Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
How to Calculate the Lifetime Value of Your Mobile App User
We have startups, established companies, and even highly-analytics and sophisticated companies that come to us for assistance in growing their online business. Regardless of the size or sophistication, when we ask about a customer’s cost-per-acquisition (CPA) and lifetime value (LTV), we’re often met with a blank stare. Too many companies calculate budgets simplistically: With this perspective, marketing winds up going…
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Marketing Infographics
What is Google RankBrain?
Context, intent, and natural language or all inhibitors of the simple keyword-based queries. Language isn’t easy to comprehend, so if you can begin to store patterns of speech and include contextual markers to search predictions, you can increase the accuracy of results. Google is utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to do just that What is Google RankBrain? RankBrain is an advancement…
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Content Marketing
3 Real-Time Content Localization Methods to Increase Engagement
When people think about content personalization, they think about personal data that’s incorporated into the context of an email message. It’s not about just who your prospect or customer is, it’s also about where they are. Localization is a huge opportunity to drive sales. In fact, 50% of consumers who search locally on their smartphone visit a store within a…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Businesses are Getting Customers with Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go is already the most popular mobile game in history with more daily users than Twitter and on more Android phones than Tinder. There has already been a lot of chatter about Pokémon Go in the business world and how the game has become a remarkable boom for business owners. The one thing that’s been missing from the conversation is…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…