Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
gShift: A Case Study in SaaS Onboarding Best Practices
We are implementing a couple of enterprise software applications right now. It’s fascinating seeing the difference in onboarding strategies that each company has developed. As I look back at my history in the SaaS industry, assisting over a dozen companies develop their product marketing, I believe I’ve seen the best and worst of onboarding strategies. First, I believe there are…
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Email Marketing & Automation
What are the Key Requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act?
United States regulations covering commercial email messages were regulated in 2003 under the Federal Trade Commission’s CAN-SPAM Act (CAN-SPAM). While it’s been over a decade… I still open my inbox daily to an unsolicited email that has both false information and no method to opt out. I’m not sure how effective the regulations have been, even with the threat of…
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Marketing Infographics
The Steep Benchmark Curve on Mobile App User Retention
Designing, deploying and maintaining a mobile application for your prospects or customers continues to be a significant investment for companies. The question is whether or not the strategy actually works. In the 7 years, we’ve consulted on and built one mobile application for a client. Why? It’s a busy marketplace and expensive to get traction in. adjust analysis shows that…
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E-commerce and Retail
How to Design Your Shopping Cart Abandonment Email Campaigns
There’s no doubt designing and executing an effective shopping cart abandonment email campaign works. In fact, more than 10% of cart abandonment emails opened, are clicked. And the average order value of purchases through cart abandonment emails is 15% higher than usual purchases. You cannot measure much more intent than a visitor to your site adding an item to your…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Shakr: Create Your Own Business Videos Online Using Amazing Templates
I really am excited at the advancements in video over recent years. Every business has the opportunity to record video for their company, but it’s not easy. Aside from the quality of the video, lighting and audio, there’s the post production work that’s exhausting or expensive. I love doing videos, but tend to turn to blogging or podcasting because it’s…
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E-commerce and Retail
Integrate Shopify Seamlessly With Your WordPress Site
We’ve been setting up quite a few WooCommerce sites for clients… and it hasn’t been easy. The WooCommerce interface is a bit clunky and additional features are mostly available through a plethora of plugins that require paid subscriptions… and more configuring. Lots and lots of configuring. If you’ve never seen Shopify, we shared a video that shows you how to…
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Marketing Tools
Eventbrite + Teespring: Sell T-Shirts With Your Tickets
We operate an annual music and technology festival in Indianapolis each year. It’s a great event where we bring in regional bands and take a day off to celebrate the regional growth as well as raise some money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Our agency is the key sponsor of the event, and then we typically get other companies…
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E-commerce and Retail
Rethink Social Media’s Impact on Traffic and Commerce
We continue to educate businesses on the myth of attribution and the under-reported impact that social media has across marketing efforts. Because technology is lacking and it’s difficult to attribute sales to social media does not mean that it doesn’t happen. In fact, the statistics speak to the opposite: 71% of consumers are more likely to make a purchase based…
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Analytics & Testing
Searchmetrics: An Enterprise, Data-Driven SEO Platform
There are dozens of SEO tools available with more flooding the market every month. The problem with the majority these tools are that they focus on metrics that may have been important years ago, but aren’t anymore. Searchmetrics is an enterprise, data-driven SEO platform that continues to evolve and deliver results for its clients – internationally. Today’s search engines index…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Free Mobile Responsive Email Templates from Litmus
We’re working with a client whose e-commerce emails aren’t currently responsive. We do not doubt that they’re losing clicks and conversions given the massive behavioral shift of subscribers moving to mobile. 60% of all email sent is opened on a mobile device. Constant Contact You may already understand responsive design – basically website code that adapts the layout of your…
