Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
How to Let Your Pizza… er… Product Sell Itself Online
A good friend of mine, James, owns Brozinni Pizzeria. I’m not going to mess around – it’s honestly the best New York style pizza in Indy. James has helped us out quite a bit, bringing his amazing Indianapolis pizza truck to a fundraiser last year and catering an upcoming event this week we’re having. In return, we set out to…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Did You Know That “On Hold Marketing” Existed?
I’ll be honest. When Steve Hashman, Director, Marketing & Products at Exponential Solutions at The CUBE, wrote me with an infographic pitch about On Hold Marketing, I think I chuckled out loud and mumbled to myself, Are you kidding me?. But, like any good marketer, Steve did his homework and put together an infographic that makes the opportunity very, very…
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Analytics & Testing
Listen to What Matters on Twitter with Narratif
Narratif has just launched its tool based on latent search technologies to sift through the tidal wave of Twitter conversations and provide meaningful trending data. Rather than providing dry, quantitative data about sentiment, number of retweets, etc., Narratif povides results formatted and condensed as ranked conversations (or stories) with influencers. The interface is simple, fast and nicely laid out. It…
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Analytics & Testing
Boost Your Social Media Influence with Unmetric’s Smart Data Tool
In the world where most businesses’ online expansion largely depends on their social networking activities, developing an engaging social media strategy may be a true challenge. Yet the astonishing potential of social media marketing keeps driving businesses towards these channels to attract prospects and increase brand awareness. In relation to the rapid expansion of social media strategies, a 2013 study…
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Analytics & Testing
The Cause and Staggering Consequences of Data Issues
Over half of all marketers believe that dirty data is the biggest obstacle at building a successful marketing program. Without quality data or incomplete data, you’re missing the ability to accurately target and communicate with your prospects. In turn, this leaves a gap in your ability to ensure you’re meeting your sales team’s needs as well. Sales efficiency is a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
5 Email Optimization Tips to Increase Opens and Clicks
It doesn’t get much simpler than this infographic from ContentLEAD. Prospects are inundated with email due to the low cost per lead and high conversion rate. But that spells a huge problem… your email is lost in the inbox amongst hundreds or thousands of other push marketing messages. What can you do to differentiate your email communications from the crowd?…
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Analytics & Testing
Where do Visitors Click on a Blog?
We’ve been working on a new version of Martech for quite a while. We still have some obstacles to overcome as we transform the current layout into a more interactive layout that’s easier to use for marketers to find and research their next technology purchase. One of the major tests that we did in preparation was to remove the built-in…
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Analytics & Testing
Infegy Atlas: Intelligent Answers from Social Media
Missing from much of the research I view online is the context of the statistics provided. The statistics are misleading (often on purpose) and based upon windows of ideal circumstances or unusual events. However, they’re shared anyways. Case in point, I’m pretty confident that virtually any medium would tell you they have the best return on investment (ROI). Everyone can’t…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Add a Tweetwall to Your Next Event With Hootfeed
Have you ever wanted to have a Tweet wall in your office or at an event? There are quite a few solutions out there, but none might be as simple to use as Hootsuite’s Hootfeed. The HootFeed is an easy-to-customize tool, which animates the Twitter activity you care about live; encouraging your guests to interact with the event’s feed. By…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Understanding How Pay Per Click Assists Your Organic Search
It’s drilled into you every day by marketing gurus… you don’t need to pay for clicks. Be original, write great content, share on social media – and magically the sales will come banging down your door. Or will they? I continue to preach to our audience that it’s never one medium over another, it’s how they can feed or follow…
