Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
Can Too Much Personalization be Hurting Your Business?
Personalization, dynamic content, remarketing, IP tracking… we all know that consumers appreciate and respond well to personalized messaging and experiences, but can retailers go too far? Accenture released results of their personalization survey that says YES. Consumer Personalization Survey Overview The Accenture Personalization Survey examined customer expectations around a personalized shopping experience and identified the types of retail technologies, tailored…
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Analytics & Testing
12 Steps to Building Demand for Your New Agency
Last week was an amazing week at Social Media Marketing World where I spoke on the topic of Influencer Marketing. While the audience was mostly corporations looking for advice on how to implement at successful strategy, I returned home and had a good question from one of the attendees curious about how I built enough influence and demand to start…
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Marketing Infographics
The Offense and Defense of Demand Generation
With March Madness Sweet Sixteen games underway, Integrate thought this would be a perfect time to exploit their target personas’ collegiate sports enthusiasm. The new Integrate infographic is a timely, fun infographic uses thinly veiled, yet hopefully informational basketball metaphors to illustrate the benefits of automating third-party demand generation efforts. Key points of the infographic include: Bad Offense – Manual…
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Content Marketing
6 Simple Ways To Improve Your Content Marketing Impact
There are still companies out there that struggle with the strategy and resources necessary to produce effective content. And many of those companies don’t realize the return on investment that a content marketing strategy can bring because they either give up too soon or they don’t fully understand what to write, how to write it, and where to write it.…
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Content Marketing
Why Influencer Marketing May Just Be Your Next Strategy
When I spoke on influencer marketing at Social Media Marketing World, I was blown away by both the demand and the ongoing discussion I had with many companies throughout the conference. I had a packed room and literally had a bunch of people follow me out of the presentation for some additional questions after the session. I shared the rap…
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Analytics & Testing
StatDragon: Advanced Analytics for Vimeo
StatDragon has launched advanced analytics for Vimeo users. Until now, Vimeo users have only had access to basic analytics like loads, plays, geography and top embed locations. StatDragon’s Advanced Vimeo Analytics makes it possible to track: Viewing Behavior – Capture second-by-second engagement data and see when viewers stop watching. Social Media Impact – Track share counts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,…
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Content Marketing
Lyris Launches Automated Content Personalization
Lyris has released Lyris Predictive Personalization, a content engine for publishers to combine machine learning with digital messaging automation to deliver contextually personalized content to each individual subscriber. By effectively combining content with audience demographic and behavioral data, Lyris Predictive Personalization increases conversions and advertising revenue by empowering publishers to maximize engagement. Clients are already seeing a 2x to 3x…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
ClearSlide: Drive More Sales with Seamless Engagement & Insights
Building meaningful buyer relationships today is harder than ever. Sales teams juggle countless tools, chase fragmented data, and struggle to engage buyers consistently across touchpoints. Content gets buried, communications miss the mark, and reps often guess at next best actions. The result? Slow deal cycles, low productivity, and missed revenue targets. Clearslide ClearSlide is the industry’s most complete sales engagement…
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Marketing Infographics
What are the Elements of the Best Facebook Contest Apps?
Today I actually had the pleasure – thanks to an invite from Jay Baer – of sharing tacos and Margaritas with the leadership team from ShortStack out at Social Media Marketing World. I made sure to let the team from ShortStack know how much we’ve enjoyed our ongoing relationship. Sara from the ShortStack team has been feeding us with great…
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Content Marketing
Why Responsive Web Design? Here are 8 Reasons
We released a fantastic video on what responsive web design is and how you can test your own site to see whether it’s optimized for viewing on a mobile device or tablet. It’s not too late for you to get some help on this, and our friend Kevin Kennedy at Marketpath shared the infographic below. With the staggering growth of…
