Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
