Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Marketing & Sales Videos
Bravo: Capture Video Testimonials Online
Many sites would benefit from video testimonials or putting up a page where customers could record a video message for the company. However, capturing, uploading and hosting those videos can be quite a pain. Bravo hopes to change that with their new service, allowing your customers to record via their webcam and host it on a custom landing page just…
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Email Marketing & Automation
An Email’s Journey to the Inbox
We were just discussing in a content marketing training webinar today with a national company how email design and email marketing performance has changed due to the way clients render as well as how mobile devices render email. With 30% of emails being read on a mobile device, it’s more important than ever to design your emails properly… and test…
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Marketing Infographics
Cisco: The Power of In-Person Meetings
A couple of years ago, we met with some of the board at Cisco via Telepresence, and it was nothing short of amazing. Speaking to someone full-size and face-to-face has incredible value. The folks at Cisco agree and have put out this infographic on the power of in-person meetings. The demands of a distributed globalized marketplace have altered the way…
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Content Marketing
You Are Not the Fortune 500
Roger Yu of USA Today just wrote an article a few days ago on companies abandoning blogging: With the emergence of social media, more companies are replacing blogs with nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. The entire article is fairly balanced… but the data may be a bit misrepresentative of all corporations. First,…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
6 Common Keyword Misconceptions
As we continue to dive into deeper and deeper research with clients on the type of keywords that are attracting search traffic, we find that many companies have the wrong idea when it comes to keyword research and usage. A single page can rank well for dozens of keywords. People think they need to have one page per keyword they…
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Content Marketing
Free Pinterest Marketing Guide from Brainhost
The folks from Brainhost dropped me a line promoting their new guide, How to Promote your Website with Pinterest and I think they’ve done a nice job on it! Here are 3 Excerpts from the Guide You Might Find Useful: Currently, Chobani yogurt, Dyson vacuum cleaners, Etsy.com, and even the famous Nike shoe brand have wildly popular Pinterest pages. What…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mobile Email Statistics
Together with the great folks (and sponsors), Delivra… we developed this amazing infographic that has everything you ever wanted to know about how people are utilizing mobile to access their emails. Delivra provides professional email marketing services along with their platform. They’re an incredible company with fantastic people who really care about their customers. Mobile marketing is NOT going away…
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Marketing Infographics
Nonprofits and Social Media Results
We’ve worked with several nonprofits over the years and it always seems that there are two kinds of nonprofit budgets… zero or tons. With both, I’ve honestly been surprised at how few have incorporated social networking and social media into their mix. Nonprofit leaders are masters at networking, but haven’t seemed to have discovered the opportunities to grow that network…
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E-commerce and Retail
Costs of Website Testing
Monetate has put out an informative infographic on what to think about and how to justify the expense of a website testing tool. It’s a comprehensive look at the challenges, costs, impact, direct costs, indirect costs and opportunities that website testing can provide. The near century-old financial estimate known as Total Cost of Ownership (TC)) can help determine direct and…
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Content Marketing
Anatomy of Going Viral
Having seen ten times as many viral strategies die than survive, I’m not sure I’m a huge believer that there’s some sort of viral winning algorithm. True that some agencies are much better than others… but I don’t believe that anyone can promise a viral strategy… unless they put up some BIG money and prizes to support it. That said,…
