Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing Books
Free Ebook: Are You Playing the Numbers Game?
We’ve written about how impressed we were with EveryoneSocial to encourage your employees to promote your brand socially. After doing the post, the team there reached out and interviewed me regarding my experience with social media. They took the results of that interview and developed a beautiful ebook that you can download from their site. It’s not beautiful because my…
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Marketing Infographics
The Future of Mobile
Every few days, my daughter and I get in an argument over who has the charging cord. I covet my cord and she tends to leave her cord in her car. If our phones are both down to single digit charge percentages… watch out! Our phones have become part of our person. It’s our connective tissue to our friends, our…
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Marketing Infographics
The Effectiveness of Mobile App Push Marketing
According to Responsys’ SVP of Emerging Channels Michael Della Penna, by 2020 there will be 75 billion devices connected to the Internet of Things. This isn’t people… our homes, our automobiles, our platforms, and even our medical devices are all developing comprehensive mobile and tablet applications with push notifications. Responsys recently commissioned a mobile marketing survey of 1,200 U.S. consumers…
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Content Marketing
How to Buy a Domain That’s Already Registered
You’ve been there… scratching down the new billion dollar idea on a cocktail napkin, then going home and finding out the domain is already taken. The other half continues to collect domain names waiting to make the billion dollars. Most of us are somewhere in between… domain owners who aren’t using their domains will typically sell them. And the entrepreneurs…
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Advertising Technology
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing has been a game-changer in online advertising and sales. It operates on a simple yet effective premise: leveraging the networks of individuals or companies (affiliates) to promote products or services in exchange for a commission on sales or leads generated. This infographic outlines several compelling benefits that make affiliate marketing a lucrative strategy for businesses seeking to expand…
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Content Marketing
The Premature Death of Outbound Marketing
The SBA estimates that 600,000 new employer businesses are incorporated every year. Not many of them benefit from a brand name like IBM or Coca Cola. In order to survive they have to hunt for new business. Even major corporations like EMC, Cisco and Hewlett Packard have huge teams dedicated to prospecting for new business in both their installed base…
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Content Marketing
Using Digital Asset Management to Streamline Social Promotion
We have two clients right now that have millions of customers nationwide. The pressure to scale a social media strategy that promotes, reacts and responds to that size of network is no small undertaking – and truly impossible without the use of workflow and automation. What businesses don’t realize is that the curation and workflow tools to simplify the ability…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: The Art of Data Visualization
As we work with data and big data sets and customers, we find that data becomes very dangerous when misrepresented or misinterpreted. Marketers sometimes take advantage of this to twist the interpretation to the benefit of the client. This is unfortunate as it can lead to missed expectations. Looking at data can be deceiving, but visualization data can be very…
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Marketing Infographics
Highlights of the Social Customer Index Report
Utilizing social listening software, every day we identify complaints, mistruths, service requests or compliments made to companies that lack any response from the business targeted. While consumers are now dominating social media, businesses are getting worse at responding. According to Sprout Social – 4 out of 5 requests go unanswered! Ouch. These are highlights from the Sprout Social Index Engagement…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
LinkedIn: Top 25 Social Media Experts to Follow
Jason Miller recently posted on social media that he felt he had given birth when his newest creation was finally published. No doubt he’s proud of this baby! The Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn is fantastic: creative, colorful, and packed with advice from different marketing professionals, different use cases, and many resources. If you’ve not downloaded it yet, do so…
