Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Infographics
The Digital Age Is Rapidly Changing Everything
When I speak to young employees now, it’s startling to think that they don’t recall the days that we didn’t have the Internet. Some even don’t remember a time without having a smartphone. Their perception of technology has always been that it’s continued to advance. We’ve had decades of periods in my lifetime where technology advancements settled… but that’s no…
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Email Marketing & Automation
5 Email Mobile Trends You Need to Take Into Consideration
One of the things that we often do is pay attention to a comparison of our traffic and open rates from the same period last month or the same period last year. Checking your own metrics and seeing how well you’re performing is important – but you also have to adjust for how consumers are changing. Mobile is one of…
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Content Marketing
Your Website is Not a Project
We’re in the midst of assisting a new client with a website redesign. Their current site appears to have been done quite a few years ago and appears that way. It’s fixed HTML with no responsiveness, a difficult URL structure, and no content management system behind it. At the time, the site was quite an undertaking and I’m quite sure…
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E-commerce and Retail
DandyLoop: Share Online Shoppers Between Stores
A very common practice on many online fields is the cooperation between different companies working in that field, big or small. This is very common in mobile apps, in online gaming, in video content, and of course in content sites. In content sites we see the mutual recommendation of content between sites, even when they are competitors. It’s hard to…
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Content Marketing
Content is Temporary, Trust and Integrity are Lasting
The last few weeks I was out of town and didn’t get to dedicate as much time to writing content as I normally would. Rather than throw some half-ass posts out, I knew that it was a holiday season for many of my readers as well and I simply chose not to write daily. After a decade of writing, that’s…
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E-commerce and Retail
How Retailers Can Maximize Mobile Christmas Campaigns to Boost Revenue
This Christmas season, marketers and businesses can boost revenue in a big way: through mobile marketing. At this very moment, there are 1.75 billion smartphone owners worldwide and 173 million in the US, accounting for a whopping 72% of the mobile phone market in North America. Online shopping on mobile devices has recently overtaken desktop for the first time and…