Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Simplecast: Publish your Podcasts the Easy Way
Like many podcasters, we hosted our podcast on Libsyn. The service has a plethora of options and integrations that are quite overwhelming but highly customizable. We’re highly technical, though, so I’m confident most businesses would have a difficult time filling in all of the data necessary simply to publish a simple podcast. Often times, legacy platforms have such deep adoption…
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TeamKeeper: Modernize Talent Retention with Management Analytics
A new hire aced the interview but hasn’t performed as well as expected. Team members aren’t hitting quotas because they aren’t receiving proper coaching. Talented salespeople are leaving the company because they don’t feel engaged with the work. The sales manager plays a critical role in all of the above scenarios. Strong managers are key to an organization’s success, but…
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Kaon AR: A B2B Augmented Reality Platform
Kaon Interactive is a provider of 3D interactive sales and marketing engagement applications. Available on the Kaon High Velocity Marketing Platform, Kaon AR is the first B2B marketing application that enables companies to place a fully scaled 3D digital representation of their physical product in their customers actual environment. On Tango-enabled mobile devices, such as the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, users can explore…
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How Your Site’s Speed Impacts Business Results [13 Case Studies]
We’ve written quite a bit about the factors that impact your website’s ability to load quickly and shared how slower speeds hurt your business. I’m honestly surprised by the number of clients we consult with that spend enormous amounts of time and energy on content marketing and promotion strategies – all while loading them on a substandard host with a site…
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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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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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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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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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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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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…
