Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Checklist: Strategies for Each Social Media Channel for Businesses
Some businesses just need a nice checklist to work from when executing their social media strategy… so here’s a great one developed by the whole brain group. It’s a great, balanced approach to publishing and participating in social media to help build your audience and community. Social media platforms are constantly innovating, so they have updated their checklist to reflect…
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Event Marketing
I Took A Year Off From Speaking At Conferences, Here’s What Happened
The last twelve months have been the busiest in our business history. We rebranded our Martech publication, moved our offices after 7 years, and honestly rebuilt our services from the ground up. I decided to skip conferences during the year to focus on the business. In fact, I didn’t even make a trip to Florida in the entire time, where I…
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Marketing Infographics
The Agile Marketing Journey
With a decade of helping companies grow their businesses online, we’ve solidified the processes that ensure success. More often than not, we find that companies struggle with their digital marketing because they attempt to jump directly into execution rather than taking the necessary steps. Digital Marketing Transformation Marketing transformation is synonymous with digital transformation. In a Data Study from PointSource –…
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Content Marketing
How to Record Premium Quality Audio via the Web
With solutions like Skype, teleconference software, and VOIP, you’d think recording two people across the world from one another would be the easiest thing in the world. It’s not. And it’s quite frustrating. Sure, if you have two folks with excellent equipment and high bandwidth, it can be done. The problem arises when you have guests on your podcast from…
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Content Marketing
How to Optimize a Knowledge-Base Article
While an article or blog post might flow like a short story, visitors seeking information love to see that information optimized in a consistent format. A reader of an article may carefully read through each word, each line, and each paragraph. However, a visitor seeking knowledge may wish to quickly scan the page and jump directly to the information they’re…
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Content Marketing
Content is King… But Only One Wears the Crown
You’ve heard the saying everywhere, Content is King. I don’t believe that’s changed, nor do I believe it ever will. Whether it’s companies writing about their products and services, earned media outlets writing about them, shared media outlets sharing them, paid media outlets promoting them… it’s content that drives influence, authority, and purchase decisions. The problem comes when everyone is…
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E-commerce and Retail
Ecrebo: Personalizing Your POS Experience
Advancements in technology are offering incredible opportunities for companies to improve the customer experience. Personalization isn’t just profitable for businesses, it’s appreciated by consumers. We want the businesses that we frequent to recognize who we are, reward us for our patronage, and make recommendations to us when the buying journey is underway. One such opportunity is being called POS Marketing.…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Vision6 Integrates Eventbrite for Invitations and Guest-List Management
Vision6 has a new integration with the event technology platform, Eventbrite, for marketers to easily manage their invitations and event communications. The platform allows you to: Create Invitations – Create beautiful, customized event invitations that really impress your guests. Synchronize Guests – Your event guest list syncs directly from Eventbrite making it easy to communicate at every stage. Automate – Set up…
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Analytics & Testing
PaveAI: Transform Your Marketing With AI-Driven Insights from Google Analytics
Businesses can’t afford to rely on gut instincts or incomplete data when optimizing their marketing strategies. Marketers across industries face a common challenge: interpreting vast amounts of analytics data and converting it into actionable strategies that drive revenue. Most reporting solutions either overwhelm with too much raw data or oversimplify to the point of uselessness. Without the right insights at…
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Content Marketing
Vimeo’s New Collaboration and Integration Tools Establish It As The Standard for Videographers
One of our neighboring companies in the building our studio is in are some incredible cinematographers, Train 918. They specialize in bringing their gear anywhere in the world and producing epic videos. It’s not just the quality of the work they produce that’s amazing, though. They spend much of their time actually developing the storyline, converting it into scenes, then…
