Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Analytics & Testing
Increase Traffic by Optimizing Publish Times
As we continued to work to increase traffic the last year, one of the areas we took a good look at was the time of day that we were publishing blog posts. A mistake that many people make is simply looking at their traffic by hour and utilizing that as a guide. The problem is that viewing traffic by hour…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Sharing Statistics
I just wrote about utilizing social sharing on your landing pages, so the timing of this infographic couldn’t be better. The numbers are staggering on how social is impacting your brand’s visibility online. Unlike other mediums, we consistently find that social sharing is a fantastic opportunity to spread the word via relevant social networks. A social share combines the advantages…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Please Socialize Your Landing Pages
We’re always on the lookout for events that are relevant to our audience. Web demos, downloads, webinars, podcasts, conference registrations… we love to get the word on any of them that appear worthwhile. What I continue to find over and over again, though, is two key issues that make it difficult (or impossible) to share the landing page: No sharing…
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Analytics & Testing
Argyle Social: Conversion Tracking and Social Media
For quite a while, friend and colleague Jason Falls has been partnering and touting the abilities of Argyle Social. Jay Baer is a fan as well. We have been using a variety of tools and even whitelabeled one for our social media agency work. It was an okay platform but pricing was nuts. Jason introduced the great folks at Argyle…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Poll Results: How Optimistic Are We About Apple?
Last week’s poll came at a solemn time but it had to be asked… do people think that Apple would survive without Mr. Jobs at the helm? It’s an important question for folks in the marketing industry for a few reasons… first is the hardware the supports much of the digital publishing industry, second is supporting Apple goods (iPads, iPhones,…
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Content Marketing
Don’t Discount Traditional PR
We’re presenting at a regional conference today and I’m listening to a PR presentation. Public relations has taken a hit economically, but the PR agencies that have developed strong relationships with major media are thriving. Our agency has partnered with a firm, Dittoe PR, for over a year right now and we’ve had incredible results. One of our clients had…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Learn to Play Nice
If you look back at the history of this blog, you’ll find that we get excited about finding new technologies and educating our readers on them. Unless a company is doing something immoral or just plain stupid, we’re typically positive in our approach. I don’t want this blog to get so big that we can bury some companies while promoting…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Thank You, Mr. Jobs
My obsession with Apple started when my friend Bill Dawson and his wife, Carla Ybarra-Dawson bought me an AppleTV. That was the beginning… now my kids have MacBook Pros and iPhones, and my office is filled with Cinema Displays, iPads, another AppleTV, an iMac, and a Mac Mini Server. I’ve also accumulated quite a collection of Apple devices (that still…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Consumer vs Business Behavior in Social Media
SurveyMonkey surveyed decision-makers in U.S. businesses with less than 1,000 employees and consumers to understand their use of social media, particularly Facebook, to interact. A SurveyMonkey online survey was used to collect and analyze the data, and the results were published: Marketing in a Digital World SMB & Consumer Survey Results, 2011. In total, 1180 small and medium-sized business (SMB)…
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Content Marketing
Affordable Market Research from Market Tools
Last month SurveyMonkey joined Martech Zone as our technology sponsor. We’ve had a great time using their easy survey tools and, most of all, learning how to design polls and surveys that produce results. It wasn’t until our interview with the great folks on their team that we realized SurveyMonkey was much more than a survey solution, though. Parent company…
