Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Effective Small Business Content Marketing to Consumers
A whopping 70 percent of customers prefer to get information about a company from content rather than through advertising. 77 percent of small businesses are investing in content marketing methodologies to convert online visitors into customers. The bottom line is this: Clicks from Shared Content are five times more likely to result in a purchase! Outside of the expense of…
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E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Experience and Its Impact on Trends
Smartphone ownership isn’t just on the rise, for many individuals it’s their entire means of connecting to the Internet. That connectivity is an opportunity for e-commerce sites and retail outlets, but only if your visitor’s mobile experience is superior to your competitors. Around the world, more and more people are making the jump to smartphone ownership. Learn how this move…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Social Signals, SEO, and Their Impact on One Another
Matt Cutts shared a video where he discussed the challenge that engineers might have if they had created dependencies between the Google ranking algorithms and social signals. In short, it would be far too risky to build these dependencies in the event the other social media platform either blocked search or fell in popularity. I have no doubt this is…
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Content Marketing
Paid Search Optimization: A Travel and Tourism Example
If you’re seeking assistance or paid search expertise, a great resource out there is PPC Hero, a great publication where the Hanapin Marketing shares their expertise. Hanapin recently released this fantastic infographic, the Top Ten PPC Tips For The Travel and Tourism Marketer. While the use case is travel and tourism, these tips are ideal for any marketing seeking to…
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Customer Data Platforms
Micro-Moments and Customer Journeys
The online marketing industry continues to progress in providing technology that enables marketers to predict and deliver roadmaps to help consumers and businesses convert. We’ve made some assumptions up to this point, though. The general theme of personas and sales funnels is much more porous and flexible than we ever imagined. Cisco has provided research that shows that the average…
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Content Marketing
Explainer Video Production Tips and Types
We’re right in the middle of another explainer video production as I’m writing this and have seen amazing results from the videos we’ve already produced, scripted, or shared. This is an incredibly thorough infographic on creating explainer videos that provide a solid process for creating videos that drive engagement and conversions. So, how do you create an explainer video that…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
RelateIQ: A Relationship Intelligence Powered CRM
RelateIQ is a simpler CRM that integrates with your email inbox to automatically digest and organize data from each data source. RelateIQ automatically syncs the data from your inbound and outbound emails, calendar, and smartphone calls (though the mobile app) to eliminate manual data entry into the CRM. It’s so advanced that if someone emails you and you don’t reply,…
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Analytics & Testing
40Nuggets: Engage and Convert without Annoying Visitors
There are a ton of tools on the market to help you increase conversions – including popup signup forms, exit intent forms, targeted landing pages, online chat, and registration forms. If you’re incorporating each of these, there’s a chance that you’re bombarding your visitor rather than simply helping them take the next step in their conversion path. 40Nuggets allows you…
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E-commerce and Retail
Will the Buy Button Help Social Media Attribution and ROI?
Buy buttons are the hot new trend in social media, but they aren’t gaining much traction. In fact, an Invesp survey found that social commerce sales made up only 5% of online retail revenue in 2015. Many social sites still struggle to gain customer trust, so platforms will need to prove that they’re more than just socially savvy to win…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Graava: An Intelligent Video Camera that Automatically Edits
In 2012 Bruno Gregory was hit by a car while riding his bike. The driver left the seen but Bruno was able to identify and get the driver convicted because he had a camera that recorded the event. The next year, he came up with the idea of utilizing sensors and machine learning to develop a camera that automatically only…
