Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Not Enough Agencies Tell Prospects to Take a Walk
One of my surprises in launching our agency 7 years ago was that I figured out the agency industry built more on relationships than it is the value of the services. I’d even go so far as to say it’s also largely contingent on benefits of the relationship as well. Has your client trusted you and have you been working…
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Advertising Technology
Despite What Marketers Market, Marketing is Hard Work
Another agency in our neck of the woods went under this month. It had all the characteristics of a great agency – talented leadership, a world-class team of dedicated employees, a beautiful downtown location, and impeccable branding online with a premiere publication. They had proven internal processes that would target and attain traffic and drive that traffic to their clients. But…
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E-commerce and Retail
Retailers are Improving Experience and Driving Revenue with Text Messaging
The statistics are overwhelming that consumers pay more and engage further with companies that offer a great user experience with increased communication. Text messaging has evolved into one of the universal communication methods that retailers are deploying to improve customer experience and drive revenue. OpenMarket’s recent Retail Mobile Messaging Report conducted by Internet Retailer, polled 100 e-commerce retail professionals about…
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Sales and Marketing Training
What is a TLD? Top Level Domains Explained
If you parse any domain name, the top-level domain is the last section after the last dot. That’s the highest level within the hierarchy of a domain name. So, for martech.zone, the TLD is .zone. When the web was first launched in the United States, it was fairly easy to remember domain names. .com meant you were on a company’s…
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E-commerce and Retail
20 Tips to Drive E-Commerce Conversions this Holiday Season
The clock is ticking, but it’s not too late for e-commerce providers to tune up their sites to drive more conversions. This infographic from the conversion optimization experts at the good lays out 17 solid optimization tips that you should be implementing immediately if you hope to capitalize on holiday purchase traffic this season. There are three key strategies that…
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Content Marketing
33Across: In-View Audience Monetization with a Pre-Bid Fraud Filter
We’ve observed online publishers struggling this year. Many of increased their content output, expanded their topic coverage, purchased audience to increase their viewing statistics, and opened their sites to any or all advertising. Personally, I believe that’s a mistake. We’ve avoided buying audience, kept our topics tight, and we have turned down advertising repeatedly from off-topic advertising. Thankfully, advertising networks are…
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Content Marketing
Content Length: Attention Spans Versus Engagement
Over 10 years ago, I wrote that attention spans are increasing. As we worked with clients over the years, this continues to be proven despite the myth that readers, viewers, and listeners won’t stick around. Consultants continue to state that attention spans have been reduced, I call bollox. What has changed is choice – providing us the opportunity to rapidly skip…
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Content Marketing
TubeMogul: Digital Video Ad Planning and Buying Across Channels
eMarketer predicted the average advertising spending budget breakdown is 88% TV, 7% digital video and 5% for mobile video. With second screen and mobile video viewing rising so rapidly, TubeMogul has found that enabling a cross-channel strategy can increase awareness and reduce overall advertising costs per viewer. In fact, in a Hotels.com Case Study, TubeMogul found that message recall was…
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E-commerce and Retail
Social Media Content Ideas for the Holidays
‘Tis the season and if you haven’t planned out your holiday social media posts, here’s a great infographic from MDG Advertising to give you some ideas, Holiday Marketing 2016: 7 Fresh Ideas for Your Holiday Social Media Posts. Here are seven unique ideas that can spur your creativity and attract some attention to your brand when you need it most! From…
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Content Marketing
Inbound Brew: Run Your Inbound Marketing Strategies Directly from WordPress
The number of solutions and complexity of integrated partners that extend WordPress is pretty amazing. Inbound Brew is a full-service digital marketing, web development, and software development firm, that helped small businesses utilize content marketing to drive engagement and leads. They’ve now published an inbound marketing plugin that provides all the tools necessary to do this – directly from WordPress! The plugin…
