Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Email Marketing & Automation
What is Expressed versus Implied Permission?
Canada took a stab at improving its regulations on SPAM, and the guidelines businesses must abide by when sending their email, mobile, and other push communications with the new Canada Anti-SPAM Legislation (CASL). From deliverability experts I’ve spoken to, the legislation isn’t all that clear – and I think it’s strange that we have national governments interfering with global issues.…
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E-commerce and Retail
Portrait of a Mobile Consumer
Mobile technology is changing everything. Consumers can shop, get directions, browse the web, interact with friends through a wide variety of media forms, and document their lives with a single device small enough to fit in their pockets. By 2018, an estimated 8.2 billion active mobile devices will be in use. That same year, mobile commerce is expected to top…
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Content Marketing
Content: The Key to Killer Blog Posts
Sharing great content will forever be the driving force for companies to build their online presence, share their stories, and attract, engage and sell to customers. We are working with two clients right now whose strategies have changed and they weren’t sharing visual content via social and haven’t had us developing video or infographics… and the downturn in their share…
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Analytics & Testing
Content Marketing: The Game
Content Marketing is not rocket science, but it does require some research, skill and strategy to maximize the benefits. At its base, we ensure our clients are writing relevant, recent and frequent content about topics of interest. We ensure that we have the basics of a path to engagement – content leads to a call to action which leads to…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media for Unsexy B2B Industries
In all honesty, I’m not sure sexy really matters when we speak about social media. The ability to teach, observe, respond and promote in an unsexy business to business industry may not capture a ton of attention – but it can absolutely capture the right attention from the audience seeking your business, product, or service out. If you work for…
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Marketing Infographics
Curated Social Media Wisdom from Top Enterprise Experts
What do Big Company Social Media Professionals know that the rest of us might not be so clear about? ReferralCandy dug into data from Jay Baer’s latest ebook, Social Pros All-Stars: Career Paths & Tips from 27 Big Company Social Media Professionals to see if we could find any meaningful patterns. The information includes tips on establishing your social media…
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Content Marketing
Jamballa: Blogger Outreach for Brands
Blogger outreach can provide businesses with high quality reviews, product awareness and good brand perception, by being aligned with respected bloggers in your industry. Jamballa is a new service matching bloggers and brands together based on criteria they specify. This means bloggers are never hassled by products they are not interested in and businesses are only connected with bloggers who…
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Marketing Infographics
Mobile Marketing: Make it Personal
Hipcricket’s 2014 online survey, Consumer Attitudes on Mobile Marketing, was conducted in April 2014 and targeted 1,202 adults in the US. The survey found that Marketers are already adopting mobile and consumers are responding. Two-thirds of respondents said they’d received a text message from a brand in the last 6 months and almost half of consumers found the text message…
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Content Marketing
ISEBOX: Video Content Publishing and Distribution
ISEBOX allows agencies and brands to mange, publish and distribute images, documents, audio files, embed codes, and more all on a single page. The destination page can be password protected or open to the public. Uploaded video files can be as large as 5GB per file and the media is playable by the client or HQ on any desktop or…
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Analytics & Testing
Postacumen: Competitive Analysis for Facebook Pages
Where does your brand rank in on Facebook with regard to your competitors? What are the types of content and images that your competitors are sharing that are driving engagement to their brand instead of yours? When is the community engaged in your industry? These are the questions that Postacumen provides analytics and reporting for. Postacumen allows you to measure…
