and Retail
Complete™: Cross-Border Commerce from Translation, Shopping, through Fulfillment
Tony Bianco’s designs have been highly sought after in Australia for over forty years, and now the brand has catapulted into the world’s most influential fashion magazines and best-dressed lists by Australian models. Today, many top celebrities and models in the U.S. and throughout Europe can be seen wearing a variety of Tony Bianco shoes and accessories. To help accelerate…
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Content Marketing
How Does Event Marketing Increase Lead Generation and Revenue?
Many companies spend upwards of 45% of their sales and marketing budget on event marketing and that number is increasing, not decreasing despite the popularity of digital marketing. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind of the power of attending, holding, speaking at, displaying at, and sponsoring events. The vast majority of our clients’ most valuable leads continue to come through…
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Content Marketing
TurnTo: Syndicate Reviews with Your Product’s Distributors
Syndication is a highly effective way for online retailers to quickly increase the volume of product ratings and reviews (reviews) they display. Brands, typically first to collect this valuable user generated content (UGC), are eager for retailers to feature these on their eCommerce sites. By sharing their reviews with their distribution partners, brands can help products stand out and sell…
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Analytics & Testing
Autopilot Launches Insights, a Customer Journey Tracker for Marketers
82% of customers stopped doing business with a company in 2016 after a bad experience according to Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report. Lack of data and insights could be preventing marketers from advancing in their careers: new data shows that One-third of marketers lack the data and analytics they need to assess their performance, and 82% said better analytics…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How to Build Review Links for Google, Bing, Yelp, and More…
A key way to improve your ranking on virtually any ratings and review site or local search is to capture recent, frequent, and outstanding reviews. Business pages with the most positive and recent reviews rank better on the map pack, a significant referrer of customers to local businesses. To capture reviews, you have to make it easy for your customers,…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
When is the FTC Going to Cash In on Celebrity Endorsements?
The warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been sent, more than 90 direct emails to marketers and their influencers, including actors and musicians like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Sofia Vergara, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Bush, Zendaya Coleman, Jennifer Lopez, Luke Bryan, and Sean Combs. We’ve written about disclosure before, but I’m still amazed at the number of…
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Content Marketing
Know Your Fair Use, Disclosure and IP
This morning I received a note from a company that we’ve written about. The email was quite forceful in demanding that we immediately remove any references to the trademarked company name in our post and suggested that we link to their site utilizing a phrase instead. Trademark Fair Usage I’m guessing the company may have been successful in the past…
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E-commerce and Retail
Should Brands Take a Stance on Social Issues?
This morning, I unfollowed a brand on Facebook. Over the last year, their updates morphed into political attacks, and I no longer wished to see that negativity in my feed. For several years, I openly shared my political viewpoints. too. I watched as my following was transformed into more people that agreed with me while others who did not agree unfollowed…
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Artificial Intelligence
Dell EMC World: 10 Terms Transforming Information Technology
Wow, what a couple weeks! If you’ve noticed I haven’t been writing as frequently, it’s because I made one heck of a trip out to Dell EMC World where Mark Schaefer and I had the honor of interviewing the leadership across Dell Technology companies for their Luminaries podcast. To put this conference into perspective, I walked 4.8 miles the first…
