Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
The Most Popular Gift This Year for Millennials? Hint: It’s Not the XBox One
Blackhawk Network is a are experts in prepaid payment solutions – both physical and mobile. A new survey they released uncovers new insights about millennials’ preferences for giving and receiving gift cards this holiday season. New data shows that gift cards will be high on the list for purchasing by and for millennials this holiday season. The following data comes…
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Analytics & Testing
61.5% of Your Traffic is NOT Human
Last March, Incapsula published a study that showed the majority of website traffic (51%) was generated by non-human entities, 60% of which were clearly malicious. Bad news… bot traffic is up and up tremendously. In fact, up to 61.5% of the traffic you’re seeing in Google Analytics wasn’t generated by a human at all, but a bot. This was a…
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Content Marketing
You’re All The Same, Only Different
We hear it all the time, “We’re different”. And we often hear from marketers, “You’re all the same”. Last night I had the pleasure of being on a Smartups marketing panel with Jeb Banner, Gail McDaniel, Brian Phillips, and George Evans. It was such a great panel… all of us were outspoken and all of us have quite a different…
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Analytics & Testing
Sailthru: Optimize, Automate and Deliver
We’re entering an interesting age when it comes to big data and personalization. Platforms like Sailthru can personalize the frequency and topic of the messaging you’re sending via mobile or email – and then personalize the content of the site that the user is landing on. I have been writing for a long time that the limitation of modern analytics…
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Content Marketing
The Hidden Lessons of Google and Facebook
A few years ago, I was strung out on SEO. I’m not kidding… the traffic that Google was sending our blog kept me up at night, writing, tweaking, writing, tweaking, writing. I was chasing the algorithm, my competition, and it was driving every decision that I had with the blog. I was able to squeeze more and more visits, incrementally,…
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Analytics & Testing
Distimo: App Analytics, Conversions and App Store Tracking
Distimo provides free mobile app analytics platform for developers as well as app market data. The Distimo platform lets developers track mobile app downloads, app revenue, and app conversions for campaigns in their own app across multiple app stores. Distimo offers their mobile app analytics for free, allowing them to gather incredible volumes of data and improved accuracy in their…
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Content Marketing
Lesson.ly: The Teaching and Learning Application
There are times, especially in technology, that you want to provide a quick and easy lesson for your platform. As an example, we developed CircuPress as a self-service email application for WordPress… but it does require a few steps to setup. We could do a video that shows the setup, but the user will then need to pause/continue as they…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
GetFeedback: Online Surveys Like Never Before
If you’ve taken a survey lately, you know how horrid the user interfaces are of traditional survey tools. It’s one of the problems of being a leader in a technology – you continue to build and integrate your platform and it gets more and more difficult to update it. I continue to see this with different platforms – and thank…
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Content Marketing
How B2B Sales Has Changed
This infographic from Maximize Social Media beautifully lays out the advantage of inbound marketing as part of your overall sales process. It’s unfortunate, though, that they choose to pit one strategy against the other rather than providing how most B2B companies are combining the two strategies. By combining an inbound and outbound approach to B2B sales, you can capture and…
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Customer Data Platforms
The Power of Data Mining and Decision Support Systems
This infographic from the New Jersey Institute of Technology illustrates the Data Mining and Decision Support Systems (DSS), defining the four different processes within the overall system. Data Management – collects the information that a company has available from their sales, records, and customer reports. Model Management – attempts to create conclusions from existing business strategies to see whether or…
