Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Podcast: Three Key Automation Strategies To Improve A Business’s Local Marketing Results
Today, we had Shane Vaughan on the Martech Zone podcast discussing local marketing automation. Shane is the CMO of Balihoo, a company that provides local marketing automation services. Balihoo is a marketing automation platform that serves enterprise companies with local-level marketing needs, like franchises, retail distribution, or local service companies. Clients include 1800Doctors.com, Geico, and MattressFirm, to name a few.…
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Marketing Infographics
Steps to Create a Facebook Page
Absolutely love that the great folks at Firstscribe actually took the time to fully document the nuances of creating a Facebook page. For some of us that have done it enough times, we don’t mind banging around the Facebook interface to eventually get what we need. But the process is anything but simple for the average Facebook user. Having a…
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Content Marketing
Thought About Marketing With Ebooks?
We’re huge advocates of repurposing content… webinars to blog posts, blog posts to whitepapers, whitepapers to infographics, infographics to presentations, presentations to ebooks… the more you can make content work for you, the better the investment you can make on it and the better quality content you’ll publish. E-Reading was a topic of conversation on our radio show with Jim…
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Analytics & Testing
Convert Customers into Advocates with Zuberance
The best way to promote a brand is by having a bunch of highly satisfied customers talk about it. The best customer to do it is a brand advocate – a customer whose satisfaction has reached the level of passion. Such brand advocates make powerful recommendations that usually have a long lasting impact. But brands need a clear cut way…
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Marketing Infographics
Is Social Impacting Search Rank?
This is another one of those great arguments of causation versus correlation. Does getting social mentions directly impact your search engine ranking? Or is social a great barometer of activity on the web that generates other factors that influence ranking. Google and Facebook aren’t really friends at this point – with Microsoft having access to Facebook activity, it’s doubtful that…
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Marketing Infographics
Why Do People Write Online Reviews?
If you don’t think online reviews are a big deal… just take a look at our client, Angie’s List, now a public company strictly based on a massive, high quality database of trusted reviews. And the fact that they don’t allow anonymous reviews or reviews by non-paying members keeps the trolls and cheaters out for an incredible experience. Their customers…
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Marketing Infographics
Is Social Media Killing Your Brand?
I’m a bit on the fence about this infographic from Prestige Marketing. To kill a brand, you really need to do some damage and I’m not sure that this infographic really spells that out. Although it takes a pessimistic view of social media, killing is a bit of an exaggeration. How social media may be hurting your brand could be…
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E-commerce and Retail
Pre-Purchase Habits of Shoppers
The other night I had my shopping cart full on Apple.com with a brand new MacBook Pro with retina display. My finger literally hovered over the purchase button. My current MacBook Pro is still a great machine but it’s really starting to feel slow compared to all the new Macs coming out. At the time, I was watching a television…
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Analytics & Testing
The Price of Free Website Testing
This is a debate that continues to rage on when it comes to the Internet… why should I pay for a solution when I can use a free one? We utilize many free applications – but given our experience in the industry, I think we’re an exception to the rule. As an agency, we’re fully leveraging the technology we find…
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Analytics & Testing
Enterprise Customer Analytics, Social Analytics and Response
In today’s social world, piecing together what the customer really says is of paramount importance for brands. Attensity could be a useful tool in this context. Attensity’s text analytics tool extracts facts, relationships, and sentiments from the labyrinth of responses received in relation to, say a promotional campaign, a tweet, a Facebook update, a blog post, survey responses – well,…
