Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Twitter: Autofollow based on Location
Being both public and a communication medium, businesses can take advantage of Twitter to grow their local retail traffic – easier than many think. Twitter users are both active and vocal about where they are and what they’re doing. By…
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25 Awesome Content Marketing Tools
We recently shared 25 Awesome Social Media Marketing Tools from the 2013 Social Media Strategies Summit. This is not a comprehensive list, just some tools that you can use to augment your brand’s content marketing strategy, including stand-out examples of…
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How Enterprise Brands Staff and Budget for Social
Wildfire and Ad Age recently conducted a survey asking over 500 enterprise marketing managers and executives about their approach to social marketing. They learned what the best and most successful brands are doing to engage audiences, as well as what…
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Slick Kick: A Global Multi Channel Marketing Platform
While their site announces their platform as a Marketing Automation system, I’m not sure I’d agree given a review of Slick Kick’s features. Marketing automation typically includes campaign flows and lead scoring to assist with an inbound marketing program… which…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
