Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
The Value and ROI from Conferences
The first conference I went to was a regional industrial technology show. I was an industrial electrician at a Newspaper and my boss wouldn’t pay for it. So I paid my own way in. We had a conveyor system with electronic magnetic proximity switches that had to have such a close margin to the equipment that they would get tore…
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Marketing Infographics
LinkedIn Basic Boot Camp
LinkedIn has over 135 million members internationally and the average household income of a LinkedIn user is over $100,000 annually! The first thing I do returning from a business trip or meeting is to enter all my contacts in LinkedIn, review their profiles, and see which ones I should follow up with. In fact, I don’t even accept resumes… if…
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Analytics & Testing
Analyzing Social Streams with DataSift
DataSift is a powerful real-time social media data-filtering platform and is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes, allowing users to search for posts using metadata contained in tweets. And it does so with an incredibly beautiful interface as well as a developer console and robust API…
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Marketing Infographics
Advertising and Return on Investment
Marketing pioneer John Wannamaker once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted… The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Still today, most marketers don’t know which of their advertising channels are most effective. Investment in online has increased due to an improved ability to track success, yet offline channels will continue to dominate spend for the…
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Content Marketing
WordPress: Add Social Media Profiles to Your WordPress Theme
WordPress offers user profiles with settings for social links; however, additional social sites offer opportunities for your entire site or blog to have a presence within those networks. We were working on a client site this week where we wanted to make it easy for them to set and add their site’s social links, so we added additional options to…
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Marketing Infographics
Geosocial and Location-Based User Adoption
Some pretty amazing stats on adoption of Geosocial and Location-Based Services (LBS) via mobile devices have been revealed in this inforgraphic from Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application. Over 58% of smartphone users are utilizing these services. The infographic defines each of the services as: Geosocial Networking – this type of social networking uses geographic services and capabilities, such as…
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Content Marketing
The Importance of Fresh Content for SEO
I’ve told people for a long time that the old adage for marketing applies to content, too. Recency, frequency and value of the content are key. This is why blogging is so key to a content marketing strategy… it allows you to write often. The chart below is from one of our clients. We optimized their site and, combined with…
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Content Marketing
Add a Links Page to your WordPress Template
We were working on a client site today to add an iPad Cover Review list to the site. Rather than listing them all out in a page or a post, we decided to build a template page that pulled one link category from WordPress’ build in Links section, called “Reviews”. The WordPress API already has a built in function, called…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Email Best Practices for the Holiday Season
Consumers love email marketing. In fact, when surveyed, consumers state that email is one of their favorite means of getting offers and discounts from the businesses that they work with. This holiday season will be no different and you need to plan accordingly. Test, segment and increase the frequency of your emails this holiday season and you can drive a…
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Content Marketing
Ways to Target Your Website Traffic
We’re behind on customization of our mobile and iPad versions of the new theme on Martech… it’s in the works, though! One thing you will notice is that, based on the categorization of the post, we have different advertisements on the page. We did this by customizing our own dynamic widgets and utilizing iSocket for self-service placement of the ads.…
