Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Your Checklist for a Successful Technology Festival!
This last weekend, we kicked of the first Music, Marketing & Tech Midwest Event (#MTMW) – an event here in Indianapolis to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of my Dad who we lost last year. This is the first event that I’ve ever put on so it was quite terrifying. However, it went off without…
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Content Marketing
Information Overload and Infographics
Every day we review our alerts from Meltwater, or sponsor, and review dozens of marketing-related infographics on the web. Each week we choose not to publish hundreds of infographics, though. We develop infographics ourselves and it’s not that we’re snobs… it’s simply that we understand what makes an infographic work and what doesn’t. A well-designed infographic without information overload has…
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Content Marketing
Smart Ways to Combine Content Marketing with SEO
The folks at Blogmost.com developed this infographic and named it Little Known Ways to Build High Quality Backlinks in 2014. I’m not sure I like that title… I don’t think companies should focus on building links anymore. Our local search experts at Site Strategics like to say that new strategies require earning links rather than actively building them. More importantly,…
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Content Marketing
VerbalizeIt: App, Text, Audio and Video Translation
VerbalizeIt’s translation platform routes your uploaded content to a curated community for translation, review and return within 24-48 hours. Only the top 10% of eligible applicants are invited to join the translation community and a feedback loop from VerbalizeIt community leadership, customers and continuous testing is used to ensure they reward the highest quality translators, train high potential translators, and…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Testing Livefyre Sidenote for Commenting
We’ve moved between commenting systems a few times on Martech Zone. Luckily, all the key platforms will synchronize comments (we don’t use them if they don’t). Comments are becoming a topic nowadays since comment spam is rampant and many of the most colorful conversations are happening offline, leading some very large blogs to turn off commenting altogether. I’m with friend…
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E-commerce and Retail
Smartcards Rolling Out Over the Next Few Years
Wow… when you think about all the dedicated and dependent hardware for traditional magnetic striped credit cards, that’s a ton of equipment and expense out there to replace. Over the next few years, though, that’s exactly what’s going to happen! Traditional credit cards are on their way out. It took the hacking of 70 million Target credit cards during the…
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E-commerce and Retail
PayStand: Accept Credit Cards with No Transaction Fees
When I integrated our invoicing system with credit card processing I was pretty much shocked at how complex it was and then how much money they take out in transactions. Then I was shocked that I had to get two systems… a credit card processor and a merchant account. The only advantage I had was that I was able to…
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Advertising Technology
MassiveImpact: A Cost Per Action Mobile Ad Network
Views, impressions, clicks… I seriously wonder why we still measure and advertise based on these metrics. MassiveImpact is a mobile ad network reaching more than 1 billion mobile internet users from 190 countries and they don’t. They use CPA, or cost per action, to determine their ad pricing. That’s right… you only pay when there’s an actual conversion! This means…
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Analytics & Testing
The Inbound Call Channel is Huge… and Untapped
One industry that’s vastly underserved and a huge opportunity for marketers is call tracking. As smartphones become more prevalent in business for reading emails, searching for businesses, and researching our purchases – more and more people are simply clicking the phone number they find on the site. For companies who advertise across media channels, this is a huge problem because…
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Content Marketing
The A to Z Guide to Personal Branding
As I grow older, I’m beginning to figure out that a key indicator of my business success is the value of the network I keep and maintain. It’s why I spend a ton of time each year networking, speaking and attending conferences. The value that’s generated by my immediate network, and my network’s network probably makes up 95% of the…
