Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
AdTruth: Universal Mobile Audience Recognition
AdTruth is on-premise software that allows marketers recognize users across the mobile web and apps. AdTruth works with your existing technology to identify, target and track users while upholding consumer privacy and choice. Most user recognition technologies require either a login to identify the person and/or a cookie to track them. The problem with a cookie is that they’re often…
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Content Marketing
SEO versus New SEO
SEO is Dead. I said that well over a year ago and I still have some angry SEO folks commenting on the post every week. Google continued to squeeze our the SEO games that folks were playing to game their clients’ ranking – and many of them are still suffering the consequences today. Those of us that pulled our clients…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Sell, Service and Market with Salesforce1
Last week, Isaac Pellerin from our client TinderBox stopped by and demonstrated the Salesforce1 mobile application to me. Wow. Salesforce1 allows companies to create apps using Salesforce Communities, Heroku1 and the ExactTarget Fuel Platform and the user interface is simple and very usable. The Salesforce1 Platform delivers powerful services like point-and-click development, business logic, mobile SDK, analytics, multi-language development, social…
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Marketing Infographics
How Are We (vs You) Using Social Media?
I’m not sure when Heat designed this inforgraphic, but it’s so good that I had to share it. The reason why it’s good is because it’s an honest look and comparison of how marketing professionals utilize social media versus the average, non-marketing person. I don’t believe enough leaders in this industry paint an honest picture of social media usage. Many…
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Marketing Books
The 7 Traits of the Social Employee: Building Culture, Productivity, and Brand Eminence from Within
As the digital economy reshapes how companies communicate and compete, the role of the employee has evolved. No longer just a participant in the workflow, today’s employee has the potential to be the face—and voice—of the brand. In The Social Employee: How Great Companies Make Social Media Work by Cheryl Burgess and Mark Burgess, the authors outline a transformative framework…
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Content Marketing
How Primary Research Turns Brands into Industry Leaders
Marketers have turned to content marketing, social media, native advertising and dozens of other marketing strategies to build relationships with their target audiences. Marketing professionals are constantly searching for new techniques and strategies to build their brand’s authority and identity. One unique way that several companies are demonstrate their status as industry leaders is by creating unique primary research that…
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Email Marketing & Automation
All Email Marketing That Sizzles Is Not Spam
This infographic from Leadpages, a landing page solution, provides some great insight into email marketing and SPAM statistics. Key to this infographic is how many legitimate emails wind up in the junk folder. Chances are that’s where many of yours are, too. Permission-based email continues to lead the pack in incredible click-through and conversion rates. So many businesses are putting…
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Randomize Your WordPress Headlines Easily
I was looking for a plugin or some code to shuffle headlines on our home page at DK New Media to have some fun and dress up the home page a bit. The problem was that I have a theme applied that has specific fields for the tag line and description of the site, and I didn’t feel like tearing…
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Email Marketing & Automation
The Advantages of Triggered Emails
Emails are typically utilized for push marketing and are a one-to-many message. Within the industry, this is fondly known as batch and blast. The timing is up to the sender. Triggered email differs, combining a custom template and user data to send an email message when a specific event occurs. The event triggers the email. Triggered emails are sent directly…
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Analytics & Testing
GoSquared: Real-Time Analytics and Data
If you haven’t heard of GoSquared, it’s already running on over 30,000 websites! GoSquared markets itself as the simplest, easiest to use analytics ever. Not only do they aim to take visualization of analytics data to the next level, the data itself is all yours via their robust API. GoSquared aims to provide you with everything you need in an…
