Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
Mobile Payment Hacks for Business
Does your business provide a mobile payment option? As payment services and mobile technologies become ubiquitous, the opportunity to turn a prospect into a customer through a mobile payment option should be on your radar! Mobile payments are clearly the trending technology for businesses of all sizes. In 2012 there were $12.8 billion in mobile transactions in the U.S., by…
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Marketing Infographics
Wealthy Customers Want Social Customer Care
A key social media marketing strategy must incorporate customer service. Many companies differentiate the two, but your customers don’t have any such separation. Once you’re social, they’re going to utilize this channel for questions, comments and complaints. The good news is that you can really show of your customer service skills in public, thereby marketing how well you do it…
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Analytics & Testing
Influence is about Conversions, Not Reach
It happened again. I was at an event where a very powerful person well-versed at developing international sporting events was speaking. He was talking about the challenge the industry was having in attracting new fans in a specific racing industry. And then he said the word… influence. Influence – the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or…
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Analytics & Testing
Tracking Content Marketing ROI for Dummies
The folks at Uberflip have taken a comprehensive how-to on calculating your content marketing return on investment, and put it into this uber cool infographic. The popularity of content marketing is undeniable. According to the Content Marketing Institute, over 90% of brands are already investing in eBooks, videos, social media, blogging, and other channels. However, only less than half of…
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Sales and Marketing Training
How to Build a Social Media Marketing Funnel
The word funnel kind of bugs me as I continue to work with clients to improve their online presence and we see the data from sponsors like Right On Interactive. There isn’t truly a one-size fits all funnel out there. Your prospects all take very different paths that may lead them to converting or abandonment. But the term funnel is…
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Analytics & Testing
7 Steps to Content Marketing Success
It shouldn’t be a question anymore about the value and performance of a solid content marketing strategy. Your business needs a consistent heartbeat of content streaming from it that gets the attention of prospects, builds your authority and trust online, and ultimately drives conversions through your inbound and outbound marketing channels. No surprises from this infographic from Smart Insights –…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
CoPromote: A Social Promotion Platform for Publishers
CoPromote is a social marketing platform where users opt in to share one another’s content. CoPromote is a network of publishers recommending one another. Some of the key features of CoPromote that help brand/content creators increase their organic reach include: Intent – All CoPromote members sign up to the service with the intent to share another’s messaging, whereas with Facebook,…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Media Is Failing Because a Lack of Faith in Itself
Yesterday I had a great conversation with Brad Shoemaker, a local media expert with a long history trying to drag radio into the digital age. It just so happened that another friend, Richard Sickels, walked into the office. Richard had a great history in radio as well. We talked a ton about the radio industry and I continued to think…
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Content Marketing
Using Content Marketing Strategies in B2B Emails
There are times when marketers closely follow convention and I think it’s a great idea. For instance, having help or content links on the top right of your site, next or submit buttons on the bottom right, and centering sites to accommodate varying viewports. At other times, it really doesn’t make sense though and I believe this Infographic provides a…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Key Strategies for Email Marketing
Email marketing continues to be the surest way to reconnect, retain and attract customers. While there are challenges getting in the inbox, there are still strategies that produce results for highly productive email marketing teams. The 2014 Adestra/Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census surveyed over 1,100 digital marketers and figured out which attributes are critical for creating an email marketing dream…
