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Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr is a fractional Chief Marketing Officer specializing in SaaS and AI companies, where he helps scale marketing operations, drive demand generation, and implement AI-powered strategies. He is the founder and publisher of Martech Zone, a leading publication in marketing technology, and a trusted advisor to startups and enterprises alike. With a track record spanning more than $5 billion in MarTech acquisitions and investments, Douglas has led go-to-market strategy, brand positioning, and digital transformation initiatives for companies ranging from early-stage startups to global tech leaders like Dell, GoDaddy, Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe. A published author of Corporate Blogging for Dummies and contributor to The Better Business Book, Douglas is also a recognized speaker, curriculum developer, and Forbes contributor. A U.S. Navy veteran, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on execution to help organizations achieve measurable growth.
  • Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and AppsHow To Calculate Customer Lifetime Value of a Mobile App User

    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…

  • Analytics & Testing
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    Parsely: Content Publishing Analytics Done Right

    If your company is investing in the development of content, you’ll find standard analytics nothing less than frustrating. Here are a few reasons… authors, categories, publication dates and tagging. There are specific questions you get asked by your company that you simply can’t answer: What content that we published this month performed the best? What author drives the most traffic…

  • Content Marketing
    desert

    The 4 P’s of Modern Search Engine Optimization

    The SEO world is shaking a bit at the news that Moz is cutting its staff in half. They state that they’re doubling down with a renewed focus on search. They’ve been a pioneer and essential partner in the SEO industry for years now. My outlook isn’t optimistic for the Organic Search industry, and I’m not sure it’s where Moz…

  • Marketing Infographics
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    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…

  • Content Marketing
    lumanu

    Lumanu: Find Influencers and Discover Influential Content

    Extending the reach of your content is critical. Whether you’re attempting to grow your organic rankings by having your content referenced and linked to by high-authority sites, whether you’re attempting to expand your social reach to relevant audiences, or whether you’re trying to build authority in your industry by getting a mention from someone of influence… influencer marketing is a…

  • Content Marketing
    personalized content real time

    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…

  • E-commerce and Retail
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    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…

  • Marketing Infographics
    Jobs that didn't exist 30 years ago

    The Future Isn’t Jobless and Never Has Been

    The paranoia regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation needs to stop. Every industrial and technical revolution in history opened humans to unlimited opportunities for applying their talent and creativity. Not that specific jobs don’t disappear – of course they do. But those jobs are replaced by new jobs. As I look around my office today and…

  • Paid and Organic Search Marketing
    www versus non-www redirect and seo

    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…

  • Marketing & Sales Videos
    tracx social enterprise

    Tracx: Gain Insights, Grow Engagement, and Measure Impact With Your Social Enterprise

    Enterprise corporations continue to unlock the potential of social media. Monitoring reputation, soliciting customer feedback, providing word-of-mouth marketing, promoting content and offers, educating and nurturing prospects and customers. Social media offers it all – acquisition, upsell, and retention. The velocity of information and the logic utilized to delegate social strategies in the enterprise requires a platform to monitor, measure and…

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