Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Understanding the Value of Influence
We recently had a company who wanted us to help promote their platform to investors, key people in the industry, and clients. The company didn’t have the funds to acquire our services so we requested some exclusivity and a percentage of the revenue or profit that may come from the growth or sale of the company. It’s not going to…
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Share As Image: Highlight, Click and Share your Text
I got to do a book signing with Beth Hayden at Social Media Marketing World, author of Pinfluence: The Complete Guide to Marketing Your Business with Pinterest. One of the tools that Beth shares in her book that is super simple but really great is called Share as Image. For a few bucks, you can drag a bookmarklet into your…
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Infographics and Video: Online Search Behavior Survey
iAcquire conducted a three-part study on how people behave online – producing infographics for search behavior, mobile behavior and social media behavior. The full results can be observed in this infographic video: iAcquire partnered with SurveyMonkey Audience for a study that gives us actionable insight into search patterns. 1.webp” alt=”1-SurveyMonkey-Infographic-Search” width=”640″ height=”1924″ class=”aligncenter size-medium tie-image18884″ /> With mobile devices becoming…
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Influencer Outreach Versus Brand Advocacy
Jay Baer is one of the leading social marketing speakers and authors that I pay attention to. He recently penned a fantastic blog post and infographic that provides a great comparison of influencers versus brand advocates. Influencer outreach is a key element of many social media and modern public relations programs. But they often prove ineffective at driving behavior beyond…
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Embrace Your Inner Ray Liotta
As we were waiting on our layover from LA to San Francisco, Ray Liotta walked up to the flight. He chatted with some of the staff and sat down with a colleague. It was one of those moments that you don’t know what to do… do you be that guy and go ask for a photo? Or do you leave…
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Automate Influence Marketing Campaigns with TapInfluence
TapInfluence debuted its new cloud-based software platform for automating all aspects of influencer marketing campaigns. If TapInfluence sounds new… it’s because it is. TapInfluence was once BlogFrog but has been rebranded with a new focus and platform. TapInfluence automates the process of identifying and engaging with large numbers of social influencers (content creators on blogs, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and other…
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The Three Buckets of Social Media Marketing Speakers
What an amazing week this has been at Social Media Marketing World! I moderated a session on corporate blogging with Justin Levy and Waynette Tubbs. Justin leads the charge at Citrix for their social and content strategies, and Waynette leads the help of SAS content strategy efforts. Two amazing people that are running enormous strategies efficiently and practically. Since I…
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Diners Club Interview: Building a Social Brand
Diners Club is a sponsor of Social Media Marketing World and was interviewing some of the speakers yesterday (and will be doing more today). I had the pleasure of speaking with Eduardo Tobon and discussed the advancements that I saw in the online marketing space. The first question was about corporate blogging and 3 tips that I’d provide. If I…
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Stop Killing Cause Marketing
When a student needs money for a school lunch, it’s of little or no consequence to them where the money is coming from. They’re just hungry and need funds. It’s not just school lunches, it’s student grants and scholarships, medical goods, tutoring, daycare, and so much more. The list of needs is infinite and, in a downed economy, it continues…
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Citations and Co-Citations for Local SEO
The pagerank algorithm was largely gamed because all it required was a black-hat SEO person building keyword-rich links back to a site. Over time, regardless of where the links were built, the site would rise in rank. Google knew that their search engine results were being gamed and subsequently strengthened their algorithms to pick up other quality queues. The quality…
