Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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TrendSpottr: Transform Social Noise Into Actionable Early Signals
Prior to social media’s prominence, there was a lawn care company that recorded all of it’s customer calls and categorized them by topic. The system turned into a sales engine because they could identify, geographically, issues that were cropping up…
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How Should Content Marketing Impact Your Selling?
When I first wrote the title for this post, I wrote How Does but I honestly don’t believe too many companies understand how each impacts the other so I changed it to How Should. We often see beautiful whitepapers and…
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Twitter and Video, Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Of course television is an established traditional medium, but when we add second screen behavior it seems to me that some social mediums are better than others. Between Facebook and Twitter, I see many more conversations happening within Facebook than…
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How to Justify Responsive Email Design For Mobile Email Clients… and Where to Get Help
It’s pretty shocking that more people utilize their smartphones to read email than to make phone calls (insert sarcasm about connectivity here). Purchases of older phone models have dropped by 17% year over year, and 180% more business people are…
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Here Are 4 Ways Social Media Impacts SEO
Can we please put this argument to rest? It seems to me that there are some professionals out there who are bad-mouthing social media without fully understanding the impact of it. Social is a promotion methodology that builds brand affinity…
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The #1 Question Search Engine Users Ask About Your Business
How? In 2014, out of all of the searches on Google, how was the #1 term used by search engine users. Every product or service sold across the Internet answers a How. The question is whether or not you’re the…
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You Might Be Surprised Which B2B Referrals Are Closing
The sales machine at any B2B company has to be fine-tuned, well-oiled, and running full speed to truly make a difference to the bottom line. I believe that many companies suffer simply because they’re so dependent upon new business via…
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Why Infographics are an Absolute Must in Content Marketing
Last year was an banner year for our agency’s infographic program. I don’t think there’s a week going by that we don’t have a handful in production for our clients. Every time we see a lull in our client’s performance,…
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10 Ways to Increase Pageviews with Your Content Strategy
Good advice is timeless as is the information in this infographic. Diana Adams of BitRebels put together a list 10 Ways to Supercharge the Pageviews On Your Posts and NowSourcing turned it into a beautiful infographic. The advice is straightforward:…
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Does Facebook Compare to LinkedIn for Business Networking?
We live in an increasingly digital age. Richard Madison of the Brighton School of Business & Management created this infographic which explores the merits of using both Facebook and LinkedIn for Networking and for Marketing. Did you know that there…
