Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Infographics
Agile Marketing: 5 Advantages Over Traditional Marketing Processes
Agile marketing is a methodology that integrates the principles of agile software development into the marketing function, emphasizing flexibility, customer-centricity, collaboration, and data-driven iteration. It allows marketing teams to move faster, respond more accurately to market changes, and improve outcomes over time through continuous feedback and refinement. The origins of agile marketing can be traced back to growing dissatisfaction with…
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Marketing Tools
Vectr: A Free Alternative to Adobe Illustrator
Vectr is a free and very intuitive vector graphics editor app for web and desktop. Vectr has a very low learning curve making graphic design accessible to anyone. Vectr is going to remain free forever with no strings attached. What’s the difference between Vector and Raster Graphics? Vector-based images are made of lines and paths to create an image. They…
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Marketing Infographics
Video Marketing Statistics That You May Not Have Known!
Whether it’s social videos, daily stories, real-time videos, or any other video strategy, we live in a world where more video content is produced and consumed than ever in history. Of course, that’s both a great opportunity and an enormous challenge because a lot of video content is being produced and never actually seen. This infographic from Website Builder.org.uk reveals…
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Artificial Intelligence
The Good, The Great, and the Scary with Artificial Intelligence
When I was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1992, it was perfect timing. I went to work for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia – a company that fully adopted IT Innovation as part of its core strategies. We installed fiber and removed line-of-site satellite, we hard-wired programmable-logic controllers to PCs and captured data that helped us fine-tune our maintenance…
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Analytics & Testing
How to Measure and Improve Your Twitter Marketing Strategy
There’s not too much news on the Twitter front and I have yet to hear back from Jack on my Open Letter to Twitter. That said, I still use Twitter daily, find value amongst the deafening noise, and wish for it to succeed. Can you utilize Twitter to help promote your personal brand, corporate brand, products, or services? Of course! Fifty-seven…
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Content Marketing
Are You Getting Bad Advice From Leading Marketers?
Maybe I’ve been in the marketing game too long. It seems that the more time that I spend in this industry, the fewer people I respect or listen to. That’s not to say I don’t have those folks that I respect, it’s just that I’m becoming disillusioned with so many who hold the spotlight. Beware of false prophets, who come to…
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Content Marketing
What Marketers Can Learn from Dell’s IT Transformation Research?
Dell defines Information Technology Transformation as the process of enhancing information and communication technology so as to make human lives more efficient and better. IT transformation also centers on improving infrastructure so as to encourage efficiency in systems due to a reduction in the wastage of resources. I’ve been working with Mark Schaefer and his client, Dell Technologies, over the…
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Content Marketing
Semrush Adds Tool to Crawl Your Site and Find HTTPS Issues
If you’ve ever had to utilize a browser’s developer tools to try and track down a rogue image or include that’s not secure, you know how frustrating it is. Lucky for us, there’s been a fantastic update to Semrush‘s comprehensive Site Audit – the addition of an HTTPS checker. You can now perform an in-depth HTTPS check which covers 100…
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Content Marketing
Why Creative Collaboration Tools Are A Necessity For Your Team To Prosper
Hightail has released the results of its first State of Creative Collaboration Survey. The survey focused on how marketing and creative teams collaborate to deliver the mountains of original content needed to drive campaigns, deliver business results and increase sales and revenue. Lack of Resources and Increased Demand are Hurting Creatives With a growing output of content throughout every industry, the…
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Email Marketing & Automation
How Purging Our Subscriber List Increased our CTR by 183.5%
We used to advertise on our site that we had over 75,000 subscribers on our email list. While that was true, we had a nagging deliverability issue where we were getting stuck in spam folders a lot. While 75,000 subscribers look great when you’re seeking email sponsors, it’s absolutely terrible when email professionals let you know they weren’t getting your…
