Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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With Mailbox, I Might Make Inbox Zero
When I hear professionals like Michael Reynolds of Spinweb discuss Inbox Zero (reaching a point where you have no emails in your inbox), I quietly snicker and mumble “Your mother is a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”. My inbox has over 3,000 messages. A couple months ago it was over 20,000 messages until I accidentally deleted 17,000. I…
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Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day
We’ve got quite a large following on social media and we share and respond a ton throughout our audiences on different social mediums. We’re a small team, just a handful of folks, but I think we do a great job of helping our readers throughout the day and responding in a timely manner to them. That said… if all we…
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Social Influencers
I think too many marketers look at social influence as if it’s some kind of new phenomena. I don’t believe it is. In the early days of television, we used the newscaster or the actor to pitch items to the audience. The three networks owned the audience and there was trust and authority established… so the commercial advertising industry was…
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Rant: The US Government Will Destroy Internet Commerce
The economy is in shambles in the United States. With record spending, the wealth gap continues to increase, poverty is climbing, the number of citizens dependent upon unemployment, food stamps, disability or welfare is at record levels. There’s only one sector of the American economy that’s thriving – with well-paid jobs, many job openings, tons of investment funding, and growing…
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Mobilenomics: If You’re Not Mobile, You’re Not Marketing
We feel pretty good that we see technology trends coming and then inform you ahead of time. We’ve been speaking about the growth of mobile for well over a year now, but were amazed when we just did an optimization audit for a recent client and they had no mobile strategy… none. Their site wasn’t mobile, their emails weren’t optimized…
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Zero Moment of Truth: 8 Steps to Readiness
Late last year, I stood in for a colleague who was doing a presentation on Google’s Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT). While a lot of effort and material is put into documenting the strategy, for most modern marketers, the material is relatively elementary. What is the Zero Moment of Truth? Whether we’re shopping for corn flakes, concert tickets or a…
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Build Your Google Analytics Infographic on Visually
We love Visual.ly for finding and sharing infographics. DK New Media is a certified designer on Visual.ly, with a ton of great infographics we’ve researched, designed and promoted for our clients. As well as static infographics, the Visual.ly team continues to enhance their dynamic infographics as well… check out this great Google Analytics infographic that pulls your weekly stats into…
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SpeakPipe: Put Voicemail on your Website
If your business doesn’t have the resources to man the phones and respond to every request that comes through your site, you may want to just install a voicemail application like SpeakPipe on your site. Rather than live chat or contact forms, SpeakPipe allows your visitor to record a message using their one-button recorder! SpeakPipe has several options that range…
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The Dangers of SEO and How to Implement a Flawless Strategy
Yesterday we had a great regional conference organized by Revenue North. The topics ranged across business, technology and marketing and I opened the day with a discussion of the dangers of SEO. So much has changed in the search engine optimization industry. One of my attendees even joked with me that I had conflicting advice just a couple years ago.…
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Business to Business Alternative Marketing
One of the opportunities for Business to Business (B2B) marketers is to capture traffic for people searching for alternatives. People are researching application purchases or they’re unhappy and wish to leave a vendor – using terms like alternative to, or similar to, or applications like to describe their searches. Here’s a great example – a search for alternatives to Wufoo:…
