Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
The High Cost of Web Design Failures is Too Common
When you read these two statistics, you’re going to be shocked. More than 45% of all businesses don’t have a website. And of the DIY’s (Do-It-Yourselfers) that embark on building a site, 98% of them fail in publishing one at all. This doesn’t even count the number of businesses that have a website that simply isn’t driving leads… which I…
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Content Marketing
The A-to-Z B2B Marketing Guide to Slideshare
SlideShare is an underrated tool in the content marketer’s arsenal—particularly for B2B outreach. With over 60 million monthly users, it’s a powerful platform to build authority, generate leads, and repurpose existing content in a more visual and searchable way. Table of ContentsThe A-to-Z Guide to Mastering SlideShareA – AnalyticsB – BrandC – Calls to ActionD – DocumentsE – ExploreF –…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Marketing Mistakes You Should Avoid
More often than not, I’m hearing more and more companies speak about social media as if it were just another broadcast medium. Social media is much more than that. Social media can be analyzed for intelligence, monitored for feedback and opportunities, used to communicate with prospects and customers, used to target and promote your brand to relevant audiences, and leveraged…
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Content Marketing
Happy 4th of July! It Can Pay to be Patriotic on Social Media
In the United States, we’re celebrating Independence Day today… otherwise known as July 4th. Patriotism is one of those things that can attract a lot of attention and build brand equity. Social media, of course, is a channel that’s perfect for engaging your audience personally. Put the two together and you have a great chance to show your patriotism and…
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E-commerce and Retail
What do Consumers Think About the New Media Landscape?
There’s an interesting quandry when asking for feedback via a survey versus collecting actual behavior. If you ask any consumer if they like advertising, a select few may jump up and down about how they can’t wait for the next ad to popup on Facebook or the next commercial during their favorite television show. I’ve never actually met that person……
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
MonsterConnect: Pay Your Sales Team to Close, Not Dial
Having worked at multiple SaaS companies with outbound sales teams, it became clearly evident that the growth of the company was largely dependent upon our ability for our sales representatives to close new business. It was absolutely no surprise, either, that there was an absolute correlation between a sales rep’s outbound call volume and their closed sales rate. If that…
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Analytics & Testing
UsabilityHub: Give and Get Some Design or Usability Feedback
We got to attend the Go Inbound Marketing conference held regionally by Element Three. It was a fantastic event with an incredible line-up of inspiring and educational speakers. One of the speakers was Oli Gardner, a co-founder of Unbounce who packed together one heck of a presentation on the importance and impact of testing. We’ll share some of the presentation…
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Content Marketing
9 Composition Tips for Taking Incredible Photographs
This may be one of the finest collections of photography tips that I’ve ever discovered online. Truth be told, I’m a terrible photographer. That doesn’t mean I don’t have good taste. I’m always amazed at the incredible art that’s produced through our friend Paul D’Andrea – a well-known photographer and good friend here in Indianapolis. We call on him to…
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Marketing Infographics
Responsive Design and the Mobile Search Tipping Point
One of the reasons why we pulled the trigger on getting our site up on a new mobile-optimized theme wasn’t just all the noise that Google and professionals were making in the SEO space. We were seeing it for ourselves in the observations of our clients’ sites. On our clients with responsive sites, we could see a substantial growth in…
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Event Marketing
How to Market and Promote Your Next Online Event
We’ve written before about how to utilize social media to market your next event and even some specifics on how to use Twitter to promote an event. We’ve even shared a blueprint for event marketing. This infographic provides some fantastic detail on utilizing email, mobile, search, and social to promote and market your events. Getting people to attend your event…
