Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Tips to Writing Whitepapers that Drive Sales
Each week, I download whitepapers and read them. Ultimately, the power of a whitepaper is measured, not in the number of downloads, but the subsequent revenue you've attained from publishing it. Some whitepapers are better than others and I wanted…
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You’re Missing 3 out of 5 Senses on Making an Impression
I was in attendance for a recent launch party of a print-only publication about the food culture of the Midwest. As I spoke to the team who created, there was incredible pride in both the content, the art, and the…
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Tips for Brands to Maintain a Balanced Twitter Feed
We've been doing quite a few things to ramp up our Twitter engagement recently. I believe the team at Twitter has been much more aggressive at improving quality and kicking out the spammers... and it's showing. On the Martech Zone…
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The World of Social Media Monitoring and Analytics
The first bit of data on this infographic is pretty fascinating... the growth of the analytics tool market. In my opinion, it points to a couple issues. First is that we're all still seeking better tools to report and monitor…
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How We Manually Migrate WordPress Installations
You'd like to think that moving your WordPress site from one host to another is really easy, but it can truly get frustrating. We were literally helping a client last night that decided to move from one host to another…
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How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We've been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of - a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce... the works. Over time, they've evolved with their small team to a…
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The Playbook for B2B Online Marketing
This is a fantastic infographic on the strategies of every successful business-to-business ( B2B ) online system. As we work with our customers, this is relatively close to our engagements' overall look and feel. Simply doing B2B online marketing is…
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Appinions: The Who, What and Which of Influence Marketing
Some marketing technology platforms age like fine wine as they continue to unwind the issues that plague marketers. Appinions appears to be one of those platforms. When we did a post a few years ago, it was a nice little…
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What a Tangled Web Native Advertising Will Weave
I'm not sure if you've seen this video yet. It's not safe for work but it's absolutely hilarious regarding the topic of major newspapers and traditional news publications looking to increase revenue through the display of native advertising, also known…
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How Your Eyes Move on a Website
For creatives, I'm sure there's someone inside screaming at them to be different and avoid building a website that looks and acts like everyone else. From a marketing perspective, though, we've educated our visitors over a decade now as to…