Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mobile Marketing: Drive Your Sales With These 5 Strategies
By the end of this year, over 80% of American adults will have a smartphone. Mobile devices dominate both the B2B and B2C landscapes and their usage dominates marketing. Everything we do now has a mobile component to it that we must incorporate into our marketing strategies. What is Mobile Marketing Mobile marketing is marketing on or with a mobile…
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E-commerce and Retail
Atmospheric Marketing and Why Retail Profits May Depend On It
With all the sites and tools available on the web, why don’t we all just find the lowest price on every product and go buy it? While many consumers or businesses do just that, most people don’t. I’ve shared online that a few years ago, I switched from driving a Ford to a Cadillac. A Ford dealership once annoyed me…
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Marketing Infographics
How a Lack of Social Response is Hurting Your Business
We’ve already quantified the business impact of poor customer service with regard to social media. What about simply responding? Did you know that 7 out of 8 social messages directed at brands go unanswered within 72 hours? Compound that with the fact there’s been a 21% increase in messages to brands globally (18% in the United States) and we’ve got…
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Advertising Technology
UpSnap: Affordable Mobile, Local, and Geographically Targeted Advertising
UpSnap offers a mobile advertising network offering more than one billion impressions per month. And through their partnerships with some of the biggest sites, they are able to display ads on third-party networks at a rate of more than 100 billion impressions monthly. UpSnap enables you to target customers who are near your business. Once your campaign goes live, UpSnap…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
7 Videos You Should be Producing to Increase Marketing Results
60 per cent of site visitors will watch a video first before reading the text on your site, landing page, or social channel. Want to increase engagement with your social network or web visitors? Produce some great videos to target and share with your audience(s). Salesforce has put together this great infographic with specifics on 7 places to incorporate videos…
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Advertising Technology
Specle: Integrated Advertising System for Digital Publishing
Niche publications still continue to drive highly targeted content to distinct groups. While pay-per-click, affiliate and banner ad systems continue to dominate the market for their simple ordering process and low cost per lead, they also typically get a low click and conversion rate. Because they’re inexpensive, they can still reap incredible rewards and have a solid return on investment…
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Analytics & Testing
The Impact of Cross-Device Journeys and Real-Time Personalization
Are you tired of the terms omnichannel and customer journey yet? You better not be, because the evidence is becoming absolutely clear that these are critical terms in today’s marketing ecosystem. What is Omnichannel Marketing? Omnichannel marketing is the use of a variety of channels to market to prospects and customers. Channels may include one or more media or devices…
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Analytics & Testing
Your Marketer Is There to Help You
I have a lot friends who run marketing agencies and a lot of marketing professionals throughout the Internet that I’m friends with. I’m not exaggerating when I say that the most frustrating thing that I and others find about our job is the resistance of the businesses we’re working with. We are paid to come consult with clients and assist…
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Content Marketing
Visual Content Drives Comprehension, Engagements and Conversions on Social Media
Have we yelled enough about visual content? I don’t think so. Utilizing a variety of types of visual content continues to be effective. I was explaining this process to a local retailer this week and they were really having a difficult time believing the impact that daily visual content shared online could help their business. While I was there, I…
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Content Marketing
The Key to Your Brand Regaining Control is Personalization
Every prospect and customer are motivated differently, arrive at your business through different mediums, with different levels of intent, are seeking different information, are at different stages of the customer journey, and expect to immediately find what they need. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting held up when you’re trying to take the next step. Perhaps it’s something as simple…
