Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
