Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Analytics & Testing
Decoding Google Analytics
For our clients that are investing in a paid analytics platform, there’s a great return on investment since they fully leverage the features and integration that those platforms offer above and beyond Google Analytics. That said, we don’t have anyone that’s NOT running Google Analytics as well, though. Why? Because Google Analytics has the unfair advantage of integration to Google+,…
- Marketing Infographics
Why Your Business Needs an App
Colleague Ryan Cox shared this mobile consumer infographic, Optimize Your Business for the Connected Consumer. There are some supporting stats that I’d love more info on… like that 80% of a mobile user’s time is spent on an app. Does that include their email? I’m thinking yes. Either way, it’s a pretty impressive infographic that paints a clear picture. There…
- Analytics & Testing
People over Posts, Humans over Handles
HubSpot has introduced Social Inbox, a new application that integrates social media monitoring and publishing with HubSpot’s contact database, enabling marketers to create segmented views of the social activity of their leads, customers, and biggest evangelists. The new integration reduces the noise associated with social media listening, alerts companies to key individuals in need of responses, and provides context for…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Five Critical SEO Issues Discovered with Screaming Frog
Have you ever crawled your own site? It’s a great strategy to fix some rather blatant issues with your site that you may not have noticed. Good friends at Site Strategics told us about Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider. It’s a simple crawler that’s free with a limitation of 500 internal pages… enough for most websites. If you need more, purchase…
- Content Marketing
Don’t Blame WordPress
90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the…
