Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Tragedy and Social Media
Many of you don’t know me personally, but I was actually raised in Newtown, Connecticut. It’s an amazing little town that has grown dramatically but not changed very much since I lived there. When I was young, we used to have to see the movies at City Hall, visit the Blue Colony Diner for ice cream, and go to St.…
- E-commerce and Retail
The Perfect Basket Abandonment Email
We recently shared an infographic that provided evidence that the faster a sales representative returns a call to a prospective client via the web, the higher conversion rate. Not surprisingly, along the same line of logic… the folks at SaleCycle have found that the faster you get a shopping cart abandonment email sent, the higher the conversion rate! There are…
- Marketing Infographics
Successful Strategies for Social Enticement
We’ve written about ShortStack in the past and today they sent over a nice note with a helpful infographic. Can you guess the best way to motivate users to spur engage with your brand or business? You got it: contests! That’s what ShortStack found when they did a survey of more than 800 users. (PS: That’s our affiliate link) That…
- Analytics & Testing
Adobe Social and the Adobe Marketing Cloud
When Adobe made the Omniture purchase, I was concerned that they would just give up on the analytics front and the products would be lost among their publishing tools. As we work with more and more clients and see the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite truly assemble, I’m starting to change my mond. Test & Target is a great platform and…
- E-commerce and Retail
Social Commerce Best Practices
This holiday season some doubt was spread as to the impact of social media on e-commerce sales. Since the holiday season is dominated by discounting, I tend to disagree that social’s impact is diminished. 8thBridge has developed this infographic that reviews e-commerce platforms and how social impacts the purchasing process. 8thBridge are makers of the Graphite, a social commerce platform…
- Content Marketing
Native Advertising in Context
It’s sometimes hard to keep up with all the marketing jargon these days, but here’s another one that you may begin hearing… native advertising. The term native advertising is getting considerable traction in the online advertising community, but its definition has been confusing until now. Native advertising is not advertorial. Instead, it contributes value to any page it graces by…
- Marketing Infographics
How Speed Drives Sales Conversions
What if you could increase conversions by 391% by changing a single thing about your sales process? Leads360 has found the means to just that… by reducing the turnaround time it takes your sales person to contact the prospect. Sales enablement tools drive conversion rates by ensuring the processes are in place to contact and close your prospect when they’re…
- Content Marketing
Should You Market to Keywords with No Search Volume?
Keywords are the common language between your prospect, your website and the search engine results you’re found in. They’re important because of their relevance and ability to convert. For a site like Martech, broad keywords may be important to drive visits. But that’s only because visits and overall popularity are the goal of this blog. For your business, visits shouldn’t…
- Content Marketing
Aggregate Statistics Can Steer You Wrong
It’s been almost 20 years since I started in the media business. I’m thankful for opportunities that put me at the forefront of database marketing technologies back then. I’m also thankful that we quickly discovered database mining. Most of the tools at the time provided us with aggregate statistics across the entire database. But these aggregate statistics can really steer…
- E-commerce and Retail
5 Online Shoppers Ruling the Holiday
The folks at Maxymiser shared their latest infographic, 5 Online Shoppers Ruling the Holiday Interwebs. I really appreciate insight like this because too much of the data out there points to the average shopper… and then chops down the data by gender, age and income. The fact is that there are many different motivations for people to make a purchase.…
