Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Gifting and Wish Lists
One trend in e-commerce that’s arriving is the ability to collaboratively purchase gifts. While we do it with charity raises, now you can get together with friends and raise money to purchase a more expensive gift for a friend. It’s…
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Manage Multiple Instances of WordPress with ManageWP
We’ve literally signed 3 more WordPress clients in the last week and the demand continues to grow. As we continue to manage and monitor our clients’ sites, it’s time that we started looking for a system to help make it…
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This Fat Guy Loves Coca-Cola Marketing
I’m beyond fat… in fact, I need to lose the weight of an average man to get back to just being fat. I’d love to blame it on my thyroid, my genetics, my work, my stress level… something. The fact…
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The Cost of Poor Web Performance
It’s always hard to listen to someone selling their products or services tell you that you have to buy their product or service in order to make more money. With the Internet, it’s simply true, though. Fast sites, good tools,…
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Your Facebook Page Checklist
With the news of Facebook’s Graph Search, it remains to be seen how popular the feature will be once it’s released to the masses. In preparation, it’s time to clean up your Facebook Page. Shortstack wrote a post with an…
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Tips to Avoid Brand Resentment with your Email Strategy
We recently published an infographic on survey burnout where customers are becoming resistent to constantly getting bombarded with surveys. On the heels of this is a great analysis provided by Emailvision on how bombarding customers can actually result in brand…
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Video: Search Engine Optimization for Startups
You finally got your startup off the ground but no one can find you in any search results. Since we work with a lot of startups, this is a huge issue… the clock is ticking and you need to get…
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Impact of Mobile and Tablet Gifting
While we’re seeing a huge increase in the use of mobile devices for researching purchases and measuring subsequent increases in shopping purchases via mobile and tablet device, many of those purchases aren’t for the owner of the device. Mobile gifting…
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The State of Infographics
Infographics have grown so much in demand that they’ve become a core part of our business offerings. Companies who are leveraging infographics are continuing to see incredible results. Infographics just happen to be the perfect combination of all the great…
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Plurro is Bringing the Cash Mob to Your Local Retail Business
There have been some serious holes found in the group discounting industry that haven’t been overcome yet. Complaints from businesses utilizing Groupon and LivingSocial have pointed to several issues: The required discounts are so steep that it hurts the businesses.…
