Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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RAMP: Easy Content Deployment Between WordPress Sites
We often set up a staging site for the client and then move the staging site into production. With WordPress, content is both file-based and found within the database. Synchronizing files is fairly simple, but synchronizing databases isn’t as easy.…
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Reachli: The Visual Advertising Network
We’ve shared other content recommendation systems like Outbrain. What if your content isn’t textual in nature, though, and it’s more visual – like coupons, informational graphics, sales graphics, calls-to-action or photographs? Reachli is a visual advertising network. Reachli has over…
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Social Media Explained with Coffee
Coffee is one of those incredible pleasures in my life that I can’t do without. I’m sipping on a freshly roasted dark French Roast right now, and it’s fantastic, brewed in my stovetop espresso maker. My best friends own a…
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The Upper Class of Social Media is Failing Us
In my daughter’s high school they had an area that was sacred to seniors called the “senior rug”. The “senior rug” was a comfortable section built into an area in the main halls of her high school where the upper…
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How to Get More Shares on Facebook
Companies who market via Facebook often don’t realize the damage that they do by not making each and every update a compelling one. There’s so much activity happening around each user that Facebook can’t possibly display every update. As a…
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501 Copywriting Shortcuts by Amy Harrison
Amy Harrison, a copywriter for entrepreneurs and coaches, has been featured on the best copywriting blogs on the net. Amy has released an ebook for $17 that references of some of her favorite phrases and words as well as some…
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Best. Press Release. Ever.
We get piles of press releases in our inbox every day and I’m guessing that 99% of them are deleted at a glance. That’s not to say they’re not useful… we’re always on the lookout for a relevant chunk of…
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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
In preparation for our interview with Guy Kawasaki, I purchased a copy of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book. I’ve read the majority of Guy Kawasaki’s books and have been a fan for quite some time (be sure…
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Big Data Insights from Microsoft
According to Microsoft’s Global Enterprise Big Data Trends: 2013 study of more than 280 IT decision-makers, the following trends emerged: Although the IT department (52 percent) is currently driving most of the demand for big data, customer care (41 percent),…
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Are You Really in the 1% of LinkedIn?
Numbers. Sometimes they drive me nuts. Today is a great example. LinkedIn emailed congratulating their members in the top percent of profiles viewed. Here’s the key… profiles viewed. Here’s what the email looks like… compliments of friend Daren Tomey: Daren…
