Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Content Marketing
Cross Browser Testing Made Easy
If you’re in web development or web design, you know that one of the most frustrating tasks upon completing a beautiful design is actually ensuring that it works across all browsers. Not only can the browser and operating system severely impact how a page renders, so can the plugins that you are running! We’re launching a site for VA Loan…
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Marketing Infographics
How Much Does SEO Cost?
SEOmoz released data from over 600 agencies that perform SEO for their clients. AYTM took the data and put it into a infographic, How Much Does SEO Cost?. One takeaway that was outstanding to see: Pure “SEO” consultants/agencies may be fading as broader “inbound marketing” services firms (offering SEO, social, content, conversion, analytics, etc) rise. The data showed 150 respondents…
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E-commerce and Retail
Site Testing leads to Conversion Happiness
Aside from testing for search, speed and social, there are critical components of a test site that your company should be working on to analyze how visitors are converted into customers. Elements in and on pages like call-to-action buttons, layouts, navigation, copy, promotions, offers, checkout process, product selection process and even security should be constantly tested to find issues and…
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Analytics & Testing
Viralheat: Social Media Monitoring for SMBs
We’ve been on the lookout for a social media monitoring service for quite some time. A social media monitoring system allows you to set up brands and keywords and monitor various social media sites for mentions, sentiment and activity around those mentions. For companies, a social media monitoring strategy can be very lucrative for managing customer service issues, monitoring how…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Does Your Organic Search Rank Really Matter?
Time for me to ruffle some SEO feathers again! Today I decided to download my stats from Google Search Console and really do some digging on the traffic that I’m getting from organic search. Martech Zone ranks incredibly high on a number of keywords with dozens of #1 ranks on highly competitive, high-volume keywords. We all know that the higher…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Who Owns Your Corporate Twitter Followers?
Pretty interesting account on the New York Times of how Phonedog is suing a previous employee to gain access to the Twitter followers on the account he set up as part of their social media outreach. By current employment standards in the country, I suppose PhoneDog is fully within their rights… the work you do on company time is typically…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Subdomains, SEO and Business Results
Here’s a very touchy SEO subject (which I ran into again this week): Subdomains. Many SEO consultants despise subdomains. They want everything in one neat place so they can do off-site promotion easily and focus on getting that domain more authority. If your site has multiple domains, it multiplies the work it takes. In other words, if you’re going to…
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Marketing Infographics
Top 20 Marketing Automation Solutions
Marketing automation is becoming a conversation we’re having with clients more and more each week. Today we discussed HubSpot (used by a customer), Act-On (which we implemented for two of our customers) and Optify with a client and I was just talking to the team last week about their success. It’s important to note that there’s really not one marketing…
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E-commerce and Retail
The Digital Wallet and the Future of Payments
In 2011, the number of global mobile payment transactions is going to reach $241 billion but by 2015, that’s expected to exceed $1 trillion! No doubt that’s why every credit card company and online payment gateway is hard at work investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Near Field Communications technology and payment methodologies. With the proliferation of broadband networks…
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E-commerce and Retail
Free Shipping versus Discounting
I’m not so sure you can equate these two strategies of customer enticement. It seems to me that discounting is a great means of getting someone to your e-commerce site, but free shipping may be the way to increase conversion rates. I’m also curious how loyal bargain shoppers are. If you steeply discount, do folks some day return and purchase…
