Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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The Benefits of Video for Search, Social, Email, Support… and More!
We’ve recently expanded our team at our agency to include a seasoned videographer, Harrison Painter. It’s an area that we know we’re lacking. While we script and execute amazing animated videos and produce great podcasts, our video blogging (vlog) is…
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How To Use GarageBand Normalization to Correct Your Low Audio Inputs
We built an incredible podcast studio with state-of-the-art digital mixers and studio-quality microphones. I’m not running any special software, though. I bring the mixer output directly into Garageband, where I record each microphone input to an independent track. Even with my mixer…
