Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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The Future Isn’t Jobless and Never Has Been
The paranoia regarding the future of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and automation needs to stop. Every industrial and technical revolution in history opened humans to unlimited opportunities for applying their talent and creativity. Not that specific jobs don't disappear -…
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Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less…
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Tracx: Gain Insights, Grow Engagement, and Measure Impact With Your Social Enterprise
Enterprise corporations continue to unlock the potential of social media. Monitoring reputation, soliciting customer feedback, providing word-of-mouth marketing, promoting content and offers, educating and nurturing prospects and customers. Social media offers it all - acquisition, upsell, and retention. The velocity…
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LookBookHQ: Content Engagement and Automation Platform
As we develop content strategies for our clients, we often work across mediums and layers of intent. We push a lot of broad content that gateways into detailed infographics that gateway into white papers or case studies. For the visitor…
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Quite Possibly The Worst Domain Registrar Ever
This morning we get a frantic call from a client. We worked with them to develop a new site a while back, but everything was offline now. A DNS issue of some sort. Their IT guy called us to see…
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Modern Marketing: Eight Core Pillars
Modern marketing has transformed dramatically in recent years, shaped by technological advances and changing consumer behaviors. Here are the essential pillars that define successful marketing strategies in today's landscape: Customer-Centric Brand Experience : Today's marketing focuses on creating meaningful customer…
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Making A Case For WordPress In Enterprise: Pros and Cons
WordPress is growing in the enterprise, used across every primary industry nowadays. Unfortunately, major businesses still bypass WordPress because of its reputation as a small business or independent blogging platform. In recent years, dedicated WordPress-managed hosting platforms have evolved. We…
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Pantheon: Serious WordPress or Drupal Hosting with New Relic
We have 47 active plugins on our WordPress installation. That's a lot of plugins, many of which may slow down the performance of WordPress. We do some comprehensive speed tests before deploying plugins, or we may even use some of…
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Affiliate Marketing and CAN-SPAM Compliance
Email marketing remains one of the best tools for affiliate marketers, but with that power comes responsibility. To reduce the flood of unsolicited and misleading emails, Congress enacted the CAN-SPAM Act, setting clear guidelines for what is acceptable in commercial…
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How to Minimize Search Impact When Migrating to a New Domain
As with many companies that grow and pivot, we have a client who is rebranding and migrating to a different domain. My friends who do search engine optimization are cringing right now. Domains build authority over time and ripping out…