Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Stop Saying Attention Spans are Decreasing, They’re NOT!
We love snackable content just as much as the next person, but I believe there’s a huge misconception in our industry. The notion that attention spans are decreasing needs some context put around it. First, I absolutely disagree that people are spending less energy educating themselves around their next purchasing decision. Consumers and businesses that spent a lot of time…
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The Rise of the Modern Mobile Traveler
Usablenet has prepared a new series of infographics that illustrate the rapid evolution of mobile in the travel industry, with stats speaking to the rise of the modern mobile traveler, the surprising results a mobile loyalty program can have on booking frequency, how millennials are prioritizing mobile in their travel decisions, and more. The full series includes takeaways such as:…
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The B2B Social Selling Journey: Building Trust and Closing Deals
Inbound versus outbound always seems to be a debate between sales and marketing. Sometimes, sales leaders think if they had more people and more phone numbers that, they could make more sales. Marketers often think that if they just had more content and a larger budget for promotion, they could drive more sales. Both may be true, but the culture…
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Prioritization vs. Multitasking: Why Focusing Beats Juggling in Business and Beyond
Multitasking is often worn as a badge of honor. With smartphones buzzing, inboxes flooding, and overlapping meetings, it’s easy to feel productive simply by juggling it all. However, growing evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and business research tells a very different story: multitasking is inefficient and costs us time, money, and mental clarity. The alternative, prioritization, is far more effective. And…
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If You Needed Any More Evidence of the Mobile Impact on Business
We went through a stage in technology where websites were seen as a great gateway between the customer and the business. User forums, FAQs, help desks and email were used in placement of expensive call centers and the associated time that they took to solve customer issues. But consumers and businesses alike are rejecting companies that simply don’t pick up…
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The Top 15 Email Marketing Myths You Need to Know
Last year, we shared an amazing infographic that provided 7 email marketing myths. In my opinion, email continues to be one of the most undervalued, underused and abused communication methods that the average marketer has at their disposal. This time around, Email Monks has has shortlisted and debunked them with logical rationales in our “Email Marketing Myth Busting” Infographic. The…
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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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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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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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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…
