Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Video: What is a Brand?
The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s good or service as distinct from those of other sellers. It’s hard to find questions that are any…
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Affordable and Robust SEO Monitoring
We’ve had our eye on SERPS.com for a while now. Founder Scott Krager showed us the initial versions and we were really impressed. We’ve used our share of SEO monitoring tools before. However, SEO continues to change… and many tools…
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Social Sharing Button Playground
What good is your content without enabling the ability for that content to be shared? I’m always surprised when I read an amazing page and there’s either no sharing buttons or it works improperly. If I click a share button…
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Does Advertising in Social Games Work?
In terms of eyeballs and attention spans, no single distribution channel might compete with social gaming. People across the world spend about 200 million minutes a day playing Angry Birds. Zynga’s new game, Cityville, attracted 100 million users in its…
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10 Takeaways From Gary Vaynerchuk’s Speech On Customer Retention and the ROI of Social Media
I’m not sure I’ve heard a speech that more closely matched the way we work with our customers. Like many of the other folks I respect in the online marketing industry, Gary Vaynerchuk isn’t just blowing smoke with theory… he’s…
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Video: Social Media Revolution – The Parody
We’ve posted the series of social media revolution videos based off of Erik Qualman’s Socialnomics. They’re insightful and full of staggering statistics on how social media is changing the way we live, work and communicate with one another. This parody…
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Why Content for SEO?
Great find by good friend Chris Baggott of Compendium. Although we challenge many of the tactics that SEO companies utilize to gain ranking, there are still thousands of queries in search engines every day by people trying to find your…
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The Facebook Power User
Today’s the day! Facebook will officially be a $100 billion property, skyrocketing the company to the top of the most valuable companies in the United States. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t buy a single share if I were in a position…
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Sitecore Brings Content Management to Printed Brochures
The marketing campaign production life cycle, starting with the conceptualization of an idea and extending through the development phase to the final report, data sheet, brochure, catalog, magazine or anything else is a tedious and time-consuming process. Sitecore, a market…
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The Inbound Marketing Experts You Will Learn From Online
Colleague Dave Morse of Delta Faucet passed on a congratulations to me today for making a list of 18 Must-Know Inbound Marketing Experts in Marketo’s Whitepaper: Amplify Your Impact: How to Multiply the Effects of Your Inbound Marketing Program. What…
