Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Email Marketing & Automation
Your Checklist For Optimizing Your Email Design To Be Mobile Responsive
Nothing disappoints me as much as when I flip open an email I’m looking forward to on my mobile device and can’t read it. Either the images are hard-coded widths that won’t respond to the display, or the text is so wide that I’d have to scroll back and forth to read it. Unless it’s critical, I don’t wait to…
- Content Marketing
What Motivates You to Share Online? The Psychology of Sharing
We share daily through our blog posts and social presence. Our motivation is pretty simple – when we find fantastic content or discover something ourselves, we want to let you know about it. That makes us a connector of great information and provides value to you, our reader. By doing so, we keep you engaged and hope to deepen our…
- Marketing Infographics
Technology Isn’t Slowing Down a Bit… er Flop!
Gordon E. Moore was the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor who wrote a paper 50 years ago that predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year. 10 years later, in 1975, he revised the forecast to every 2 years… and his prediction has been largely accurate. It’s now known as Moore’s Law. To provide…
- Analytics & Testing
How to Improve Your Failing Content Marketing Strategy
We asked the question recently – and provided some definition around – whether or not your content marketing strategy was about productivity, presence, or building authority. The problem we continue to see is companies solely focused on spewing content without analyzing and improving the results. Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again but expecting…
- Analytics & Testing
SeeVolution: Heatmaps and Real-Time Analytics
Businesses of all sizes are always on the hunt for ways to improve their website and to increase website conversion rates. The SeeVolution toolbar uses overlay technology, which allows users to view website analytics without ever leaving the page, providing accurate and comprehensive analytics at a glimpse of an eye. SeeVolution’s technology helps users instantly improve their website with a…
- Content Marketing
Content Marketing is a Balance of Curation and Creation
As we review topics on Martech Zone to write about, we research their popularity as well as the content that’s already been published. If we believe we can update the topic and add additional details that are key to the topic – we typically take on the task of writing it ourselves. If we believe we can better illustrate the…
- Marketing Infographics
4 Elements to Drive Lead Generation with Marketing Automation
Research from Venturebeat’s marketing automation study indicates that, aside from the differentiating the features of each platform, the biggest challenge of marketing automation for business is understanding how it fits into their organization. Perhaps that’s the issue… companies are trying to fit marketing automation rather than finding a platform that already matches their internal processes, strengths and resources. I’m weary…
- E-commerce and Retail
Visa’s Single Sign-On Checkout is a Winner!
Single sign-in has been proven effective across the board – either utilizing social logins to complete landing page forms, or now by using payment technologies to quickly convert a customer. Visa offers a single-sign on system called Visa Checkout that already has wide adoption. With rapid growth over the last 10 months, Visa Checkout has seen significant adoption and conversation…
- Marketing Infographics
An Infographic With Every Reason You Need to Focus on Mobile
We spent quite a few episodes on Edge of the Web Radio reporting to our audience on the importance of mobile. We often speak in terms of mobile marketing but as I was sitting in the station discussing the show with Erin Sparks of Site Strategics, it really started to dawn on me how critical mobile behavior was changing based…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Failed Customer Experiences Are Destroying Your Marketing
SDL performed a survey to explore where the single or most prominent points of customer experience (CX) failure and success happen with customers and the impacts to the business. Perhaps the scariest result of this survey is that SDL found that many users that suffered from a bad customer experience actively tried to disparage the company every chance they could…
