Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Analytics & Testing
Appboy: Understand, Test and Engage Mobile Users
The mobile ecosystem has exploded to over 1 million apps in the last three years. Companies are struggling with high user acquisition costs and low retention rates. Less than 60% of mobile apps provide a positive return on investment. Appboy is a data-driven solution that enables mobile app marketers to create rich user profiles on their mobile audience, and then…
- Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Tickle & Woo Your Prospects!
Many business to business (B2B) sales cycles are long and arduous. It’s a balance of keeping top of mind with a prospect until the purchase decision can be made and not bugging them and driving them off. I’ve watched some folks nurture leads incredibly well, and I’ve put “Do Not Answer” in my phone book to avoid the sales people…
- Content Marketing
The Web Development Triangle
All of our contracts with our clients are ongoing monthly engagements. Very rarely do we pursue a fixed project, and rarely do we guarantee the timeline. That may sound scary to some, but the issue is that the goal shouldn’t be the date of release, it should be the business results. Our job is to get our clients business results,…
- Marketing Infographics
Your Brand as a Planet – The Social Employee
We were excited when we saw EveryoneSocial and the ability to utilize your own employees to help increase the voice of your company but we’re still surprised at how quiet many companies are. We recognize that some employees simply aren’t connected, but when we see a couple retweets coming from a company with hundreds of employees, we start to wonder…
- E-commerce and Retail
20 E-commerce Strategies to Increase Holiday Sales
The folks at Volusion are projecting a 20% increase in online holiday sales for small to medium- sized online businesses this season! How do you get the most out of this ever-important holiday season without burning your budget? Go into the game with a solid plan and sell, sell, sell. We’re about to enter the most wonderful time of year…
- Content Marketing
Are Content Marketers Ready for Disruption?
In a new study commissioned by Kapost from the Aberdeen Group, research found few marketers who feel they’re adequately producing and tracking their content. And an exploitable gap is emerging between content leaders and content followers. Kapost calls the transition period where demand is high but smart planning is in short supply Content Chaos. They designed the infographic below to…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Nimble: Contact Management and Social CRM
Nimble automatically pulls your contacts into one place so you can engage them across any channel – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Skype, Phone, Email – in one easy to use interface. With Nimble, you can send messages, add tasks and events, edit or download the contact profile directly from the contact’s profile window. View core contact information and all related…
- Content Marketing
How to Get PR
If you’re a public relations beginner, be sure to check out the entire Guide to PR by Brownstein & Egusa. And for some more detail on PR strategies, be sure to read the guest post – PR Advice From A Former VentureBeat Writer – from Conrad Egusa on Scott Monty’s fantastic blog. Special thanks to Marty Thompson for the find!…
- E-commerce and Retail
Black Friday Shoppers – Night Owls vs Early Birds
The 2013 Find&Save Black Friday Shopping Survey shows how, when and why Night Owls and Early Bird shop on Black Friday. While primarily motivated by the sales, Black Friday shoppers are driven by the thrill of the competition to find a good deal and more likely to have a tradition built around Black Friday shopping. Black Friday shoppers show little…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Increase Email CTRs with Social Sharing
GetResponse has put together an infographic on the overall impact of social sharing on email click-through rates… and the results are quite striking. The number of users who include social sharing buttons in their emails increased from 18.3% to 29.4%. Compared to last year’s results, that’s an increase of 61%. What’s even more striking is the exceptionally high performance results…
