Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Presentation: Going Social – The Business Edition
Yesterday, I presented to the local International Association of Business Communicators chapter. The audience dynamics were mixed between small and large companies. The attendees were business people who spanned social media – from newby to experienced social marketers. Going Social Each time I prepare a presentation, I go back through the history of presentations I’ve done in the past… dropping…
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Enterprise Collaboration using TWiki Workspaces
The importance of a smooth workflow and open communication can never be understated, especially in today’s hyper competitive world where speed, credibility and professionalism are the mantras for success. Yet many organizations function in a “silo culture” that does not encourage sharing information across roles, functions, or departments. Tools such as Twiki help enterprises to get out of such non-collaborative…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
You Are The Product of Facebook
Joel Helbling stopped by the office on Friday for a great lunch where we chatted on a number of topics. Joel quoted someone who said that, as a social media company, you have to decide what your product is… the people or the platform. Many people (myself included) look at the valuations of a platform like Facebook and think it’s…
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Content Marketing
Why Inbound Marketers Use Infographics
We’ve shared many infographics on Martech and developed many of our own infographics for the blog, its sponsors and for our other clients. This infographic from Performancing touches on why inbound marketing companies utilize infographic… including that they are versatile, linkworthy, and controllable. That’s not all, though. As we develop infographics we’re not just looking to build linkbait. We find…
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Analytics & Testing
Determining Facebook and Twitter ROI
I’m not sure I agree with the title of this infographic from InventHelp since it doesn’t actually educate one on how to determine the literal return on investment. More so, it’s a great infographic that shows where marketers should look for a return on investment by leveraging Facebook and Twitter. Within the infographic, a method of looking at the change…
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Analytics & Testing
Online Testing Essentials
So you’ve finally deployed all of your online marketing strategies and they’re integrated and functioning well. You’re able to measure and see the impact of each strategy independently… now it’s time to begin testing. Where do you start? From KISSmetrics: A well-built sales funnel is never complete until every part of it has been tested and optimized. For maximum success,…
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Content Marketing
Should Sales Teams Blog?
I happened to see a poll result from SellingPower and just about had a stroke when I saw the result. The question is Should Sales Teams Blog? Here are the results: Are you kidding me? 55.11% of companies forbid their sales people to blog? First of all… if that’s the case with a company I’m thinking of doing business with,…
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Content Marketing
Outbrain: Drive Traffic with Content Recommendations
We’ve experimented with quite a few services for displaying related posts on our single post pages on Martech. Right now we’re testing Outbrain and I have to say I’m quite impressed. Here’s an explanation of the service: Outbrain has a concise analytics package that provides click-through data and popularity of each of the posts submitted through their system. We added…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
White Hat Monsters of SEO
It’s always great to see some humor used in some infographics. And it’s especially great to see those in the industry pushing great SEO practices. I’ve said that SEO is dead and this infographic speaks to that indirectly. The fact is that if you have a solid platform that presents your content appropriately, SEO is the easy part of the…
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Marketing Infographics
How Do Colors Impact The Perception of Your Brand?
Color is always a fascinating topic, and the infographics we’ve shared have been the most popular on Martech Zone. Color preferences by gender, logo colors, complementary colors, and whether or not colors impact sales have all been infographics we’ve run. This infographic provides a different perspective… what colors say about your brand. The most prominent brands in the world are…
