Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
Why Isn’t Your Sales Rep on Social?
At a recent conference, we found one of our clients skillfully networking and working the room. They were doing a fantastic job and garnering some good leads despite a luke warm attendee list at the conference. When Marty spoke with them, he noticed that they didn’t have any social information for him to connect with the sales people online. After…
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Marketing Infographics
State of Social Media Marketing
Awareness has published The State Of Social Marketing Report: 7 Major Findings & In-Depth Analysis and an associated infographic (below). The report dives into the numbers to detail items with important business value, including: Misalignment Between Business Objectives, Measurement Methodologies and Social Marketing Investment Tighter Integration between Social and Rest of Marketing and Business Overall Social Marketers Are Starting to…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Drives Revenue
Eventbrite has put together this infographic from the social commerce report, providing insight into social commerce and the value of a fan or follower. One note – all figures are represented in US dollars. As social networks continue to gain traction at incredible speeds, many corporations and small businesses are investing heavily in building communities online, and grasping for ways…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Do You See What Google Fetches?
We’ve had two issues this month where our customers’ sites were working perfectly for the visitor but Google Search Console was reporting errors. In one case, the client was attempting to write some of the content utilizing JavaScript. In the other case, we identified that the hosting another client was using was redirecting visitors correctly… but not the Googlebot. As…
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Marketing Infographics
Like Us! A Survey of Users on Brand Engagement
Why do people like brands on Facebook? Lab42 surveyed 1000 social media users to discover how liking a brand influences the consumer experience. The results are quite interesting and, in my opinion, point to a huge gap in the expectations of consumers on your brand’s Facebook interactions and how brands are actually using Facebook. The majority of brands that I…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Manufacturing of Ideas
For hundreds of years, the definition of productive required that there be a manufacturing line taking a product from raw materials to goods for market. Wealth was measured in tons and footage and inventory. Banks loaned money based on how many assets that you had. Our education system prepared our youth to show up on time, get in line to…
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Content Marketing
B2B Lead Generation Manifesto
Business to business (B2B) lead generation through content creation is a fantastic strategy. Developing, distributing and promoting content online can grow your authority and build relationships with your prospective customers. Unbounce – a do-it-yourself landing page platform – has developed this infographic, The B2B Lead Generation Manifesto to describe the successful process of B2B lead generation through content marketing. The…
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Analytics & Testing
Tellagence: Social Marketing Intelligence
Marketers tend to treat social media as they would other traditional media. Find where the most eyeballs are and chase them. The difference is huge, though. Within social networks, there are three activities: Observation – an audience that simply follows and captures the information for their own personal use. Interaction – a community that responds and provides feedback to the…
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Analytics & Testing
Countly Analytics for Mobile Application Developers
If you’re a mobile application developer or your company has multiple mobile applications, traditional analytics doesn’t quite cut it. Download behavior, store performance and usage behavior is key data that can help you significantly increase sales or downloads, as well as user interaction. People have come to expect a different experience when they are interacting on a mobile device… and…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Viral Humor: Social Media and Feminine Hygiene Products
A Facebook product page promoting your feminine hygiene products is probably already a challenge. Adding a witty, sarcastic comment on the page that went viral could have been a bit embarrassing. Here’s a censored comment from Richard on the Bodyform Facebook page: Hi, as a man I must ask why you have lied to us for all these years. As…
