Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
- Content Marketing
Why You Should Send Cards this Holiday
Our sponsors at SurveyMonkey released a holiday survey and found 63% of the 1,000 respondents will send holiday cards for the 2011 holiday season. In an age where text, twitter, and Facebook updates are the main form for daily personal updates, the holiday card remains the gold standard for the period in the year where people aim to keep traditions…
- Content Marketing
Slideshare – Quiet Giant of Content Marketing
According to ComScore, Slideshare has five times the traffic from business owners than any other popular websites – including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube! Slideshare is now one of the top 150 sites on the web with 60 million visitors a month. Content on Slideshare is viewed across the web thanks to their embedding methodology to the tune of 3…
- Content Marketing
WordPress: Add a Top Message Bar
With the new site, I’d been looking for a top bar for WordPress for quite some time. Our last theme design actually had an entire section that could be pulled down that advertised our email subscription. This increased the number of subscribers so significantly that I incorporated the subscribe field directly into the header of the theme. Now I just…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Stop Assuming I Know You!
At least once or twice a week, I get some email that’s smartly crafted, personable, and I have absolutely not a single clue why I’m receiving the email or the company that sent it. It typically goes something like this: From: [Product] Subject: [Product] Version 2 Released! Hello [Product] User! We’ve been hard at work that last few months redesigning…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Course: Social Marketing for Startups
Udemy is a video repository with classes on a number of topics that range from free to hundreds of dollars – but most of the videos are under $100 and well worth the value. I found this video, Social Marketing for Startups, that’s quite the bargain at $19! The course includes 6 lectures and has already been viewed by 1,194…
- Marketing & Sales Videos
Persuasive Unignorable Relevant Rememberable
PURRfect. Too funny and original not to share. Kudos to the team at John St, a talented agency out of Toronto Canada, for this unignorable video on catvertising! To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world’s first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos…
- Marketing Infographics
Building Authority for Search
I’ve been a long-time proponent of search engine optimization for quite some time, but my own experiences recently with Martech have honestly curbed my excitement. I used to think that SEO was the ideal means of growing traffic because it was something you could control. That’s true to an extent, but it can only take you as far as the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
