Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Video: Social versus Search Smackdown
I think MDG Advertising was trying to make some of us throw a gasket when we read the title of this infographic video they put together, Social vs Search Smackdown: A Battle of Internet Marketing Titans. But, alas, they come to their senses by the end of the video. When we started our agency, the industry was littered with specialty…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Converge: Integrated Cloud CRM for SMB
Customer Relationship Management systems are one of those necessary evils… unless they’re developed well. If it’s a difficult system, it requires the company to inconvenience its employees, it requires too much time and energy, and doesn’t provide you with actionable advice. Newer CRM systems are now emerging that are closely tailoring them to the internal processes that sales and marketing…
- Analytics & Testing
mention: Media Monitoring and Management Made Simple
Todd Wheatland, head of thought leadership at Kelly Services, recently wrote about mention on a post from Social Media Examiner, 14 Social Media Tools used by Marketing Pros. mention is a comprehensive social monitoring and media monitoring platform. mention was developed as a user-friendly replacement for Google Alerts. They’re a textbook example of how to build a platform by doing…
- Content Marketing
The Danger isn’t Attention, It’s Context
We had a fantastic interview with Mark Schaefer on our podcast about his post, How the physics of social media is killing your marketing strategy. Mark provides evidence that every company must be working on providing spectacular content, higher volumes of valuable content and delivering that content where the audience is. Some folks call this snackable content and some nuggets.…
- Content Marketing
Is Your Business Between the Customer and What They Want?
I was reading a post on the Top 10 Reasons the Music Industry is failing, recommended by industry friend Steve Gerardi. While I don’t disagree with anything the article states, I do believe it can be summed up in a single reason. The music industry blocks the path between fans and the talent in order to monetize it. If a…
- Content Marketing
The Blogconomy Blogging Statistics
Remember when folks were saying that blogging was dead? I’ve been blogging now for a decade and owe my success, my book, my company and my career to blogging. Through years of blogging, I’ve generated influence, authority and enough of a following that we’re able to sustain a growing business helping our clients with their content marketing efforts. I don’t…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
TOMS: A Case Study in Profitable Cause Marketing
I had written a plea to Stop Killing Cause Marketing a while ago. Central to the controversy is that sometimes cause marketing clashes with consumers when businesses apply their marketing efforts to profitable ventures while utilizing non-profits or charities. Opponents of cause marketing believe that companies are abusing the charity… and should give any funding out of the goodness of…
- Content Marketing
30 Marketing Statistics You Shouldn’t Miss
Any infographic that brings marketers back to the core of their efforts is really powerful. We were just sitting with a client today and walking through the baseline of a great content strategy… developing recent, frequent and relevant content on a platform optimized for search. With that baseline is there, ensuring that a mobile strategy is deployed. And along with…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
4 Video Production Myths And Their Solutions
We’ve been encouraging all of our clients to leverage video as part of an overall online marketing strategy. Many of your web visitors are abandoning your site altogether because there’s no video. Others are not even making it there because your videos don’t show up in results in video searches. YouTube continues to be a leading search engine behind Google……
- Analytics & Testing
Piqora: Rich Analytics for Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr
Piqora (previously Pinfluencer) is a marketing and analytics platform for visual, interest-based networks like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram. Their suite incorporates engagement, hashtag, conversion and revenue metrics. Piqora works with many well-known retailers, brands, and publishers to identify and connect with influential brand advocates, gain actionable insights into trending images, and measure key engagement metrics to quantify brand engagement on…
