Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
What are the Wings of Your Marketing Strategy?
Yesterday, I started reading Nick Carter’s book Twelve Seconds: The Lift Your Business Needs. I love the analogy of a business as flight in the book and Nick describes it thoroughly. One of the first discussions is lift. NASA defines lift as the following: Lift is the force that directly opposes the weight of an airplane and holds the airplane…
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Marketing Infographics
Are You Customer Intelligent?
Friend, Patrick Gibbons, and his team at Walker Information have put together 10 statements about customer intelligence and dedicated a site, Be Customer Intelligent, where you can share stories on how customer intelligent you are. For years we have studied customer relationships and now, probably more than ever, customer continue to change. They are more demanding and they expect you…
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Marketing Infographics
When Do People Register for Webinars?
The great folks at ON24, a Webcasting, Virtual Event and Webinar solutions provider, have provided some great insight into any companies that are doing webinars. We love webinars here at Martech Zone and we team up with our partners to promote and execute them. Here are 4 Tips for Improving Your Webinars Webcast attendees procrastinate. 64% register the week of…
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E-commerce and Retail
Social Commerce Breakdown
I’m not sure why there are naysayers on social commerce… I believe folks (B2B or B2C) will make a purchase anywhere online. As long as the person wants or needs the product – and they trust the vendor – they’ll click the purchase button. I even used to say that folks didn’t go into Facebook wanting to make a purchase,…
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Marketing Infographics
How We Use Social Tools in the Workplace
In a study from Microsoft on Social Tools Usage and Perceptions in the Enterprise, it appears that they’ve uncovered yet more evidence that women are much smarter than men. Men are more likely than women to say these restrictions are due to security concerns, while women are more likely to blame productivity loss. Ugh. It’s so unfortunate that, after all…
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Content Marketing
Freedom of the Blog
When we think about the modern press, we think about monstrous media corporations that have established ethics, standards and practices. In them we find fact-checkers, University-educated journalists, seasoned editors and powerful publishers. For the most part, we still look up to journalists as keepers of the truth. We trust that they have accomplished their due diligence when investigating and reporting…
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E-commerce and Retail
Five Digital Trends Shaking Up Europe
Big data, multi-channel, mobile and social media are all impacting online buying behaviors. While this infographic is focused on Europe, the rest of the world isn’t too different. Big data is helping e-commerce providers predict purchase behavior and helping to present product offerings across channels – increasing conversion rates and upselling consumers. A McKinsey iConsumer survey spotlights 5 key digital…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Evolution of Magento
Selecting an e-commerce platform is dependent upon a lot of variables. The number of products you’re selling, the customization of those products available, the integration requirements, and the resources for enhancing and improving the platform all play a role. Magento has exploded as the enterprise e-commerce platform of choice because of its flexibility for customization and the huge audience of…
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Content Marketing
Migrate from CMS to CMS
WordPress, Joomla, K2, Drupal, TYPO3, Blogger, Tumblr… have you ever needed to migrate from one site to the other? We have and it’s often torturous and requires a ton of manual effort. Not only that, but even once you have the content transferred, it often doesn’t deal with users, category and tag taxonomies, URL slugs, comments or images. In short,…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Equipping Your Business for Professional Videos
We’ve been working the last few months on getting some video equipment for DK New Media. While we have incredible video companies that we have do the hefty lifting, from time to time, we’re finding that we want to record and mix video as well – and we want it to look professional. Our graphic designer is also well-versed at…
