Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Scout: A Service for Sending Postcards for $1 Each
Scout is a simple service that does one thing – it allows you to send 4×6, full-color postcards customized by you. You supply your own front and back images, provide a list of addresses (we can help you build it…
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Repricing: How Amazon Repricing Works and How Long It Takes
Amazon reported that merchants selling on its marketplace accounted for 45% of units sold in the second quarter of 2015, up from 41% the year before. With millions of sellers selling billions of products in a commerce site like Amazon,…
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MainWP: Centrally Manage Your WordPress Sites
The great folks at Automattic have been closely integrating centralized WordPress management through their Jetpack plugin. I’ve already run into one issue with it, though, losing all of my past Jetpack analytics when my site somehow got disconnected and a…
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WittyParrot: Knowledge Automation for Sales and Marketing Communications
In a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, The social economy: Unlocking value and productivity through social technologies, researchers found that the average knowledge worker wasted 28 hours per month searching and recreating documents. Only 10% of documents at a…
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How to Reverse Plummeting Email Engagement Rates
It’s quite a surprise to most companies when they find out that 60% of subscribers in the average email list are dormant. For a company with 20,000 email subscribers, that’s 12,000 emails that have dropped off. The vast majority of…
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Blitz: Performance and Load Testing from the Cloud
It’s tough coming up with an analogy for the load put on a web server so here goes. Imagine you’re a web server and your visitors are cans of tomatoes. If you have one or two cans of food, you…
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We’ve Moved Hosts… You May Want To As Well
I’ll be honest that I’m incredibly disappointed right now. When managed WordPress hosting hit the market and some friends of mine launched their company, I couldn’t have been happier. As an agency, I was tired of running into issue after…
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The 3 Dimensions of a Balanced Email Marketing Strategy
Many marketers focus their strategy for email marketing simply on output productivity and the performance of the email. This misses some enormous dimensions that are impacting the overall success of your company to compete against an inbox that’s piled high…
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Reelevant: Live Email intelligence Technology
The email industry has two major problems with its continued use of mass mailing: Personalization – Sending the same message, at the same time, to all your email subscribers isn’t getting the right message to the right time to the…
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The #1 Complaint About Inbound Marketing
Once every month or so, we hear the same complaint from prospects who are working with inbound marketing agencies and clients that are working with us on their inbound marketing efforts. Not to mention that this complaint is one that…
